Judith Ruiz-Branch/Wisconsin News Connection
Judith Ruiz-Branch is an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience as a reporter/producer for TV, radio, print and podcast news. She's also served as a Spanish spokesperson and led communications, media and public relations team's at various organizations in Chicago. She began her career at WGN-TV in Chicago and went on to work for various news outlets including WBEZ Radio, Crain's Chicago Business, the Chicago Tribune and WNIN Tri-State Media among others. Her bilingual reporting with WNIN earned her two Murrow Awards, most recently for innovation in the digital space. Her favorite stories to report on are health, human interest, equity, justice, and immigration.
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Supporters say the law includes safeguards and gives people autonomy and relief from unnecessary suffering. Critics argue that life should always be preserved -
Parents and advocates in Wisconsin and across the country are demanding legislation be passed to ensure social media safeguards for children -
More than half of Wisconsinites, and people across the country, say they're "worse off" now than a few years ago -
Melissa Deckman, CEO of the institute, said supporters generally believe conservative Christianity should dominate government, culture, politics and media in the United States -
Educational Support Professionals, or ESPs, range from paraprofessionals and custodians to kitchen staff, bus drivers and security personnel. -
With the flurry of data centers and large farm expansions across Wisconsin, rural advocates are voicing concerns about what they see as a pattern of corporate extraction from their communities -
A newly passed Wisconsin law will establish consumer protections for cryptocurrency kiosks, addressing fraud-prevention issues affecting residents across the state -
The Wisconsin Assembly passed the bill last month, and the Senate is expected to vote on it March 17th -
A group of Wisconsin students, parents, teachers, school districts and unions is suing the state Legislature over what they say is an inadequate public school funding system -
As massive funds fuel increased immigration enforcement efforts, Wisconsin is grappling with labor ramifications threatening some of the state’s key industries
