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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Partnering with 10 local makers, it’s stuffed with Wisconsin-themed watercolor art prints and polymer clay earrings shaped like Cheez-Its, or craft kits for kids -
Wednesday is Education Support Professionals Day, and as American Education Week continues, Wisconsin educators are emphasizing how crucial the workers are to schools, and the challenges they face when trying to help some of the most vulnerable students. -
A new report shows how a developing system called Agrivoltaics has the potential to offer what supporters call a much needed economic option for Wisconsin farmers, while redefining solar development as a tool for prosperity rather than a threat to it. -
Wisconsin advocates and communities are committed to honoring the contributions of immigrants to the state through its historical markers program -
Gilbert Farms is asking to nearly double in size, from about 1,400 animals to more than 2,400. It is the first time since 2020 the DNR has granted an in-person hearing for a CAFO permit -
As rural communities in Wisconsin grapple with the increasing uncertainty of federal policies and the government shutdown, local farmers are asking Congress and the administration to prioritize federal policies to support rural America -
Peggy Wirtz-Olsen of the Wisconsin Education Association council, also a high school teacher, said Wisconsin educators have already been sounding the alarm about the lack of special education funding -
He stressed it distorts both the Christian faith and the country’s constitutional democracy. -
Research shows intimate partner gun violence also involving suicide takes the lives of nearly 20 women a month -
Policy experts are calling on Congress to not only extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits but to address the broader issue of rapidly rising health care costs threatening to crush hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites
