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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Survey found more than 40% of educators work a second job, while many spend hundreds of dollars of their own money on classroom supplies -
Findings from the Brookings Institution and the American Indian College Fund showed federal support for tribal campuses has fallen more than 7% over the past decade -
Clean energy advocates worry the state’s utility business model could steer the need for more power toward expensive fossil fuel-based sources -
More than a dozen doctors and nurses from Wisconsin’s largest health organizations want the state’s next governor to prioritize climate change as a public health emergency -
A proposed constitutional amendment on midterm ballots seeks to ban preferential treatment in government programs and institutions. -
Warming — which has been documented throughout the Great Lakes region — compresses the narrow band of habitat where walleye can live and reproduce -
Healthcare affordability remains a growing concern for Wisconsinites and new data is giving a more exact picture of how federal cuts have reshaped the insurance landscape over the last year -
A council that provides services statewide and said rural areas face unique fair housing challenges but often have fewer resources to address them -
With the money being spent by the federal government on mass deportations, Wisconsin could cover about 94,000 Head Start slots -
The policy from the Department of Health and Human Services was published Aug. 7 in the Federal Register
