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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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 -
Nearly all wings of the Democratic party have now embraced universal childcare as a goal -
The class, called Criminal Justice System: A Lived Experience Perspective, aims to provide students with a real image of incarceration, from arrest to reentry -
One of the attorney’s representing the Bad River band feels such decisions endanger important public resources -
A Wisconsin agronomist is challenging proposed solutions presented to Congress on how to address the nation’s agriculture crisis
