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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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 -
As Washington continues to bombard the public with political rhetoric about the government shutdown, some law experts argue these messages could be breaking a law put in place to prohibit political sway by the executive branch -
Fish population spikes are being observed at Kaari Creek and the Tyler Forks River after major culvert replacement and restoration projects -
Environmental groups and the Bad River Tribe are challenging permits the Wisconsin DNR issued to Enbridge in November for rerouting the pipeline -
Wisconsin’s largest utilities are not keeping up with commitments to reduce fossil fuels, according to the Dirty Truth report from the Sierra Club, which gave both We Energies and WEC Energy Group "F" grades -
Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria
