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Rob Mentzer

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Interim assistant news director and rural communities reporter @WPR, seeking stories in Wisconsin’s small towns and small cities. [email protected]

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UW-Madison closes DEI division, moves programs to other departments Vos: "Glad to see the UW System finally getting rid of this awful waste of taxpayer dollars. We need less indoctrination and more effort to provide students with usable skills." wpr.org/news/uw-madiso…

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Check out this week's episode for the official announcement that Anya van Wagtendonk is joining "Rewind" as my full-time co-host. Please join me in welcoming her to the show.

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Trump's 2026 budget would eliminate the agency that investigated and found the cause of the 2018 Husky refinery explosion in Superior. wpr.org/news/agency-in…

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EPA workers in Wisconsin and Minnesota are among those the Trump administration has placed on leave after they signed a letter against what they called the politicization of their scientific work. wpr.org/news/epa-worke…

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Is conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley running for reelection? She has said yes, but she's raised $0 so far. That's unusual! wpr.org/news/justice-r…

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The hottest place in Wisconsin during the June heat dome was Winter, where the heat index hit 111 degrees. wpr.org/news/wisconsin…

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Here is what we know about how Congress's decision to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be felt by Wisconsin public media outlets. wpr.org/news/wisconsin…

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Commercial harvest of lake whitefish, a fish fry favorite, from Lake Michigan has declined nearly 90 percent in the last quarter-century. They are the victims of warming temperatures and invasive mussels, and they really could disappear. wpr.org/news/decline-w…

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Wait so these parents stole another family’s house and kidnapped the baby inside it… and you people are APPLAUDING them? wpr.org/news/blended-f…

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NPR put out a story Tuesday about how Social Security's phone system is routing people to different field offices that can't help them. The agency denied it's an issue in the story. Today the agency acknowledged it knew about the problem and is fixing it. npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-…

NPR put out a story Tuesday about how Social Security's phone system is routing people to different field offices that can't help them. The agency denied it's an issue in the story. Today the agency acknowledged it knew about the problem and is fixing it. npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-…