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Doctors are warning people to pay close attention to hydration this 4th of July weekend as temperatures climb into the 80s.

Jeff Pothof, an emergency medicine physician at UW-Health, said mixing alcohol with heat is a dangerous cocktail.

But John Gross, a criminal defense attorney who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School, argues it’s misleading to compare Dugan’s circumstances to those other cases.

“Those included people who have lived in what we call Wisconsin for time immemorial,” University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor John Hall said, including the Ojibwe, Dakota, Menominee and Ho Chunk. It also included the Sauk and Meskwaki, who were not indigenous but had migrated over the preceding century.

Athletes like Henry Aaron, Bart Starr and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weren’t born here, but they helped deliver trophies to our state.

“The state of Wisconsin was a part of their journeys to the hall of fame,” said Ashley Brown, the Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society at UW-Madison.

With the Fourth of July holiday coming up this week, distinguished psychologist at UW Health Dr. Shilagh Mirgain chats about ways people can come together to celebrate patriotism.

“We had great abundant soils where we could grow barley and wheat, hops, and we had plenty of water that was readily available,” said Robin Shepard, a Madison-area beer writer and assistant dean of UW-Madison’s Department of Extension. “Those were the things that really came together to make it the perfect storm for brewing.”

“Per the executive order, no one would be losing their citizenship,” Erin Barbato, the director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, explained.

Still, Barbato said the order had the potential to cause “chaos.”

Six weeks out from the Democratic primary, which will decide which of six remaining candidates will be on the ballot in November, voters are largely tuned out, said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Torey Dolan, assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to talk about the history of the case and what the ruling could mean for tribal land buybacks around the state.

Last year, a solar project in Dane County opened with the idea of combining green energy and farming. Known as “agrivoltaics,” the co-location of solar energy and agriculture, the Kegonsa Research Campus is one of the largest in the country. We hear University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ankur Desai, who is a leader in the project.

Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, say with only a few exceptions, it seems as if this year’s run-up to summer, which arrived at 3:24 a.m. Sunday, June 21, was relatively mild. By that, they mean very few really oppressively hot and humid days.

Fast forward to today, and the end is nowhere in sight.

About four in 10 interns still don’t make money, according to some labor estimates.“It still feels kind of ludicrous in 2026 that we’re still having this conversation,” said Matthew Hora, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies the transition from higher education to the labor market.

Research varies about the scale of Wisconsin’s housing shortage, but according to the think tank Forward Analytics, the state needs somewhere between 84,000 and 140,000 new units of housing by 2030 to keep up with population demand.

“Which is a short time period,” said Kurt Paulsen, who teaches and researches affordable housing finance and policy at UW-Madison.

Wisconsin lost thousands of manufacturing jobs in 2025, driven in part by an aging workforce and hesitancy to expand hiring in an uncertain economy.

Between January 2025 and January 2026, the state’s manufacturing workforce shrank by about 9,500 jobs, falling from 461,100 workers to 451,600, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The manufacturing workforce nationally declined by about 91,000 jobs over the same period.

Backyard poultry have been linked to a multistate outbreak of salmonella, which includes at least five cases in Wisconsin.

Thirty-four cases of salmonella across 13 states have been linked to the outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A recent decision from a federal appeals court could impact Wisconsin residents looking to get the abortion pill mifepristone from providers in other states.

A Friday decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restricted the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone. On Monday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily halted that ruling for one week.