Rob Mentzer
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Rob Mentzer
@robertmentzer
Managing editor of news @WPR. Subscribe to the Wisconsin Today newsletter and the “Wisconsin Today: Morning News” podcast!! [email protected]
Wausau, WI Katılım Ekim 2007
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GOP congressional candidate named in $44M 'Ponzi scheme' settlement (via @RichKremer) wpr.org/news/republica…
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People are drinking more whole milk, less soy milk is up and "cottage cheese is having a real moment right now." WISCONSIN'S TIME TO SHINE BABY. wpr.org/news/americans…
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WPR spoke to Somali Wisconsinites about being called “garbage” by the president of the United States. wpr.org/news/somali-re…
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I've been doing journalism a long time and don't recall a public official ever demanding a "public correction" of an entire story, and then proposing a bunch of fixes to the exact problems highlighted in the @CapTimes story.
thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/arti…
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Ron Johnson has been a very consistent defender of the filibuster, both as a member of the minority and majority party in the Senate. This is a big change!
Max Cohen@maxpcohen
Ron Johnson backs Trump’s call to eliminate the filibuster and said he backed Trump up during the breakfast meeting. “Most Republicans realize that the minute Democrats control the Senate, they’ll nuke the filibuster. So why be shmucks and let them do it first?”
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NEW: Nearly 400 Wisconsin children will lose Head Start next month due to the government shutdown. Another 1,100 will lose benefits in December if the shutdown continues
wpr.org/news/400-wisco…
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This seems good
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study. wapo.st/4qmTVhl
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Put down your phone! At least if you have small children.
"Parental tech use has been likened to secondhand smoke in that it might endanger children’s health and development in ways we don’t even fully understand yet."
Here's my latest feature for WPR:
wpr.org/news/schools-s…
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UW-Madison sees more than 30 percent decline in international freshman students
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@ScottieMeyers "Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show..."
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Revisitng the episode of "The Dick Cavett Show" when with Jim Brown and Gov. Lester Maddox. Incredible late night TV. youtube.com/watch?v=7-8WNL…

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Farmers harvesting their crops this fall are also waiting to hear whether they can expect a check from the government. Even if a bailout comes, farmers often say they'd prefer markets to sell their crops to a government handout.
wpr.org/news/farmers-t…
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I know there is a lot going on but Thomas Pynchon's new novel is set in Wisconsin and Dwight Garner calls it "perhaps Western literature’s Great Cheese Novel."
WESTERN LITERATURE'S GREAT CHEESE NOVEL.
nytimes.com/2025/10/02/boo…
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A city administrator and his sister are facing criminal charges in northwestern Wisconsin related to an alleged attempt to record a closed session county board meeting last month.
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