WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Ascension, a faith-based healthcare organization, issued the following news release: Ascension Wisconsin is making significant investments and aligning services in Southeast Wisconsin in an effort to ensure continued access to compassionate, high-quality care for years to come. The strategy focuses on providing broad access to lower acuity interventions and medical management services, such as primary care, while concentrating higher acuity, specialized care at centrali  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Ascension, a faith-based healthcare organization, issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2024: Following a thorough evaluation of the utilization of services and resources at the micro-hospital located at 2325 Fox Run Blvd. in Waukesha, joint venture partners Emerus Holdings and Ascension Wisconsin have decided to discontinue operations and services at this facility, effective Jan. 13, 2025. Staffed and managed by Emerus, the small-format facility primarily provi  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 15 -- Clean Wisconsin issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2024: Today the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued permits that Canadian oil giant Enbridge, Inc., needs to build an oil pipeline across some of our state's most treasured natural areas. The proposed route, which crosses 186 northern Wisconsin waterways and hundreds of acres of wetlands, is upstream of Copper Falls State Park and poses a huge risk to the Bad River watershed and Lake   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 14 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is thrilled that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking proactive steps to counter the incoming Trump administration's Christian nationalist agenda. Newsom has called the Legislature to a special session beginning Dec. 2. In his announcement, Newsom said, "The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack and we won't sit idle."  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 14 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is admonishing Silverton Independent School District for starting its football games with loudspeaker-broadcast prayer. FFRF has been informed that there is prayer over the loudspeaker before every Silverton High School home football game. For instance at the Oct. 24 game, a long Christian prayer commenced the game. This was senior nig  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 14 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pleased by the defeat of HR 9495 in the U.S. House a bill that, if passed, could have been weaponized to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations based on subjective "terrorist" designations. While stopping terror financing is a priority we all support, the bill's vague provisions opened the door to partisan abuse, s  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 14 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: Watch the teaser here. The Freedom From Religion Foundation's television show guest this week draws attention to how Islamist theocracies in Iran and Afghanistan have been silencing and erasing women. Maryam Namazie is an international activist, atheist, feminist and secularist who with her family had to flee Iran after the Islamic revolution there. She is now based in t  more

CLEVELAND, Wisconsin, Nov. 15 -- Lakeshore Technical College issued the following news release: Lakeshore College President Dr. Paul Carlsen was among a select group of community college presidents invited to the "Classroom-to-Career Pathways Summit" held at the White House on Nov. 13. Carlsen joined top government officials, education leaders, and workforce experts from across the country to discuss strategies for aligning education with high-demand careers to better address workforce needs.   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 14 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and current evangelical End Times fanatic, to be his ambassador to Israel, putting a Christian nationalist who has rejected the existence of the Palestinian people in charge of U.S. diplomacy with Israel amid its ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has had mu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Madison, WISCONSIN --Today, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) granted Canadian oil giant Enbridge Energy permits for its controversial plan to construct a new segment of its Line 5 oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin. The 70-year-old pipeline currently cuts across the heart of the Bad River Reservation, where it has been trespassing on Tribal land for more than a decade. In 2019,  more