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Across town, at the speed skating oval, the latest U.S. star is a Wisconsinite named Jordan Stolz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Hovde insists he’s a Wisconsinite down to the tips of his toes, which he sank not long ago into Madison’s frozen Lake Mendota.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024
As one 29-year-old Wisconsinite recently told NPR, “the people that find it hardest to vote are young people and minority voters.”
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2022
"Hong, a second-generation Wisconsinite, mother, community organizer, and service industry worker, easily defeated Republican candidate and real estate intern Patrick Hull, 88 percent to 12 percent," David Dahmer wrote for the publication.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2020
During the 2011 demonstrations, he wrote a dispatch for The New Yorker that mentioned a quintessentially Wisconsinite protest sign: “Let’s Be Reasonable. Hyperbole Hurts Everyone’s Cause.”
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2018
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