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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
“Song Sung Blue” writer-director Craig Brewer, who first saw the documentary at a small film festival in Memphis, Tenn., never envisioned anyone but Jackman as the insatiable Wisconsinite.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
Ellen Christenson, a 69-year-old Wisconsinite, said she voted for former President Barack Obama twice before backing Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee, in 2016.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
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
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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