Wisconsin 2026 elections: Incumbent Priscilla Prado has a Democratic challenger in the 9th Assembly District

 

The 9th Assembly District includes a portion of Milwaukee's south side as well as the entire Village of West Milwaukee. 

 

Maps and election results:  Ballotpedia 

The 9th District is solidly Democratic.  Current officeholder Priscilla Prada was first elected in November 2024.  She is being challenged in the August Democratic primary by Mimi Reza, a member of the Milwaukee  Public Schools Board.  The winner will face Samuel Guerreo, president of Turning Point USA at Marquette University.

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Rural pregnant women as second-class citizens in an increasingly consolidated and bifurcated U.S. healthcare system (Arkansas edition)

 

Map and headline:  Arkansas Advocate, 6/22/2026

Tess Vrbin reports:

Rural Arkansans face increasingly long drives to hospitals that deliver babies as more labor and delivery units have closed due to financial strain, according to new data from the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. 

ACHI, a nonpartisan health research and advocacy center, found that 29% of pregnant Arkansans traveled more than 30 minutes and 8% traveled more than an hour to give birth in 2024. The longer it takes to get to a delivering hospital, the higher the risk of health problems for mothers and newborns, according to a 2022 study from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 

The median drive time from Arkansans’ homes to delivering hospitals remained at 16 minutes between 2022 and 2024, but residents of some counties saw spikes of 10 minutes or more. 

Those include Ashley and Jackson counties, where hospitals closed their labor and delivery units in 2023. Ashley County saw the largest spike in residents’ median drive time to a delivering hospital, from 16 minutes in 2022 to 48 minutes in 2024. Jackson County’s median drive time increased from 20 to 35 minutes in the same two-year period. 

A total of eight labor and delivery units have closed throughout Arkansas since 2020, leaving 31 delivering hospitals in 22 of Arkansas’ 75 counties.

Phillips County is majority Black.  Ashley County is majority White. Both have a higher percentage of Black resident than the state average.

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Madison West Towne OfficeMax store is one of 110 locations that are closing

Photo by Retiring Guy

Headline:  The Journal Record, 1/11/2026

OfficeMax Inc., the nation’s No. 3 office supplies retailer, said Tuesday it will shut down 110 of its approximately 950 U.S. retail stores in the first quarter as part of a restructuring aimed at strengthening its business. 

The company also said it will close its wood-polymer building materials plant in Elma, Wash., and make other moves as part of a shake-up that will result in $187 million in pretax charges. 

OfficeMax did not disclose the locations of the stores targeted for closure by the end of March or how many jobs would be affected. The company will be notifying the stores involved over the next week, spokesman Bill Bonner said.

 

Directions from OfficeMax to Office Depot on Madison's west side.