A summarized selection of newsy bits.
- Over at Urban Milwaukee, WisconsinEye’s Steven Walters takes a look at the plight of rural Wisconsin school districts, which educate up to 40 percent of the state’s K-12 students. What he found ain’t pretty.
- It’s not just members of Congress who have “expressed concern about the safety” of Olympians and their families traveling to Sochi for the start of the Olympics next week. The New York Times reports that families of some Olympians have decided the risk is too great and will be staying home.
- Negotiators have finalized a Farm Bill, which, among other things, makes “it the only bipartisan, money-saving jobs bill to pass Congress in recent years,” the Washington Post says.
- The latest Marquette University Law School poll showed Gov. Walker ahead of Mary Burke by six percentage points.
- Honda and Acura’s American-made exports beat their imports this year, a positive sign for automakers and auto industry, but mostly ‘Merica
