This Is Wisconsin is a new series produced by Ben Wikler and Civic Media. Ben will be traveling the state, talking to people about what’s happening in their lives, what’s working, and how we can make Wisconsin better for everyone.

Hope, humor, and homegrown Wisconsin wisdom — Ben on why people who watch different news channels, or none at all, still share more than national media admits, and how that common ground could change the conversation.

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This Is Wisconsin: Ben Wikler and Civic Media hit the road to ask what Wisconsinites actually love about their state — and what they want to fix. From Mickey’s Dairy Bar to a fish fry, ice fishing, and small towns most news ignores, it’s a different kind of political conversation.

Ben Wikler — former chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party and author of the forthcoming book *This Is the Plan* — is launching “This Is Wisconsin”, a new collaboration with Civic Media. The project travels the state to listen to people in communities large and small, from Milwaukee to the towns of 15,000 or fewer where Wisconsinites actually live.

In this conversation with Jamie Martinson, Ben talks about why he wanted to step out of the political bubble, what he hears people across the spectrum agree on, and the everyday issues — hospital closures, prescription costs, gas and grocery prices, nursing homes sold to out-of-state companies — that rarely make national headlines.

Have a place he should visit or an idea he should hear? Go to This Is Wisconsin and send it in.

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