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Karla Locher is a clinical social worker in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Privatized mental healthcare won’t yield the right leader for Dane County Human Services
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March 12, 2025

The county's next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.

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Declaring Dane County an “abortion sanctuary” doesn’t protect reproductive healthcare
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December 1, 2022

Gestures from the County Board don't (and mostly can't) change Wisconsin's legal landscape around abortion.