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In a three-part series in collaboration with the Wausau Pilot & Review, we examined how the pandemic has changed incarceration. Dane County, Marathon County and the state Department of Corrections took action in response to the pandemic to reduce jail populations, leading advocates to ask whether that reduction can become permanent.
The City of Madison unveiled a new program to bring locally-owned food trucks to city parks.
The W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation donated $1 million to the Boys and Girls Club’s new skilled trades center.
The City of Milwaukee is going door to door to get people vaccinated.
The nonprofit organization Color in the Outdoors aims to help marginalized people enjoy the outside, even within the city.
Teen entrepreneur Ashley Vilaysanes won second place in the most recent CEOs of Tomorrow pitch contest for her arts & crafts businesses.
COVID-19 hit Latinos in Green Bay disproportionately, in part due to dangerous working conditions at meat packing plants and barriers to getting tests.
Tyrone Reese of the Goodman Community Center has been nominated for a national honor through New York Life.
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