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Community Responds to Racist Flyers in Spring Green

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Spring Green residents are banding together after residents found racist posters around town — stuffed in mailboxes and scattered on windshields. The flyers are simple. White sheets of paper headlined White Lives Matter with links to six different racist and anti-Semitic websites and YouTube channels. No photos. No contact information. Just typed out links to […]

Biden Calls Election Fight for Country’s ‘Character’...

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Former Vice President Joe Biden was on the U-W Madison campus Tuesday, campaigning for Democrats ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Biden joined U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, candidate for Governor Tony Evers and attorney general candidate Josh Kaul at Gordon dining hall. He had sharp words for the Trump Administration, calling this election a battle for […]

Wisconsin Book Festival Kicks Off Thursday

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Book lovers will flock to the Madison Central Library starting on Thursday for the annual Wisconsin Book Festival. The event has four days of authors and writers lined up to give talks on works ranging from poetry to politics to science literature. WORT producer Nina Kravinsky caught up with book festival organizer Conor Moran to […]

Workers Allege Mistreatment from Asian Restaurants, Employment Agencie...

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A new collaboration from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism delves into alleged mistreatment of Latino workers at many Midwestern Asian restaurants. Chicago-based employment agencies shuffle workers, many of whom are undocumented, to different Chinese buffets and similar restaurants across the Midwest. Workers say they’re often made to work long hours […]

Proposed County Funding Includes Solar, Lakes, Mental Health Services

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Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is out with his $63 million capital budget proposal for next year. It includes from new funds for mental health initiatives to new flooding management plans. He’s also announced a massive new solar panel project at the Dane County airport. The new solar panel project is a partnership between Dane […]