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Today β€” 17 March 2026Main stream

Wisconsin author’s picture book chosen for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

17 March 2026 at 10:00

Eau Claire author B.J. Hollars is currently co-leading a fundraising effort to keep putting books like Katie Venit's β€œForts” in the hands of kids in the Eau Claire area for years to come.

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Program aimed at nurturing infant-parent reading expands in Milwaukee

6 March 2026 at 19:17

A Wisconsin early childhood literacy nonprofit is helping parents and children make reading part of their daily routine, teaming up with libraries and clinics to give out β€œprescriptions to read” during medical checkups.

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1 year after court order, Wisconsin still lacks a prison nursery program

11 February 2026 at 11:00

It's been close to a year since a judge ordered Wisconsin's Department of Corrections to put in place a program for incarcerated moms and their infants. But the ACLU says the prison system has yet to make meaningful progress toward complying with that mandate.

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