At the Cell To Table cooking event, the audience witnessed how people use scarce resources to create dishes like fried rice and Pop-Tart pie in prison. But participants say cooking in their cells also created a community.

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After a Cap Times investigation found 200 educators have been investigated for sexual misconduct, Jetta Bernier, executive director of the national group, Enough Abuse, told WPR's "Wisconsin Today" there are simple ways to reduce abuses.

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Online influencer Katie Sturino wrote “Sunny Side Up” to highlight a fictional successful plus-size protagonist. The Whitefish Bay native and current New Yorker is well known for her social media accounts that preach the importance of having a positive body image.

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The eastern Wisconsin representative said “a lot of these people are not working very hard at all,” and regardless of the shutdown, the workforce should be reduced.

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In public health researcher William Lopez’s new book, he studies worksite raids in small, rural and mostly white communities. In “Raiding the Heartland,” he said immigration enforcement has long-lasting ripple effects that devastated entire communities.

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The mission of Laurel Burleson’s Ugly Apple Cafe is to reduce food waste. She shares tips and recipes to ensure none of your extra apples from the orchard go to waste this time of year.

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Reprinted with permission from  Laurel Burleson owner of Ugly Apple Cafe Ingredients 5 pounds apples, cored (I leave the peels on). Mixed varieties are great, aim for about ⅓ to […]

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The plans for a home designed by Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright were on his drawing board when he died in 1959. For over six decades the design remained unbuilt. Until now.

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For one week at Belong Wisconsin’s summer camp, foster children experience what it is like to be close to their biological sibling. And as funding becomes uncertain, all involved with the camp are determined to keep it going.

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