Much of Danielle Thralow's humor centers on identity, with a frequent opening line being “I’m transgender and 62 years old” — just in case, she says, audience members have any confusion about her age.

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Last week, the night sky in much of the country was ablaze with the aurora borealis, which were particularly spectacular in the greater Twin Ports area.
But with skywatchers on both sides of St. Louis Bay, which is best for viewing the northern lights — Superior or Duluth?

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The roadways straightened out with the full opening of the interchange in late October.

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Phil Anderson is a member of the Lake Superior Region Veterans for Peace. He spoke with WPR’s “Morning Edition” about the group’s effort and the origin of Veterans Day and other national holidays that originally celebrated peace.

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“I’m highly criticized at my lectures because I pick on Gordon,” said Ric Mixter, a documentarian and author of several works about the wreck, including his latest, “Tattletale Sounds, the Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations.” 

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If you run into Jim Anderson of Cable, you'll probably find him training for a marathon or other long-distance race. The 73-year-old has run dozens of marathons and other races in every state and on every continent except Antarctica, and his 47 American Birkebeiner races put him in the top 10 of participants in the Wisconsin cross-country ski race.

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Wisconsin TV news manager Julie Moravchik McAllister has been covering and assigning stories about Breast Cancer Awareness Month for years. Now, she has found herself among those diagnosed with the disease.

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The story of Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb and her practice in the very rural Wisconsin Northwoods is well known around Woodruff — there’s even a museum dedicated to her. It […]

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Kara Hakanson’s show, "Dirty, Flirty, Thirty, and Out of Work," premiered in May at Honest Dog Books in Bayfield and will be hosted by Big Top Chautauqua’s Backstage on Oct. 11. She spoke with WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” about the production.

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“If I were in 1928 explaining to a carpenter how electricity was going to make his tools more powerful and that it was also going to light his dinner table, it would have been very difficult for him to wrap his head around what that meant. It’s the same thing with artificial intelligence," Ed Volke, CEO of Superior Communications, told WPR's Robin Washington.

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