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From the first Piggly Wiggly to automated self-checkout machines, the supermarket is a microcosm of modern food systems, labor, and the idea of convenience. On today’s pledge drive edition of A Public Affair, host Bert Zipperer speaks with Ann Larson about her book that will be published next week,

Queery hosts Hale & Vicki talk about all the PRIDE events in Wisconsin that they could find! They play the Watertown Student & Community Ensemble’s performance of “Mother of a Revolution” composed by Omar Thomas and “Throw a Brick” performed by Orchard Mason.

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Recusal rules for Wisconsin judges could soon get an update, after more than fifteen years of no change and a pair of court elections that broke national spending records. The state Supreme Court is

Madison’s First United Methodist Church was packed Tuesday evening, with working Wisconsinites eager to hear directly from this year’s candidates for governor. Amy Lewis, co-president of the United Faculty and Academic Staff union, celebrated the turnout.

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On today’s pledge drive edition of A Public Affair, host Ali Muldrow is in conversation with scholar Tara Mulder about her new book, A Womb of One’s Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome. Mulder tells the story of birth from pr...