Elissa Eaton
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Milwaukee Art Museum returns enslaved artist’s works to his descendants (opens the original)
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Two stoneware vessels on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum will be returned to the trust of the artist’s living descendants. The works were created by David Drake, a potter who was born into slavery in South Carolina around 1801. Drake’s work is known for its technical accomplishment as well as the poetry inscribed. At the time, it was illegal in South Carolina for Black people to know how to read and write. “He was also doing something that at the time I would call revolutionary and radical,”
A Wisconsin tree will decorate the White House blue room this holiday season (opens the original)
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A fir tree from Wisconsin will be towering in the center of the White House Blue Room this holiday season. The tree is from a farm in Endeavor called Silent Night Evergreens. Owner David Chapman said this isn’t his first time providing a Christmas tree for the White House. “The whole presentation to the White House is an incredible experience,” Chapman said. “Even though we’ve been eligible to do it a few times as a business and as a family, it’s still an incredible honor. The experience is diff
4 chicks from Wisconsin join the eastern migratory whooping crane population (opens the original)
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Four new whooping crane chicks will take flight after a successful breeding season in Wisconsin’s wetlands. Whooping cranes — creeping back from the brink of extinction through intensive conservation efforts — only produce one to two eggs per year. After a month-long incubation period, the eggs may hatch into chicks. Fourteen pairs of whooping cranes nested in Wisconsin this year. They produced 11 chicks that hatched, four of which fledged, or survived to grow large enough to fly. WPR’s “Wiscons
UW Education Committee proposes to permanently waive SAT and ACT test score requirements (opens the original)
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The Universities of Wisconsin may permanently eliminate college entrance exams scores as a required part of the first year student admission processes. Since 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began, the UW system has waived a requirement that students submit either SAT and ACT scores at all 13 UW campuses. Before the waiver, the scores had been a requirement for college applications since 1989 . On Thursday, the UW Board of Regents Education Committee discussed a plan to make the test-optional app
Record high diesel prices likely to drive up cost of groceries, other goods (opens the original)
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Diesel prices in Wisconsin have hit record highs as the war in Iran continues to disrupt the flow of the fuel globally. In Wisconsin, the average price per gallon of diesel fuel on Wednesday was $6.13. Last year, the average in the state was $3.45 per gallon, according to data from the American Automobile Association. Mike Semmann, president of the Wisconsin Grocers Association, said the price of diesel will have an impact on many different parts of the grocery supply chain. WPR’s “Wisconsin Tod
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