Wisconsin Life

The following story is about a high school student experiencing a political awakening. Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School senior Jasnen Valencia, also known as Jaz, wrote the following letter to Senator Tammy Baldwin for one of her classes: Dear Senator Baldwin, The government should allow immigrants a path to citizenship. Immigration has been around for

Earlier this year, “Wisconsin Life” started working with students at Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School, or MG21. The goal was to get more high school student stories on the airwaves. When we first showed up in the classroom, there was one student who seemed to be particularly interested in creating radio and interviewing people

There are two students at Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School, or MG21, that are really talented. They’re both seniors and want to pursue a music career after high school. But, the style of music they play is so different...or is it? Matthew Schlaefer, a senior, is a singer-songwriter who plays what he calls “classic

There’s a very special pair of classmates at Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School, or MG21. It’s junior Tierra Byrd and Lou (a.k.a. Nibbler) the rabbit. “He’s really, really soft, extremely soft. That’s the first thing everyone says about him,” said Byrd. Tierra and Lou like to do many things together. She feeds him his

On September 4, 1964, the Beatles played their only show in Wisconsin. Writer Dean Robbins tells us about the madness that greeted them on their first American tour. == I’m one of those crazy Beatles fans who want to know every single thing about the band. Luckily, every single thing has been documented, and it

When you think about a cocktail that embodies Wisconsin, what comes to mind? We posed that question to a few bartenders across Wisconsin. These are their responses.

Erica DeAnda, a brewer at Waunakee's Octopi Brewing and chapter president of Wisconsin’s Pink Boots Society, is striving to make the brewing profession a more inviting place for women across Wisconsin.

In a city with never-ending bar options, Del’s Bar in La Crosse sticks out. It’s been open since 1933 in a historic brick building downtown. Step inside on any given day and you’ll find regulars who have been coming in for 40 years, college students and tourists chatting with each other around the oval shaped

Floor-to-ceiling cabinets run along the walls of a conference room at AJS Tap Handles in Random Lake, and packed behind the glass cabinet doors are at least 1,500 different tap handles, all pieces of art. The handles – in all sorts of shapes such as dragons, kings, palm trees or guitars – are handcrafted and

It turns out "How Wisconsin got its name" is a somewhat tricky question to answer. But what we do know, is that it came from the Algonquian language family — spoken by tribes in Wisconsin like the Menominee, Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Mohican.