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2 days ago | captimes.com | Becky Jacobs

Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson were driving to their daughter’s wedding in Indiana last week when their phones lit up with a tornado warning. They pulled off the road to take a break. “That's when we … checked our email and saw that we had got our official layoff notices,” Strainchamps said. On Friday, Wisconsin Public Radio announced it would end “To The Best Of Our Knowledge,” 35 years after Strainchamps and Paulson founded the national public radio show with Jim Fleming. Got a news tip?

3 days ago | captimes.com | Alex Moe

Erin Stadler still remembers 14 years ago when she found her mother bleeding out on the floor of her childhood home in Fond du Lac. Her mother had suffered a miscarriage and was hemorrhaging. "Being a young child, I didn't really understand that that could have even been connected to pregnancy. I was obviously just really concerned seeing a pool of blood," Stadler said. Stadler's mother received an emergency abortion to stop the bleeding. It likely saved her life.

5 days ago | captimes.com | Lindsay Christians

In her 2024 essay for The New Yorker, “The Trouble with Friends,” Weike Wang considers whether three is stronger than two. “According to the sociology of group dynamics, a triad is more stable than a dyad because one member can act as a mediator,” she writes. She doesn’t believe it — “in a triad, two people are always closer and risk icing out the third” — but that’s not her real worry. “Unlike family, a friendship can be deprioritized.

1 week ago | captimes.com | Lindsay Christians |Beck Henreckson

Editor's note: Below is the Thursday, June 19 edition of The Corner Table, our weekly newsletter about the Madison dining scene. It's produced by Lindsay Christians and Beck Henreckson. If you want to receive it in your email inbox every Thursday (it's free!), subscribe at captimes.com/newsletters. By Lindsay Christians, food and culture editorFriends, it’s strawberry season.

1 week ago | captimes.com | Becky Jacobs |Andrew Bahl

The leader of Wisconsin’s 13 public universities said without additional funding in the next state budget, he expects more branch campus closures, decreased affordability for students, layoffs and program cuts. “All of which will hit hardest at our most vulnerable UWs,” Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said on social media this week. State lawmakers are working this month to set Wisconsin’s next two-year budget.