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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:20 — 41.7MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 23rd, 2024. Later in the program, Megan Gushwa from the Brown County Humane Society, on the help they provide to the community that bigger shelters do not, like free pet food for local pet owners struggling with poverty. Learn more …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 2008, Monroe County moved to build a new, expanded jail -framed as a “justice campus” using humanitarian rhetoric.  In response, a diverse group of local residents founded an organization called Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC). Judah Schept, who returns as our guest alongside Micol Seigel, was an …