Beatrice Lawrence is a content producer for “Wisconsin Today” on WPR News. She produces digital and broadcast content about ongoing issues and community stories throughout the state.
Beatrice has been at WPR since 2023, when she became a producer on “Central Time,” WPR’s daily afternoon news, talk and features show. In 2024, she joined a team of producers and hosts to create “Wisconsin Today.”
The story follows competing candidates for tribal president as they try to sway voters — by any means necessary.
In Wisconsin almost 1.3 million children and adults are enrolled in Medicaid, and more than 700,000 receive FoodShare. Wisconsin’s Medicaid Director Bill Hanna says under the new legislation, many of those people will likely lose their benefits.
In recent years, Wisconsin high schools have seen a steady increase in enrollment in hands-on technical education courses. It’s a change, after years of declining enrollment nationwide in the 1990s and 2000s.
As it heads to the Senate, the bill is expected to face opposition even from Senate Republicans like Ron Johnson.
Each compact, resource-efficient Flex Farm can grow more than 394 pounds of produce annually.
Diver and inventor Max Gene Nohl’s memoir sat in the Milwaukee Public Library archives for more than six decades. Now, it’s finally being published.
Like other types of gender-affirming care, voice therapy can help transgender people feel more at home in their bodies — and keep them safe from violence and harassment.
Biotech firm Onego Bio hopes to begin producing egg whites via fermentation in Jefferson County in 2028. Wisconsin-born co-founder Christopher Landowski says that their product could help make eggs more affordable, especially during shortages.
Shaundel Washington-Spivey, La Crosse’s first Black and first openly gay mayor, currently serves on the Governor’s Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council.
After decades of service to Milwaukee’s LGBTQ+ community, 73-year-old Sharon Dixon found herself without a place to live. Now, her community is coming together to support her.
