Podcast
Employed
Hosted by WXPR Public Radio · EN
Employed is a WXPR weekly reporting series focused on how the landscape of living, playing, and working in the Northwoods is changing.
10episodes
Episodes
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These Two Local Families Chose Remote School Last Year. Their End Game was Far Different.
Jul 1, 202100:05:02Tap to summarizeLast October, the end of the school year seemed a long way off for Rhinelander mother Leanne Vigue Miranda.
Transcribe →Northwoods Business Owners Look to Retire While Seeing Their Legacy Continue
Jun 24, 202100:05:51Tap to summarizeLast week, Diane Dodge closed her doors for the last time as the owner of Diane’s Frame Shoppe in downtown Rhinelander.
Transcribe →Forest County Drone Company Agrees to Military Deal, Takes Part in Disaster Simulation
Jun 17, 202100:05:22Tap to summarizeBlades of helicopters slice incessantly through the western Wisconsin sky.
Transcribe →Surging Demand is Forcing Weinbrenner Shoes to Turn Away Customers, So It’s Expanding
Jun 10, 202100:05:14Tap to summarizeFull hides of brown and black leather are draped over a cart and wheeled by a worker from place to place in the maze-like Weinbrenner Shoe Company factory in Merrill.
Transcribe →Wisconsin’s Uncertain Dairy Farm Future Elicits Ideas for Solutions
Jun 3, 202100:05:24Tap to summarizeHans Breitenmoser Jr.’s mother and father came to northern Wisconsin as Swiss immigrants, searching for the American Dream.
Transcribe →AirPro, Other Local Manufacturers Plan to Expand. They Just Need Workers.
May 27, 202100:05:13Tap to summarizeVisitors to the shop floor at AirPro Fan in Rhinelander are greeted by a wall of sound and activity.
Transcribe →Worker Shortage Leaves Northwoods Businesses Shorthanded and Wondering, Where are the Workers?
May 20, 202100:05:08Tap to summarizeWalk into any restaurant in downtown Minocqua or Eagle River, and chances are it’s understaffed.
Transcribe →A New Streetscape and New Businesses on 5th: Antigo Seeks to Revive Downtown
May 13, 202100:05:42Tap to summarizeA florist cuts lush, green stems to the proper bouquet length in a well-lit work area.
Transcribe →A Farm Reborn with a Purpose: Phillips Couple Grows CBD to Help Veterans Sleep
May 6, 202100:05:48Tap to summarizeOn Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips.
Transcribe →The Pandemic Induced City Families to Escape to the Northwoods. They’ve Stayed.
Apr 22, 202100:05:20Tap to summarizeLaura Boll, her husband, and their two young children thought the Northwoods would provide them a brief refuge.
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