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WXPR News: Friday, April 16, 2021

WXPR | By Ben Meyer
Published April 16, 2021 at 12:14 PM CDT

In Friday's WXPR midday news:

  • What to do with all those plastic grocery bags? A Rhinelander project has a recycling solution.
  • Contractor tax fraud in Wisconsin may be more severe than you might expect.
  • Eagle River now has an ordinance regulating shipping containers.
  • Wisconsin's unemployment rate remains far below that of the rest of the country.
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Ben Meyer
Ben worked as the Special Topics Correspondent at WXPR from September 2019 until November 2021. He now contributes occasionally to WXPR. During his full-time employment, his main focus was reporting on environment and natural resources issues in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula as part of The Stream, a weekly series.
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