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"Simply Superior" is a public affairs program focused on events and issues in Northwestern Wisconsin hosted by award-winning journalist Robin Washington.

Simply Superior Wisconsin Public Radio

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"Simply Superior" is a public affairs program focused on events and issues in Northwestern Wisconsin hosted by award-winning journalist Robin Washington.

    Musicians Celebrate The Homegrown Music Fest, And Aboard The Madeline Island Ferry

    Musicians Celebrate The Homegrown Music Fest, And Aboard The Madeline Island Ferry

    The Twin Ports biggest musical event of the year kicks off this Sunday, April 28, with 160 performers appearing at 35 venues in Duluth and Superior over the next week. But there’s no need to wait — the celebration starts early with five musicians appearing on WPR’s “Simply Superior” at 10 a.m. Friday, April 26. […]

    • 50 min
    UW President Lauds Superior Campus, And Earth Day’s Apostle Island Origins

    UW President Lauds Superior Campus, And Earth Day’s Apostle Island Origins

    In a speech touting the value of higher education to northwest Wisconsin delegates visiting the state Capitol for Superior Days, University of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman singled out the system’s Superior campus for particular praise. But his talk came amid a third-party analysis showing financial deficits at 10 of Wisconsin’s public universities, including the Superior campus. Rothman’s speech, […]

    • 50 min
    Superior Days Delegates Make Their Case At The Capitol

    Superior Days Delegates Make Their Case At The Capitol

    Dozens of northwestern Wisconsin delegates ranging from high school students to senior business and civic leaders descended on Madison this week for the 39th Annual Superior Days at the state capitol. On hand to greet them were Gov. Tony Evers and numerous other elected and administrative officials — decision-makers who otherwise may not hear the […]

    • 50 min
    An ‘outsider’ on Park Point, Kathy Cargill is actually an Oredocker from Ashland

    An ‘outsider’ on Park Point, Kathy Cargill is actually an Oredocker from Ashland

    By Robin Washington ASHLAND, Wisconsin — To read the hundreds of social media posts about her in recent weeks, Kathy Cargill is an uncaring outsider interloping on Duluth’s picturesque Park Point; an over-privileged billionaire intent on tearing down homes to create a gated enclave for her uber-rich relatives. Encouraging that impression are words she’s uttered […]

    • 20 min
    Kathy Cargill’s Ashland Roots, And Bob Dylan’s Connections To Superior

    Kathy Cargill’s Ashland Roots, And Bob Dylan’s Connections To Superior

    In hundreds of social media posts in the Twin Ports in recent weeks, Kathy Cargill has been cast as an evil outsider to Duluth’s picturesque Park Point neighborhood. A member of the billionaire Cargill family, she quietly purchased 20 homes on the sandbar jutting into Lake Superior, tearing down many and saying little about her […]

    • 50 min
    Ashland Motorcyclist Sets World Record, And A Guitarist’s Unusual Influences

    Ashland Motorcyclist Sets World Record, And A Guitarist’s Unusual Influences

    From her childhood, Bridget McCutchen always had a sense of discovery, even though she never ventured far from the family farm where she was homeschooled near Ashland. But last fall she went where few men — or women — had gone before to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe on a motorcycle, pending […]

    • 50 min

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