Why the weather was so warm, the high cost of child care, a novel about a boy living in the Northwoods

Featured in this episode

• Why is the weather unseasonably warm?

  Minnesota recorded its warmest September since records began in 1873, and temperatures in Wisconsin were similarly warm. Wisconsin state climatologist explains the strange weather and how it’s linked to climate change.

• How a Wisconsin CEO is trying to help his employees find child care

  Child care providers are struggling to keep up with demand in Wisconsin, and costs continue to rise for families. A child care industry expert explains the situation in Wisconsin. Then a Manitowoc CEO talks about how he’s trying to help employees who are struggling to find child care.

• New novel celebrates baking and the Northwoods

  We talk to a Wisconsin author about her second and newest novel, which tells the story of a seventh-grader living in a fictional Wisconsin town in the Northwoods who takes up baking to get out of trouble and repair his relationship with his father.