MPR News Update

MPR News Update for May 3

Good morning! Partly sunny with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid-60s. It was a plan that was too "gouda" to fail. Sorry, we had to. The Wisconsin Legislature agreed Tuesday to make cheese the official dairy product of the dairy-obsessed state, which produces more than 3 billion pounds of cheese per year. That's more than any other U.S. state. | Forecast |

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