The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on western Wisconsin businesses and non-profits, and community response to those challenges, will be the primary topics of discussion on “The West Side” at 10 a.m. Friday (May 1). The program will also feature an update on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic in western Wisconsin. It can be heard on The Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio: 88.3 WHWC-FM/ Menomonie-Eau Claire and 88.7 WRFW-FM/ River Falls. To read further, please click on the headline.