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Tuesday on Lake Effect: Newborn Screenings, 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg Address, Afterlife

Tuesday on Lake Effect:

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation turns up some alarming inconsistencies in the way newborns are screened and tested – we’ll talk with the lead reporter. Then, we mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address with our Civil War contributor, while essayist Jerianne Hayslett takes issue with much of the ways the country has marked the Civil War’s sesquicentennial. And a neurosurgeon says his own traumatic experience exposed him to a spiritual insight he says was the afterlife.