
Lake Effect
Airs Mondays - Thursdays at noon & Mondays - Wednesdays at 8 pm
Lake Effect is your connection to the community. We bring you local conversations about the people, places and organizations that shape Milwaukee.
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Latest Episodes
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A documentary about a daughter’s journey to learn about a mother she never got to know. Chimney Swifts and the fall migration of birds. An in-studio performance by local singer-songwriter Hillary Reynolds.
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What's being done to prevent local suicide deaths. We learn about the victims of the 1886 Bay View Massacre. Highlights from Milwaukee Magazine’s Best of Milwaukee issue. Photographing the Great Lakes.
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How improving bike safety and accessibility locally can be big wins for biking statewide. The ongoing battle over Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline in northern Wisconsin. What the National Weather Service provides for people in Wisconsin.
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A new effort to raise Wisconsin’s minimum wage to twenty dollars an hour. The waiting game around the presidential disaster declaration after flooding in Milwaukee. A former Wisconsin governor shares his journey caring for his wife as she developed Alzheimer’s.
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The search for two unhoused men who went missing after last month’s historic floods. Milwaukee's Mayor explains how the city will take in people coming to the Midwest due to climate change. The new executive director of Circus World speaks about her plans for the future.
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An invasive plant newly identified in Wisconsin called Japanese Stiltgrass. A preview of this year’s Milwaukee Short Film Festival, which is showing 75 films in three days. A love letter to local paleteros.
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MPS superintendent on how schools are recovering from flooding and lead paint cleanup progress. Advice for parents on how to talk to children about school shootings. How paying college athletes has impacted college sports.
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How Wisconsin's higher education institutions are doing amid challenges and changes. How CCAP is a useful and harmful tool. Why the Driftless region is one of the country's best places for fly fishing.
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The owner of Milwaukee’s American Science & Surplus store talks about their efforts to stay afloat. A young Milwaukeean embarks on environmental work. What a Bird City is — and how your town can become one. A peek into the world of animal law.
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Why flood damage isn’t covered by most people’s home insurance. How racist policies have undermined Black homeownership. The story of a Hmong family that came to Wisconsin as refugees.