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.
Latest Episodes
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Milwaukee County’s new district attorney. Two Milwaukee-area election clerks speak about election day. How urban renewal projects ignited community organizing in 1950s. Is Milwaukee a community of haters?
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How to tackle climate change in a time of political divisiveness. Two sisters create a guidebook for accessible walks around Milwaukee. Milwaukee historian John Gurda's losing battle against nature.
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The restored Wurlitzer Pipe Organ at the Oriental Theater. An African dance company celebrating 55 years in Milwaukee. Two senior dance groups who find health and community through dance.
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The story of the 'ghost army.' The history of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. A unique World War II-era program that put family pets on the frontlines.
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How presidential rhetoric can impact how we view the office as an institution – or as an individual. What a mass deportation means for food economics. Mariana Rodriguez receives Betty Award for supporting victims of domestic violence.
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How the election unfolded here in Wisconsin, including the presidency and down-ballot races. Voters speak about what brought them to Milwaukee-area polls yesterday.
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What to know before you head to the polls. Meet the world-champion taxidermist who preserved a beloved Milwaukee gorilla. A modern silent, oddball slapstick comedy, “Hundreds of Beavers.”
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How tomorrow’s election could reshape Wisconsin politics. All about the constitutional amendment question on the ballot. How get-out-the-vote efforts are winding down.
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It's the Halloween episode! A local, supposedly haunted, engine house. The chilling legend of the Rhinelander Hodag. The Pfister Hotel ghost. Halloweeny tunes from local musicians
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Immigration in Wisconsin: from the state’s immigrant history, how agriculture depends on immigrant labor, how the deportation process currently works, and why fear is the point of mass deportations.
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