Tannette Johnson-Elie is a business columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She writes about minority-owned businesses and issues in Milwaukee. She speaks with Jane Hampden about minority “brain drain” as part of Lake Effect’s series of interviews for Project Milwaukee: Creating a Vibrant Regional Economy.
Lake Effect contributor Anne Reed talks with Jane Hampden about the new phenomenon of blogging jurors. Reed is a trial lawyer and jury consultant in Milwaukee. She’s a shareholder at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC, where she represents business clients in litigation and assists lawyers preparing for trial through Reinhart's Trial Science Institute. She writes about juries and jury trials at her blog, Deliberations, and at the Wisconsin Law Journal.
Madison native Alice Sebold’s second novel is The Almost Moon. Her first book of fiction, The Lovely Bones, is being made into a movie. Sebold stopped in Milwaukee on a recent book tour and spoke with Sara Prince.
Anneliese Dickman is research director for Milwaukee’s Public Policy Forum. She talks with Jane Hampden about the group’s report on problems facing smaller school districts in Southeastern Wisconsin.
Milwaukee writer CJ Hribal reads from his novel, The Company Car, published in 2005 by Random House. Hribal is an English professor at Marquette University.
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