Craig Gilbert is the Washington bureau chief for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He joined us on the phone from Washington and talks with Mitch Teich about the impact the Obama administration could possibly have on the Midwestern states.
Rich Rovito is a reporter for the Business Journal of Milwaukee. David Newby is the president of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. They spoke with Stephanie Lecci. And they joined us for the appropriately inaugural edition of a new Lake Effect segment and collaboration with the Business Journal called “Down to Business.”
Carol Kratz and Drake Hokanson are the authors of Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs, published by the University of Wisconsin Press’s Terrace Books. When they’re not driving or flying to and from county fairs around the country, they live in La Crosse. They talk to Mitch Teich about logging some 40,000 miles on the road and eating untold slices of pie researching their new book.
Milwaukee native Augie Haas, performs Beretta, an original song written for the occasion, with Bay View guitarist Chip Cruz. Haas is a jazz trumpeter and doctoral student at the University of Miami. His new CD, Doing it Augie Style, comes out this month.