Ben Binversie
Ben Binversie was a producer with WUWM's Lake Effect program.
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The cultural relevance of maple syrup goes further than a sweet treat for Anishinaabe people in Wisconsin. The process of extracting sap from sugar maples is a long held tradition used to teach important lessons.
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There are calls for beavers to return — not for their fur — but for the potential impact they could have on flood mitigation in the Milwaukee River watershed.
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A new documentary from filmmaker Joe Brown follows Rod Coronado and his group, Wolf Patrol, during their work to monitor hunting practices that threaten wolves and to promote wolf preservation in Wisconsin.
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Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust is a documentary about the difficult and complex history of the valley of Payahuunadü, or Owens Valley, in California and the people who continue to fight for the land to this day.
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Bill Siemering was a founding member of NPR and became the first director of programming. He helped shape the show All Things Considered and its first on-air broadcast on May 3, 1971.
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Bird watching has increased in popularity since the pandemic began, and the 5th annual Brew City Birding Festival brings five days of bird centered events to Milwaukee.
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The production takes place over 31 videos, in which a storyteller reads a fairy tale written by Slovene writer Rok Vilčnik.
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The Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which started on the west side of Milwaukee in 1903, didn’t take long to find its way outside of city limits and onto roads in Mexico.
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Critics of cash bail say that the system unfairly targets poor people as an individual’s ability to get out of jail before their trial becomes solely based on whether they can afford bail.
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Milwaukee’s First Stage Theater has unveiled its first virtual short play in its new series, Amplify. The cast of Copper Horns In Water is made up almost entirely of students from the Indian Community School in Franklin.