Lake Effect: Segments Podcast
Lake Effect is your connection to the community. We bring you local conversations about the people, places and organizations that shape Milwaukee.
This podcast features Lake Effect's individual segments.
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By fall of 2024, what's currently Wauwatosa's Wisconsin Avenue Park will be renamed Moss Universal Park. It will have universal fields, accessible playgrounds, a renovated clubhouse and more, so that everyone can play. -
For over a decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension has been nurturing citizen science through its Master Naturalist program.
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One of the most persistent road hazards here in Wisconsin is deer. This time of year can be particularly bad for a variety of reasons. Jeff Pritzl, the Wisconsin DNR’s state deer program specialist, shares his tips.
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The La Crosse Rotary Lights attracts visitors from around the state and beyond to take in the elaborate display.
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In Survival Food, the author Thomas Weso shares stories and recipes from his youth on the reservation in Wisconsin's Northwoods.
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James Morgan, now a community organizer in Madison, was incarcerated in Wisconsin state prisons for 24 years. He says the state's prisons are built strictly for punishment when they should be used for rehabilitation.
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Significant changes proposed by Governor Tony Evers and a package of bills introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature seek to improve conditions for prisoners in the state. How successful will these measures be?
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Staffing shortages limit prisoner movement in Waupun, Green Bay and Stanley correctional institutions — more facilities than previously disclosed.
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Wisconsin prisons are overspending, overpopulated, understaffed, and house the highest Black imprisonment rate in the country. The Wisconsin Policy Forum explores why and discusses potential policy solutions.
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Echo, a UW-Milwaukee Freshwater Sciences graduate student, teaches young people at the K-12 level about freshwater systems and conservation through their underwater performances as Mermaid Echo.
