
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.
Learn more about Lake Effect here.
Latest Episodes
-
A program through Education Trust is trying to change the legal landscape to open new opportunities for these people. It’s called the Justice Fellows Policy Program, and Milwaukeean Shannon Ross was a part of their inaugural group of fellows.
-
Bicycling advocates are hoping to see a big financial boost for recreational trail development in Wisconsin. But first, Republican state lawmakers have to go along with a budget plan from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
-
Writer Tea Krulos explains the history and legality of pull tabs in Wisconsin, which he highlights in an article for this month’s Milwaukee Magazine.
-
Since the pandemic, there's been a shortage of care-givers to address the needs of seniors. Find out why the crisis affects LGBTQ+ seniors the hardest on the first installment of WIGAYZ.
-
The fine-dining restaurant has had induction stoves behind the counters ever since it opened more than a decade ago — a rarity in the world of restaurants.
-
When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story.
-
Newly appointed Port Milwaukee Director Jackie Q. Carter is the first person of color and first woman to hold the position. She reflects on the port, her role and what it means to hold it.
-
The founder of Brilliant Voices, Mwanje Thompson, shares how and why he is teaching young Milwaukeeans about podcasts, business and digital entrepreneurship.
-
Tammy Makhlouf, manager of the Craig Yabuki Mental Health Walk-In Clinic in Milwaukee, talks about the services and the impact of the clinic after having just completed its first year of operation.
-
Debbie Ford has been chancellor at UW-Parkside in Kenosha for 14 years.