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For Thanksgiving, Lake Effect is examining the many roles food plays in our lives - both for the holiday and beyond our yearly feast. From learning about…

Some public school advocates are sounding alarms over several issues in Governor Walker's proposed biennial budget. They point to essentially unchanged…

Some public school advocates are sounding alarms over several issues in Governor Walker's proposed biennial budget. They point to essentially unchanged…

Breathing is the most natural thing we do. But how often do you really take a deep breath? Breathing is an involuntary and automatic process, but it’s one…

Medical error is the third leading cause of death in America. Miscommunication between medical practitioners themselves, and between them and their…

Last year wasn't a good year for farmers. From small dairy farms struggling to survive across Wisconsin, to a trade war impacting the sales of big…

[originally aired in August 2011]Picture this. You are a woman lawyer clerking for a federal judge, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States of…

The news broke last week that the children’s TV show, Sesame Street, a staple of PBS for 46 years, will soon air first-run shows on HBO. It’s a…

Perhaps it’s an obvious point, but pregnancy is a taxing time on a woman’s body. The cliché is that during those nine months, a woman is doing everything…

We all know our inherited DNA shapes us, but a Milwaukee researcher says how our parents - and even our grandparents - lived could also affect our…