Episodes

  • Tuesday 12/9/25: MKE Grocery Buddy, real and fake trees, Milwaukee Music Roundup
    Dec 9 2025

    A grassroots program helping to connect people with food needs to those who can help. Is a real or fake Christmas tree better for the environment? New local music in the Milwaukee Music Roundup.

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    51 mins
  • Monday 12/8/25: Yessenia Ruano, state voting maps, affordable housing
    Dec 8 2025

    How a former Milwaukee teacher's aide is adjusting after deportation earlier this year. How the state supreme court is addressing challenges to the state’s congressional voting maps. A new affordable housing complex in Milwaukee.

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    51 mins
  • Friday 12/5/25: PFAS and drinking water, road salt and waterways, Christmas trees and moneymaking
    Dec 5 2025

    One Wisconsin town has been drinking bottled water for years because of PFAS. The environmental impact of road salt has on our local waterways. The changing market of Christmas trees, and how sellers are adapting.

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    51 mins
  • Thursday 12/4/25: PFAS lawsuit and impact, refugees in Milwaukee, maternal mental health
    Dec 4 2025

    A lawsuit over PFAS contaminating the water supply of Wisconsin communities, and why PFAS has kept one Wisconsin town drinking bottled water for years. The story of two brothers from Afghanistan now living in Milwaukee, and how the near-constant changes in immigration policy could affect people like them.

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    51 mins
  • Wednesday 12/3/25: Status Pending, land transfer, astronomy in children's books
    Dec 3 2025

    Two MPS teachers from Nigeria speak on how work visas changes could impact their lives. Why a Wisconsin group of Catholic sisters transferred land to a Native American tribe. UWM's planetarium explores astronomical themes in children’s books.

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    51 mins
  • Tuesday 12/2/25: Milwaukee Diaper Mission, salt and the environment, prohibition in Wisconsin
    Dec 2 2025

    The founder of the Milwaukee Diaper Mission reflects on its rapid growth over five years. The environmental impact road and sidewalk salt have on our local waterways. What happened in Wisconsin during prohibition.

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    51 mins
  • Monday 12/1/25: Lake Effect On-Site explores Forest Home Cemetery
    Dec 1 2025

    A live taping of Lake Effect in front of an audience at Forest Home Cemetery. We learn about the cemetery's history and residents, beekeepers, arboretum and one the neighborhood's historic bowling alleys.

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    51 mins
  • Wednesday 11/26/25: Status Pending, capital gains tax, economic check in
    Nov 26 2025

    We hear from refugees living in Milwaukee who made it here before President Trump suspended the refugee program. One potential solution to Milwaukee’s housing shortage: reforming the capital gains tax. A local business owner and mother speaks about how she's planning for the future.

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    52 mins