Lake Effect Spotlight
By WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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The Lake Effect Spotlight podcast features some of our favorite conversations about the people, places and organizations that shape Milwaukee.
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An artist's love letter to Milwaukee paleteros
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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'What a gem we have here': New Circus World director talks future of historic Baraboo site
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Japanese Stiltgrass: Wisconsin's newest invasive species
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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MPS superintendent speaks on new school year, flood cleanup, lead paint
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Wandering Wisconsin: fly fishing in Driftless beauty
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Chirp Chat: Milwaukee is a city for the birds
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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American Science and Surplus is down, but not out
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Wisconsin DNR wants you to be a community scientist
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Should schools ban cell phones?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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How Wisconsin cooperates with ICE, and gets paid for it
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Group Chat: getting a Green Card in 2025
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Heat as a workplace issue
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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There’s treasure hiding in plain sight at Milwaukee’s beaches
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Tips for filing flood insurance claims
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Rainn Wilson on Dwight Schrute, his Bahá’í faith and Dungeons & Dragons
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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What a flood brings: Wauwatosa family among many with flooded homes after southeast Wisconsin storms
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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National Hip Hop Day: Milwaukee producer breaks down the art of sampling
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Why are Milwaukee craft breweries closing?
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Economic check-in: Local business owner shares her concerns for the future
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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‘Spread the good news of poetry’: Wisconsin’s poet laureate on what the role means to her
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Milwaukee Public Library’s Wisconsin Concert Poster Collection is pretty punk
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Exploring Fondy Farmers Market, the oldest farmers market in Milwaukee
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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How did the Lumberjack World Championships end up in northern Wisconsin?
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Vacant lots are a blank canvas: Finding opportunity in Milwaukee
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Willow Newell is the first Black Miss Wisconsin. Up next: Miss America
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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$11M deficit, authorized worker strike and leadership vacuum: What’s going on at MCTS?
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Monarch butterfly population rebounds, but it’s still one of the lowest numbers on record
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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RNC economic impact estimated at $321M, but lost regular business not included
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Capitol Notes: How does the Wisconsin budget protect healthcare funding?
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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A Milwaukee immigration lawyer speaks on changes he's seen since last year
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Having a field day with Wisconsin's ham radio enthusiasts
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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'Choosing Love' explores lessons about relationships, inclusion & more from LGBTQ+ Christians
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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'Group Chat': 'I want to live, too'
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Get your music on at 'Summer of Soul': a downtown Milwaukee concert series
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Exploring the history of Bay View's Humboldt Park
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Where are the victims of the Bay View Massacre buried?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Buc-ee's in Wisconsin: Big promises, competition and lawsuits
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Oral history project to document stories of Wisconsin Native American boarding school survivors
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Chirp Chat: All about Wisconsin’s state bird, the American Robin
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Connecting with Indigenous history to address intergenerational trauma
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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From Billy the Bookworm to Browser the Library Lion: A look back at MPL's mascots
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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UWM graduate students map out Milwaukee’s flood concerns and what can be done
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The Native history behind the unmarked pedestrian bridge in Milwaukee's McKinley Park
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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'As they live, we live:' Protecting the sturgeon returning to Milwaukee’s waters
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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What to know about the Milwaukee teacher's aide facing deportation
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Finding the fixers: MCTS apprenticeship program calibrates future mechanics and drivers
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Chirp Chat: Exploring what birds can teach us about ourselves through art
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May 30, 2025 |
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Milwaukee's 'ham radio' enthusiasts are keeping this DIY hobby alive
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May 28, 2025 |
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The day Milwaukee was the center of the women's basketball world
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May 23, 2025 |
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‘Something for everybody': Milwaukee’s stamp club is one of the oldest in the country
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May 21, 2025 |
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Making Wisconsin: Hmong refugees and the promise of something better
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May 16, 2025 |
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Making Wisconsin: How sanctuary movements have succeeded and failed
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May 14, 2025 |
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'What matters is measured': Black kids make up 96% of youth corrections
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May 12, 2025 |
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Celebrating print media, DIY publishing and free expression with Milwaukee Zine Fest
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May 09, 2025 |
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Summer is prime time to visit the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
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May 07, 2025 |
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How the Milwaukee community came together to support LGBTQ pioneer Sharon Dixon
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May 05, 2025 |
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Cesar Chavez BID to hold Cinco de Mayo street festival and market
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May 02, 2025 |
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One year later: Reflecting on UWM's pro-Palestinian student encampment
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Chirp Chat: The dazzling colors of warbler season in Wisconsin
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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'Group Chat': Desperately seeking Milwaukee's Film Fest
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Bringing together environmental and economic justice to address climate, lead crises in Milwaukee
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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World legends with Wisconsin roots explored in new book, 'Wisconsin Idols'
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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What to know about ICE arrests at the courthouse and what's being done
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Some Wisconsin counties could be a tinderbox for measles outbreak, health official says
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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How to turn around MPS? Report highlights lessons from Chicago, Miami and DC schools
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Making the economic case for state investment in the arts
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Join this metal detectorist searching old homes for history and hidden treasures
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The new MPS superintendent is tasked with a turnaround. What's 'top of the list?'
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Milwaukee Wine Weekend: 5 days of wine, Milwaukee and accessibility
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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How Department of Education cuts will — and won’t — affect Wisconsin
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Group Chat: Reproductive health care and harm reduction
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Chirp Chat: How do birds build nests in Wisconsin? With twigs, mud, spiderweb and more
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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What to know about the voter ID ballot referendum
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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UWM, animation, and dream jobs
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The ways people use — and misuse — CCAP
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Meet the candidates: Wisconsin state superintendent
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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UWM scientist dives into deep-sea volcanoes
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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'Voices & Votes' highlights Wisconsinites who spoke up for change
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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'This is our lifeline': Wisconsin advocates and Medicaid recipients decry potential cuts
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The race to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Wisconsin Legislature
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Temporary housing for people leaving incarceration opens in downtown Milwaukee
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Milwaukee County hid officers' credibility concerns — reporters just revealed the list
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Group Chat: Community keeps us safe
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Chirp Chat: How to meet other birders in Wisconsin
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Black Birth Collection brings together resources from prenatal to postpartum
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Milwaukee musicians scale buildings for 'On the Roof: Jazz Impressions of Fiddler'
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Optimism, and Trump-triggered caution, about renewable energy growth in Wisconsin this year
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Milwaukee Recreation’s new director wants to continue building up programs and play fields
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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'Heal and move forward': Milwaukee Housing Authority chair talks next steps amid financial struggles
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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WUWM staff picks: A mixtape of love songs just in time for Valentine’s Day
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Bad Bunny wanted to share Puerto Rico's history of colonization, so he called a Wisconsin professor
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Looking for recipe ideas? Milwaukee Public Library’s historic collection has thousands
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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An appetite for progress: Students from PEARLS for Teen Girls cook with Milwaukee chefs
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Two brothers from Afghanistan share how refugee funding now in limbo helped them settle in Milwaukee
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Lesser-known stories of Black Americans in history returns to Marquette
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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A Milwaukee native's new book takes readers on a pop culture 'road trip' through the '90s and 2000s
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Milwaukee Mayor Johnson interview, part two: Housing, budgets, public works, crime
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Milwaukee Mayor Johnson aims to welcome immigrants without being 'targeted' by Trump
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Financial advice to start the year off right with your 'financial hype woman'
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Staying safe from RSV, COVID-19, flu and norovirus this winter: Tips and vaccine resources
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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The Domes: Reimagined project takes root
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Milwaukee surfer shapes eco-friendly board that ‘captures the beauty of surfing while respecting the water’
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Are you a reader who likes meeting new people? Try Milwaukee's Silent Book Club!
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Wisconsin Policy Forum's top 5 findings of 2024
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Eagle River hosts 62nd annual World Championship Snowmobile Derby
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Milwaukee’s youth poet laureate is helping up-and-coming poets grow
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Milwaukee Music Roundup: Night Crickets, Ellie Jackson, BLAX, Known Moons
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Greentree: Where you are safe to be yourself
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Milwaukee seniors ‘living their best lives’ through dance and community
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Leap day 2024 in Milwaukee: Rare birthdays, cosmic love stories, and unforgettable proposals
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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From back seat listener to NPR host: A conversation with Ari Shapiro
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Bringin' the Hannukah light with Milwaukee's Latkes Con Salsa
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Bringin' the Hannukah light with Milwaukee's Latkes Con Salsa
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Top games to gift in 2024
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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A Fight for Survival: The monarch butterfly's future
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Milwaukee Recreation director to retire after 36-year career, reflects on department’s future
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair aims to become the national chair of the DNC
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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How the Coming Home Tour supports LGBTQ Wisconsinites this Holiday Season
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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One course, many faiths: Milwaukeeans come together to study Judaism, Islam and Christianity
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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What's next for Heal the Hood?
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Celebrating Vel Phillips' unforgettable impact on politics, Milwaukee and Wisconsin
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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There's no better time for Milwaukee's Blackity Black Holiday Market
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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'Rock 'n' Roll Poet' honors WUWM's famous alum, Bob Reitman
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Ho-Chunk chef sees food as canvas for tradition and change
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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The time is now for optimizing home energy efficiency
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Remembering Milwaukee Alderman Jonathan Brostoff
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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'Struggle for the City' explores how neighborhoods fought urban renewal
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Is Milwaukee a community of haters?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Climate change will wait for no president: One perspective on the path ahead
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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'A Hallowed Home for Heroes' explores the storied history of Milwaukee Soldiers Home
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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The Hodag: The mythical story behind Rhinelander’s symbol of pride
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Wisconsin Democrats win crucial state Senate elections, but remain minority in Legislature
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Here are some of Wisconsin's most competitive races under new legislative maps
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Exploring the haunting of Engine House 35 with Milwaukee Public Library's Cemetery Collection
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Latinos in Wisconsin: A history of othering
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Cream City brick: From Ice Age glaciers to Milwaukee's early strip malls
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Deciding whether to vote early or on Election Day? Here's why it's all secure
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Wisconsin prisons restrict books to prevent drug smuggling, underwhelming evidence it will work
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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From green to gold: Why some leaves change color in the fall
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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'Spirits of the Silent City' brings the dead to life at Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Looking back at Act 31, Wisconsin's Native American education law
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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What to know about the mayor's proposed City of Milwaukee budget and what happens next
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Here's why some local voters are still undecided
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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What Wisconsin election clerks want us to know
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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What North Avenue tells us about Milwaukee's demographics
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Milwaukee Comedy Festival celebrates 19 years of laughs
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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From back seat listener to NPR host: A conversation with Ari Shapiro
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Diving into Milwaukee Public Library's Great Lakes Marine Collection
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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'Star Wars: A New Hope' dubbed into Ojibwe in an effort to help revitalize the language
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Scientists find signs of sinkholes on the floor of Lake Michigan
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Greentree: Where you are safe to be yourself
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Milwaukee's King Center: More than a center, more than neighborhood trauma
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Trump's appeal in Wisconsin possibly explained: It's the economic inequalities, says researcher
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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How hazelnuts can build climate resilience in the Upper Midwest
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Reminiscing about Wisconsin’s hot cicada summer
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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From a duck explaining elections to a printed voter guide, here are WUWM's 2024 election projects
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Milwaukee International Short Film Festival's lineup is 90% Wisconsin filmmakers
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Group Chat: The kids are alright
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Want a chance to drive on a world-class racetrack? Race on over to Road America
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Get to know the sand dunes of the Midwest
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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New report shows sobering statistics of struggle across all Milwaukee schools
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Mayor Johnson reflects on Milwaukee hosting the RNC and looks ahead to the DNC
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Liberace is from West Allis. Why isn't he memorialized there?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Experience the Wisconsin State Fair from a first-timer’s perspective
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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MPD chief defends out-of-state officers' shooting of Milwaukee man during RNC
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Amanda Huff & Steve Peplin: Live at Lake Effect
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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How you can canoe down the Wisconsin River and spend the night on a sandbar
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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What to know about the constitutional amendments on the Aug. 13 ballot
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Swing State of the Union Episode 5: Us vs. Them
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Swing State of the Union Episode 4: Who gets to vote?
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Swing State of the Union Episode 3: Labor left and right
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Amanda Huff & Steve Peplin: Live at Lake Effect
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Milwaukee seniors ‘living their best lives’ through dance and community
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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How much sway do running mates actually have with voters? Turns out, not much
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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A WUWM reporter shares observations from the RNC
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Jul 19, 2024 |