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Newsmakers

“Newsmakers” is a weekly news and current affairs talk show produced by WPR’s La Crosse bureau. The program’s host/producer is Ezra Wall. Interviews on the program explore politics, education, the environment and other regional issues relevant to southwest Wisconsin and adjacent portions of Minnesota and Iowa.

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Fridays at 10 a.m. on WHLA 90.3 FM La Crosse; Fridays at 7 p.m. on WLSU 88.9 FM La Crosse

Latest Episodes

  • UniverCity Alliance adds Driftless Area projects

    The UniverCity alliance is a program that marshals the research capacity of UW-Madison students in service of the unique needs of cities, counties, villages, townships and others across the state of Wisconsin. The Alliance has helped some communities learn how government bodies can operate more efficiently, and others determine how to address needs like childcare…

    UniverCity Alliance adds Driftless Area projects
  • New behavioral health resource; International Women’s Day

    A new resource aimed at providing information about behavioral health is now available, following an eight-year project funded by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment. Joining us to talk about it are Diana DiazGranados, Project Director of Better Together in La Crosse County; and Catherine Kolkmeier, Executive Director of the La Crosse Medical Health Science…

    New behavioral health resource; International Women’s Day
  • New focus on workforce skills for Boys and Girls Club

    A planned addition to the Terry Errickson branch of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater La Crosse will provide area youth access to important workforce readiness skills. The project is slated to break ground in the summer of 2024. Brian Fukuda is the Director of Workforce Readiness for the Boys and Girls Clubs of…

    New focus on workforce skills for Boys and Girls Club
  • Enduring Families Project brings Black history to life

    The Enduring Families Project uses dramatic monologues, short films and other means to bring to life the stories of Black people who lived in the La Crosse area in the second half of the 19th century. Denise Christy is the organization’s producer and co-founder. She and her team will be depicting several characters at a…

    Enduring Families Project brings Black history to life
  • Jazz artist brings Langston Hughes to the Driftless

    Langston Hughes was an American poet and activist known as a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Among his later works was an epic poem called “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.” An effort to compose musical accompaniment to the poem, following Hughes’s own written instructions, has been led…

    Jazz artist brings Langston Hughes to the Driftless

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