Articles by Amanda Becker

The Bucks played a special game to celebrate their 50th Anniversary in Milwaukee. On Thursday, Oct. 26th the team returned to the Mecca. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTZIcFeAslQ&w=700&rel=0

A Media Milwaukee investigation into the 40-year-old Sandburg towers’ conditions and the university’s plans to repair them found maintenance requests submitted by students in 2016 were down by 11% since 2012. However, so far in 2017, work order requests are up, according to the maintenance supervisor, Todd Luebstorf. Despite this percentage decline, the number of […]

By 2030, 1 in 5 people in the United States will be over the age of 65, and the elderly population in Wisconsin is projected to grow by 33 percent, according to the US Census Bureau. A trans-generational program in Milwaukee is reaching out to seniors, providing transportation and companionship. Amanda Becker reports.

Student artists from UW-Milwaukee live in elderly care facilities where they put on artistic workshops and build friendships with the residents. Hear more from the documentarians in the podcast below and then watch their amazing video:

Planned Parenthood has long been the source of political disagreement because some of their clinics provide abortion services. Now, the Trump administration is threatening to cut funding. Amanda Becker reports.

This is part 2 of a series by JAMS 320 reporting class exploring the possible effect of Gov. Scott Walker’s opt out segregated fee proposal. Kelsey Laas, a nursing student at UW-Milwaukee, had never heard of allocable segregated fees and was unaware that she had been paying them since she began attending UW-Milwaukee a year-and-a-half […]

The UWM Muslim Student Association brought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Milwaukee to speak about religion, what it’s like to be a basketball legend, and life after basketball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKB9G94_l8&feature=youtu.be  

This is part 1 of a 2-part JAMS 320 series exploring the effect of Scott Walker’s opt out segregated fee proposal for UW-Milwaukee. Read part 2 here. This story was written by Amanda Becker with contributions from the JAMS 320 reporting class. UW-Milwaukee could look like a completely different campus in the future. Major high-profile […]

Five years ago, when Mahmoud Al Chamaa was just 15 and in high school, he traveled one last time from Damascus, Syria to Brookfield, Wisconsin. It was one of many summers he visited his uncle in the United States, but with growing instability in Syria, his family pressed him to stay. “It was very hard […]

Madison, Wisc.- In a crowd estimated to be between 75,000 and 100,000 people Saturday afternoon, what filled the streets were thousands of pink hats and people holding signs emblazoned with vaginas, female gender symbols and phrases like “I am not a pretty girl” and “viva la vulva.”

The “Women’s March on Madison” was one of hundreds of marches that took place on Saturday January 21st in response to Donald Trump’s first day as the 45th president of the United States. In Washington and around the world, millions of advocates for women and minority rights took to streets to demonstrate.

  The day after the 2016 presidential election, Chelsea Miller started looking for flights to Washington D.C. Not for the inauguration, but instead to attend a march of comparable size that was already in the works for the next day. “I felt compelled to do something. I was researching for three days, I was so […]