Articles by Ian Bergersen

The water of the Milwaukee River cascading over the Kletzsch Park Dam in Glendale is first heard before it can be seen. One could mistake the dam for a natural waterfall rather than a man-made installation. Oak trees estimated to be more than one hundred years old stand on the west bank of the river, indicating the area’s rich history. Built […]

If you pack a bunch of people together into a small space for a long time, chances are things will get pretty ugly. What happens if you give some of them weapons and the means to food and water? Will people learn to share and coexist peacefully, or will human nature take over and end with […]

UWM’s Chancellor Mark Mone talked to the University Committee about frequent “doomsday” discussions among public university leaders over low enrollment and budget problems that he heard at the annual Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) conference in San Diego. “We’re running out of teenagers,” said Mone. “If there’s no admission, then there’s no mission.” […]

Before he co-founded the Atlas Obscura website and co-authored the New York Times Bestseller Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders, Dylan Thuras was a wide-eyed 12-year-old boy exploring the bizarre collections and eccentric oddities contained in the House on the Rock in Wisconsin. Wonders like the world’s largest indoor carousel, a room that seemingly extends into infinity and a sculpture of a terrifying whale longer than the Statue of Liberty is […]

A man and a woman sat side by side at a football game, smiling and laughing with each other while both of their wives flanked the unlikely duo. The man is a conservative icon who once called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage and continues to be accused of war crimes to this day. The woman is a liberal poster child who uses […]

INTRODUCTION: Media professionals from across Milwaukee came together to network or simply shoot the sh*t over food and drinks at the Newsroom pub. Ian Bergersen reports. REPORTER PACKAGE: (Ian Bergersen narration): Media professionals and amateurs packed into the Newsroom Pub to mingle over food and drinks at the Milwaukee Press Club’s Shoot the Sh*t event. […]