Articles by Jodie Filenius

Benjamin Cadel is an undergraduate student from France and Shiv Issar is a doctoral student from India who is studying abroad at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this short documentary, they talk about what it’s like being abroad in the U.S. during the global pandemic and how it’s impacting them.

This story was published in the UWM Post on March 18. As the world continues rolling into unprecedented times, and the coronavirus pandemic surges on, the UW System is leaving student employees out of their COVID-19 leave policies. On March 16, Andres Valdez went to work at the Klotsche Center. At 11:35 a.m., Valdez and other Rec […]

An already difficult task, parking in Milwaukee is getting harder. More than likely, many people reading this were caught off guard by a newly enforced parking ordinance. Jodie Filenius has the story.

Deer season kicked off this month in Wisconsin, but the numbers were down state-wide. Jodie Filenius has more.

Irie Payne, the 30-year-old man who was shot and wounded in the UWM police shooting March 19, has been charged with felony bail jumping, and the chancellor now says Payne had a loaded firearm while he was sleeping in the closed Fine Arts Complex on campus. Payne’s LinkedIn page says that he was a former […]

When approached in a public hallway, UWM Professor Anthony Azenabor had no comment regarding the sexual assault allegations against him following his waived preliminary hearing this morning. Azenabor and his defense attorney Odalo Joseph Ohiku entered the court room at 8:30 a.m. He entered a not guilty plea at the short hearing. The judge said […]

Mayor Tom Barrett highlighted both the progress Milwaukee has made in the past year and the progress yet to come at his State of the City address at the Fiserv Forum Monday morning. Barrett expressed pride in the growth in 2018 such as the new companies along the Kinnickinnic River, the completion of the Fiserv […]

Accused gun and drug dealer Jordan P. Fricke, 26, fired an AK-47 pistol at police while they were executing a search warrant, penetrating Officer Matthew Rittner’s lungs and aorta, a newly filed criminal complaint alleges. Fricke heard MPD shout “Police!” multiple times but said he didn’t think it was actually police and shot off four […]

Marines held back tears as they remembered one of their own.  The auditorium echoed with the sounds of people weeping.  Community members, retired police officers and strangers embraced each other and came together as a family to honor Officer Matthew Rittner, remembering him as a husband and father, a partner in combat and a protector […]

Spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee came to a screeching halt this week after record-breaking low temperatures sent the city into hibernation and the campus community facing a rare streak of canceled classes. “It is not unusual for us to cancel classes once per winter — we’re in Wisconsin! But it is unusual to […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students awoke on the morning of Jan. 23 to a thick layer of snow coating the roads and sidewalks, but, to the distress of some, classes went on as planned. Running public transportation contributed to UWM’s decision to stay open on Wednesday, according to Michelle Johnson, senior director of Integrated Marketing & […]

Enchantment in the Park hosted its 10th annual holiday light show in 2018.  The event is held in West Bend at Regner Park to raise money and gather food donations for local food pantries.  Jodie Filenius reports.