Articles by Jay Stahl

This story was written by Jay Stahl from reporting by, in no particular order: Elizabeth Charney, Tanner Duffney, Henry Dunsirn, Jack Fitzgerald, Darius Hayes, Thomas Hoffman, Audrianna Hutchinson, Shazdah-Lee Sequoya Juniel, Richa Ravindra Karmarkar, Michael Null, Noah Osen, Zachary Semancik, Grayson Sewell, Tanasia Shaw, Amanda Stahl, Niko Barrientos, Michael Colt, Everett Eaton, Derek Johnson, Haley […]

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed what the holidays look like for everyone, but here’s Jay Stahl’s inside look at some volunteers who are spreading some Christmas cheer to those in need this year.

President-elect Joe Biden formally announced that Former Iowa Gov. and Obama-era Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been selected to lead his cabinet’s department of agriculture at a Dec. 10 press conference in Wilmington, Del. Among Biden’s cabinet choices, Vilsack’s selection has been among the most controversial. In Vilsack’s home state of Iowa, the pending appointment […]

On a typical winter Tuesday morning, draped in a black robe and clad with square-framed glasses, Chief Judge Derek Mosley hears hundreds of cases at the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility in downtown Milwaukee. His next big case? Convincing Milwaukeeans to shop locally during the holidays as COVID-19 has forced eateries and stores to close […]

He is “6’3 but 6’4 in boots.” His former Twitter bio? “My [Wisconsin] accent is thick like custard.” He graduated from “a small college in New Haven, Conn.” That college was Yale University. And at 22-years-old, his race could be Democrats’ key to protecting Gov. Tony Evers’ coveted veto powers. Wisconsin State Assembly candidate Jacob Malinowski’s not a politician, but he could change state politics. Their problem? Malinowski doesn’t […]

Wisconsin’s a swing state that could decide the 2020 Presidential Election and college students in Milwaukee could help influence voter turnout. Jay Stahl went to UWM to learn more about a few first-time voters and why they’re casting their ballots.

For years, Whitefish Bay mom Deb Andraca spent her weekdays as a substitute teacher at local elementary schools and rode bikes with her husband Marc along Lake Michigan. In December 2019, Andraca faced an unexpected career change when she announced her candidacy as a Democrat for a long-held Republican seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly. […]

“I’m going to talk like I’m doing an ASMR video and we’ll be fine.”  Those words were muttered on a Tuesday night at a recent city council meeting in Wausau, Wis., a river town of about 40,000 people in the state’s northern region. They came from an unlikely source: Katie Rosenberg, the city’s newly-elected millennial […]