Articles by Cameron Knoll

In the 1800s, northern Wisconsin loggers claimed to see a creature with “spikes all the way down the entire length of its body with a fistful of needle-sharp pointed spears at the end of his tail… fangs that would rival a saber tooth tiger and could rip out the belly of the biggest bear.” As […]

The Milwaukee Police and Fire Commission discussed possibilities for a change in policy when releasing officer body camera footage after critical incidents during a public meeting on Thursday. Before the meeting began, grieving mothers and protesters from the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression rallied in front of Milwaukee City Hall in support of […]

Laura Knoll remembers her yesterday’s heroes, the Bay City Rollers.

“We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to have these conversations in the context of gross negligence rather than mass death” – Abigail Nye, UWM library archivist Just over a year before Elmo Daniels was accused of loading a gun in UW-Milwaukee’s Golda Meir Library on March 16, he was banned from the Student […]

The snowy roads of downtown Milwaukee were transformed into streets of leprechauns, Irish dancing and green and gold beads during The Shamrock Club’s 55th St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday. The parade started at noon on North MLK Drive and West Wisconsin Avenue, and it ended an hour and a half later on Water Street and […]

Matthew Chavez remembers back to 1984, playing with his action figures as KTI’s Top 40 served as the soundtrack to his childhood.

When customers walk through the doors of The Exclusive Company, the earthy smell of incense and the subtle sounds of music fill their senses as they navigate through aisles of records, CDs and movies.  For five and a half years, Bella Charles worked at this record store’s Greenfield location. Earlier this year while Charles was […]

New independently owned record stores are popping up in Milwaukee after The Exclusive Company, America’s oldest full-line independent record store chain, permanently closed all locations after 66 years of business. Cameron Knoll has the story.

While some people look forward to the candies, costumes, and scares that come in the end October, others look forward to the first two days of November: a time to remember the lives of those who’ve passed. Cameron Knoll has the story.

Every school has a fire escape plan and fire drills once a month, but many people don’t have escape plans at home. Not only has Fire Lt. Carlos Velázquez Sánchez been serving as a firefighter for Milwaukee the last 15 years, but he’s also director of the Survive Alive House. Sánchez believes that learning fire […]