Local Restaurants Get Ready for Winter Posted on October 30, 2020January 5, 2021 by Lexi Schroeder The COVID-19 pandemic is still in full force and as the weather starts to get colder, local restaurants and bars are preparing for the worst regarding continued business. Lexi Schroeder has the story.
UWM Students Struggle to Pay for Basic Necessities During COVID-19 Outbreak Posted on April 24, 2020February 5, 2021 by Lexi Schroeder COVID-19 has been hitting the city of Milwaukee for over a month now closing businesses, canceling events and shutting down universities and schools. Many students at UWM that work on campus and off campus have been laid off due to the pandemic. And many don’t know how they’re going to be paying their bills without […]
Wisconsin’s Mid-Pandemic Election: What Officials Said the Day After Posted on April 10, 2020April 24, 2020 by Taylor Wietzke, Destiny DeVooght, Adrian Hurd, Jessica Gatzow, Hannah Borchert, Daniel Valadez-Reyes, Lexi Schroeder, Samuel Dehring and James Trefry The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]