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Fourteen students in the JAMS 500 Advanced Integrated Reporting class created this piece of collaborative student journalism in spring 2015. The goal of this “time capsule” is to document for future generations how UWM students live, work, study and play. Student collaborators were: Ryan Artman, Sean Cornell, Brooke Dowden, Katie Eggers, John Gingrass, Joe Halley, […]

Reaching across the top of a wooden casket as it slowly rolled past more than 1,000 mourners in the pews of the St. Monica Parish, sisters Chloe and Hailey tightly held each other’s hands. Walking in front of them was their little brother, Bryce, and father Michael. Together, as their eyes welled with tears and […]

It was a cold gloomy evening when the protest began on Dec. 19, 2014. It started at Red Arrow Park. Many people gathered, bundled up in their coats, hats, gloves and scarves. “No Justice, No Peace!” read the signs people held above their heads as they walked toward Interstate-43. “Shut it down! Shut it down!” […]

The city is spending over $120,000 for outside lawyers every month to defend the city against police-related litigation, funds it anticipated would last a few months but now thinks will continue for the year, aldermen were told at a Finance and Personnel Committee meeting. The Finance and Personnel Committee adopted an overall Contingent Fund Request […]

Karen Kramer pulled her wide-eyed, 22-year-old daughter, Becky, into a hug. She held her daughter tight, so she could hear her heart beating rapidly. As Karen kissed her daughter’s blonde head, tears rolled down Karen’s cheeks onto Becky’s pale, bruised skin. The two sat for hours, talking and crying. Karen begged Becky to stay. To […]

For Willie Bedford’s five siblings, his face was a distant memory. They lost their brother 45 years ago in Vietnam. In the decades since, one-by-one, their photos of him were also lost, especially after the family matriarch died. It had been about 20 years since any of them had seen his picture. Until Memorial Day […]

There were 64 names. Of supposedly unfindable photos of men from Wisconsin who’d died in Vietnam more than 40 years ago. Almost all of the men on the list were from Milwaukee, the state’s urban center. But had these men really vanished without a public trace, other than their names? A photo shows something more […]

Many days, you can find Terry Kramer, a Vietnam-era veteran who lives in Baraboo, sitting in the Milwaukee Public Library and digging though records to find faces to put with names on a very important list. Kramer, who makes the 116-mile drive each way to Milwaukee for his research, has found many of the fallen […]

Andrew Johnson stood quietly in the front of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee classroom with a poster that read, “Help Find the last 18,” as students filed in for their next class. Johnson, a small newspaper publisher, has taken on an incredible task—finding a photo for every person who was killed in the Vietnam War from […]

All across America on April 15th, people joined in protest, hoping to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour. Dozens of workers showed up to Milwaukee’s #FIGHTFOR15 rally in UW-Milwaukee’s union. Jaimie Anderson reports.

The Union Theatre was packed on May 8 for the 68th annual Student Film Festival where I Am Here won first place. The film is an art piece where a young female protagonist goes through deep psychological trauma after experiencing sexual assault. There are various images of drowning and her screaming in a street but […]

Tuesday’s meeting of the Milwaukee Common Council started with business as usual, but ended with a bang when Alderman Nik Kovac brought before the Council a proposed ordinance to lower Milwaukee pot fines dramatically. Supporters said that while studies have shown drug use is consistent across racial demographics, there is a disproportionate number of young, […]