The G20 Came to Milwaukee. Google Wrote Its Own AI Law. Here’s the Proof.
Milwaukee hosted G20 Trade Ministers this week while a tech giant was busy writing the laws meant to regulate it. A city that got to host, and the people those deals are supposed to help September 30th through October 1st, trade officials from 20 of the world’s largest economies met in Milwaukee under U.S. Trade […]
56 Percent of Milwaukee’s Suicides Involved a Firearm. Here’s What That Number Means.
Milwaukee County’s own numbers: 56% of 2025’s suicides involved a firearm, up to 75% so far in 2026. What a local researcher says that means, and the one number worth saving in your phone.
Sanders & Bannon Agree?! Plus Milwaukee’s Real Accountability Update | UNJ LIVE Recap
An honest accountability update, real credit for Crowley’s $7.5M opioid move, a Rev-Up MKE field report, and Sanders and Bannon agreeing on something for once, this week’s UNJ LIVE recap.
Milwaukee Is Short 146 Officers. Here’s What That’s Actually Costing Us.
Live coverage from Urban News Journal, independent, objective, and unafraid. Milwaukee is dealing with a police staffing crisis that’s bigger than most people realize, and this week it collided with a hard weekend for the city. Here’s the honest breakdown from Monday night’s livestream. Inside the staffing crisis Back in 2023, the state passed Act […]
25 Years After 9/11, David Crowley’s Governor Win, and MCTS Fare Hikes | UNJ LIVE 9/11
Friday night’s Urban News Journal live show landed on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and covered a lot of ground from there: a hometown governor’s race, a transit system about to cost riders more, an honest accountability update, National Recovery Month, and a Brewers team chasing October. Watch the full episode and listen on Spotify […]
Wisconsin’s First Black Governor? Crowley vs. Tiffany, 4,100 Shootings Near MKE Schools, and Our Honest State Fair Update | UNJ LIVE 9/4
Friday night’s Urban News Journal live show covered a lot of ground: a governor’s race that could make Wisconsin history, a gun-violence number every Milwaukee parent needs to hear, an honest accountability update, a Brewers playoff push, and a look at how VA Milwaukee is reaching veterans who feel forgotten. Watch the full episode and […]
20,000 Calls a Year: Inside Milwaukee County’s Mobile Crisis Team
Milwaukee County’s Mobile Crisis team is fielding more than 20,000 calls a year and hiring six more clinicians to keep up — and it’s keeping people out of the ER.
Black Men Are Finally Talking About Anxiety Out Loud. The System Still Isn’t Built to Listen.
A wave of Black men writing and speaking publicly about anxiety and therapy marks a real cultural shift. But the treatment-access gap behind that shift hasn’t moved nearly as fast — and naming the shift without naming the gap is its own kind of dishonesty.
The Exceptional People Behind Their Warriors: One Counselor’s Mission to Support the Families PTSD Never Mentions
Milwaukee, WI — Everybody talks about what PTSD does to the veteran. Almost nobody talks about what it does to the person lying next to him at 3am. That’s the conversation Marcus Hart brought to this week’s episode of Transform U: Veteran Stories, sitting down with Welby O’Brien — wife of a combat veteran living […]
The 22 Percent: Why Black Veterans Carry a Heavier PTSD Burden, and What Actually Closes the Gap
There’s a number I want to sit with for a minute before I explain why it matters: 22 percent. That’s the share of Black veterans who deployed and report post-traumatic stress disorder, according to recent Department of Veterans Affairs research. For white veterans who deployed, that number is 14.1 percent. Same wars. Same deployments, broadly […]