As northeast Wisconsin diversifies, students of color use tools like code-switching to navigate their own identity and community
October 3, Green Bay Press-Gazette
Students may code-switch to gain entry to social situations with peers — for example, students say they code-switch because they were told they’re both “too Black” or “too white.”
Outagamie County devises regional strategy to address looming shortage of affordable housing
September 2, Post Crescent
The Fox Cities area needs between 1,000 and 2,000 new housing units per year to keep up with growing demand, but a labor shortage in critical positions needed for constructing housing is just one of the many challenges the area is facing when it comes to actually developing an adequate number of units.
Oshkosh Defense sent a big contract to the non-union South. Will it keep future jobs in Wisconsin?
August 6, Wisconsin Watch
Despite tens of millions in state and local government incentives, the Wisconsin company is steering billions of dollars of work away from its namesake city.
Can the Green Bay Packers inspire new model for local journalism?
July 26, Green Bay Press-Gazette
The Green Bay Packers business model might help save a newspaper, which would be appropriate since a newspaper helped save the Packers.
Bomb threats, canceled events, empty schools: How a bullying probe paralyzed a Wisconsin town’s democracy
July 16, Wisconsin Watch
Kiel’s paralysis in late May and early June followed a descent into incivility that shares elements of school board fights across the country — fueled by a cocktail of political tribalism, COVID-19 anxiety, false claims of election fraud and racial tensions following the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd.
Black women are five times as likely to die in childbirth. Here’s what that looks like in Green Bay.
July 12, Wisconsin 365
Factors that lead to these life-threatening disparities include the quality of health care, chronic conditions and structural racism and bias, according to the CDC. In Brown County, Black women receive the lowest rates of first-trimester health care and are most likely to have premature births
June 21, Green Bay Press-Gazette
Minority business ownership in Wisconsin lags national rates. Black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian people own 18.7% of small businesses nationally, but 9.6% here, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2021 Wisconsin Small Business Profile.