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In the middle of publishing a nine-part investigative series about the Catholic Church in Milwaukee and its role in shaping local immigration policy, the comments started coming in. Not about the research. Not about the reporting. Not about the politics. The criticism was aimed at the illustrations. The custom and cohesive visuals were produced using generative AI and digitally edited by a human artist. For our newsroom, they solved a problem we’ve run into for years: stock photo archives often don’t cover niche or complex topics well, and when they do, the available images are scattered across styles and...

Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition (MMWC) hosted its October 31 Networking Brunch with a special guest, Sae Iino, the Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator at the International Institute of Wisconsin (IIW). The event centered on sumi-e, the traditional Japanese practice of black-ink painting, and introduced participants to the broader philosophy of ikigai, a concept that describes purpose and meaning found in daily life. The art session portion of the program opened with a history of how sumi-e developed in Japan, and what it meant to Japanese culture over the centuries. Using brushes, water, and black ink, participants practiced forming simple lines...

In a modest neighborhood once lined with railroad boxcars, a young man named John S. Muños left home for war and never returned. His story is rooted not only in the battlefields of Korea but in the American struggle for belonging, sacrifice, and recognition that defined a generation of Mexican-American families on what is now known as Hero Street. Born in 1928, Muños grew up on Second Street in Silvis, a small industrial city along the Mississippi River near the Quad Cities. The area was home to dozens of Mexican families who had arrived after the 1910 revolution and...