Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS), Wisconsin Watch and Outlier Media are collaborating on the News414 project, which uses innovative technology and research techniques to deliver crucial information to residents, investigate neighborhoods’ most pressing issues and deliver accountability journalism to Milwaukee and the broader public. To subscribe text the word MILWAUKEE, MKE or NEWS414 to 73224.
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How does News414 work?
We send free, personalized data via SMS texting, standard text messaging, to Milwaukee residents in English and Spanish. If you want to try it yourself, text the word MILWAUKEE to 73224. Message and data rates may apply. As a subscriber, you may receive up to four messages a month, or more depending on the information you share or request. Reply HELP for help or STOP to cancel at any time. Privacy and Terms can be found here.
After this chatbot-driven interaction, we invite each of our users and news consumers to talk directly with a journalist in English or Spanish. For instance, news consumers might ask questions about housing, food or jobs, and we report out the answers for them. These conversations also drive our deeper-dive accountability and investigative work published by NNS, Wisconsin Watch and other news outlets.
Residents on Milwaukee’s North and South sides are split on whether they will vote. Some cite barriers.
Answers to questions about baby formula access, particularly for those enrolled in Wisconsin’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.
Milwaukee seeks compromise with state transportation officials to redesign deadly highways running through town.
‘I just couldn’t bring myself to eat it’: National supply chain and labor shortages have led to worse meals — and a new push to go local
Retrofitted semi-trailers carrying produce, dairy and meat bring needed fresh food to underserved areas — but the economics are daunting
Milwaukee holds the second-highest poverty rate among large U.S. cities, leaving many residents with impossible choices.
Large parts of Milwaukee and rural Wisconsin lack easy access to groceries. The state, cities and communities are working to change that.
Wisconsin’s primary energy aid program focuses mostly on winter heating, leaving few summer cooling options. A neighborhood group is stepping up.
A guide to reducing energy costs during hot summers
The former head of Wisconsin’s FoodShare program says qualifying for and maintaining food assistance is overly cumbersome for participants
Some pandemic-related changes could transform FoodShare and other solutions to hunger — if the policies survive expiration dates and the state’s political divide
The Women, Infants, and Children program funds about half of U.S. formula purchases. Wisconsin contracts only with Abbott Nutrition, whose recall and plant shutdown jolted the market.
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