Ethan Duran

Ethan Duran

A freelance reporter covering crime, community and social issues, Ethan Duran is based in Milwaukee.

Elections Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden met with Captain Cher Kai Xiong (middle), a Hmong veteran, and Yee Leng Xiong, the executive director of the Hmong American Center in Wausau, during his visit to Wisconsin last week. (Photo provided)
Elections Biden Met Privately With Hmong Secret War Vet During Last Week’s Wisconsin Visit

Biden told of one man's effort to help United States during Vietnam War.

Ethan Duran Ethan Duran September 28, 2020 11:15 am CDT
Elections Stickers like this are a recruitment tool being used by the nonpartisan Poll Hero Project, which works to turn politically active teens and young adults into election day poll workers. (Photo by Ethan Duran)
Elections More than 22,000 Young People Will Work As Poll Workers in November, Thanks to Poll Hero Project

The nonpartisan organization finds politically active Instagram users with geotags for high schools in different cities, then asks them to become poll workers.

Ethan Duran Ethan Duran September 22, 2020 9:57 am CDT
Elections Wisconsin election poll workers
Elections Wisconsin Needs Election Poll Workers. Here’s How to Become One.

Those 16 years and older can earn money while working the Nov. 3 election.

Ethan Duran Ethan Duran September 17, 2020 11:05 am CDT
Elections Drop boxes are designed to provide voters an alternative spot to deliver their absentee ballot, as opposed to traditional mail service. (Photo by Ethan Duran)
Elections Drop Boxes for Absentee Ballots Popping Up Across the State

Ballots placed in the boxes emptied daily.

Ethan Duran Ethan Duran September 15, 2020 12:19 pm CDT
Politics The owner of Penzeys Spices has spoken up on political issues before. In 2017, he spent over $700,000 on Facebook ads to promote Donald Trump’s impeachment. (Photo by Jonathon Sadowski)
Politics Penzeys Spices Owner: Property Can Be Replaced, Life Can’t

Owner is no stranger to voicing his political views, including his thoughts on demonstrations occurring across the country.

Ethan Duran Ethan Duran September 4, 2020 6:14 pm CDT

continuing coverage

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) holds a press conference on April 13 where he demands Gov. Tony Evers accept severe restrictions on local health officials, schools, and the governor himself in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in federal supplemental COVID food aid. (Image via Wisconsin Eye.) Politics Evers and Timberlake Find a Way to Bypass Vos’ Willingness to Lose Millions in Food Aid for Families
An archival image of the Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes in Waushara County, which have experienced a reduction in water levels due to groundwater withdrawals for irrigated agriculture. (Photo credit: Wisconsin DNR) Natural Resources Clean Water at Stake as WI Supreme Court Hears Appeals to Take GOP Restrictions Off the DNR
Left: A sewer line under construction along St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee in 1920. Right: Victor Berger, co-founder of the Socialist Party of America, editor of the Milwaukee Leader, and the first Socialist elected to Congress. Lower: Construction of a Milwaukee sewer line in 1932. (Photos courtesy: Wisconsin Historical Society and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Graphic by Morgaine Ford-Workman.) Infrastructure Infrastructure Is Good Politics—Just Ask Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists of 1904
The state Capitol in Madison is reflected off the windows of an office building across the street. (Photo by Julian Emerson) Politics Not Allowed: Nonpartisan Analysis Finds a Flaw in GOP Plans for Wisconsin Stimulus Money
Law and Policy Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Identified as Protesters Call for Justice for Fourth Night
Law and Policy Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Identified as Protesters Call for Justice for Fourth Night

Demonstrators remember the lives of two Kenosha-area men shot and killed by vigilante teenager from Illinois.

Ethan Duran Ethan Duran August 27, 2020 11:54 am CDT