Bonnie Petrie
Bonnie Petrie is a proud new member of the news team at WUWM. She is a reporter who - over her twenty year career - has been honored by both the Texas an New York Associated Press Broadcasters, as well as the Radio, Television and Digital News Association, for her reporting, anchoring, special series production and use of sound.
Bonnie is a native of northern New York, growing up along the Canadian border. She spent nearly fifteen years living and working in Texas. She is also a podcaster, known, in particular, for her series of podcasts for pregnant women and new mothers called Pea in the Podcast.
A mother of one daughter, Bonnie lives in Shorewood.
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The CDC is urging manufacturers of a type of flour used to make foods like tortillas and tamales to add folic acid to help lower the risk of some birth defects in the Hispanic population.
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Millions are without power in Texas, and that's created problems for scheduled COVID-19 vaccinations. Icy roads mean people can't get to appointments, and some vaccination freezers aren't working.
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Texas is set to cross a bleak milestone: 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. Texas has the most cases in the U.S. and is struggling with a surge of infections in rural and urban areas.
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After a major surge of coronavirus cases, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered nearly all residents to wear masks. The order also allows local officials to impose restrictions on some outdoor gatherings.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state is pausing any further plans to reopen. It comes after a spike in the coronavirus cases and with some hospital systems strained by the surge.
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The number of coronavirus cases is rising rapidly in Texas. Still, Wisconsin does not see an expected spike following the state supreme court canceling its stay-at-home order.
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Big white tent complexes in two Texas border towns are drawing attention. The temporary courtrooms are the Trump administration's latest effort to quickly work through thousands of asylum cases.
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The crisis on the Southern border has been driven by a surge of Central American migrants. Now there's a new face of the crisis: hundreds of African migrants crossing the border to seek asylum.
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"It's been the best year of my life," says a survivor of last year's Texas mass shooting. The trauma allowed him to find a way to prioritize his relationship with God and his children.
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It's been a year since the deadly church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. In the past year, the tiny community — including survivors — has struggled to cope with what happened and why.