Articles by Ezra Quint

Thomas Raney is a sociology student at UWM. He talked with Ezra Quint life with covid at UWM. (Ezra Quint) How do you think UWM handled the pandemic? (Thomas Raney) I transferred to UWM during the pandemic last year and my first impression of the university was largely online. As far as I could tell […]

Lauren Peterson is an art education major at UWM. She talked with Ezra Quint about how Covid has affected her as a future teacher, and life on campus. (Ezra Quint) How do you think the UWM is handling the pandemic? (Lauren Peterson) I think that they did a pretty good job with the rapid testing, […]

After the Wisconsin Supreme Court vetoed Gov. Tony Evers executive order to postpone the spring election in April, health experts feared in-person voting would further spread the novel coronavirus. Now more than a month after the historic election, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said that as of late April, 55 people who tested positive […]

Wisconsin voters had to choose between exercising their right to vote on Tuesday or possibly being exposed to the new coronavirus.   Despite push back from health experts to postpone elections, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overruled Gov. Tony Evers’ executive order on Monday to postpone the spring election to June 9, forcing voters to risk exposure to the infectious disease as they went to the polls and causing thousands of […]

State Senator Lena Taylor bumped out Ald. Tony Zielinski and Paul Rasky Tuesday night for the right to challenge incumbent Mayor Tom Barrett in the April 7 general election.  Barrett was at 50%, Taylor at 31%, Zielinski at 16% and Rasky at 3% of the total votes Tuesday night.   Taylor, who grew up in Milwaukee’s North side, was happy with the results. In her speech after the results came in, Taylor told her […]

Crista Dawson tells the story of a traumatic event in 1993 and how she has found a way to move on.

UWM student Eric Dunning doesn’t make music to get famous, he just wants to be creative with his friends. Ezra Quint has the story.

The UWM subcommittee for International Travel Safety said on Tuesday that any UWM student or organization traveling internationally through the school may eventually have to follow UWM’s travel safety protocols and purchase insurance for the trip. There is currently no entity to ensure that all UWM students traveling internationally are following safety guidelines. The Committee […]

People on social media are upset because they say a group of Waukesha South High School students posted a TikTok video of themselves dancing inside the school with a police squad car visible outside a window after a police officer shot a student allegedly armed with a pellet gun. The video, which has since been […]