Rittenhouse Trial Verdict Divides Community

The trial for Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha has come to an end. Media Milwaukee’s Grayson Sewell was at the courthouse all week getting reactions from the local community and protestors outside.

“Even if I’m sluggish in the morning I’m like, ‘Hey, at least I get to go to school.'”

Graduate student Mary Beth Drabiszczak tells Grayson Sewell about navigating a new campus while it returns to in-person learning during a pandemic. (Grayson Sewell) With how crazy the past year, year-and-a-half, has been what would you say has had the biggest impact on you as a student? (Mary Beth Drabiszczak) I think, probably, having to […]

Bloody Mary Walk Raises Funds for Cedarburg Parks

Cedarburg is planning to renovate Willowbrook Park and is raising funds for the project with help from Cedarburg Friends of Parks and Recreation and one of Wisconsinites’ favorite activities. Grayson Sewell has the story.

Milwaukee Public Museum Increases Assets During Pandemic

The Milwaukee Public Museum increased its total net assets by over $250,000 from their fiscal year-end in 2019 to 2020, despite being shut down for over five months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “With cutting payroll and all the expenses, we were able to make sure we had a good cash position, and a surplus […]

Wisconsin Covid-19 Vaccinations to Start by Week’s End

Fifty thousand Wisconsinites will be vaccinated as a part of phase 1A of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services vaccination plan, which will start by the end of the week. A little after 1 p.m. on Dec. 14 Duty Officer Darcy Dubois, of the Milwaukee Unified Emergency Operations Center told members of the Intergovernmental Cooperation […]

Homicide of Madison Doctor Due to Social Distancing: Complaint

Bail has been set at $1 million for Khari Sanford at his initial court hearing for two alleged counts of homicide of a doctor and her husband, which may have been born out of an unwillingness to social distance. “There’s no other way to put it,” said Dane County Assistant District Attorney William Brown. At […]

Milwaukee County Recount Underway

The Milwaukee County recount of the presidential election is underway after the Trump campaign’s procedural requests stopped the recount within half an hour of it starting. At 10:24 a.m. Friday, the Milwaukee County Board of Canvassers authorized the process of reconciling ballots and for the recount to begin. By 10:25 a.m. Stewart Karge, an attorney […]

Wisconsin Youth Vote: How Campus Organizers Drove Turnout

The 2020 election came down to close races in several key states. In Wisconsin, determined student campus organizers for both the Republican and Democratic Parties helped drive record youth voter registration, and potentially record youth voter turnout. According to the Chairwoman of UWM College Republicans, Jena Frett, across the state the Republican Party was able […]

Gothic Milwaukee Offers Look at Sordid Side of East Town

Tonight, when the clock strikes 7 p.m., on a corner at Cathedral Square will be Anna Lardinois, of Gothic Milwaukee, and a group of people ready to hear historical tales and ghost stories of Milwaukee. They will embark eastward into the night. As they keep their distance from one another due to the current pandemic […]