Articles by Hunter Turpin

Milwaukee’s first co-housing development could be coming to the Riverwest neighborhood. Developers say they hope to address the city’s legacy of racial and economic segregation and incorporate environmental and economic sustainability throughout the project. The $18 million, 39-unit development, River Trail Commons, took a step forward in February with the purchase of the project site […]

After graduating high school at the beginning of the pandemic, UW-Milwaukee student Theresa Jackson faced obstacle after obstacle in college. First her grandma died, then she struggled financially, then her other grandma died. She felt guilty, depressed and anxious. “I felt like I was drowning, and I couldn’t come back up or like someone had […]

Along Walnut Street in Milwaukee’s Walnut Hill neighborhood, some homes are decorated with trick-or-treat signs and pumpkins, some have wire grates over the windows, and one has bullet holes in the siding. At each one, canvassers with Power to the Polls, a Milwaukee-based get-out-the-vote organization left a flyer that said “Black Voters Matter” across the […]

Eugenio Calderon studied abroad in Italy and plays a special song when he wants to feel connected to the people he met and the memories he made during his exchange.

Joshua Velazquez has a passion for creating fantasy art and film, a product of his background, aspirations and core identity.

As hundreds of abortion rights protesters marched past Zilber Hall on the Marquette University campus, students smiled, waved and blew kisses from the third floor. “Do you need to get your steps in?” a young woman from the crowd shouted to a young man waiting to cross Wisconsin Ave. at 13th Street. “Hell yeah,” the […]

Milwaukee is a “mortality hotspot” for pest-induced tree death, particularly due to the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle expected to kill nearly all ash trees and cost $13 million in Milwaukee by 2050, according to a new study from the Journal of Applied Ecology. In response, the city and county are removing ash trees […]

After being arrested, Darrell Brooks reportedly told police “I didn’t mean to kill nobody,” his attorney said. He now faces 77 charges related to the Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy. Waukesha County Circuit Court Commissioner Kevin Costello ruled in a preliminary hearing today that the case against Brooks will proceed to trial. This comes after prosecutors […]

Charli XCX sees her highest-charting album yet as her latest release “Crash” debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, Billboard reported. The English singer-songwriter has not had consistent success on Billboard charts since her first appearance on the chart in 2013. She posted a photo of herself on Instagram with the caption “my album […]

University Committee members expressed their frustrations with UW-Milwaukee leadership, accusing the chancellor and other administrators of a lack of support, ineffective training, workload issues and vague communication in a meeting Tuesday, March 8. Since 2000, staffing levels at UWM have risen, then fallen and then recovered, but the number of faculty in 2019 was more […]

UW-Milwaukee announced a $40.7 million renovation of the student union to improve navigation, aesthetics and infrastructure at a kickoff event Nov. 30. This comes after students rejected a union renovation project in 2017, but union officials warned of failing mechanical systems that threaten to shut the building down. “I’m very serious when I say we […]

Reide Pearson, 20, studies film at Columbia College Chicago, but the pandemic forced her to move back home to a suburb of St. Louis and pick up a job at a retailer. Now she’s back in Chicago and has reflected on work during the pandemic, as well as work in general. Q Hunter Turpin: While […]