Articles by Thomas Hoffman

At around 4:30 on a Friday evening, the staff of Lazy Susan MKE, a casual fine dining restaurant in Bay View, is rushing to get set up for 5 p.m. opening. The servers are setting out menus, glasses and silverware, while the kitchen staff is in the back preparing for a busy night. The hustling […]

Marie Frede is a psychology major at UW-Milwaukee. She talked with Tom Hoffman about her experiences being a first-year student on campus during the pandemic. (Tom Hoffman) What are your thoughts on learning in-person as opposed to learning online? (Marie Frede) I prefer in person. I feel like I’m able to engage better with my […]

In this short documentary, Tom Hoffman introduces us to a local entrepreneur who is in the early stages of starting up his own pickling and hot sauce business.

The Milwaukee Public Health and Safety Committee met with the Milwaukee Health Department to discuss updates on COVID-19 case numbers and the plan for COVID vaccination distribution during a meeting on Dec. 8. The Health Department is placing a special emphasis on building trust with people who are hesitant to take the vaccine, according to Health Department Commissioner Marlaina Johnson.  […]

Wisconsin has received a lot of attention for being a swing state in presidential elections, and this state has had a significant role in the results of the 2020 election. There were some small differences from 2016 in voting patterns among a few suburban and rural areas of the state that resulted in Wisconsin turning blue this […]

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in partnership with BioNTech, announced that they’ve developed a Covid-19 vaccine candidate that is more than 90 percent effective at about seven days after the dose. According to their press release, they are expecting to produce around 50 million doses of the vaccine by the end of 2020 and 1.3 billion doses in 2021.  The press release said that the testing included people who were given the vaccine and people who […]

Milwaukee’s Washington Heights Neighborhood completed an installation of a mural known as The Heights Dream Library this past Fall, and it showcases shelves of book spines with meaningful titles made up by donors who contributed to the making of the mural. The original idea for the Dream Library came from Dan Schley, the owner of […]

Day after day, Milwaukee nurses are on the front lines in the Wisconsin city hardest hit by Covid-19. Tom Hoffman reports.

Milwaukee has one of the longest-running showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in the world. As a result, the cult movie has gained Wisconsin cult following.