Articles by Jonathan Powell

If you catch Andrew Zimmerman any given Sunday between September and February, you know what kind of Packer fan he is. Not just because he’s sitting in the same seats at Lambeau Field his family has had since the 1960s. And it’s not because he’s missed only one game in well over a decade, regardless […]

He is ageless. It’s not because he chose his own birthday. Or because at over 80 years old he’s still exercising daily. And it’s not because he can still recall events that happened nearly 75 years ago with remarkable detail. Lee Marnett is ageless because he is eternally optimistic. It’s because he employed more resolve […]

People will always want to protect themselves. There’s nothing wrong with that. But when toting firearms around a college campus is the result, then we have issues. BIG issues. Pouring more guns into this equation is like trying to put out a grease fire with a garden hose. It’s guaranteed to be wet, hot, and […]

Today, red is the color of my shame. But it’s not lush like wine, although I could use a drink. And it’s not rich like blood, even though I feel like I might be spilling a little of my own. Nor is it rust or rose or crimson or brick. No, this is vibrant and […]

For many, brotherhood is a bond that flows deeper than blood and stands stronger than bone. For Johnny “Doc” Webb, Jim Gridley, and the members of the first American ground unit that crossed into Cambodia at 08:45 on May 1, 1970, that brotherhood would be forged in a white-hot moment under the weight of a […]

Smiles were plentiful on Wednesday as UW-Milwaukee Department of Spanish and Portuguese Senior Lecturer María Estrella Sotomayor made her way around the third floor of the Golda Meir Library’s east wing, expressing personal bouts of gratitude to audience members and supporters before taking the podium to begin her presentation. The lecture, titled “Reproductive Rights and […]

Reporter Jonathan Powell chronicles a local business whose owner also creates pet portraits.

Several months of tension finally broke Friday morning when UW-Milwaukee’s Institutional Review Board approved a proposal set forth by the members of Transforming Justice that would give community members a unique and personal voice on the subject of prevalent social issues in Milwaukee, such as racial prejudice and mass incarceration, by creating a public archive […]

Kenan Goyette admits he’s better at writing about sports than playing them.

It wasn’t so long ago that saying someone had the mind of a goldfish was an insult. But long ago is long gone now, and I fear that we’ve lost the upper fin: goldfish, with all of nine seconds of undisrupted thought, have finally bested humans on the reprehensible list of impossibly short attention spans. […]