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Every week, motorcyclists ride through the streets of Milwaukee hoping to inspire the community. Katarina Vergara reports.

As UW-Milwaukee hosted the city-wide kickoff of the annual Make a Difference Day for the first time on a recent Saturday, one of the people students helped was 79-year-old Eleanor Quint, who needed a hand preparing for winter. Quint was right there with the students with a rake in hand. She sported a blue, fall jacket, […]

College is expensive. That is a well-known fact. College also creates debt. Lots of it. Over a trillion in the U.S., in fact. The measures students take to rid themselves of their ever steepening mountain of debt typically range from working part/full time jobs to applying for scholarships. That doesn’t quite do the trick anymore. […]

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andy Tarnoff, publisher and owner of OnMilwaukee.com, stopped at nothing to get the website to what it is today. At age 13, Tarnoff’s family moved from their home in the Midwest to the east coast in Rhode Island. Tarnoff attended college at George Washington University in Washington D.C., where he majored in […]

As the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee continues to lead the state with the most diverse student body, the city of Milwaukee cannot say the same for its population. Milwaukee is currently the second most segregated city in America. Although this may come as a shock to many, others may feel the cities disparities closer to home. […]

Ben Gauger is old school when it comes to word processing – really old school. He loves the clack clack clack of antique typewriters.

When Ashley Haynes was growing up, her mother’s military duty meant frequent deployments and many moves. That was hard, but Ashley got to learn about life around the globe.

Ean Holtz’s grandfather and a Wisconsin lake inspired his love of the outdoors.

Armando Manriquez’s passion is music – especially Spanish music – and he hopes to bring more of it to Milwaukee.

On Wednesday, Oct. 14, inquiries about desserts, as well as T-shirt slogans regarding the Packers are being doled out through the airwaves. Meanwhile, the host of 540 ESPN Milwaukee’s 11 a.m. weekday show, Drew Olson, inserts his earbuds, ready for more talk. Inside a suite on the city’s east side, a relatively small studio houses […]

On December 2nd, 1969, Gloria Kinnee awoke to the sound of a sonic boom. Curious as to what could have caused the sound, Kinnee asked her neighbors if they had heard anything. Oddly enough, no one else had heard it, except for Gloria’s brother, Ronald Grieger. They would later find out that their brother Donald […]