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During a challenging year, a local baseball team was able to run a season despite the pandemic. In this short documentary, Brehme Quidzinski tells us how the organization went from losing half of its employees to playing in the playoff semi-finals.

In the past several weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has become bigger than it ever has been. Wisconsin is currently at 470,— cases and has seen 4,539 deaths. The United States as a whole has seen 16.9 million cases with over 300K deaths. There have been individual days this month that are considered the deadliest days […]

The Department of Forestry Services in the city of Milwaukee introduced a new pruning program during the Milwaukee Public Works Committee meeting on Dec. 2. Forestry Services Manager Randy Krouse delivered the presentation and conveyed that the program itself will commence in 2021. According to Krouse, the city of Milwaukee maintains over 195,000 trees on […]

Distant sounds of Christmas music, people walking by in awe, and cars driving slowly to gaze at decorations. That’s what it’s like to live on Christmas Lane, a very special block in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Back in Spring, gyms and workout facilities were shut down across the country. UW-Milwaukee’s UREC and the Klotsche Center were no different. UREC has worked to create virtual and in-person spaces for students to keep working out throughout the semester. Brianna Schubert reports.

The NBA has officially announced a new structure in format for the 2021-22 NBA regular season. According to a press release, the regular season is set to begin on Dec. 22 and each team will play 72 games. Along with this announcement, the league states that there will be a play in tournament that will […]

The three finalists for the Milwaukee Police chief position addressed the publics concerns over policing in Milwaukee and outlined what the Police Department would look like under them. The city of Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission held a meeting on Nov. 21 with the three finalists for the police chief position. The three finalists in […]

After the arrest of an Indigenous journalist in Canada, a larger concern has been raised about law enforcement determining who is a journalist and what journalism actually is, according to Karen Pugliese, former president of Canadian Association of Journalists and Ryerson University professor. “This is outrageous when we have a constitutional right,” said Pugliese. “We’ve […]

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 […]

Late last winter, a long-brewing conversation about unionizing began to get more serious at the Colectivo Coffee warehouse in Riverwest. Warehouse employees say management mistakes began to pile up: performance reviews, on which yearly raises depended, were months late, communication started to fall apart, and equipment needed repairs. Former warehouse employee and organizer Robert Penner […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Women’s Resource Center hosted its third annual feminist flea market event this year online the week on Nov. 16 due to Covid restrictions. This event is intended to provide a platform for local women, nonbinary, and femme-identified entrepreneurs and makers to showcase their work and to help inspire students of UWM […]

Financial instability and mental health concerns brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected the minority communities of UW-Milwaukee, as articulated in a seminar on Thursday conducted by the Zilber School of Public Health. A live Teams meeting was held for panel members from staff and student organizations to discuss the needs of students during […]