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Election day turned into election week in 2020, as the presidential election took multiple days before the winner was announced. On Saturday, Nov. 7, it was announced by the news media that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election after securing swing-state Pennsylvania, unofficially making them President-elect and Vice-President elect. Before the announcement was […]

Election day goes on through hurricanes, fires, or even a pandemic. The precedent was set in the 1918 midterm during the Spanish Flu, where poll workers and voters alike wore face masks. This pandemic puts the older poll workers who are already at risk because of their weakened immune system at an even higher risk […]

UW students from organizations across Wisconsin formed a coalition to convince the University of Wisconsin System to divest in fossil fuels. Since March, they have been informing UW schools and their students of this challenge in order to have transparency within the UW system. The University of Wisconsin Divestment Coalition, or the UWDC, is a […]

Disney Princesses is an all-time fan favorite from the sparkly tiaras to the puffy dresses. Disney has filled the hearts and imagination of little girls all over. Once Disney announced the remake of their classical film “Little Mermaid” fans were thrilled to hear the good news. “Growing up I use to seat in front of […]

“They got it done and we didn’t.” Those were the words of head coach Coach Kliff Kingsbury used to summarize the Arizona Cardinals’ 34-31 loss over this past weekend to the visiting Miami Dolphins. The game ended when Arizona kicker Zane Gonzalez failed to make the potentially game-tying field goal in the final minutes of […]

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective. Over 43,000 people volunteered to participate in the company’s vaccine trial. Pfizer Inc. and their partner BioNTech SE gave each volunteer either two doses of the vaccine or a placebo. The study showed that less than 10% of those infected were […]

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 […]

He is “6’3 but 6’4 in boots.” His former Twitter bio? “My [Wisconsin] accent is thick like custard.” He graduated from “a small college in New Haven, Conn.” That college was Yale University. And at 22-years-old, his race could be Democrats’ key to protecting Gov. Tony Evers’ coveted veto powers. Wisconsin State Assembly candidate Jacob Malinowski’s not a politician, but he could change state politics. Their problem? Malinowski doesn’t […]

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 […]

First-generation Nigerian Jessica Ikanih visits and talks to her family in Nigeria often. Conversations have become more serious. “My cousin told me this morning that four people were killed in front of her shop by SARS. Blood was everywhere,” said Ikanih.  Nigerian American Cynthia Maduka often communicates with her family back in Nigeria also. Similarly, Maduka’s cousin was robbed by SARS.  SARS or Special Anti-Robbery Squad is […]

In World War Two, a Japanese general supposedly said that it would be impossible to invade the United States because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. Although the statement may not have had much validity when it was originally said, in 2020, this estimation has almost become statistic.  In March of […]

Joseph Steiner originally lived in Boise, Idaho but in 2013 moved to Milwaukee to pursue an arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  He’s part of a small fraction of millennials emigrating to Milwaukee, according to a report by the Office of Workforce Development. But Milwaukee is home to exactly what he is looking for: […]