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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is hearing a case that is challenging the mask mandate by Gov. Tony Evers that requires people in Wisconsin to wear masks in public places. The lawsuit aims to overturn and end the current statewide mandate arguing that this mandate is unlawful. The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 28 that […]

As the conversation around mental health in athletics continues to evolve, a recent push to focus on mental health and mental health allyship from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletic department began in the form of a new initiative titled the Green Bandana Project. Anya Athan, a senior on the track and field team at UWM, spearheaded […]

Rappers such as Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Lil Pump and more have endorsed politician candidates for the upcoming 2020 elections. This has caused many rappers to trend on Twitter and cause controversy over Hip-Hop in politics. “In my opinion a lot of them(rappers) are doing this out of self-interest,” said Rapper Miesh during a phone […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nou Thao, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, waited in line to vote in-person during the primary election in April amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Three weeks before Nov. 3, an opened envelope with her absentee ballot sat beside her. “I can’t decide between Trump or Biden,” Thao said. “I don’t know much about the […]

What was once an extremely busy building with students everywhere you look, now resembles a bit of a ghost town.   The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union has always been a place where UWM students can study, do homework and get to know other students.   Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, things at the Union have changed drastically.   According […]

As the pandemic has hindered the allowances of canvassing and physical outreach, presidential campaigns have demonstrated an increased reliance on the virtual world to engage voters for the 2020 election. Peer-to-peer texting, or P2P, has become a prevalent tool for political campaigns to reach thousands of people by text at a time, especially in states […]

Working in the service industry can tend to be an underappreciated job but since the pandemic has hit, it has made it a little more frustrating at times.  Working at the grocery store Sendiks has been difficult at times for people. Whether they don’t feel safe working due to Covid-19 or just the extra stress […]