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The Milwaukee Public Health and Safety Committee met with the Milwaukee Health Department to discuss updates on COVID-19 case numbers and the plan for COVID vaccination distribution during a meeting on Dec. 8. The Health Department is placing a special emphasis on building trust with people who are hesitant to take the vaccine, according to Health Department Commissioner Marlaina Johnson.  […]

Paris Procopis lives in Milwaukee and is a contributing author to the Wisconsin Conservative Digest. Procopis is one of the 4 million active users on Parler. Procopis made a Parler account because he was sick and tired of the censorship he believed was happening on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  “They shouldn’t be allowed […]

The COVID-19 vaccine is getting a lot of mixed feelings from people questioning if it’s safe to be used. After a long couple of months of suffering and stocking up on cleaning supplies to keep your family safe from the coronavirus. A vaccination was in the making, but it was not finalized until recently when […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old teen accused of killing two protesters in Kenosha in August, will proceed after a judge found probable cause for the case, rejecting a defense attorney’s argument that the state was violating Rittenhouse’s Second Amendment rights.  In a lengthy pretrial presided over by Judge Loren Keating of Kenosha, the […]

Trump continues to get flagged on Twitter as he believes the election was rigged. Since Nov. 3, President Donald Trump has tweeted over 500 times despite Twitter continuing to flag and discredit over 300 of those tweets. The topic of Trump’s tweets have been the idea of rigged election and various comments about voter fraud. Twitter […]

A crowd of 500-600 people gathered at the intersection of N. Mayfair Rd and W. North Ave., near the entrance of Mayfair Mall, to rally against the outcome of the U.S. 2020 election and support President Donald Trump. The event featured former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and the Proud Boys, an all-male, far-right organization, […]