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When older adults in a day care center and students from an Intro to Women’s Studies at UW-Milwaukee started writing letters to each other, careers and dreams shifted. The letters written by students revealed deeply personal matters that involved family issues and their range of dreams, dreams that the older adults in the day care […]

The forum titled The Relationship between Communities of Color and the Police was summed up perfectly by panelist Angela Walker when she said that the problem in Milwaukee is that there isn’t a relationship. Many nods, snaps and murmurs of affirmation followed this comment as well as other points made throughout the event. The meeting […]

Dressed in all black, a woman holding a photo of a young girl bowed her head during a vigil for peace put on during the Walker’s Square Point Dia De Los Muertos celebration. The girl in the photo was Izabel Laxamana, a 13-year-old who killed herself after sending a suggestive selfie to a boy and […]

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 […]

Which would you rather your next significant other conceal and carry– emotional baggage, or a gun? A new bill by legislators Jesse Kremer and Devin LeMahieu would allow permitted individuals to carry their concealed handguns inside of university buildings. Currently, UWM policy bans guns on university lands or inside buildings, but the new bill would […]

The people who came to UWM to see Hillary Clinton on Thursday spanned generations. Here are two of those stories: Waited Two Hours By Meggie Hall Amid the screams and the “Hillary” chants, stood an older woman; Hillary Clinton had arrived in Milwaukee.  Lines had stretched out and around past Maryland Avenue, and  one woman […]

The Dean of The School of Freshwater Sciences, David Garman, is the recipient of British Consulate’s Brit Weeks’s Innovation in Academia award. Garman has been the Dean of The School of Freshwater Sciences for about four years. His previous jobs have dealt with all different aspects of environmental management of water resources. The School of […]

The city is spending over $120,000 for outside lawyers every month to defend the city against police-related litigation, funds it anticipated would last a few months but now thinks will continue for the year, aldermen were told at a Finance and Personnel Committee meeting. The Finance and Personnel Committee adopted an overall Contingent Fund Request […]

The city is looking for solutions to the Milwaukee crime problem from a new source: The young. Alderman Michael Murphy developed the newly announced MKE Peace Project, in conjunction with other Common Council members, and he showed up at a May Milwaukee Arts Board Meeting to highlight the effort. Murphy, the Common Council president, stressed that the project is […]

Community and political leaders pledged the continued revival of Cesar Chavez Drive at an 80th birthday celebration for the civil rights leader at the City Hall Rotunda, revealing plans to create a statute of the icon this summer. “He wasn’t just an icon in the Mexican community; I just want to make that clear, he […]

Since graduating from UW-Milwaukee in 2014 with a degree in Human Resource Management, Rachele Voigt has been busy revamping her closet to fit her new career oriented lifestyle. While studying at UWM, Voigt was interning within a financial services firm in the human resources department, where she has since transitioned into a full time associate. […]