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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 […]

A team of freshman UW-Milwaukee students interested in media careers set out on campus with a simple task: Find a random student and, in non-leading fashion, inquire whether they support a controversial bill that would make it so qualifying people – including some students, faculty, and staff – could carry concealed weapons on campus. Some […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee gave campus-area crime statistics to Rep. Jesse Kremer this week after he and state Sen. Devin LeMahieu proposed a campus concealed carry law in part because of crime on and around the campus. The results from the statistical report released by the Milwaukee Police Department to UWM show that overall crime is actually […]

There is a level of distrust from some UWM faculty toward administration. This became abundantly apparent at a sparsely attended open listening session of the committee charged with finding efficiencies on campus in the wake of the budget cuts. The suggestions, from the very few in attendance, all had a similar theme. As each member would eventually […]

Stephanie Brown stepped onto the runway in The Milwaukee Theatre in a glitzy black-and-gold fitted bodice that loosens into a high-low swinging bottom. Its details of lace, fringe, and capped sleeves are reminiscent of what one might have worn to a saloon out west circa 1860. As director of booking for Milwaukee Fashion Week 2015, […]

Students, protesters, Hillary supporters and non-students came together and voiced their opinions about Hillary Clinton in a colorful scene around the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. Matthew Campbell reports.

The trial for a lawsuit between two Milwaukee police officers shot during patrol six years ago and the gun store that sold the weapon used in the shooting finally kicked off Wednesday, with the attorney representing the officers arguing in his opening statement that the sale contained hallmark signs of an illegal gun transaction. The […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman students interested in media careers through a Living Learning Community were assigned to each interview a person at least 20 years older than they are about changes in the media. For these students, the news is immediate, individualistic, constant, on-demand, and often accessed through social media or a smart phone. Sometimes, […]

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 […]

Milwaukee— Hillary Clinton spoke in the Wisconsin Room at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she said young people have a stake in the upcoming election particularly when it comes to college tuition and student loan debt. “I have a plan that will allow any person to go to a four- year college or university to […]

Milwaukee—Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton came out hard against the current state of college tuition in a speech given in the Wisconsin Room of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union on Thursday. The Former Secretary of State deplored the debt that students incur while getting their college degrees. Clinton encouraged those in attendance to raise their hands […]

With white shutters warming under the bright spring sunshine, Dorothy Bertolas’ small one-story home sits quietly along the sleepy residential streets of Menomonee Falls, Wis. The house’s interior is warm, snug, and neat as a pin. Its walls, all painted in a crisp eggshell white, are laden with relics of a time gone by. Years […]