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Mark Cuban will accompany Vice President Kamala Harris on her visit to UW-Milwaukee on Thursday, Oct. 17, according to the UWM College Democrats. This is the first campaign event that will feature the Texas-based billionaire at Harris’s side. The exact start time of the event is unknown, but the event is expected to take place […]

Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting UW-Milwaukee on Thursday as part of her presidential campaign as the Democratic nominee, Media Milwaukee has exclusively learned. Multiple students have received random invitations via text message to the Oct. 17 event, which is labeled a meet and greet. The messages request that they RSVP in advance of the […]

The Trove Arts Parlour is premiering on a brand new production called Into the Shadows. Let’s take a look at what makes this event perfect for the Halloween season. Peyton Bell tells us more.

Hundreds of Trump supporters were turned away after being told their tickets would no longer get them access to his Tuesday rally in Milwaukee. The event was initially advertised as open to the public. However, the Trump campaign decided Tuesday to restrict access to members of the press only. This came as a surprise to […]

The Trump campaign made a stop in Waukesha to drum up support for the Republican nominee for President without the nominee himself. Neither Donald nor Lara Trump, who was scheduled to speak, were in attendance at tonight’s rally. A group of surrogates was entrusted to voice Trump’s vision for America headlined by former Republican Presidential […]

They’re generations apart both in age and how they remember Sept. 11, 2001. This generation of college students largely was not alive when Sept. 11 happened. To them, it’s history. This matters. “We’re supposed to pass it on, and I can’t,” Madison Bomkamp, 20, says. “It affected so many people, even outside of the people […]

The long, winding drive from San Antonio to Eagle Pass, through the flatlands of Southern Texas, is, for most, uneventful. To an outsider, a passerby, or a commuter, a drive down State Highway 57 is characterized by sprawling ranchland, miles of cacti and underbrush and farms, and the occasional herd of longhorn cattle. There are […]

Following Texas National Guard and state law enforcement taking control of Shelby Park in January, the community remains very split about it. This project was created through a journalism class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies Department. This work was made possible through the support of MPC Endowment Ltd., the philanthropic […]

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The surge of migrants to the United States through Eagle Pass, Texas in December of 2023 yielded the deaths of thousands, many of whom are still being identified today. Men, women and children are dying from dehydration, drowning and fatal falls from the border wall on their journey to the U.S., […]

Casa del Migrante, located in Piedras Negras, Mexico, is an organization focused on assisting migrants who hope to reach the U.S. This project was created through a journalism class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies Department. This work was made possible through the support of MPC Endowment Ltd., the philanthropic affiliate […]

Through the cornfields and dairy farms, saturated with the smell of grass, wheat and fertilizer, lies Whitewater, Wisconsin, the epitome of a rural Wisconsin farm town that the Potawatomi tribe used to call “Minnieska.” Whitewater features one main road, the classically named “Main St.” that is lined with old-time shops with peeling paint and small-town […]

In January, the small city of Whitewater made headlines, being pulled into the national debate about immigration. This came after Whitewater Police Chief Dan Meyer and City Manager John Weidl sent a letter to several federal and state officials in December requesting additional resources to respond to population change from an influx of Nicaraguan and […]