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More than 300 people are getting tested for Covid-19 every day at UW-Milwaukee, and some are getting a different kind of test. Haley Krueger reports.

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 […]

The three finalists for the Milwaukee Police chief position addressed the publics concerns over policing in Milwaukee and outlined what the Police Department would look like under them. The city of Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission held a meeting on Nov. 21 with the three finalists for the police chief position. The three finalists in […]

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 […]

Fifty thousand Wisconsinites will be vaccinated as a part of phase 1A of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services vaccination plan, which will start by the end of the week. A little after 1 p.m. on Dec. 14 Duty Officer Darcy Dubois, of the Milwaukee Unified Emergency Operations Center told members of the Intergovernmental Cooperation […]

President-elect Joe Biden formally announced that Former Iowa Gov. and Obama-era Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been selected to lead his cabinet’s department of agriculture at a Dec. 10 press conference in Wilmington, Del. Among Biden’s cabinet choices, Vilsack’s selection has been among the most controversial. In Vilsack’s home state of Iowa, the pending appointment […]

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 […]