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On March 11, an hour before boarding, gate B17 was crowded with passengers waiting to depart from Chicago to Munich when President Trump’s voice interrupted the regular TV programming, “to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days. The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.” I found myself in ethically uncharted territory and it was rapidly transforming.

Day after day, Milwaukee nurses are on the front lines in the Wisconsin city hardest hit by Covid-19. Tom Hoffman reports.

Two in-depth journalism projects and an audio story produced by students in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies won top honors in the National Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, SPJ announced. The contest is among the most competitive in the country; UWM students joined winners from Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, University […]

The Public Safety and Health Committee for Milwaukee county voted in favor of the ordinance which will allow police officers to write citations and arrest citizens if they violate Wisconsin’s “Safer-at-Home” order.  The committee held a virtual meeting on April 21 to discuss a new ordinance relating to the enforcement of orders to protect people from Covid-19. […]

“Tingggggggg” the ringing of a chime fills the air.  “You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself,” students recite a poem called In Lak’ech, translated from Spanish to English, by Luis Valdez. The students then sit […]

It’s field trip day! Students anxiously await the limited days they get to spend away from the classroom. Little do they know, they are still going to be learning valuable lessons at the Peace Learning Center.   Tracy Ebert is the executive director of the Peace Learning Center. First through eighth grade students from Milwaukee Public […]

Haley Griffin was heading into a busy week of senior classes at Berklee College of Music when she was told to pack up her studio apartment in Boston and move back to her home in Wisconsin. As a major in Professional Music at the distinguished university, Haley would now have to repurpose her suburban living […]

As COVID-19 continues to shut down sports, they are not done yet, as the World Baseball Classic has been suspended until at least 2023.   The qualifying event was initially scheduled for March 2020 in Tuscon, Arizona, but was already cancelled due to the pandemic, according to ESPN. That event is now pushed back to 2021.   […]

During the pandemic, three immigrants in a range of situations find that family means the most to them.

On April 3, Shaun Robinson started his day like he always does. He ate his breakfast, took his dog for a walk and put on his uniform for work. He kissed his girlfriend goodbye, grabbed his keys and started his daily commute. When he got to his workplace, Robinson walked in and washed his hands […]

Silence surrounded 21-year-old Catherine Copps as the computer screen’s harsh light glared back at her face. Copps is a junior at UW-Oshkosh aspiring to be a high school math teacher. Alone, she stared out of her apartment window at the gloomy skies, hoping for motivation to get through fall semester.  “I’m kind of just really […]

A day in the life of Chief Jenny Minter at the Mount Horeb Area Joint Fire Department could not be more different from just a few months ago. With the COVID-19 virus reaching this small town, the department now needs to wear masks, add more cleaning chores to their list and install hand sanitizer stations. […]