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Milwaukee County may be turning over a green leaf with proposed legislation to eliminate single-use plastics in all county-owned properties by sometime next year. The goal is to reduce the amount of plastic waste in county parks and waterways by 50% in 2020 and reach 100% by 2021. As the snow melts and reveals plastic bottle caps and wrappers packed into the ground, the county is buckling down on plastic […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists won dozens of top honors in competitive regional contests for multimedia news and feature stories published in 2019. With journalism awards ceremonies and conferences cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, winners are being announced online. Society of Professional Journalists In the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition, UWM […]

The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]

Across from Riverside High School, one of five polling places in Milwaukee holding in-person voting for the April 7 election, UW-Milwaukee student Abigail Klug watched from her apartment as a line formed near the school. What started as six or eight people became a several-hour wait by the afternoon, the line stretching behind the school […]

The body that Milwaukee Police pulled from the Milwaukee River last night has been identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek, 18, who had been missing for 45 days. Milwaukee Police said yesterday that they responded to a report of a body in the river near a pier […]

Photojournalist Derek Johnson documented bleak public spaces in Greenfield, Greendale and Mitchell International Airport in late March after residents were urged to stay home.

Milwaukee police say a body was found in the Milwaukee River today near Fratney and Commerce in Riverwest. According to Milwaukee police, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department also responded to the call. (Update: on March 31, 2020, it was confirmed that the body was that of missing UWM student Sean Baek. You can read […]

In a conference room on the first floor of Cambridge Commons residence hall, just down the hall from the main entrance where University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek was last seen almost three weeks earlier, a vigil was held for him. The standard refreshments sat on a table on one side of the room. Flanking […]

This story was published in the UWM Post on March 18. As the world continues rolling into unprecedented times, and the coronavirus pandemic surges on, the UW System is leaving student employees out of their COVID-19 leave policies. On March 16, Andres Valdez went to work at the Klotsche Center. At 11:35 a.m., Valdez and other Rec […]

The National Basketball Association announced March 11, that the remainder of the season has been suspended indefinitely following the news that Utah Jazz Forward Rudy Gobert has tested positive for Covid-19. As first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the NBA has suspended all games. Players for the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder, who […]

At the most recent Faculty Senate meeting Chancellor Mark Mone told UWM faculty members that the university faces “financial need,” and it is a “moral imperative” to fix declining enrollment and well bellow-average student retention rates. UWM needs to focus on improving student life to make students currently attending UWM want to stay, and prospective […]