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Tuesday’s meeting of the Milwaukee Common Council started with business as usual, but ended with a bang when Alderman Nik Kovac brought before the Council a proposed ordinance to lower Milwaukee pot fines dramatically. Supporters said that while studies have shown drug use is consistent across racial demographics, there is a disproportionate number of young, […]

A proposed $12 million over the next two years for bridge repair over the Kinnickinnic River caused dispute at a recent Milwaukee Capital Improvements Committee meeting.  At issue: How much taxpayers should pay so pleasure crafts can get to a local pub and marina. Alderman Bob Bauman immediately had questions once Craig Liberto spoke on […]

This story is part of a series of Milwaukee homicide sentencings being covered this spring by UWM journalism students. You can read another student story on this sentencing here. Melvin Jones, who was charged at age 16 in connection with the homicide of a popular club promoter, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. After […]

It was emotional as the sounds of crying and sniffling emanated from a crowded courtroom, where every spot in the gallery was full as Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner sent defendant Do Thao to prison for more than four decades in the double homicide of Bee Lee Chang and Jack Yang. The Friday sentencing […]

Music can be a creative outlet that allows one to express their inner emotions and feelings in an artistic way. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee junior, William Johnson, otherwise creatively known as Will The Glide, has been a part of Milwaukee’s “low-key” rap scene for a short time now but has been working on building his artistic […]

There are smiles on everyone’s faces as Ryan Olson expertly holds two leashes in his left hand, a hound at the end of one and a rat terrier mix on the end of the other and aims the camera of a smart phone in his right. Opposite of Olson poses Nicole Pierce, with a Pitbull […]

The Eighth Note Coffeehouse is located on the ground floor of the Union, right by the Parking and Transit windows. You know, the room that is darkened and filled with loud music or the occasional obscenity. The “nerdy” hang out on campus where students can play video games or Magic the Gathering. The Eighth Note […]

The new UWM Student Union project is going to alter how students’ segregated fees are distributed this fall.  And it means the end of some free parking on campus. In 2012, a referendum to increase segregated fees in order to fund a new union was approved by 72 percent of students. The fee increase was […]

Smiles were plentiful on Wednesday as UW-Milwaukee Department of Spanish and Portuguese Senior Lecturer María Estrella Sotomayor made her way around the third floor of the Golda Meir Library’s east wing, expressing personal bouts of gratitude to audience members and supporters before taking the podium to begin her presentation. The lecture, titled “Reproductive Rights and […]

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone announced, in an email to faculty and staff, the departments that have been selected to participate in the Voluntary Separation Incentive Package (VSIP), a retirement incentive package aimed at aiding the university in dealing with the proposed $300 million cut. The departments within UWM schools and colleges listed for participation in […]

Exchanging volunteer work for space at the UWM Bookstore or Neebo to sell UW-Milwaukee club teams’ apparel was one of topics discussed at the Sports Clubs Outreach and Fundraising Committee meeting on April 14. The goal: To help club teams at UW-Milwaukee raise more money by getting their apparel to customers – like UW-Madison does. […]

Students taking the shortcut from the Union Art Gallery to the UW Credit Union, or taking a study break next to the Alumni Fireside Lounge, will often be greeted by the sounds of a piano. Chances are, the man behind the music is Teddy Breihan. In his fourth year at UWM, Breihan spends most of […]