Opinion

Like most Milwaukeeans, you woke up this morning in utter disgust and confusion. First, how dare Mother Nature keep perpetuating the joke that “you can experience all four seasons within one week” in Wisconsin! Secondly, I questioned if time travel was real and this is actually January. Now that I have come to my senses […]

The Kar-Jenner clan was made famous in part by Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with former boyfriend Ray J in 2003, after which the family became reality television royalty. On a recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, her sister Khloe thanked her for taking one for the team.  In her iconic kitchen, Kris Jenner […]

A June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court raised the question of whether Wisconsin state’s legislative boundaries were drawn in a fair way. State Sen. Dave Hansen said that Wisconsin is in the top two, if not the most gerrymandered state in the country. A federal court had also stated that maps drawn in 2011 […]

After the release of Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page summary of the Mueller investigation, many people, including our editorial board, are debating on whether or not Trump should be exonerated. On the grounds of what Mueller was investigating, whether Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election or not, Mueller ultimately decided there was never any […]

The failure to immediately name the police officers involved in the shooting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last week has contributed to a lack of transparency and disregard for the public’s right to know regarding the incident. On March 19, UW-Milwaukee police officers were called to the fine arts building after a man was found […]

“No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.” These are the tweets and attitude of President Donald Trump after the Robert Mueller investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The Barr letter saying the Mueller report didn’t […]

One March 19, UWM’s campus police shot an alleged armed man sleeping in the Fine Arts Building. UWM alerted the community of the shooting by saying “shots fired by the fine arts loading dock. Shelter in place or avoid the area.” It took 12 full minutes for another update to be sent that said the […]

On March 4, 2019, Media Milwaukee student journalists initially reported that UW-Milwaukee Professor Anthony Azenabor was facing allegations of sexually assaulting one of his PhD student advisees in the basement of Enderis Hall.  The next development in the story came shortly thereafter, when a Media Milwaukee student journalist armed with a list of questions was […]

Wisconsin is one of the only states that is heavily affected by the act of gerrymandering. What is gerrymandering? To keep it simple, it’s a practice that gives a certain political party more power over the district boundaries. Essentially, the party will always have an advantage over the other which has raised the question, is […]

On March 19, Irie Payne was shot by police officers following an altercation about which no member of the public knows the nature of. More than a week later, citizens are still left in the dark about what happened, let alone the names of the officers involved. The public was given all but the heart […]

With Gov. Evers’ recent budget proposal, it confirmed one thing: those who are staunchly opposed to raising Wisconsin’s current minimum wage, from $7.25 an hour, are backing the wrong horse. The budget aims to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 an hour by 2023. There is no way that our neighboring states’ cost of living […]

Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Work Should Be on Hold While Investigation of Sexual Assault Allegations Continues