Opinion

Move to Milwaukee. Mill-e-wah-que. Algonquin for “The Good Land,” as Alice Cooper taught us in Wayne’s World. Move to Milwaukee if you want a city with a rich history and a bright future. If you want the coastal life without all the hurricanes and snobbery. Milwaukee is tightly snugged against one of the largest bodies […]

Toward the end of my first year of high school, I jumped into my first relationship with full force. This bad boy was intoxicating to me – from his flippy hair all the way down to his skinny jeans. It was the first time that I had ever felt what I thought was love. In […]

“Why are you being a nuisance?” “Get the hell out of here!” This is where the story starts. It sounds like something a belligerent drunk would shout at me as if I was cruising on my skateboard down State St. These words actually slapped me in the face as I was being patted down by […]

Want to create your own stereotype? There’s an app for that. If you are a college student, chances are you have seen, if not contributed to, the “#CommonWhiteGirl” trend taking over the social media world. If you are not familiar with this particular hashtag, you might be more familiar with its equally degrading counterparts “#WhiteGurlProbz” […]

You know the people who will randomly ask questions to springboard their opinions? “So, when are you ever going to graduate?” or “Are you ever going to get a boyfriend?” Opinionators, those with too many opinions, slip those opinions into conversations so expertly it’s practically a Jedi mind trick. The trick is making you so […]

One can legally be fired or denied housing simply for being transgender in 33 states, including Wisconsin. Milwaukee County fixed this problem on April 24, when the County Board voted 12-6 to expand its non-discrimination ordinance to include gender identity. The ordinance passed despite Julaine Appling’s attempt to rally opposition. Appling is president of Wisconsin […]

If you are considering a new place to call home, you are always welcome in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Many people have the assumption that we Wisconsinites are beer-drinkin’ cheese heads. Now, we do like beer and we do like cheese, but that’s not all. We have the honor of homing some very gracious and talented musicians, […]

I should have been on a mortician’s table, not a hospital bed. It’s still hard to believe that I survived a rollover car crash without a seatbelt, all because my friend looked away for a split second. A late October night is perfection in my eyes. What could’ve made it better than going to a […]

It wasn’t so long ago that saying someone had the mind of a goldfish was an insult. But long ago is long gone now, and I fear that we’ve lost the upper fin: goldfish, with all of nine seconds of undisrupted thought, have finally bested humans on the reprehensible list of impossibly short attention spans. […]

I do not have the right kind of cancer. The cancer I have is not talked about. It’s not glamorous. It’s messy, embarrassing, and it kills more people than breast cancer. This year 11,210 more people will die from colon cancer than breast cancer. Colon cancer, however, is not something people want to talk about. […]

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, was the furthest I could sing the alphabet. It seems like it was yesterday when could not sing to the letter Z. I still can remember the horrifying first day of school. Tears were rushing along my cheeks and making a small pool of water between my feet. […]

Two years ago at UW-Washington County –on a day forever seared into my memory- I was thrown out of a lecture hall. Why? I was caught red-handed committing a serious crime…taking notes. The day of the unfortunate incident I was taking notes for myself and a friend in the class who was sick. That morning […]