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Growth and wellness: County Executive Crowley delivers 2025 State of the County address
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley delivered his 2025 State of the County Address at the...
Aly Miller: Playfully navigating the relationship between place and identity with illustrative maps
In parallel with the uniqueness of an individual’s identity are the maps each of us formulates of...
Microsoft’s purchase of 240 acres in Kenosha is expected to launch a new era of tech-driven growth
The state of Wisconsin and city of Kenosha announced on January 27 that Microsoft had purchased...
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Reggie Jackson: DOE shutdown would strip MPS of nearly $195 million and cripple equity programs
“It sounds strange, doesn’t it? Department of Education. We’re going to eliminate it …...
Bringing rocks to a gunfight: Why Americans remain passive while Trump solidifies authoritarian power
“The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based...
Misheard around the world: How a humble K-pop song about jazz became an accidental anti-Trump anthem
DISCLAIMER: April Fools' Day Parody Special This article is a work of fiction, created as...
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How the right-wing’s political name game turned what a place is called into an ideological fight
By Seth T. Kannarr, PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Tennessee; Derek H. Alderman,...
Churchill’s fears of democracy’s decline realized in the American iron curtain built by Trump’s oligarchs
In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime...
MAGA America: Resurrecting the Confederacy’s goals to enshrine White dominance and crush Democracy
Restoring power to the richest, Whitest men in the room. How long can democracy survive under...
The Pandemic We Wasted: How we could have transcended our self-erected barriers of politics
What do you remember about the first days of the pandemic? I remember going to three grocery...
Being heartbroken and scared: Why a determined but peaceful resistance to Trump must start now
I will not try to hide it. I am heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I am...
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Milwaukee residents rally in outrage over Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy and betrayal of Ukraine
Ukrainians in Milwaukee and around the world have been rallying around President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the aftermath of the ambush he suffered at the White House, when Donald Trump and JD Vance used the meeting to publicly humiliate the wartime leader and promote Russian lies.
