Yvonne Kemp Day: Pioneering female photojournalist celebrated for her years of documenting Milwaukee
Mayor Cavalier Johnson held a press conference on August 29 in his office at City Hall, describing it a joyous occasion, to honor Milwaukee’s esteemed photojournalist Yvonne Kemp. With an official Proclamation, the City of Milwaukee recognized August 29, 2022 as...
Photography of imaginary things: Who takes credit for AI-generated artwork using a neural network?
By Aaron Hertzmann, Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington Over the past few years, many artists have started to use what is called “neural network software” to create works of art. Users input existing images into the software, which has been...
Expanded plan by Governor Evers aims to help working families with tax cuts offset by massive budget surplus
Governor Tony Evers announced a new plan on August 23 to provide support to working families and address rising costs due to national inflation. The governor’s announcement comes in anticipation of new revenue projections, set to be released by the Wisconsin...
Milwaukee’s City TV Channel now broadcasting programs with closed captioning in Spanish
Viewers of broadcast televised programming on the Milwaukee City Channel are now able to access bilingual closed captioning, according to City Clerk Jim Owczarski. As the City Channel is broadcast in English on CC1 (standard) and in Spanish on CC3 (secondary), viewers...
A rising death toll: Why crossing the U.S. border from Mexico has become more tragic for migrants
By Joseph Nevins, Professor of Geography, Vassar College The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, show the dangers of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization. All of the dead...
Biden administration to end cruel Trump-era policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order, in effect since December, that the so-called Remain in Mexico...
Zaporizhzhia could be Chernobyl 2.0: The Russians are again orchestrating an atomic disaster for the world
By Najmedin Meshkati, Professor of Engineering and International Relations, University of Southern California Russian forces occupy Europe’s largest atomic energy plant, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar. Russian and Ukrainian...
An enduring resilience: Remembering Ukraine’s 1991 vote for independence and its continued courage
By Marta Dyczok, Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Specializing in Ukraine, Western University On August 24, 1991, I was one of a handful of foreign journalists working for a British newspaper and in the Ukrainian parliament when legislators...
The Dream of Democracy: Why Ukrainians have never treated their country’s sovereignty as a given
By Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University I stood on Kyiv’s main boulevard, Khreshchatyk, one year ago, on August 24, 2021, celebrating along with thousands of Ukrainians who were watching the Independence Day...
Mental Health Complex to permanently close as County fully transitions to community-based care
The Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Behavioral Health Services (BHS) announced on August 15 that the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex and Psychiatric Crisis Services (PCS), located for more than 40 years at 9455 W. Watertown...
The Cure: Why Universal healthcare would enable a healthier population to withstand the next pandemic
More than 330,000 people in the United States died during the pandemic because they were uninsured or underinsured. That grim statistic was reported recently by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. In addition to that staggering, preventable death toll, in...
Signs of hope: Wisconsin medical advisors urge caution as COVID-19 hospitalizations fluctuate
One-third of Wisconsin counties have high community levels of COVID-19, a federal designation that carries a recommendation for universal masking indoors away from home. Those counties are home to more than half of Wisconsin residents and range from major metropolitan...
