Indigenous artists: New photo and painting exhibits showcase Native American identity and history
Over the past few weeks, the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend has opened two new exhibitions by indigenous artists to the public. On July 23, the museum opened Ho-Chunk photographer Tom Jones’s first major retrospective, which features 120 photos from...
Milton House: Wisconsin’s only remaining authenticated stop on the Underground Railroad
As enslaved people sought freedom in Canada in the mid-1800s, some passed through Wisconsin on the Underground Railroad. The secretive nature of the operation makes it difficult for historians to fully track, but existing records show how Wisconsinites lent a helping...
Environmental Justice: New state office will address climate disparities and help chart a cleaner future
Every year, Wisconsin is forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding and repairing infrastructure damaged or destroyed due to extreme weather conditions. This is growing worse because of climate change and unfortunately, these impacts are felt first and...
Advocates hope Federal program to clean Great Lakes can help stretch of Mississippi River along Wisconsin
The Mississippi River Restoration and Resilience Initiative was introduced in Congress in June. It could help fight invasive species, complete restoration projects, improve water quality and protect against flood damage. Summers in Bay City when Frank and Cathy...
Insecurity by design: Waukesha officials move to end universal free school meals in latest blow to families
The COVID-19 pandemic forced students to pack up their bags and switch from whiteboards to laptops. Empty schools meant empty cafeterias. Until the pandemic, Jana Goodman, a mother of three and longtime resident of Waukesha, Wisconsin, never used free school lunches....
COVID’s Next Wave: Rapidly mutating virus has public questioning whether to boost now or wait
Gwyneth Paige did not want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at first. With her health issues, that included hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma, she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer. “At that point, I didn’t care...
America’s crumbling healthcare: Study finds “Medicare for All” could have prevented 338,000 COVID deaths
COVID-19 has killed more than one million people in the United States over the past two years, but more than 338,000 of those lives could have been saved if the country had a universal single-payer healthcare system such as Medicare for All. That is according to new...
The example of Watergate: How “gate” became a symbolic substitution for political scandal
By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis On June 17, 1972, Washington DC, police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron...
Myths in Journalism: Woodward and Bernstein exposed Nixon’s crimes but did not bring down a president
By W. Joseph Campbell, Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to...
A Warning Unheeded: Terror attacks on places of worship increasing in spite of painful lessons
The decade since has seen a rise in mass shootings and terror attacks on places of worship. Sikhs hope the anniversary helps reverse those trends. In India, Satwant Singh Kaleka was a farmer. His wife and their two small sons lived in a village near the city of...
Period Poverty: How the shortage of tampons is exacerbating the plight of low-income women
By Marni Sommer, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Tampons have become the latest household product to fall foul of supply chain issues. Reports of a scarcity of the menstrual product, used by millions of women in the U.S., have...
RNC 2024: Republican Party officially selects Milwaukee as host city for its National Convention
Milwaukee will officially be the site of the 2024 Republican National Convention, playing host to an event that could bring 50,000 visitors and millions of dollars to the city. It is a move by Republicans to try and take back Wisconsin after Democratic President Joe...
