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If we can believe the prevailing weather forecast, we’re in store for a very nice weekend around southeastern Wisconsin. We’re expecting plenty of…

It’s hard to imagine the world without hybrid cars.More than 20 years ago in Japan, the Toyota Prius was the first of these cars produced for the mass…

It’s been more than two decades since the Salvadoran Civil War ended, but the refugees the crisis created are once again in the news.Since 1990,…

There are songs out there that we think of as "standards." They might have been recorded decades ago, but they still are part of our collective…

In the early hours of January 19, 2010, residents on Milwaukee’s East Side awoke to a loud boom. Within minutes, apartments and businesses were engulfed…

Last year, the ACLU sued the city of Milwaukee, based on the police department’s stop-and-frisk program. An analysis of police stops in Milwaukee found…

After operating for nearly 100 years on the east side of Madison, the Oscar Mayer plant closed its doors just over a year ago. Matt Treadaway grew up in…

While there are aspects of the news coming out of Washington that sound like satire, it’s hard to be sure. With Will Durst, an award-winning political…

Several Milwaukee institutions and organizations are coming together to bring attention to the interconnection of race, trauma and recovery in the…

Last month, director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at UW-Milwaukee and our regular astronomy contributor, Jean Creighton explained how the sun stays…