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Featured review: Sex and the City
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By Rose Davis Frontpage Milwaukee News Editor June 16, 2008 Sex and the City Director: Michael Patrick King Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis Run Time: 2 hours 28 minutes Rated: R “Year...more
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Student Talk Radio
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MEDIA DEBATES FOREIGN POLICY REPORTING
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The impact of the media on foreign policy was up for debate last Thursday evening at the annual George F. Kennan Forum on International Issues held at the Pabst Theater in downtown Milwaukee.
Click "more" to read the full story by Rose Davis, which features an award-winning ABC correspondent and a Wall Street Journal reporter.
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Health
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A study released last month shows one-in-four of sexually active teen girls has a STD, with the majority affected with HPV, a silent and misunderstood disease that can rear serious consequences years later in some individuals if undetected.
Click "more" to read the full story by Alisha Fischer.
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Editorials
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Former First Daughter Takes the Stage at UWM
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Restaurant Reviews
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Movie Reviews
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Music reviews
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MCGEE ON TRIAL: KEY WITNESS TESTIFIES IN FEDERAL COURT
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By Rose Davis Frontpage Milwaukee News Editor June 23, 2008 Free food, hundreds of dollars in expenses, cell phones, and other offerings. That's what a north side businessman testified was the price of doing business in the district of former Alderman Michael McGee Jr. McGee is currently on trial fighting those...more
 Only 1 percent of completed criminal cases in Wisconsin’s Circuit Court system from the last three years went to trial while a quarter of the nearly half a million cases were dismissed and close to three-fourths were disposed through plea agreements before trial, a Frontpage Milwaukee investigation has found.
In fact, nine counties each took less than 1 percent of their criminal cases to trial, even though they had a combined 23, 958 cases over the three year period. Adams County, in particular, disposed of 2,345 criminal cases from 2005 to 2007 and had only two of those cases go to trial.
Click more for the story by Rebecca Kontowicz.
Click here for another take by Rachel Huyink: Milwaukee County dismissed more than one third of its criminal
court cases in the past three years, ranking seventh out of 72
Wisconsin counties, a Frontpage Milwaukee investigation found. However, the state’s largest county didn’t regularly hatch deals with
defendants. In fact, it was one of the least likely counties in the
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By Rose Davis Frontpage Milwaukee News Editor rmdavis2@uwm.edu June 1, 2008 A large crowd of older adults and a small number 16-25-years olds gathered to hear Sen. John McCain speak at Greendale Martin Luther High School last Thursday for what he called a “Town Hall Meeting,” in order to “take us back to colonial America” and discuss his...more
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Sports
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By Alex Boeder June 22, 2008 adboeder@uwm.edu Brewers Clip Orioles Ominous skies prompted a closed roof overhead, and an equally ominous...more
Alex Boeder June 19, 2008 adboeder@uwm.edu The Brewers mixed together a couple home runs, bunts, and double plays and squeezed out a 5-4 win...more
By Alex Boeder adboeder@uwm.edu June 16, 2008 The Brewers moved from the American League to the National League ten seasons ago. It took them...more
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Language Creates Barriers in UWM Classrooms
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By Megan Schmidt mes6@uwm.edu May 30, 2008 Shangping Xu often wonders if the 350 students he lectures to twice a week would be more engaged if his English was sharper. Xu, a China native, is a Princeton-educated associate...more
By Michael Marit May 5, 2008 College football fans at the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee are faced with a tough dilemma. They are forced to either root for the school’srival, the Wisconsin Badgers, or they can try to find an out of...more
Just under one hundred UWM students joined together on Saturday April 21st, to collect as many signatures as they could in a campaign to get paid sick days in Milwaukee. Julie Tenpas, an intern at 9 to 5, National Organization of Working Women, helped lead the campaign. Saturday was the kick off day, also known as student day. Story by Maggie Lund.
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By Megan Schmidt Frontpage Milwaukee news editor mes6@uwm.edu April 20, 2008 Despite its beam once being seen 23 miles over Lake Michigan, the North Point Lighthouse seems to be a secret enveloped in Lake Park’s trees, detached from urban...more
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News stories
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By Elisabeth Reischl May 6, 2008 In a time when fast is obsession, cheap is priority,...more
By: Brianne O’Brien May 5, 2008 For mostcollege students, money is a big issue that is...more
By Megan E. Schmidt Frontpage Milwaukee news editor April 13, 2008 Despite UWM’s student...more
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