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Milwaukee’s Mansion: Critical restoration needed to save landmark Pabst Home from deterioration
Aug 16, 2024
Known as “Milwaukee’s Mansion,” the home of Captain Frederick Pabst is one of the Brew...
Aly Miller: Playfully navigating the relationship between place and identity with illustrative maps
Mar 3, 2023
In parallel with the uniqueness of an individual’s identity are the maps each of us formulates of...
Republican Voters Against Trump bring billboard campaign to Milwaukee focusing on his felonies
Jun 16, 2024
Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) initiated a six-figure billboard campaign in key swing...
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Luke Waldo: The promise of a guaranteed income for the economic stability of Milwaukee families
Aug 12, 2024
“This direct cash transfer is grounded in the belief that economic and concrete supports build...
Reggie Jackson: Why the denial of Black oppression is growing as another false American narrative
Feb 14, 2024
“If some groups are simply meant to be at the bottom, then there are no questions to ask about...
Pardeep Kaleka: The “might makes right” mindset is acculturated into the racial hurt we consume
Feb 1, 2023
Sometimes it feels like the hate that we give back to ourselves cuts the deepest. This American...
One life saved: Why speaking openly about suicide prevention is vital for growing community support
Sep 27, 2023
As suicide prevention month draws to a close, we must remember that the door is always open for...
We Need Imagination: A glance at my 2020 bookshelf
Dec 26, 2020
In the early days of the stay-at-home orders, I woke up and immediately – as if guided by...
Essential Gear: The toolkit of a Milwaukee photojournalist on international assignments
May 4, 2024
Anyone who has taken a long-distance trip has an idea about what is required to pack for the...
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Facing a firing squad: Lessons on dissent from a U.S. intelligence officer who committed mutiny in Vietnam
Sep 10, 2024
By Rodney Coates, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University During the late...
History is a relay race: Past generations before us carried the baton and have now passed it to us
Sep 6, 2024
Black Americans outnumbered White Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama,...
Lifeblood of Democracy: How right-wing parasites drained the health of America’s news media
Aug 30, 2024
The fifteen or twenty percent of Americans who follow actual news reporting are dumbfounded. How...
The Pandemic We Wasted: How we could have transcended our self-erected barriers of politics
Dec 17, 2023
What do you remember about the first days of the pandemic? I remember going to three grocery...
Business politics: Corruption of U.S. Supreme Court was a corporate strategy 53 years in the making
Jul 5, 2024
The series of devastating rulings at the end of June and beginning of July are the consequence of...
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Silent City Honey: The sweet story of utilizing Forest Home Cemetery’s Arboretum as an apiary
by Lee Matz
Among its many historical distinctions, Forest Home Cemetery has one of the oldest preserved forests within a metropolitan area that exists in Wisconsin. An unexpected byproduct of the silent city’s lush biodiversity is its ability to produce premium honey, with a little help from Chad Nelson and Barbie Brennan Nelson.