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After six decades, Streetcars are again apart of Milwaukee’s transit system and landscape scenery, when Mayor Tom Barrett, city leaders, and community stakeholders cut the ceremonial ribbon interwoven with hops – used for brewing beer – to officially launch passenger service on November 2 at 12:55 p.m. No longer a computer rendering, the future of Milwaukee moved into a live reality. Hundreds of area residents crowded Cathedral Square Park to watch the historic start of The Hop at the “Grand Hop-ening” celebration, and to be among the first to ride the city’s modern Streetcar vehicles. “My son is 31,...

Members of the media and city officials joined Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on October 29 for his first ride onboard the city’s new streetcar, The Hop, for a 45-minute loop of the M-Line before it officially beings passenger service on November 2. While the streetcar vehicles have been testing over the past few months, Federal guidelines have prevented anyone not involved with the driving or maintenance to be ride them. So the special preview ride was the first time that even Mayor Barrett had to experience the city’s newest transportation system. “When the Streetcar starts on Friday, the Mayor...

88Nine Radio Milwaukee became the first Milwaukee media outlet to be featured in the Milwaukee Film Festival, when the radio station’s feature-length documentary “Invisible Lines” premiered at the Oriental Theater on October 27. Laura Dyan Kezman, Nate Imig and Vianca Fuster directed the film about Milwaukee, through the eyes of 10 residents of color. With intimate interviews and art, the local residents shared their personal stories of segregation, racism, and prejudice. The format included no narrator or script, just conversations between people. Milwaukee has the unfortunate reputation of being the most segregated city in America. It is a perception...

Former President Barack Obama fiercely criticized Donald Trump’s tenure in office and his destabilizing policies on October 26, in a fiery address to the Milwaukee public during his first campaign event in the city since his March 2016 visit as President to celebrate enrollment numbers in the Affordable Care Act. The speech was one of Obama’s sharpest and most direct rebukes of Trump’s presidency. The former president was careful not to specifically mention Trump by name, nor talk about the pipe bombs a Trump supporter sent to kiII him and other Democratic leaders. But Obama did scoff at the...