Author: Correspondent

Dates for the summer Night Market along the main street through downtown Milwaukee was announced by its organizer NEWaukee on February 22. The Night Market is a monthly, open-air market that offers a wide variety of experiences for people of all backgrounds and ages on West Wisconsin Avenue between 2nd and 4th Streets from 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. on June 13th, July 11th, August 15th, and September 12th. “With the Night Market coming into its fifth year on Wisconsin Avenue, the growth and change in perception of the area is tangible.” Says Angela Damiani, CEO and Co-founder of NEWaukee....

Students around the country are turning the heartbreaking school shooting on February 14 in Parkland, Florida, into an inspiring and exemplary push for legislative change. In the last few days, many people have asked whether schools can discipline students for speaking out. The short answer? It depends on when, where, and how the students decide to express themselves. Plans for coordinated student walkouts have been making national news and have already engendered disciplinary threats from some school administrators. Since the law in virtually all jurisdictions requires students to go to school, schools can typically discipline students for missing class,...

Since the redesigned website was launched on February 21, 2017, it has been used tens of millions of times to plan a trip, track a bus location, and view stories of Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) community connections. Not only was the web interface re-developed to be mobile-friendly, easier to navigate, and optimized for riders on the go, it was also designed to minimize data usage, so riders could use the service with minimal impact to avoid going over data caps. “This is yet another amazing achievement from MCTS,” said Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele. “The re-designed RideMCTS.com helps...

Professionals from leading STEM industries and universities in southeastern Wisconsin celebrated at STEM Forward’s 65th Annual Engineers Week Banquet at the Italian Community Center on February 15. Sujeet Chand, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Rockwell Automation, was this year’s keynote speaker. Chand discussed how the company has transformed into a technology firm and intellectual capital business, committed to helping customers become more productive, sustainable and competitive through innovative solutions for industrial automation. STEM Forward named Jeffrey Kautzer of GE Healthcare and UW-Milwaukee (UWM) as 2017 Engineer of the Year, Kenneth Mika of O’Brien & Gere (OBG)...

Residents at the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee’s (HACM) Hillside Terrace will soon benefit from much needed services that local nonprofit SET Ministry helps make accessible. Joseph Galvan, Midwest Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recently visited the Hillside Family Resource Center to announce an almost $240,000 award to SET Ministry, a HACM community partner. “This funding will facilitate educational and economic opportunities to help residents along their trajectory towards self-sufficiency and success,” said Galvan. The award was part of HUD’s Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency – Service Coordinators Program (ROSS-SC). It...

Professor Emeritus of Film at UW-Milwaukee, Dick Blau, donated 200 cultural photographs to the Milwaukee County Historical Society. The photographs were all captured within sight of his home at 730 N. Plankinton Avenue, just north where it intersects with Wisconsin Avenue. In 2009, Dick Blau and his partner Jane Gallop left Milwaukee’s East Side where they had lived for twenty years and moved downtown, taking up residence just north of the Riverside Theater. The building they moved into was the old Waldheim’s Furniture Store, now named Riverfront Lofts and the first condominium conversion downtown. “It is a spectacular neighborhood,...