Author: Correspondent

Public television in southeastern Wisconsin had a big night at the 2017 Emmy Awards Gala. Milwaukee PBS was honored with three regional Emmys, the most it has received in recent years. The ceremony held was on December 2 by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Two of the local series that comprised the new Milwaukee PBS Presents format – 10thirtysix and Adelante! – each received an award. And the station’s highest-rated local program, Around the Corner with John McGivern, won for Best Magazine Programming as a series. “As southeastern Wisconsin’s public television station,...

As the Ambassador Hotel prepares to celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2018, hotel management announced plans for “A Roaring 20’s New Year’s Eve” party to kick off their celebration. The hotel’s Embassy Room will be transformed into a 1920’s speakeasy, complete with gaming tables. The 10-piece jazz swing band “Southport Sound” will be on hand for dancing in the Fitz, the hotel’s restaurant that launched this past summer. “Our party is going to be unlike any other New Year’s event in the Milwaukee. We are going to make sure it is a memorable evening from start to finish,” said...

The private agreement ensures that workers running the streetcar system will be able to join the transit union. Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998, the Milwaukee transit workers union, recently announced a labor peace agreement for The Milwaukee Streetcar with Transdev, the company contracted to run the City’s new streetcar system. The deal also provides that workers can negotiate a contract without threats, coercion, or intimidation while preventing adversarial labor relations between the union and the company from causing pickets, boycotts, or strikes that might negatively impact the system. “Whether on buses or streetcars, transit jobs should be good,...

In response to a compressive needs assessment they conducted, Cream City Foundation announced recently a grant award to support HIV/STI testing, prevention and treatment services. The funding makes it possible for Holton Street Clinic to imbed a Registered Nurse and a Clinic Assistant two afternoons per week at the Diverse & Resilient office. The program specifically supports efforts to improve the sexual health of African American Men who have sex with men and African American trans women in Milwaukee, services will be available free of charge to anyone in need. “While we’ve made tremendous strides to combat the HIV...

Assembly Bill (AB) 589 would restructure the current system for licensing sign language interpreters to create qualification levels and allow more interpreters to gain employment faster while providing consumer protections. Authored by State Senator Patrick Testin (R-Stevens Point), Representatives Jonathan Brostoff (D-Milwaukee), Joel Kleefisch (R-Oconomowoc), and Ken Skowronski (R-Franklin), AB 589 recently received a public hearing in the Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy. “The deaf community has sent a message. They feel that their voice has been silenced. We can’t let that happen,” said Senator Testin. “This bill will help more interpreters enter the job market while...

The Kooky Cooky House, Milwaukee’s own gingerbread-making marvel of the 1960s and 1970s, was recreated and opened as part of the holiday floral show at The Domes. The Kooky Cooky House will be on display through January 1, 2018, while the holiday show will run through January 7. Decades ago, crowds would gather during the holiday season at the Capitol Court open-air shopping mall to see a robot at the controls of Santa’s cookie factory. The process included toy trucks making deliveries, boxing gloves kneading the dough, and rolling pins flattening the dough. A water wheel and a toy...