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A plan for how millions of dollars of Milwaukee’s taxpayer money should be spent was presented by Mayor Tom Barrett on September 24, along with other community members who shared their ideas. The Liberate MKE campaign is a collaboration between 25 partners, including the ACLU of Wisconsin, BLOC, Center for Popular Democracy, Citizen Action Wisconsin, Leaders Igniting Transformation, MICAH, Urban Underground, the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, Wisconsin Voices and the YWCA of Southeast Wisconsin. The purpose of the campaign is to encourage elected city leaders to create a budget that reflects the community’s priorities. The African American Roundtable and 45...

The Green Bay Packers selected José Vásquez, President of St. Anthony School in Milwaukee, as the recipient of the NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award. The Packers recognized Vásquez at Lambeau Field prior to Packers-Broncos game on September 22. The NFL and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) have partnered for the ninth annual NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Awards, during the 2019 celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The awards recognize the contributions of Hispanic leaders in each NFL market. Vásquez, who is President of St. Anthony School in Milwaukee, has over 40 years of serving in management positions at the University...

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Milwaukee announced that construction

Tobacco 21 is a national campaign aimed at raising the minimum legal age for tobacco and nicotine sales in the United States to 21. Every day, 300 children under the age of 18 become regular, daily smokers. Nearly all people who smoke as adults began before age 21, and three-quarters started before age 18. Tobacco companies know this: in one internal document from 1982, a researcher said, “If a man has never smoked by age 18, the odds are three-to-one he never will. By age 24, the odds are twenty-to-one.” And if these trends aren’t reversed, 5.6 million of...

As the 100th NFL season gets underway, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin is working to make sure all Wisconsinites, no matter where they live across the state, can watch Green Bay Packers game broadcasts every week. Senator Baldwin recently reintroduced her Go Pack Go Act that requires cable, satellite and other video providers to provide their Wisconsin subscribers with access to programming from broadcast television stations in a Wisconsin media market. Currently, Green Bay Packers fans in 12 Wisconsin border counties are assigned to an out-of-state, Minnesota TV market, which means many of these Wisconsin households could get the Minnesota...

President Donald Trump’s plan to kiII or delay hundreds of construction projects on U.S. military bases to help fund border fencing includes diverting money for a Wisconsin Air National Guard base. Guard spokesman Joe Trovato confirmed that $8 million earmarked for Truax Field in Madison would be diverted to wall funding. Schools, target ranges, and maintenance facilities are among $3.6 billion in military base projects to be cut by President Donald Trump to pay for 175 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, stoking the ire of Capitol Hill Democrats, who promise they won’t replace the money needed to...