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Bader Philanthropies, one of southeastern Wisconsin’s top 10 foundations, recently announced its board of directors has approved a $400,000 grant to Shalem Healing, a holistic and nonprofit healthcare provider located in the Riverwest neighborhood. The funding, distributed across two years, will allow Shalem Healing to continue providing its wide range of holistic care, including medical consultation, primary care, acupuncture, stem cell treatment, psychotherapy, medication, nutraceutical, and group counseling, to more than 1,000 of its nearly 3,000 annual patients. “It is our pleasure to help Shalem Healing continue to provide these much-needed services within reach of vulnerable community members,” said...

A new focus exhibition, opening September 7 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, will unveil a recently conserved painting and reveal the mysteries surrounding the work attributed to John Constable, donated to the Layton Art Collection more than 70 years ago. “Constable? A Landscape Rediscovered” investigates the provenance of a landscape painting that entered the Layton Art Collection as a gift from Arthur Nye McGeoch, a prominent Milwaukee financier, art collector, and real estate magnate. “Since it arrived in the Layton collection in 1941, the painting has remained an open question, and has largely stayed off view, in storage at...

State representatives in Wisconsin are worried that Apple supplier Foxconn might be about to pull off “the mother of all bait and switches” with its proposed factory in the state. Foxconn is allegedly scaling back its plans for the factory which could get $4 billion-worth of subsidies and infrastructure spending. Despite President Trump attending the groundbreaking ceremony this past June, construction still hasn’t begun and the plant could be much smaller than originally planned. Democratic members of Wisconsin’s government are concerns Foxconn won’t build the Generation 10.5 plant promised in contracts. Generation 10.5 plants produce huge sheets of glass...

Over 25 free tabletop games are now available to downtown residents, employees, and guests at the plaza of 310 W. Wisconsin Avenue, made possible by Milwaukee Downtown BID 21 in partnership with 310 West Wisconsin and Plankinton Clover Apartments. The Downtown GO! Kart offers an assortment of games for all ages and skill levels to play over the lunch hour or for an entire afternoon. Available games include Apples to Apples, Chess, Clue, Jenga, Monopoly, Sorry!, Scrabble, and Yahtzee, just to name a few. The Downtown GO! Kart is staffed by Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21’s friendly Public Service Ambassadors....

The low incomes of renters, rather than either rental prices or the availability of housing, is the greatest single barrier to affordable housing in Milwaukee County, according to a new report by the nonpartisan, independent Wisconsin Policy Forum. The report, The Cost of Living: Milwaukee County’s Rental Housing Trends and Challenges, found that the median rental price in Milwaukee County “is stable and continues to be relatively low compared with surrounding counties and national peers.” However, the report noted, Milwaukee County’s median household income is not high enough to afford the county’s median rent. As a result, roughly half...

State and local health officials are advising residents to continue to protect themselves against mosquito bites due to the state’s first human case of West Nile virus (WNV) this year. A resident of Dane County is the first person confirmed infected with the virus in the state in 2018. The majority of WNV human cases in the state occur during the months of August and September. However, the risk of contracting WNV and other mosquito-borne illnesses is present anytime mosquitoes are active, so it is important for people to be vigilant about preventing mosquito bites throughout the summer and...