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A location has been selected for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum at 170C S. 1st Street in Milwaukee. The organization will occupy the 4,300 square foot space above Stack’d Burger Bar and Colectivo at the corner of 1st Street and Pittsburgh Avenue in the Walker’s Point neighborhood, on the edge of the 3rd Ward. The Museum expects to open the permanent location by spring of 2018 “It has been an exciting and exhilarating journey since we announced the concept in November 2014. We had a successful preview exhibit last year, and our retail and custom bobblehead...

Editorial cartoonists are an endangered species, and even in their heyday they were rare. Milwaukee’s Bill Sanders offers a political time capsule of top news stories from the past decades in his upcoming book. Bill Sanders illustrated for the Milwaukee Journal from 1967 until his 1991 retirement. His career began in the Eisenhower era and he is still drawing today. In his new book “Against the Grain,” Sanders shares the upbringing and experiences that prepared him to inflict his opinions on the readers of the three major newspapers he worked for, the 100-plus papers he was syndicated in, and...

To help deter impaired driving over the upcoming holiday period, state and local law enforcement throughout Wisconsin will patrol in greater numbers and for additional hours as part of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. 588 people died on Wisconsin roads in 2016. Many of those deaths were preventable, and they affect other lives and cause great pain to thousands of people throughout Wisconsin. “Drivers impaired by alcohol, prescription medications or other drugs endanger everyone along our roadways,” said David Pabst, Director of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s (WisDOT) Bureau of Transportation Safety. “While law enforcement will...

A small victory was won on December 15 for those who support church-state separation and electoral accountability. A provision of the Republican tax bill, which would have gutted the Johnson Amendment, was blocked from being included in the final legislation. “The Johnson Amendment ensures our nation’s churches and other charities aren’t converted into political action committees to be used by the mega-wealthy to buy elections,” said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. “Theists and non-theists alike can celebrate the success of our collaborative efforts to retain this critical protection.” A provision in the U.S. tax code...