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Milwaukee Torrent launches new soccer league with new head coach
The Milwaukee Torrent men’s outdoor soccer team announced on December 18 that it was among an established group of 11 clubs across the United States that have launched a new league with all professional players, coaches, and staff in association with the National...
A Knockout Event: Amateur boxers help Zoological Society’s fundraising efforts
Some of the best amateur boxers in the country, arranged by the Future Olympian Boxing Association, will duke it out in three-round bouts at the January 17 fundraiser for Zoological Society of Milwaukee. This year’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” event continues to raise funds...
Wisconsin faces a growing crisis with maintaining its health care workforce
The Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) recently released its 2018 Wisconsin Health Care Workforce Report, which provides recommendations to ensure the state’s workforce remains up to the challenge of providing high-quality care for an aging population. Solutions in...
Hispanic Collaborative launches with mission of inclusive economic prosperity
A new nonprofit was officially launched at a press conference held at the University Club of Milwaukee on January 14, with the aim to boost inclusive economic prosperity among Latinos, and utilize Milwaukee’s Hispanic population to achieve the region’s economic growth...
Immigrant families from across Wisconsin celebrate a new hope for inclusion and equity
Governor Evers has said he will include a measure in his budget proposal that broadens access to driver licenses, making it easier for immigrant parents and workers to make ends meet and provide supportive homes for their children. Breaking down barriers to licenses...
Number of women elected to Wisconsin’s legislature lags far behind other midwestern states
Women vying for public office made historic waves across the United States in the 2018 midterm elections. Wisconsin, however, didn’t quite follow that national trend. Additionally, while voters elected more women to the state Assembly in 2018, the state finds...
Slavocracy: American’s false milestones for solving a 400 year forced immigration policy
“One can give freedom only by setting someone free. This, in the case of the Negro, the American republic has never become sufficiently mature to do. White Americans have contented themselves with gestures now described as tokenism… for as they like to say Progress.”...
We Reap What We Sow: Immigration routes follow same path as European colonizers but in reverse
By Felipe A. Filomeno, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore The extreme violence, environmental disasters and grinding poverty that drive people from places like Guatemala, Honduras, and Afghanistan are largely...
How the wealthy benefit from reengineering schools to train our kids for a third-world life
Years of frustration over class sizes, salaries, and a shortage of school counselors have boiled over for more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles – the union for the country’s second-largest school district. LA teachers could go on strike...
Video: Controlled roof demolition leaves Bradley Center topless
For 30 years, concert bands raised the roof at the Bradley Center. On January 13, demolition crews razed the roof in 30 seconds. After slowing deconstructing the former home of the Milwaukee Bucks for the past few months, construction crews detonated shape charges in...
Real Economic Damage: Black federal workers are hit hardest during government shutdown
As a 26-year-veteran of the National Parks Service, this is not the first time Lora Williams has been furloughed during a government shutdown and had to make ends meet without a paycheck. But this one, she said, is the worst ever. “I don’t have cash reserves and I’m...
A slow political sunset still casts shadows on the glow of Wisconsin’s new leadership
Scott Walker is manufacturing the slowest possible ride into the sunset after being beaten for governor of Wisconsin in 2018. Since his defeat he supported and then signed lame-duck legislation limiting his successor’s powers, making his post-holiday presence felt....
