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Key to Change meters to aid in ending chronic homelessness

Posted by Lee Matz | Sep 14, 2017 |

“Give people a place to feel safe. Everyone, not just some people. And then provide them with the wraparound services that they need for rehabilitation, for job training, for job placement. All the support they need to feel like they also have a place in this community.” – Beth Weirick, CEO of Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21. In cities across the country, parking meters have been repurposed to end chronic homelessness, and on September 13 Milwaukee joined that effort, to implement a community-giving program through meter donations. Key to Change includes seven coin parking meters along Wisconsin Avenue. Led by...

Pete’s Fruit Market to host Bronzeville Grand Opening

Posted by Staff | Sep 13, 2017 |

The long fought for new grocery store in the Historic King Drive BID, Pete’s Fruit Market, will host the grand opening of its new Bronzeville store located at 2323 N. Martin Luther King Drive, on September 14. The highly anticipated event for Milwaukee’s 6th District has a full day of activities planned from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There will be a short program and ribbon cutting ceremony beginning at 1:00 pm. The grand opening festivities include live entertainment, store specials, food demonstrations, complimentary samples, face painting, and giveaways. “Our residents have spoken out about wanting a new market...

Sculpture Milwaukee releases mobile tour app with interactive features

Posted by Correspondent | Sep 13, 2017 |

Sculpture Milwaukee recently rolled out a virtual experience for viewing its 22 sculptures along Wisconsin Avenue. Developed by Graydient Creative, the newly debuted Sculpture Milwaukee app features an audio tour, “hearts” for users to like their favorite sculptures, custom photo filters and a scavenger hunt. The exclusive audio tour gives users a full description of the artist and their sculpture, and is also available in Spanish. Similar to Pokémon Go, users can throw “hearts” at their favorite sculptures. Hearts are unlimited, and the user’s favorite sculptures are displayed on the homepage of the app. In addition, users can apply...

Annual East Side tomato fight slings the red vegetable to help end hunger

Posted by Nick Hansen | Sep 11, 2017 |

The 11th Annual Tomato Romp Festival, a day of eating, drinking and throwing over-ripe tomatoes, splattered Milwaukee’s East Side September 9. In 2006, the East Side made Milwaukee the first city in America to host a rotten tomato fight inspired by La Tomatina in Spain. Now the event is imitated in cities across the country including New York City, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Maglio Companies donated 8,000 pounds of inedible, over-ripe tomatoes for the tomato fight that took place Murray Avenue. It has become a tradition for many tomato fight fans to dress in costume for...

Trump ends DACA and Milwaukee leaders react with outrage to its impact

Posted by Staff | Sep 6, 2017 |

On September 5, President Donald Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era immigration policy that grants deportation relief for undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children, known as Dreamers. Established in 2012, DACA currently protects 800,000 immigrant youth nationwide, including almost 8,000 in Wisconsin, and grants them the right to remain in America and receive work permits. The decision has a direct impact on Milwaukee, and city leaders and elected officials have issued a series of statements in reaction to the political development which targets children. Mayor Tom Barrett released...

Top Five reasons Foxconn would be a bad deal for Wisconsin

Posted by Tamarine Cornelius | Aug 30, 2017 |

With the support of the Trump Administration, Governor Walker has proposed an unprecedented package of businesses incentives aimed at encouraging Foxconn to build a manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin. The deal could result in the state paying Foxconn nearly $3 billion in state money over the next 15 years, in exchange for Foxconn spending $10 billion to construct a facility in Wisconsin and creating up to 13,000 jobs. Here are five reasons why the proposed deal is a poor use of public resources: 1. The state would likely pay Foxconn a lavish $200,000 to $600,000 for each new job,...