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Free perks coming to Downtown workers for Employee Appreciation Week

Posted by Correspondent | Jul 19, 2017 |

Milwaukee Downtown BID #21 will team up with downtown businesses and community leaders to celebrate downtown’s 83,490+ employees during the 12th annual Downtown Employee Appreciation Week from July 31 to August 4. The weeklong celebration rewards downtown employees with outdoor entertainment, games, prizes, free lunches and after-hours events. A ribbon-cutting ceremony, live music and prize opportunities will kick off the weeklong celebration on Monday, July 31 at 11:45 a.m. at Red Arrow Park. Lunch for 1,000 employees will be provided by Cousins Subs, Davians Catering & Events and Starbucks. Tickets to Wisconsin State Fair will also be distributed. Throughout...

Milwaukee to get $100K grant supporting inclusion in City contracting

Posted by Correspondent | Jul 12, 2017 |

Mayor Tom Barrett, the Citi Foundation, and Living Cities announced the expansion of the City Accelerator program to Milwaukee. Five cities, including Milwaukee, will work together over the next year to refine approaches to procurement spending, pursuing at least one new strategy to increase the diversity of municipal vendors and contractors and direct more spending to local minority-owned businesses. This collaboration supports the goal of City Accelerator, to support innovation in local government that has a significant impact on the lives of residents, especially those with low incomes. The City will work will the African American Chamber of Commerce,...

Last African American-owned bookstore in Wisconsin closes its doors

Posted by Editor | Jul 11, 2017 |

After nearly three decades, the only remaining African-American owned bookstore in Wisconsin closed on July 8. Carla Allison, owner of the Reader’s Choice bookstore, officially retired at the age of 74. Her books have inspired and educated children of color over the past 28 years. “My fondest memory of being here is putting the first books on the shelf the day we opened, in the knowledge that I’m going to serve the community,” said Allison. “This has been the work of mission for me. It is not a profit point, but a service to the community. I’m gratified and...

LISC highlights revitalization progress during MLK Drive tour

Posted by Editor | Jul 10, 2017 |

Area residents are well aware of the developments under construction in Milwaukee’s downtown, from the Streetcar to office buildings and the sports complex. While those big budget projects continue to disproportionately grab headlines, the bigger story is how this latest renaissance cycle has spread outside of the city center and taken root in the supporting neighborhoods. The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is a Milwaukee branch of the New York-based organization that was started by the Ford Foundation in the 1970s. It has worked to assist in the revitalization of distressed communities, and remove the barriers to and stereotypes...

Satellite images show view of Bucks Arena from space

Posted by Staff | Jul 10, 2017 |

It has been just over a decade since Google Maps first put satellite imagery within reach of a web browser in 2005, allowing Milwaukee residents a look at city landmarks from the edge of space. While aerial photography remained the easiest means for decades that consumers could get a high altitude look at the Brew City, aside from actually being in an airplane, the view from space is now as close as a pocket containing a mobile device. This method provides a time lapse of sorts for seeing the development of Milwaukee over the past decade. From Earth’s orbit,...

Girl Scout troop honors legacy of Meta Schlichting Berger with monument

Posted by Staff | Jul 4, 2017 |

The transformative political activist Meta Schlichting Berger was remembered by a new generation of young girls, who memorialized the prominent educator’s lasting influence with a new memorial at Forest Home Cemetery on June 24. The members of Cudahy Girl Scout Troop 8617 worked over the past two years to raise the $800 needed to install a stone marker at Berger’s gave site. Buried alongside her husband and socialist politician Victor, she was documented by historians as expressly forbidding any memorials to her as “a frivolous expense.” But to the girls who were in the fourth grade at the time,...