Year In Review 2020: How Milwaukee reacted to the death of George Floyd
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: A pandemic that plagued a presidential election
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: The Democratic National Convention sort of came to Milwaukee
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: A lack of effort by self-serving Republicans to govern Wisconsin
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Milwaukee County awarded $40.9M Federal grant to move forward with East-West Bus Rapid Transit Project
The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced the award of a $40.9 million grant to Milwaukee County on December 14, clearing the way for the East-West Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project to move forward. The Small...
Milwaukee to receive portion of $1M in WHEDA Foundation grants for low-income housing
Governor Tony Evers announced on December 21 that 41 organizations from Ashland to Janesville to Eau Claire to Milwaukee, will share some $1 million in grants from the WHEDA Foundation, as they work to provide emergency shelter, transitional residences, and extremely...
Images of Christmas Past: Remembering Milwaukee’s holiday season before the nightmare present of COVID
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know, where the tree tops glisten, and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow.” – Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas” I’m dreaming… of...
Contributions to the 13th Annual Holiday Drive are helping Milwaukee families at local homeless shelters
The City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County’s 13th Annual Holiday Drive concluded on December 16 after three weeks of collection. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, items were not collected at drop boxes this year. Instead, the public made their donations fully online...
Shirley Abrahamson: First female Chief Justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court dies of pancreatic cancer
Chief Justice Emerita Shirley S. Abrahamson, a monumental and historic figure in Wisconsin’s judicial and public service history, died at the age of 87 of pancreatic cancer on December 19. During her fourth 10-year term, she became the longest-serving justice on the...
Common Council rejects COPS grant: Not just about 30 police officers but long-term commitments to change
A joint statement was released on December 16 from members of the Milwaukee Common Council – Alderman Ashanti Hamilton, Alderman Nik Kovac, Alderwoman Nikiya Dodd, Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs, Alderman Khalif J. Rainey, Alderwoman Chantia Lewis, Alderman José G. Pérez,...
Cream City Hostel plans transformation into first cooperative housing for Milwaukee residents
A local ownership group of more than 40 investors from Milwaukee announced on December 9 that it would be transforming its Cream City Hostel building at 500 E. Center Street in the Riverwest neighborhood into the area’s first cooperative housing for Milwaukee...
John Ridley’s new DC comic book superhero will feature Tim Fox character as first Black Batman
Even before the announcement of “DC Future State and Future State: The Next Batman,” by John Ridley, Nick Derington, and Laura Braga, the news that a person of color could become the next protector of Gotham City stirred a great deal of excitement....
