Author: Correspondent

More than 500 female travel bloggers, influencers, and industry members will be exploring the Cream City as they meet for their annual conference. The Women in Travel Summit 2017 (WITS) comes to Milwaukee from April 21 to 23, when industry members will meet for a weekend of learning and networking. This year’s conference, held at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center, also serves a secondary purpose, to showcase the city of Milwaukee. “We’re thrilled to be hosting the 2017 Women in Travel Summit and can’t wait to welcome this group of talented, adventure-loving writers. We’re excited to show them the...

Walter Hood and his Hood Design Studio, have been chosen to create a new linear park within the Beerline Trail Neighborhood Development Project in Milwaukee’s Riverwest and Harambee area. The development project intends to sustain and enrich the lives of the people in Harambee and Riverwest by promoting health, well-being and prosperity through increase circulation of resources, voices, ideas, labor and creativity. Hood, an artist and landscape designer and the founder/creative director of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, Ca., was selected out of a group of three finalists for the project. Hood’s work on the Beerline Trail extension is...

Grants, funded with money from the State of Wisconsin, will provide up to $10,000 toward the rehab cost of each home. A competitive selection process has ended with six organizations selected to take part in the Milwaukee Employment/Renovation Initiative (ME/RI). The selected firms will renovate a total of up to 100 tax-foreclosed homes in an area south of Capitol Drive, north of Lloyd Street, west of 20th Street, and east of 60th Street. That geographic area includes the Sherman Park neighborhood. Selected firms are committed to hire at least one unemployed or underemployed Milwaukee resident to work on each...

Milwaukee’s Public Policy Forum released a report on March 27 that analyzed the condition of regional fixed-route transit systems, and offered recommendations to fill gaps where services fall short of bringing workers to their job sites. Milwaukee’s Public Policy Forum released a report on March 27 that analyzed the condition of regional fixed-route transit systems, and offered recommendations to fill gaps where services fall short of bringing workers to their job sites. The rise of smart phones, mobile applications, and new private transportation service providers has ushered in a highly experimental period in which transit systems are testing new...

The only option for dedicated transit funding in Milwaukee County is the Vehicle Registration Fee (VRF), which also reduces environmental damage. Reducing carbon emissions is arguably the most pressing challenge facing us today. We are seeing a growing awareness around the urgency of reducing C02 emissions from North Dakota to Pennsylvania, people are standing up to protest the construction of pipelines to enable the continued extraction of fossil fuels. Right here in Milwaukee we have the opportunity to take a stand. Stopping the construction of pipelines is only half the battle – the other half is reducing demand for...

Starting with the season home opener on April 3, the Brewers Line runs a direct route along Wisconsin Avenue to the MCTS transit area at Miller Park. The Brewers Line serves all home games and helps fans avoid traffic and parking hassles. Team MCTS spent the off-season making sure even more fans could get to Miller Park on the new and improved Brewers Line. The route now serves 20 stops, along three entertainment districts. “Like the Brewers, the team at MCTS is always looking to get better, and this year they are already in midseason form. The new and...