Guest, Author at Milwaukee Independent

Kathleen Baert: Mr. Roboto goes to Washington

Posted by Guest | Jun 30, 2016 |

Editor’s Note: A team from Marquette University traveled to Washington DC as part of an expo hosted by the Congressional Robotics Caucus. The event marked the five-year anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency effort among the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the development and use of robots that work beside or cooperatively with people and solve problems in areas of national priority. This essay describes that journey of technology and possibilities. I...

Beulah Brinton of Bay View

Posted by Guest | Jun 5, 2016 |

A pioneer of Bay View, Beulah Brinton left her mark on the community with her compassion and humanitarianism and was the 1987 inductee into the Halls of History Museum at Forest Home Cemetery. She had a free spirit and strong notions about duties to her fellow men, and she carried them out. She was determined and dauntless. It seems that everyone who knew her, admired and loved her for it. I did. She was my great-grandmother. When I was nine, Beulah Brinton came to live with us. My mother, father, brother, and I occupied the old homestead that she...

“Behold the Woman” featured at BVGN

Posted by Guest | Jun 3, 2016 |

My project for Bay View Gallery Night (BVGN) “Behold the Woman” takes its titled from Beulah Brinton’s second published book (1886), a sequel to her first “Man is Love” (1872). Beulah Brinton was a well known poet and essayist in Wisconsin, and started the first library in Bay View. The themes of her work were often metaphysical. They uniquely documented the shifting human consciousness after the devastation from the Civil War and into the industrial revolution. As I like to say, Beulah Brinton was born in 1836 and had a vision of human rights a generation before Eleanor Roosevelt,...

Map: Runway Dog Exercise Area

Posted by Guest | Apr 16, 2016 |

Dog Friendly MKE REVIEW: Runway Dog Exercise Area (Galoshes Required) Runway Dog Exercise Park Address: 1214 E. Rawson Ave. Oak Creek, WI 53154 April 12 was my first visit to Runway Dog Exercise Park.Humboldt Park is a mere five minutes from my house. So Runway DEP is about a 15-20 minute drive from my abode in the Bay View Area. But it was worth the trip, even if the experience was not balanced. My experience was merely my own, and no fault of the Park’s. I failed to understand the full gravity of the warning my fiancé gave when she said, “wear your...

Video: Brostoff introduces Bernie

Posted by Guest | Mar 30, 2016 |

Rep. Jonathan Brostoff talked about the broken political system in Wisconsin during his introduction on March 29 for Presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders at his visit to Milwaukee.

Op Ed: What does Bernie’s win in Michigan mean for Wisconsin?

Posted by Guest | Mar 10, 2016 |

On March 9 Wisconsin was feeling the bern by extension of Michigan’s upper peninsula, the oddly shaped attachment on top of the mitten we call the America’s Dairyland. Michigan gave presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, a historic win. He beat predictive front-runner, Hillary Clinton, even after she was polled with a 37 point lead. To put that into perspective, Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in New Hampshire by just over a 8 point Obama lead. The 2016 Presidential race has been about the unexpected, and going against norms. All the usual suspects have been wrong in predicting what would happen....