By Lynda Jones Wisconsin elected officials held a press conference this week in front of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office to challenge the proposed closures of five Milwaukee area post offices. Mayor Tom Barrett, Alderwoman Milele Coggs and others joined State Senator Spencer Coggs in the fight against closing these post offices. [...]

On Saturday, July 9, 2011 city residents turned out for the ACT (Atkinson, Capitol, Teutonia) Festival, held in honor of the late Will Perkins, Jr. who owned Perkins Family Restaurant. The festival included live music, food, and a health fair. Many city officials turned out to participate, and a neighborhood family was honored. Pictured to [...]

State Representative Barbara Toles, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Congresswoman Gwen Moore surround the newly retired former State Representative Annette Polly Williams at a celebration held in her honor last Sunday March 27, 2010. Williams was honored for her years of service in the state legislature by colleagues, friends, supporters and her family at the Italian [...]

Program donating more than 8,500 dictionaries across state, nearly 1,000 to Milwaukee The AT&T Pioneers – AT&T’s employee and retiree volunteer organization – along with State Senator Lena Taylor and State Representative Barbara Toles presented more than 100 dictionaries to third graders at Craig Montessori Elementary School and the 53rd Street School in Milwaukee as [...]

Monday afternoon 350 people rallied at the Talgo train manufacturing plant in Milwaukee to protest Governor-elect Scott Walker’s plan to scuttle the high-speed rail project. The size and energy of the event refl ects the growing public outcry against giving thousands of family supporting jobs away to Illinois and other states. The lead sponsors of [...]

Victims of the July 22 rainstorm received some encouraging news Monday during a public hearing held at the Quality of Life Center at Christ the King Church. Hundreds of surveys would be sent off this week as part of an appeal of a FEMA decision to provide emergency funds to local government, but not residents [...]