By Maria Corpus On an early Tuesday afternoon, the Garden Homes Park at N. 26 St. and W. Atkinson Ave. is lively with children sharing laughs at the playground, and local residents conversing … [Read more...]
Scott Walker Passes Budget Just in Time for Presidential Campaign Launch
By Karen Stokes On Sunday, Governor Scott Walker signed the 2015-17 Wisconsin state budget, the day before he announced his presidential bid. The budget, which passed the assembly on … [Read more...]
Stop Summer Slide! The Milwaukee Bucks Join United Way in the Summer Reading Partnership
The Milwaukee Bucks partnered with United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County to distribute new books to summer school students at Franklin Pierce Elementary School July 1st. Bango, the … [Read more...]
Bus Stoppage Leads to Community Organization, Carpools
By Maria Corpus When reality hit that Milwaukee County drivers and mechanics would hold a 72-hour work stoppage, members at All Peoples Church – an Evangelical Lutheran congregation in … [Read more...]
Nation Finding Ways to Heal After South Carolina Shooting
By Karen Stokes Angry, confused, hurt, sad. These were some of the words that students participating in a prayer vigil at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) used to describe their emotions … [Read more...]
Rachel Dolezal Wasn’t the First — Six More Whites Who Passed
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Atlanta Daily World (NNPA) -- Long before Rachel Dolezal, head of the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter, was outed by her parents for being, … [Read more...]
City and County Join Forces to End Chronic Homelessness
By Ariele Vaccaro As summer heat falls heavily over Milwaukee, the city’s homeless may struggle to find cool shelter from the sun. This past Tuesday, city and county officials announced a … [Read more...]
JFC Votes “Yes” to Reduced UW-System Cuts & DNR Downsizing
By Graham Kilmer The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) voted on Friday, May 29, making changes to Governor Walker’s budget provisions regarding the funding and structure of the UW-System, as well … [Read more...]
Pvt. Willie Bedford Found: UWM Journalism Student Finds Last Wisconsin Vietnam Photo
By Rachel Maidl Reprinted from www.mediamilwaukee.com For Willie Bedford’s five siblings, his face was a distant memory. They lost their brother 45 years ago in Vietnam. In the decades … [Read more...]
Only One Vietnam Veteran Yet to Be Found in Extensive Search for Photos
By Jessica McBride When Tiffiny Neal heard that a class of UW-Milwaukee journalism students and many others were looking for photos of three Milwaukee men who died in Vietnam, including two who … [Read more...]
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