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The City-County Task Force on Climate and Economic Equality committed to finding ways to mitigate racial inequity through “green jobs” on Nov. 29 during the last “Community Climate Conversations” event. The recurring Community Climate Conversations have taken place at the Innovations and Wellness Commons in Milwaukee’s historic Lindsay Heights neighborhood. The purpose of this space […]

From a stop on the Underground Railroad to the classroom, a museum docent, a teacher and a professor give their take on the importance of teaching the truth about the history of slavery in America. This train is silent. Sometimes it moves fast – other times, slow. There is nowhere to wave goodbye to family […]

At the City-County Heroin, Opioid & Cocaine Task Force meeting mental health and drug initiative directors announced their results from 2022 and their plans to improve in 2023.  Milwaukee Fire Captain David Polachowski said for 2022 the total number of overdose related incidents from the Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative.  Total attempted contact was 3200, successful […]

The Milwaukee Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee voted unanimously to approve the detailed planned development for a proposed Deer District music venue following their meeting on Oct. 25. This action will allow FPC Live and the Milwaukee Bucks to move forward with the first phase of development. The plans outline a 4,000-person capacity concert venue […]

Throughout the past two months, the leader of Russia Vladimir Putin has made repeated threats that Russia is ready to use any means necessary, including the use of nuclear weapons, in order to defend the regions in Ukraine in which Russia has claimed to have annexed, according to the New York Post.  While the White […]

Witness testimony continued Monday morning, Oct. 10 in the Darrell Brooks trial who is charged in the November 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack. Before the jury came out, Brooks issued a court apology for his actions last week, “It’s emotional for the families involved, my family and myself and I should carry myself better. I […]

A new Jeffrey Dahmer show has recently aired on Netflix; Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. With the airing of this new series, it reintroduced a narrative perpetuating to build a memorial for Dahmer’s innocent victims.   Although at face value a memorial may be the solution to honor these victims, it has been established […]

No one knows yet exactly what will change, but everyone who shopped at Gooseberries–Burlington’s most unusual and only remaining family-owned grocery–knows that something will. On May 30, the Spiegelhoff family sold the last of their stores, a loved, local business operating here for more than 100 years. We could all see it coming. We just […]

Gasoline prices are the most expensive in U.S. history right now with an average of $4.17 per gallon. Milwaukeeans have their thoughts on the way that the national gas price hike is affecting life in the city. Brady Jager has the story.

While many people here in Milwaukee watch the invasion in Ukraine from television screens and cell phones, they may be wondering what they can do to help. A local coffee shop put on an event to help raise money for those who have escaped Ukraine… and for those still stuck. Callie Donavan has the story.