Human Trafficking in Milwaukee: Lifting the Veil

She was 14. She was dirty, she was hungry, she’d been running away from home for about a year, and she was 14. There came a time when she hadn’t eaten anything or slept at all in three days when a man who had taken her out to dinner in the past approached her. He […]

UW-Milwaukee Veterans Fight for More Than Liberty

UW-Milwaukee student Amanda Dahms was a voluntary Marine Corps service member who enlisted when she was 17-years-old. She went to boot camp the following day after her high school graduation in 2006. After finishing boot camp, she went to the school house and then to the fleet. Dahms said that she was a survivor of […]

Larry Nicholson: A Family Legacy of Service

It was spring of 1968 when Larry Nicholson traveled down to the Pensacola area to see his brother Roger before leaving for Vietnam. It was at Whiting Field in Milton, Florida where Larry’s brother was stationed as a flight instructor after returning home in 1966. He served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Now his […]

Seeking the Key To Beer Happiness At Good City Brewing

Good City Brewing 2108 N. Farwell Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202 M: Closed Tuesday-Wenesday: 4pm – 12am Thurday-Saturday: 11:30am – 12am Sunday: 11:30am – 10pm (414)539-4343 $4 – $26 Good City Brewing opened this summer on Farwell Avenue on Milwaukee’s East Side. The brewery is situated next to other recent (but breakfast-focused) restaurant, Simple Café. Andy […]

Milwaukee Veterans Are Soothed With Strums

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUwckPSxiiw&w=700&rel=0] His dark brown hair lays on his chest as he caresses the body and neck of a Sitka spruce top Yamaha guitar perched on top of his faded out blue jeans. His almond-colored eyes look down at a book eagerly, yet calmly, telling him not to fret as he strums. Carlos Berumen served as […]

Pokémon Go Review – Slowpoke Servers Mar Game

Pokémon Go Developer: Niantic Publisher: Nintendo Format: Android (reviewed on Samsung Galaxy Note 3), iOS Released: July 6, 2016 Price: Free-to-play with microtransactions There’s no denying the global phenomenon Pokémon Go has created. The game has topped daily Twitter users and sees more engagement than Facebook as well as created hundreds of headlines both good […]

Glenn Fredrick Dean: One of the Best Trumpet Players They’d Ever Heard

Wisconsin rocked out to air guitar riffs in the 1960s when Sgt. Glenn Fredrick Dean and his band played the taverns around Washington County. At just 20 years of age, Dean left his family, friends and fans heartbroken when the news broke about his death. Writing Dean’s biography in 2015 came easier than expected for […]

Robert G. Mueller: A Soldier Who Sensed his Fate

As Pfc. Robert G. Mueller was leaving his home, he looked back at the farm where he grew up and said he would never see the place again. It was as if he knew his fate was to never return home. Mueller was the third child of eight children in the two-story red farmhouse with […]

James Michael Vielbaum: A brother remembers

James Vielbaum grew up in Hartford, Wisconsin, raised in a tight-knit family, as one of five children. His father, Louis, was a machinist in West Allis. His mother, Dorothy, helped maintain a hospital. He enjoyed a typical childhood in Wisconsin. James enjoyed spending his free time outdoors, including frequent visits to Pike Lake to swim. […]

Aftermath of Officer-Involved #FalconHeightsShooting captured on Facebook Live (With Transcript)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSjlXpQg2w The aftermath of an officer-involved shooting was captured via Facebook Live in a graphic 10-minute video late Wednesday evening. Lavish Reynolds started the video with 32-year-old Philando Castile slumped in the driver’s seat moaning after being shot by an officer. The lower half of Castile’s white shirt is soaked in blood, and his right […]