MCTS bus shelters feature murals by student winners from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. art contest
Murals on two Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus shelters now feature winning artwork from the Marcus Performing Art Center’s 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Art Contest, which was open to K-12 students in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, and West Bend. The first shelter is...
Wisconsin National Guard mobilizing troops to support security at Presidential inauguration
Governor Tony Evers announced on January 13 that approximately 500 Wisconsin National Guard troops will mobilize to federal duty to support civil authorities in the national capital region in advance of the presidential inauguration on January 20. The troops, which...
Who Counts and When: On Women’s Suffrage, Census, and incremental steps towards citizenship and Civil Rights
2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, confirming women shall not be denied the right to vote, and marked the 150th anniversary of the first full United States census of African-Americans. These milestones are...
Year In Preview 2021: Bring it on New Year, you can’t suck more than 2020 did!
It seemed like the pain of 2020 would never end. At least the calendar year is over, but the overwhelming effects of the past 12 months will not diminish as instantaneously. Metaphorically speaking, the mother of Baby New Year 2020 went to the hospital to give birth...
A Pandemic Plunge for 2021: Looking back at past Polar Bear dips into a freezing Lake Michigan
As a “Supercharged” COVID mutation takes root in Europe, and irrational denial of about the pandemic continues in Milwaukee, the annual tradition of taking an icy plunge in Lake Michigan on New Year’s Day became another casualty to the 2020 legacy....
Year In Review 2020: Having the courage to say “yes” in a year of “no”
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: Understanding the history behind today’s politics
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: On faith, politics, and stuff that needs to be said
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: Finding hope while others fall off a cliff
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: Jacob Blake and tragedy of Kenosha
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: Wauwatosa police and their brutalization of civilians
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
Year In Review 2020: A deadly COVID-19 crisis and the country that ignored it
2020 has been a turbulent period beyond the conventional methods of description. In terms of COVID-years, the past 12 months have had the glacial progress and weight of 12 regular human years. Each month brought a new chapter of events for the public to process, which...
