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Milwaukee leaders and members of the community celebrated The Hop’s first year of successful service at a anniversary event on November 1, with a special announcement of a new sponsor to continue free ridership. Low temperatures and several inches of snow that fell on Halloween Day caused the original party plans to move indoors, from Cathedral Square Park to the historic rotunda of City Hall. Several hundred guests were treated to free birthday cake and treats courtesy of local vendors. Milwaukee’s $128 million streetcar service officially began operation on November 2, 2018, with 5 vehicles and 18 stops from...

Outreach Community Health Center hosted the 2020 Open Enrollment kick off on November 1, which runs until December 15 – with coverage starting January 1, 2020 – for individuals purchasing health insurance on the individual market. Local officials and community stakeholders attended the press conference with Governor Tony Evers, who was joined by Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Mayor Tom Barrett, Department of Health Services (DHS) Secretary Andrea Palm, and Commissioner of Insurance Mark Afable. U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin was originally expected to attend, but national matters kept her in Washington DC. She did hold a press conference separately. “Every...

Journey House on Milwaukee’s south side hosted the press conference and kick off community event for the statewide 2020 census initiative on October 28, with the public and all levels of elected officials in attendance. The gathering began with Governor Tony Evers signing Executive Order #55, to create the Complete Count Committee (CCC) for the 2020 Census. The purpose of the committee will be to educate Wisconsinites on the importance of completing the 2020 census, develop outreach strategies to reach hard-to-count communities, and identify and reduce barriers that impede participation in the counting process. With less than 6 months...

Like many ethnic groups that settled in Milwaukee in the early days of its frontier foundation, the Polish Diaspora and their descendants on the south side wanted a final resting place that would serve the community. Catholic Archbishop M. Heiss bought 30 acres of land just south of Holy Trinity Cemetery for what was to become Saint Adalbert’s Cemetery on December 7, 1888. Because it served all the local Polish parishes, it was commonly called the Polish Union Cemetery until Archbishop Messmer restored its original consecration name, Saint Adalbert’s. The cemetery memorializes the monk of Trier, Saint Adalbert, who...

Nearly two hundred members of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort (WAVE) and their coalition partners visited the State Capitol on October 24, urging legislators one by one to support two lifesaving, evidence-based bills that would help prevent gun violence. The Gun Violence Prevention Day of Action began with an orientation on gun violence, held a couple blocks from the Capitol building in Madison at Bethel Lutheran Church. WAVE leaders and invited speakers offered educational sessions to the citizens, who addended from all over the state, about how to lobby their elected officials on the proposed legislation. “Now, more than ever,...