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The World’s Largest Music Festival kicked off its 2018 opening day on June 27, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to watch the annual fireworks show in spite of snarling traffic made worse due to a poorly timed Presidential visit. No tickets were required to watch the Big Bang fireworks along the Lakefront, but choice vantage points were in high demand. With its direct proximity to Henry Maier Festival Park and Lakeshore State Park, Discovery World again offered front row seats to Summerfest’s explosive display. Prior to the fireworks, the Sailing Vessel (S/V) Denis Sullivan hosted a special trip...

“My Mom’s name was Joyce. Do any of you know if she was Republican or Democrat? Neither do I, she died before I was old enough to speak. The bullet that exploded her head did not care either. The bullet that shot and kiIIed 10-year-old Sierra Guyton didn’t care if she would grow up to be a Republican or a Democrat. A bullet does not care. It is the one thing that we can think of that as apolitical. Your zip code doesn’t shield you from gun viоIеncе.” – Khary Penebaker Survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School mass...

The immigrant rights group Voces de la Fontera held a rally in Milwaukee on June 21 in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on family separation at the border with Mexico. The group believes that the President’s order does not go far enough or stop the currently abusive policy. In many cases, family members from countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are trying to reunite with their families in Wisconsin and flee the violence in their in their country. “This executive order does nothing to address the moral crisis that is happening right now., it actually continues...