Author: Guest

Dr. Keith Posley, an honorable man who served the district he loved as best as he knew how, resigned [on June 4] during a closed session of the Milwaukee School Board. This was after a raucous and lengthy meeting, which I attended, in which understandable frustration led to palpable anger and to that which anger always brings in its wake: a certain blindness and lack of focus. Lost in that anger was the fact that the Board moved to hear the public commentary on the financial mismanagement that led to Dr. Posley’s “voluntary” resignation together with the public commentary...

Whether it was businesses adjusting to new ways to deliver their products or residents learning how to be social while staying healthy, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic significant disrupted life in Milwaukee County. For many, those disruptions magnified already existing problems with addiction, finances, and even interpersonal relationships between family, friends, and neighbors. Even though we’ve made progress on re-opening Milwaukee County and containing the spread of the disease, we still see the consequences of the pandemic manifest in community violence, drug overdoses, and mental health crises. The time has come to heal our community and to re-build...