When Tom Barrett became Mayor of Milwaukee I was still living overseas. I would take my first picture of him at the Lebowski Fest in August 2013. I photographed him on occasion over the following years, and by 2016 it would be fair to say that I saw the Mayor at an event at least a twice a week.
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Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) has seen a rise in passengers trying to bring a gun past security checkpoints. These incidents have been stopped during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on luggage. Some firearms were detected with loaded rounds of ammunition.
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Members of the Brumder Family at Grace Lutheran Church from left to right: E.J. Brumder, Robo Brumder, Valerie Patricia Brumder, Matson Brumder Holbrook, Sarah Holbrook Slaughter, and Ada Slaughter. As thousands of German immigrants came to Milwaukee in the middle of the 19th Century, Grace Lutheran Church was built on the corner of Broadway and Juneau Avenue. Its congregation has worshiped there ever since the dedication of the original building in 1851. And descendants from one of the founding families still call it their place of worship today. At the age of 18, George Brumder emigrated to Wisconsin in...
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With a love of community and lifelong determination for helping people, David Crowley is part of a new generation of empowered political leaders that answered the call of making Milwaukee County a more equitable place to live. As the first African American individual elected as Milwaukee County Executive, Crowley took on the responsibility just as the world began shutting down from the pandemic. It was a year of unprecedented uncertainties that required adapting to many new realities, all while striving to fulfill social services for County residents. Into the second year of his term in office and with ongoing...
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Nearly two centuries after his brief life and brutal death were entered into public record as the only recorded lynching in Milwaukee history, George Marshall Clark’s unmarked grave was memorialized with a granite headstone during a special ceremony at Forest Home Cemetery.
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Conservative Roman Catholic Bishops in the United States have voted on a new guidance for the Eucharist. The move could result in a ban of pro-choice Catholics, and specifically President Joe Biden, from receiving the Holy Communion. The further politicalization of abortion threatens to polarize an already divided Roman Catholic Church. When I first heard this news I was infuriated. Not because I am Catholic – I am not. And not because of my views on abortion. But because it reflected my own experience of being denied the Eucharist, a sting I still feel to this day. I moved...
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