Author: Staff

Racism is not limited to Tiki torches and small-town violence. There are both historical and contemporary policies and practices that continue to have disparate effects on people of color throughout their lives. From something as small as commuting times to larger systemic barriers and implicit bias, it is structural racism and White supremacy that have created and continue to create inequities in health, housing, education and beyond. For many people of color, these barriers appear in their day-to-day lives. The false narrative that an individual’s personal choices or culture produces these disparities only helps those in power neglect the...

Transdev, the firm that will operate The Hop, will hold an open house on May 2 to fill new employment positions, including streetcar operator jobs. The job fair will take place from noon to 4:00 p.m. at the streetcar operations and maintenance facility at 450 N. 5th Street. The company is seeking to hire for more than 20 positions, including Streetcar supervisors, safety trainers, facility maintenance technicians, Brookville vehicle maintenance technicians and fourteen streetcar operators. The streetcar operator will provide information about the jobs and conduct initial interviews at the event. Applicants are asked to bring copies of their...

A historic summit on April 27 began the process to formally declare an end to the Korean War after seven decades, and Korean American residents of Milwaukee are once again hopeful for a united homeland. Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, leaders of North and South Korea, agreed to work towards peace on the peninsula with a formal end to the conflict. They agreed to bring the two countries together and establish a peace zone on the contested border. “I am hopeful for the peace process in the Korean Peninsula,” said Milwaukee resident Saehee Chang in a social media post....

Effective June 30, 2018, the Military Order of the Purple Heart will no longer be able to provide assistance with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Veterans and their families through the MOPH National Service Program. The announcement noted that all offices of the MOPH Service Program will close and all Veterans claims under administered by the program officers will be transferred to accredited Service Officers of other Veteran Service Organizations as appropriate. No claims by veterans would be stopped or harmed in by the action. The Milwaukee service office for the Military Order of the Purple Heart,...

Before the largest music festival in the country kicks off in Milwaukee, the city will celebrate another of the largest events in the United States from May 14 to 19, with the Armed Forces Week Celebration. Milwaukee makes a special effort to bring awareness for Armed Forces Day by turning it into Armed Forces Week. With the joint effort of the Armed Services committee and local residents, the community became host to the largest Armed Forces Day celebration in the United States. Armed Forces Day was first observed May 20, 1950, replacing the separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and...

It will be a hands-on engagement with flight when the nation’s most extensive aviation mobile unit arrives along Milwaukee’s Lakefront on June 27. The Experimental Aircraft Association will deliver the excitement of flight to Milwaukee and throughout the United States with its “Spirit of Aviation” mobile unit. Sponsored by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), the mobile experience introduces EAA to aviation enthusiasts through hands-on, member-tested activities engaging people in aviation. “During our inaugural year in 2017, the Spirit of Aviation brought our passion for flight and our mission of growing participation in aviation to tens of thousands...