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Transient budget goals for State at root of long-term harm to local children and families

Posted by Tamarine Cornelius | Feb 15, 2018 |

The different plans for what to do with the state’s budget surplus have one thing in common: they offer short-term benefits at the expense of long-term gains in economic stability. Many lawmakers seem to be viewing the surplus as an opportunity to provide election-year tax rebates—raising questions about whether they are focused more on securing their re-election than promoting broadly-shared prosperity across the state. At the end of the 2019 fiscal year, Wisconsin will have $138 million more in its General Fund than was anticipated when lawmakers passed the two-year budget last year. Lawmakers are seeking ways to spend...

Milwaukee chefs and 88Nine DJs blend taste with music at SoundBites fundraiser

Posted by Staff | Feb 13, 2018 |

Top chefs from restaurants around the city joined 88Nine Radio Milwaukee DJs to serve one-of-a-kind music-and-food pairings at the station’s seventh annual SoundBites fundraiser on February 8 at the Iron Horse Hotel. SoundBites let food and music enthusiasts savor unique pairings at 13 tasting and listening stations. Guests were able to enjoy flavors from across Milwaukee’s diverse food scene, and listen to creatively matched tunes on earbuds. Taking inspiration from the ingredients of their food and music, the paired chefs and DJs collaborated to combine small plates with the perfect songs, harmonizing them to create unique dining and listening...

Taste & Toast restaurant sampler to share flavors for Milwaukee to savor

Posted by Correspondent | Feb 12, 2018 |

The public will be able to sip and sample from thirty downtown Milwaukee restaurants over five nights from March 5 to 9. Taste & Toast, a happy hour event coordinated by Milwaukee Downtown BID #21, returns again this year with an assortment for restaurant enthusiasts to enjoy. The event features specially priced small plates, appetizers and one-of-a-kind beverages, alcoholic and nonalcoholic, at more than two dozen restaurants, bars and lounges in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. “Taste & Toast is a unique event that highlights downtown Milwaukee’s evolving restaurant and nightlife scenes,” said Beth Weirick, CEO of Milwaukee Downtown...

Black Cat Alley’s winter event combined fire, ice, and actual cats from Sip & Purr

Posted by Editor | Feb 6, 2018 |

The open air gallery, Black Cat Alley, hosted its first live art performance of the winter with “Fire on Ice” on February 3. Dozens of residents came to the alley, running from Kenilworth to Ivanhoe between Farwell and Prospect Avenues, to watch artists Renee Bebeau and Todd Mrozinski paint campfire images on a nearly six-foot-tall slab of ice. Several visitors participated in the public painting session. The weather also provided a fitting atmosphere by sprinkling more than a inch of snow during the event. “We wanted to focus on something cozy in the middle of the winter. We are...

Joyce Mallory: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges

Posted by Editor | Feb 5, 2018 |

The Jewish Museum Milwaukee screened the film “From Swastika to Jim Crow” on February 1 to a full house, as part of a community engagement series supporting its new exhibit “Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights.” Based on a book by the late author Gabrielle Simon Edgecomb, From Swastika to Jim Crow tells the little-known story of Jewish refugee scholars who escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to America, and when faced with anti-Semitic sentiment at mainstream American universities, were hired for positions at historically black colleges and universities (HCBUs) in the then-segregated South....

The $4.5B tax-payer subsidy to Foxconn includes $1.6B in payouts unrelated to job creation

Posted by Tamarine Cornelius | Feb 3, 2018 |

An updated calculation of the public assistance provided to Foxconn shows that the costs have risen as high as $4.5 billion when multiple forms of assistance from state government, local governments, and utilities are included. This comprehensive accounting of public costs allows us to more accurately identify how much each new job created by Foxconn will cost to taxpayers. With an eventual employment target of 13,000 jobs at Foxconn, the cost per job would be $344,000 ($4.5 billion cost divided by 13,000 jobs). Breakdown of the estimated $4.5 billion in state, local, and utility assistance to Foxconn, as estimated...