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Wisconsin sees campaign investments of $61.5M aimed at further dividing people and communities

Posted by Staff | Dec 2, 2018 |

Political advertising is a practical necessity, but money spent on candidate bashing in Wisconsin promotes a level of fear and hate that takes root in lasting social trauma. About four dozen wealthy special interest groups doled out more than $60 million to mostly smear candidates during the 2018 fall legislative and statewide elections, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign preliminary review found. The record-smashing amount spent by these outside electioneering groups totaled $61.4 million, including nearly $31.3 million by Republican outfits and $30.1 million by Democratic groups. Compared to other mid-term election years that featured legislative and statewide races, spending by...

Milwaukee auctioneer expected to sell Babe Ruth’s 1924 home run bat for record amount

Posted by Staff | Nov 29, 2018 |

The autographed bat Babe Ruth used to hit the first home run of the 1924 season off Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson is predicted to set a new record for the sale price of a game used bat, with bids anticipated from international collectors. The antique baseball relic’s sale is being brokered by South Milwaukee-based Mears Online Auctions. Anticipated to sell in excess of $3 million, industry experts have said the historic item is the finest Ruth bat to enter the market in over a decade. “With its provenance, autograph, physical dimensions, and photo of Ruth promoting the...

Rigged for the Wealthy: Wisconsin tax system demands the least from those who profit the most

Posted by Tamarine Cornelius | Nov 25, 2018 |

Wisconsin is a better place for everyone when hard-working families are able to provide for their families and climb the economic ladder. But when the lion’s share of economic gains goes to a small number of wealthy and well-connected individuals who have rigged the system for their own benefit, it is more difficult for Wisconsin families to get ahead. Wisconsin’s tax system contributes to the growing concentration of wealth by calling on the richest residents to pay the smallest share of their income in taxes, and requiring residents with low and moderate incomes to pay more than their fair...

Evangelicals make people of faith choose sides in their clandestine War on Christmas

Posted by John Pavlovitz | Nov 25, 2018 |

Yes, there is a war on Christmas in America. The Evangelicals were right. The pulpit-pounding preachers were right. Franklin Graham was right. The Republicans were right. Donald Trump was right. Fox News was right. The Religious Right was right. Every single one of them was speaking gospel truth. They have all been warning me for years, and I did not want to believe them, lest hopelessness set in—but the proof is unavoidable now, and I need to confess they were right and I was wrong. I once was blind and now I see it clearly. They told me Christianity...

Santa comes to downtown by streetcar for 2018 Holiday Lights Festival

Posted by Lee Matz | Nov 20, 2018 |

Milwaukee officially ushered in the 2018 holiday season with the city’s Christmas tree celebration and Holiday Lights Festival on November 15, events that took place on both sides of the Milwaukee River that once divided the early settlements of Juneautown and Kilbourntown in the 1840s. Staff from the Department of Public Works decorated the 105th annual Christmas tree, positioned across from City Hall by the Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building, with more than 5,000 lights and 150 ornaments. Milwaukee’s Christmas tree lighting is the second oldest celebration of its kind in the United States, behind New York City. This...

From rendering to reality: Milwaukee’s Streetcar is officially a thing

Posted by Editor | Nov 5, 2018 |

After six decades, Streetcars are again apart of Milwaukee’s transit system and landscape scenery, when Mayor Tom Barrett, city leaders, and community stakeholders cut the ceremonial ribbon interwoven with hops – used for brewing beer – to officially launch passenger service on November 2 at 12:55 p.m. No longer a computer rendering, the future of Milwaukee moved into a live reality. Hundreds of area residents crowded Cathedral Square Park to watch the historic start of The Hop at the “Grand Hop-ening” celebration, and to be among the first to ride the city’s modern Streetcar vehicles. “My son is 31,...