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Refusal by Legislators to expand Medicaid budget is costing Wisconsin money and lives

Posted by Jon Peacock | Jul 14, 2019 |

The Medicaid budget approved by the legislature this week will cost state tax taxpayers far more than the budget recommended by the governor, yet will accomplish far less to improve access to health care. Ideological opposition to expanding Medicaid is costing Wisconsin a lot of money. The legislature’s budget reduces total Medicaid spending from all sources by almost $1 billion, compared to the governor’s budget. Even though it adds more than $320 million of state general purpose revenue, state tax dollars, to the Medicaid increase proposed by the Governor, the legislature’s budget captures almost $1.3 billion less from federal...

Emma Daisy Gertel: On being creative as a way to explore and understand life

Posted by Lee Matz | Jul 12, 2019

Adopted from Korea along with her brother, artist Emma Daisy Gertel learned from her life journey.

The ugly trend of how Milwaukee media reports on Mandela Barnes as a politician of color

Posted by Scott Gordon | Jul 6, 2019

Wisconsin’s discourse about its first black Lieutenant Governor points to some pervasive problems. Look, nine times out of 10 I’m on the side of the person asking pesky questions or trawling through the sorts of documents that politicians would rather not discuss. If public officials aren’t feeling harried and annoyed, the press isn’t doing its job. When prominent folks grouse about “harassment” or “sensationalism,” it’s almost always a feeble deflection. But the tenor of Wisconsin media’s recent coverage about Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes’ parking tickets and property tax bills has been absurd from the start. Sure, Barnes holds a...

Frederick Charles Winkler: Milwaukee’s Hero of Gettysburg

Posted by Hannah Dugan | Jul 3, 2019 |

During his life, Milwaukee attorney Frederick Winkler seemed to be everywhere. He was the Zelig of civic life in Milwaukee, the Forrest Gump of the American Civil War. And yet he is essentially unknown today. On the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 through July 3, 1863) it is fitting to recall one of his most remarkable achievements: commanding Wisconsin’s famous 26th regiment at Gettysburg. [1] The Back-Story About Winkler’s “Field Journal.” Winkler’s life is rather well documented because he remained a celebrated “local boy” after the Civil War, an active legal practitioner and an important public...

Allow the Outraged: Exposure to repeated trauma should never be accepted as commonplace

Posted by John Pavlovitz | Jun 25, 2019 |

Something often happens to people exposed to repeated trauma. Gradually, they become conditioned to accept the horrors as commonplace. Time and brutality starts to wear down their defenses and sap their emotional resources and they begin learn to live alongside the most malignant sickness as if it were ordinary. Slowly but quite decidedly they grow numb to the unthinkable cruelty and the sustained violence until it all begins to seem normal. Eventually they lose the ability to be outraged or to push back or to even care. Self-preservation begins to craft a story in their heads where the most...

Mother-daughter duo paint swing bridge mural inspired by nearby river ecology

Posted by Editor | Jun 13, 2019 |

The Brady Area Foundation for Arts and Education (BAFAE), represented by the Brady Street Business Improvement District (BID #11), recently commissioned a new mural in the spirit of the city’s growing public art culture. Located under the iconic Holton Street Bridge across from the Swing Park, artist Stacey Williams-Ng was hired to produce a mural that would brighten the underpass. BAFAE sought proposals for incorporating more art into the area, including the McCormack-Vervis Park and the ramp going up the hill to Brady Street. Williams-Ng was selected in part because of her work leading Black Cat Alley and pioneering...