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Community Building: David Crowley takes Oath of Office for second term as Milwaukee County Executive

David Crowley took the oath of office to begin his second term as Milwaukee County Executive on May 9. On April 2, 2024, Crowley was reelected Milwaukee County Executive with 85% of the total vote. First sworn into office in May of 2020, Crowley became the youngest county executive in the history of Milwaukee County and the first Black leader elected to serve in the role. When County Executive Crowley was sworn into office for the first term in May of 2020, it was on the front steps of his home with no fanfare celebration due to the COVID-19...

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Students struggling with math could benefit from an expanding curriculum that teaches financial literacy

Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes, and food. His medium-term financial goals take a little more thought, but he settles on a car — he does not have one yet — and vacations. Peering way into his future, the 18-year-old also imagines saving money to buy a house, start his own business, retire, and perhaps provide any children with a college fund. Martinez’s friend next to him writes a different long-term goal: Buy a private jet. “You have to be a millionaire to...

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America’s 47th: What our dystopian future will look like if Putin and the GOP can reinstall Trump to power

If Trump is re-elected, he would be America’s 47th president, so he has named the plans for his second term “Agenda 47.” At best, it is a dystopian nightmare. At worst it means ending our current system of American government, aligning the U.S. with Russia and other autocratic nations, with the U.S. leading the charge against democracy and in favor of authoritarian, strong-man forms of government across the world. Over at his website, Trump lays out the details of his governing agenda, complete with short videos promoting each of the steps he plans to take. They, and his many...

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Church families try to fill growing need of foster care for immigrant children coming to U.S. alone

Snuggling on the sofa across from the Christmas tree, Sol proudly showed off the dog her foster parents gave her for earning all A’s even though she crossed the southern U.S. border knowing very little English. “They helped me a lot,” said the 14-year-old eighth grader. Then she blushed, hid her face in Cosmo’s fur, and added in Spanish, “Oooh, I said that English!” Sol — who is from Argentina — is among tens of thousands of children who arrive in the United States without a parent, during a huge surge in immigrants that’s prompting congressional debate to change...

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Identities of some domestic terrorists remain a mystery three years after failed attack on U.S. Capitol

Members of far-right extremist groups. Former police officers. An Olympic gold medalist swimmer. And active duty U.S. Marines. They are among the hundreds of people who have been convicted in the massive prosecution of the January 6, 2021, riot in the three years since the stunned nation watched the U.S. Capitol attack unfold on live TV. Washington’s federal courthouse remains flooded with trials, guilty plea hearings and sentencings stemming from what has become the largest criminal investigation in American history. And the hunt for suspects is far from over. “We cannot replace votes and deliberation with violence and intimidation,”...

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Earthquake in Japan shatters the peace of New Year’s Day and revives trauma from 2011 triple disasters

The powerful earthquake that shattered the peace of New Year’s Day in central Japan did not spur massive tsunamis like those that scoured the Pacific coast in 2011, killing nearly 20,000 people and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. The tsunamis that did roll in along the Sea of Japan, on Japan’s western coast, were mostly just a few feet high, rather than waves up to 15 feet tall predicted in alerts issued just after the magnitude 7.6 quake struck on January 1. But the alarms and evacuation orders, and the dozens of strong quakes that...

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