Milwaukee
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How Opening a Store During a Pandemic ‘Saved’ This Milwaukee Business
Just as Benny Tralongo signed a lease on a storefront, the world ground to a halt. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise for his clothing and collectibles business.
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Coming to the Rescue: Pandemic Relief Aid Is Starting to Be Put to Work in Wisconsin Communities
Stimulus funds in Biden’s American Rescue Plan credited with restoring a state budget surplus and keeping more than 2 million Wisconsin families afloat.
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Wisconsin Senate Takes First Steps Toward Police Reform Since George Floyd’s Murder
More bills await a vote in both the Senate and Assembly as the state inches toward reforms. The Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday passed four police reform bills, the first legislative action to change law enforcement policy since last year’s mass protests began after the murder of George Floyd by a then-Minneapolis police officer. The bipartisan…
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‘They Don’t Really Like Each Other’: Republican Infighting Could Delay Budget Passage, Lawmaker Says
Despite a decade of control, Assembly and Senate Republicans have a history of squabbling and missing budget deadlines.
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Library Clinics? Door-to-Door Vaccines? Milwaukee Is Getting Creative To Get Shots In Arms
With vaccinations dropping, Milwaukee is figuring out how to overcome hesitancy and get shots to people right in their own neighborhoods.
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Infrastructure Is Good Politics—Just Ask Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists of 1904
Voters have a history of rewarding public officials who pay attention to long-neglected public needs.
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Black History and Slavery a ‘Small Part’ of US History? This Suburban School Board Candidate and Cop Says So.
Milwaukee Police officer Kevin Zimmermann has a social media history full of extreme comments and COVID-19 falsehoods on public and private accounts.
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Critics Say I-94 Expansion in Milwaukee Puts Evers’ Administration at Odds With Biden—and Itself
The governor’s climate change task force pointed to the historically detrimental effects of urban freeways and ports on communities of color in a 2020 report. But his administration is pressing ahead anyway.
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FEMA Adding a Vaccine Clinic in Milwaukee to Catch Up With State Numbers
Madison and Eau Claire may also get federal help to boost the vaccination rate.
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Giannis Is Staying With the Bucks. Workers and Businesses Are Thrilled.
“This is the best news of 2020,” says a service workers union head.
