Last summer, someone suggested that Comfrey might be considered the official plant of Riverwest. A stroll down the alleys anywhere in the neighborhood reveals this fuzzy, friendly, dark-sage-green plant bursting through cracks in the concrete and festooning the fence lines of vacant lots. With its dark purple, bell-shaped flowers and lush, handsome foliage, it could […]
May 2003
Posted inNeighborhood News
SEWRPC Advisory Committee Says Pave Everything, Raise Taxes
Ignoring the wishes of the Department of Transportation, the Department of Natural Resources, the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County supervisors, County Executive Scott Walker and other exurbanites on Wednesday endorsed the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission’s (SEWRPC’s) full 127-mile freeway widening plan.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter
Fortunately for the Milwaukee art community, the Off-Broadway Theatre (342 N. Water St.), had the courage to stage Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter. Gilman’s play, set at a small liberal college in Vermont, confronts the insidious nature of racism while also exploring how political correctness can be a destructive agent in dealing with racism.
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Addressing a Crisis: “W-3” Jobs Campaign Prepares for May 10 Meeting with Officials
More than 50 central city job seekers came together for a March 29 meeting at the Esperanza Unida International Building, 611 W. National, to talk about their need for family-supporting jobs and plans for a scheduled May l0 meeting with public officials.
Posted inColumns
A Chinese Medicine Approach to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome is a disabling, poorly understood multi-system illness. In the United States it has been referred to as the “yuppie flu.” The symptoms are an array of neurological, nueromuscular, and immunological abnormalities combined with cognitive impairment, disabling fatigue, and recurrent bouts of flu-like illness. These can be either short and mild or prolonged and debilitating.
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