by Janice Christensen It took years of hard work to make the neighborhood a safe, inviting place. Naturally, now more people want to live in it. Property values skyrocket, and the very people who did the work can’t afford to stay. It just doesn’t seem fair. But the people who live and work in these […]
July 2002
East Siders Goff and Broderick Face Off for Third District Seat: Election to be Held July 16
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss Voters sent a clear mandate for reform to county government in last month’s elections, where Penny Podell of Shorewood was one of three Supervisors unable to survive a recall election. In the six-way primary, Podell garnered 23% of the vote and was narrowly edged out by Gerry Broderick and Mark Goff, […]
Layton School of Art, Riverwest, and the Changing Face of Milwaukee
Mark Lawson For many years Riverwest has had the reputation of being a neighborhood where many artists live and work. Why, out of all the many neighborhoods in the city, has Riverwest held an attraction for artists? How did such a large number of artists come to live and work in Riverwest? In the 1960’s […]
King of the Beasts: DANDELION (taraxcum officinale)
Boasting a richness of naturopathic uses, both medicinal and nutritional, the dandelion’s roar is predominantly that of a diuretic and a detoxifier. The dandelion can be used as a tonic, diuretic, hepatic, antiscorbutic, sialagogue, aperient, alterative, and stomachic. You may not know what most of these words mean, but the gist of it is, this […]
How Does Traditional Chinese Medicine Treat Headaches or Cluster Migraines?
by Lygia Angel, MSOM, LAc In Traditional Chinese Medicine, all disease is treated as an imbalance unique to the individual experiencing it. No two people are treated the same way even if they have the same disease. There are many reasons people get headaches or migraines, and there are many ways to treat headaches, depending […]
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