May 2011
Posted inArts & Entertainment

avant la pluie

by Currents Staff

Planting Before Rain   by Harvey Taylor   We saw clouds gathering in the West, and heard the weather forecast: scattered showers over the next couple of days, along with a warming trend, just the incentive we needed for Spring planting.   We worked in fresh compost, amended with equine contributions, and soon peas, spinach, […]

Posted inNeighborhood News

Makes you want to cry!

by Jan Christensen

“I attended a meeting at an elementary school in my district, and the people there were crying,” said Milwaukee Ald. Nik Kovak from Riverwest. He was testifying at the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Education meeting on Tuesday, April 19 at the State Capital in Madison. He was almost the last speaker some seven hours into the hearing on lifting the cap for voucher schools in Milwaukee.

“I’ve heard a lot of anger in the last few weeks, and I’ve shared some of that anger, but this makes me want to cry. It makes a lot of people want to cry.