By Michael Timm Homelessness, poverty, crime, unplanned pregnancy, sexual abuse, and underemployment are very real threats to thousands of young people nationwide who age out of the foster care or other out-of-home care systems. Upon turning 18, they are cut off from the state support system. If they have not been prepared for social and […]
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Tis the Season for Buying Local
by Belle Bergner A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Biologist Tis the Season, friends to spend money. And if you […]
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SUMMER SCENES
Stories and photos by Charlesetta Thompston Genette Boston Young worked the registration table at the Boston Family Reunion. BOSTON FAMILY REUNION: The Boston Family celebrated their family reunion in the 3300 block of Palmer Street on August 11 and 12, with lots of food, games and music. Topping off the festivities was a performance by […]
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Locally grown: Feeding our hunger for a and knowledge about a local food
by Belle Bergner Its hard to pick up a newspaper anywhere in the U.S. these days and find an article about how healthy and well fed people are. Milwaukee is no exception. How can that be? In the third wealthiest country in the world, how is it possible that we could have undernourished children? Or […]
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