With the holidays fast approaching, this can be a stressful time of year for everyone, especially if your bank account isn’t exactly overflowing. So, how can you save some dough while still giving in the spirit of the season?
Commentary & Opinion
Opinion essays and letters from our readers.
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It is Your Home and with it Comes Your Property Taxes
If you own your home, your City of Milwaukee property taxes for 2002 are due on January 31, 2003. If you have a mortgage on your home, the taxes may be part of an escrow account that the bank holds for you and uses to pay your taxes for you. Then you have to do little more than make your monthly mortgage payments, and the bank is collecting your tax money for eventual payment.
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Mold–It’s Serious Stuff
People are getting sick because of something that can be fixed with a 98-cent bottle of bleach and a little old-fashioned elbow grease.
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The Master Gift-Giver
The Internet is an amazing thing. It feels like all human knowledge can flow through your modem. Of course, there might also be a strong resemblance to your attic — you know it’s in there, but just try to find it. And like your attic, the Internet can steal hours of your time as you examine hidden treasures, completely forgetting what has brought you there in the first place…. That said, let me tell you about a mysterious web site I found. It offers a radical little book called The Little Green Book, purportedly written by the Coalition of Wildcat Ministers and Pragmatic Anarchists. The book is made up of 110 short essays — 100 things to do and ten things to stop doing to change the culture. I found one of the essays to be particularly thought-provoking for the holiday season. Here it is….
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In Light of All in the Riverwest Community
On December 7, the Riverwest community surrounding St. Casimir’s Church on Bremen and Clark Street will be “lighting up” the neighborhood. The intention is to bring our neighborhood into light, a symbolic action to “ignite” neighborhood safety, community, future restoration projects, and activities to come. Neighbors will not be in the dark; we will be lit in action.
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