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Bush Administration’s Spending Priorities Harmful to Neighborhood Kids

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by Jackie Reid Dettloff, drawing by Michelle Dettloff

Beyond the question of financial sense, I see an ominous trend in this proposal to cut a program which is so beneficial to students and working parents in our community. I see a dramatic decrease in federal spending for social programs at the same time as a dramatic increase in federal spending for our military. It seems that we as a society are being forced to choose between maintaining our quality of life and maintaining our national weapons arsenal.

Posted inNeighbor Spotlight

The Riveras

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by Peter Schmidtke / photograph by Peter Di Antoni

From the living room of their two-story home on Holton Street where they have lived for 21 years, Luis and Ada Rivera recount the turn of events that led them to claim their own part of the American Dream.

Posted inEditorials

Ah, Spring Again…

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by Sonya Jongsma Knauss

Time to come out of hibernation. There really is nothing like sun on your skin and the gentle play of the spring breeze. It’s a kind of pure delight that reminds me of being a kid. I find I do some of my best thinking and writing while I am running through the streets and parks of Riverwest, though they’re not nearly as distraction-free as the cornfields I used to run past growing up.

Posted inNeighborhood News

Milwaukee’s Spoken Word Venues

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Bean Head Coffee 1835 N. Martin Luther King Dr., (414) 347-3511. Gumbo Magazine, teen open mic night, first Friday monthly, 7-10 pm Call 264-2502 for adult poetry readings, usually the third or fourth Sunday, monthly. Bremen Cafe Corner of Clarke and Bremen. Poetry Circle. Tuesday nites from 6:30-9 pm. No Cover. Onopa 735 E Center […]

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Nueva Yores

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by Tom Tolan – Part 4 of 6. (en Espanol)

“Nueva Yores.” They meant New York, the main destination for people on the Island, but the term became the popular shorthand for all destinations on the mainland. In time, everyone in Puerto Rico had at least one family member in “Nueva Yores.” Milwaukee’s first major Puerto Rican neighborhood was established in the late 1940s. It was located just northeast of downtown, in an area of older homes and apartment buildings bounded roughly by Milwaukee, Van Buren, State, and Lyon Streets.