by Laura Richard For the past eight years, a small group of dedicated volunteers representing a diverse array of folk from the community (business people, land owners, non profit leaders, government officials, teachers and neighbors) have been working together toward the common goal of forever preserving and protecting the 5.5 mile natural corridor that borders […]
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Literary Activist E. Ethelbert Miller Visits Milwaukee April 12-13
by Mary Vuk I never entertained the idea of just becoming a writer and writing a few poems and publishing a few books. To be a poet meant being a cultural worker or cultural ambassador. One embraced politics while advocating the importance of love and brotherhood. It was what took one into school classrooms, community […]
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Letter from Zagora
(Ed. Note: This file was emailed with a date of April 1, 2050. At first it seemed to be an elaborate April Fools joke, complete with somehow messing with my gmail dateline, but it was so interesting I thought we would share it ) April 1, 2050 Greetings from the future. Some of my young friends […]
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Another Year, Another Story, Reservoir Becomes A Park
by Adam J. Lovinus Earth movers sit in the bottom of the old reservoir in early January of this year. By now all the superstructure of the old reservoir at North Avenue between Bremen Street and Booth Street should be down. Top right is the cover of the first Riverwest Currents in February of 2002, […]
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Gimme Shelter! Housing Trust Fund
by Adam J. Lovinus Two thousand homeless on a given night in Milwaukee. Twenty percent spend more than half their income on rent. Thousands are overcrowded, with two and three families in a single house. Behind the numbers are the people, many of them our friends and neighbors. Rents in Riverwest have become prohibitive for […]
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