minutes taken by Lorraine Jacobs Announcements: George Martin mentioned a potential source of funding for mediation services in the Riverwest neighborhood. Presentations: James Pekrul, Foster Youth Independence Center of Milwaukee, Inc., has submitted an application to the Zoning and Neighborhood Development Committee requesting approval for operation of a social service agency. This agency would be […]
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A Farewell
Dear Readers,
This is my last month as editor of the Riverwest Currents, so this is a goodbye of sorts. I’m not leaving the city or the neighborhood, but I am moving on to new editorial challenges and opportunities.
It is not without sadness that I leave the Currents, even though working on it has been a wild ride at times. Helping plan this publication in December of 2001 with Vince Bushell, we were full of ideas about what we wanted to accomplish and who we might tap to write articles….
Posted inNeighborhood News
Presto! County Finds Bond Papers
Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive, is under some intense scrutiny brought on by Milwaukee’s only daily newspaper, and to take the line from the Stooges, “There’s something rotten in Denmark.” Walker was at a national conference trying to manage the crisis — and it blew up in his face…
Posted inNeighborhood News
In City Hall
Mayor Tom Barrett has directed the Election Commission to create an electronic reporting tool online for city officials and candidates who file campaign finance reports. Online access to campaign finance reports would give constituents an easy way to access records from home. . .
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Spin City
The final issue of Art Muscle magazine was published in the summer of 1997. As publisher/editor, I made the decision to devote our farewell to the “art of criticism.” Four well-known writers were given space to correct the common misunderstanding of the word “criticism,” i.e. that it does not mean to hammer an artist relentlessly…
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