I often wish to be excused from the human race. I hear the news, but cannot identify with those events. In my world, people would live in peace and harmony. Children would be well fed, educated, and polite. Life would be simple, balanced, and graceful – like poetry. When aliens arrive here, I will say […]
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Circle A
Eudemon climbed the couple of stairs at the entrance and opened the door. It sits right where Weil Street hits Chambers, next to the abandoned railroad. Circle A is an old small neighborhood bar with a little parking lot and a bike rack. Just as Eudemon expected, it was a small place with a few […]
Posted inNeighbor Spotlight
Emil Kuester
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
Emil Kuester has watched Center Street change from a quiet neighborhood with stores on every corner to a street peppered with empty storefronts. Now, from his front porch, he’s watching it come back to life.
Posted inNeighborhood News
Residents Show Up In Force to Oppose the Transfer of Community Block Grant Funds to City Coffers
A public hearing took place Thursday, July 26, at Milwaukee Education Center (MEC), housed in buildings from the old Schlitz brewery at 1615 N. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Three hundred people showed up and 51 testified in a tightly controlled forum on spending proposals for federal grant monies targeted to low and moderate income residents.
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
Urban Patrons Reclaiming Our Culture
A visit to the new skateboard/hip-hop clothing store UPROCK on a hot summer’s night found two of the three store owners, Matt Nowak and Jason Francis, minding the store and acting the part of big brothers to several younger kids in for a game of a chess, a free video game, and to hear what the DJ was spinning.
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