by Belle Bergner Q: My maple tree looks like it is dying because some of the branches are dead at the ends. Is this something that will be gone next year and my tree will recover, or will it cause my tree to die? – Robin Leenhouts, Riverwest Resident A: What you probably have is […]
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Business Briefs
photos El len C. Warren Top Star 1000 E. Center St. 414-374-7571 414-460-5341 Hours (Vary): Mo Sa: 12 pm 7 pm Su: Closed Proprietor: Terry M. Warren The sign on the door says it all: Adults Only. Specializing in lingerie and exotic clothing, it wouldnt be the strangest thing in the world to […]
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Locally grown: Feeding our hunger for a and knowledge about a local food
by Belle Bergner Its hard to pick up a newspaper anywhere in the U.S. these days and find an article about how healthy and well fed people are. Milwaukee is no exception. How can that be? In the third wealthiest country in the world, how is it possible that we could have undernourished children? Or […]
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Larraine McNamara-McGraw: A Passion for Justice
by Michael Timm, photo by Kurt Johnson To Riverwest resident and civil rights lawyer Larraine McNamara- McGraw, a good community prosecutor is a cross between a priest and an undertaker: You dont want em if you dont need em, but you want to know you can trust them, she said. The physically slight but verbally […]
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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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