Despite recent community efforts to preserve the natural viewshed and wilderness along the banks of the Milwaukee River, a Milwaukee-based developer recently clear-cut about five acres of river shoreline in the northern suburb of Glendale.
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I Was A Teenage Mom
I was a teenage mom.
It was a different world in 1970. Abortion was not an option – at least not for a frightened 17-year-old in a small Wisconsin farming community.
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$355K Comes In Late; Holton Plan Approved
On September 25, the Milwaukee Common Council approved the rezoning of the site at the northwest corner of Holton and Brown for the development of a 53-unit, five storey building. The proposal had been stuck in committee for over a year. Why was it so long in coming? And why, when the development itself received little opposition, was the final, approving vote still a narrow victory of 8 to 6?
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St. Francis Institute Milwaukee
“…there is a river whose streams make the city glad…” -Psalm 46
Recently I enjoyed the privilege of interviewing Capuchin Friar Jerry Schroeder, Pastor of St. Ben’s on 9th and State and Interim Director of the new St. Francis Institute Milwaukee in the Capuchin Center on 4th and Brown. We met at the Center, and Jerry gave me a grand tour, sharing Franciscan and Capuchin history, stories of St. Francis, and the good news about the new Institute.
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Claire Moore
If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, or perhaps I should say experiencing, Claire Moore, maybe you caught the Art Cart Race at last month’s Center Street Daze. Claire was one of those pink-shrouded lovelies cavorting on and around the “Pink House” cart, doing their best to thwart their opponents’ progress at the turn, with high-spirited leg lifts and other siren-like movements.
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