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A Crock of Crocker

The Journal Sentinel’s Crocker Stephenson was busy around 9-11, turning out a bunch of his short “snapshot” columns on people in New York City rather than his usual beat here in Milwaukee. There’s one on a 58 year-old Trinidadian violin player making a living by playing national anthems in Battery Park. There’s one on a […]

Posted inFurther Down Stream

October 2002

This month’s news briefs: the free life, block grant funding cuts, recent violence, Capitol Drive changes, new Currents intern, DPI wins grant, new Bremen St. block club, Adult Enrichment cooking classes at Riverside, and Sustainable Living.

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Riverwest Teens

by Sonya Jongsma Knauss The place you grow up in influences forever how you see the world. Sitting in smoky Fuel Café one Thursday night, Kate Heimbach, 21, talks about what it’s like to grow up and live in Riverwest. Now she lives in Glendale, where she attended Nicolet High School, and she sees a […]

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Where the Gubernatorial Candidates Stand

by Belle Bergner and Timothy Schaefer We’ve taken four specific issues, presented some history on each, and the positions of Republican, Democratic and Green candidates for Governor. You make the choice for whom to vote – but read carefully and consider the legacy that the next Governor of Wisconsin is capable of leaving for the […]