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Whitney Gould
Posted inNeighborhood News
Kilbourn-Kadish Park Committee
The Kilbourn-Kadish Park Planning Committee started their monthly meeting on Oct. 13. by reviewing the article Whitney Gould had written about the park in the September 30 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The vital ingredients,” she wrote, “are neighborhood involvement and a strong non-profit that will be around for a long time.” Great encouragement for the dedicated […]
Posted inEditorials
If You Pave It, They Will Come
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
If you haven’t heard much about the proposed freeway expansion for Milwaukee County and surrounding environs, I’m not surprised. Local media has done an abysmal job of covering this issue.
Posted inCommentary & Opinion
The Journal Sentinel’s Coverage of Riverwest and Gentrification
[threecol_two]Many Riverwest residents may have agreed with Vince Bushell’s comments in the Currents when he responded to Commerce St. developer John Vetter’s soft-pedaling of gentrification. Vetter’s remark, “what’s not to like about [rising property values]” concluded a Journal Sentinel article by Whitney Gould back in February. Vetter’s comment wasn’t as surprising and dismaying as the […]
Posted inNews
New Urbanism on Downer: Ready Or Not, Here It Comes
by Adam J. Lovinus The new-urbanism aesthetic envisioned two decades ago by former Mayor John O. Norquist a city of densely populated, self-supporting neighborhoods, diversely zoned with lots of green space and walking-distance amenities has come to life in Milwaukee. It shows in the new high-rise luxury condos on the Lower East Side […]
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