The Social Development Commission Board of Commissioners voted to hold off on a decision about whether to file for bankruptcy during an emergency meeting Monday night.
Edgar Mendez
Raised in a South Side neighborhood where he still lives, Edgar Mendez is the managing editor of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. Mendez is a proud graduate of UW-Milwaukee, where he double majored in journalism and sociology, and of Marquette University, where he earned a master’s degree in communication. He won a 2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and 2014, 2017, and 2018 Milwaukee Press Club Awards for his reporting on taverns, marijuana law enforcement, and lead in water service lines. In 2008, he won a Society of Professional Journalists’ regional award for columns dealing with issues such as poverty, homelessness and racism. His writing has been published by the Associated Press, Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media. He has also co-authored three articles published in scholarly journals.
Posted inArts and Recreation
Me, my mom and our Green Bay Packers
NNS managing editor Edgar Mendez shares how he and his mother bonded through his parents’ divorce with the help of their favorite football team.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Health and Wellness
County Executive David Crowley approves $7.5 million in funding to fight opioid epidemic
Milwaukee County will invest $7.5 million over the next three years to fight the local opioid epidemic under legislation signed Wednesday at the Kosciuszko Community Center.
Posted inOpinion: Community Voices, Public Safety & Criminal Justice
Opinion: Milwaukee County’s replacement for the Public Safety Building prioritizes victim-witnesses
Jessica Strand says that victim-witnesses at the Milwaukee County Courthouse are victimized a second time by having to cross paths with their perpetrator. She supports a safer space for residents.
Posted inHealth and Wellness
International Overdose Awareness Day is Monday. Here’s what’s being done to prevent overdoses in Milwaukee.
Fatal overdoses have decreased in the county in recent years, though disparities in deaths still exist. Nearly half of overdose victims this year were African American.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion: Community Voices
Opinion: Climate change and Wisconsin’s carceral cancer
Nate Gilliam says that Wisconsin can’t address the growing and disproportionate harm being caused by climate change to marginalized communities if it continues to invest in a carceral state.
Posted inOpinion: Community Voices
Opinion: Reasons for Hope supports 10 years of neighborhood healing, belonging
After 10 years, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Reasons for Hope Fund continues to award microgrants to support neighborhood programming with community input, Darlene C. Russell writes.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Housing
NNS Managing Editor Edgar Mendez reflects on his family’s experience during the August 2025 flood
A year after the historic August flood, Edgar Mendez relives a day that changed his life, and his perspective on future weather events.
Posted inArts and Recreation
5 things to know and do the week of Aug. 24
Learn computer basics; connect with Harambee neighbors; play pickleball; and more.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
How Wisconsin’s ‘sore loser’ law protects the two-party system
In Wisconsin and across most of the country, laws prevent candidates who lose in a primary from running in the general election. That gives the major parties a lot of control over who appears on the ballot.