Mayor Tom Barrett calls bill passed by the Senate that requires the Fire and Police Commission add members selected by the police and fire unions “a vicious attack on local government.”
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Senior Staff Reporter
Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BJ, BS; Marquette University, MA
Edgar Mendez is a senior staff reporter for the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. 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.
Honors & Awards:
2008 Society of Professional Journalists’ Regional Award
2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award
2014, 2017, and 2018 Milwaukee Press Club Awards
Leaders, residents work to transform South 13th Street
Organizers hope to invigorate the business corridor along South 13th Street, increase safety and better connect residents and amenities in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Community groups will launch multiple campaigns to reduce reckless driving in Milwaukee
Groups plan to use billboards, bus ads, performance art, educational booths, poster contests and other strategies to help stop reckless driving. The campaigns are being funded by grants from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works.
MPD pilot program takes new approach to tackle prostitution
Officers in Milwaukee Police Department’s District 2 are trying something new to address the street-based sex trade on the South Side: Instead of arresting prostitutes, they are offering help.
Amid surge in drug overdose deaths, City-County Heroin, Opioid and Cocaine Task Force fails to meet
Despite a record-breaking year in drug overdose deaths in Milwaukee County
in 2020, the City-County Heroin, Opioid and Cocaine Task Force managed to meet only
once last year and hasn’t met at all in 2021.
Here’s what you need to know to vote in the April 6 spring election
Residents will decide who will be the state’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction, choose members for the Milwaukee Public Schools board of directors and vote in several judicial races on April 6.
UPDATE: Milwaukee County supervisors OK reducing fine for marijuana possession to $1
The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors on Thursday adopted a resolution to reduce the fine for marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession of 25 grams or less to $1.
Community groups, Milwaukee leaders once again at odds over plans to expand I-94 East-West Corridor
Their concerns include whether an expansion of the freeway is necessary with traffic down since the pandemic began, the environmental impact of the project and whether it is equitable to communities of color in Milwaukee.
We Are Here MKE campaign seeks to raise awareness of domestic and sexual violence programs for communities of color, LGBTQ residents
A new campaign is amplifying the work of seven local programs that offer culturally specific services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Milwaukee County sees progress in reducing the number of inmates in youth prisons
Milwaukee County officials continue to make strides to drastically reduce the number of residents incarcerated in youth prisons.
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