In many ways, nonprofits – and the people they serve – are the most vulnerable to the current gutting of the federal government and the assault on the nation’s social programs.
Frank Schneiger
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OPINION: Hope is the key to unlocking Milwaukee’s vast potential and moving our city forward
If the starting point for addressing any problem or challenge is naming it, here is what strikes me as some very important ones that are now so “normal” in Milwaukee that most people don’t even see them anymore.
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OPINION: Today’s children deserve the playgrounds I had growing up in Milwaukee decades ago
Writer Frank Schneiger celebrates his era of playgrounds and recreational activities in Milwaukee and envisions those spaces being peaceful, healthy havens again for today’s youth.
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OPINION: Here’s how Milwaukee can save itself
Don’t start with problems. Start with trust building — a difficult but critical process — and a broadly shared vision of a better future, of peaceful and healthy communities.
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OPINION: Milwaukee post-pandemic: ‘There is no going back to the old “normal,” and nobody should want to’
Writer Frank Schneiger believes Milwaukee cannot return to the status quo of life before the pandemic and offers eight assumptions for a better, healthier, more peaceful community.
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OPINION: As a white kid growing up in Milwaukee, Henry Aaron represented more than just baseball
For a group of white kids in Milwaukee, growing up just when he arrived in 1954, Henry Aaron’s impact went well beyond baseball.
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OPINION: The lies white people tell ourselves and how they haunt Milwaukee today
I am a product of the “colored are treated good here” era in Milwaukee’s history. Eight decades later, the legacy of that universally held white belief still haunts our city.