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‘There are no throwaway people’: Sister MacCanon Brown and her mission to serve homeless residents

February 25, 2021 by PrincessSafiya Byers 6 Comments

For Sister MacCanon Brown, advocating for homeless residents was not something she chose — it chose her. And she’s been doing it for more than three decades.

Filed Under: Carousel, Community, Home, Neighborhoods, News

‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate

February 13, 2021 by Vanessa Swales, Wisconsin Watch Leave a Comment

Prisoners lack space and some say rules to curb COVID-19 are unevenly enforced.

Filed Under: Community, Neighborhoods Tagged With: coronavirus, covid resources, covid-19, incarceration, prisons

NNS Spotlight: New name, same mission: How one organization is lifting up Milwaukee residents

February 3, 2021 by Ana Martinez-Ortiz Leave a Comment

VIA, the nonprofit organization formerly known as Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, serves residents of Silver City, Burnham Park and Layton Park and focuses on affordable housing, economic development and grassroots leadership.

Filed Under: Carousel, Community, Home, Layton Boulevard West, Neighborhoods, News, NNS Spotlight, South

NNS on ‘Lake Effect’: 5 things to do and know this January in Milwaukee

January 8, 2021 by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Leave a Comment

NNS deputy editor Adam Carr joins Joy Powers of WUWM for our monthly spot with “Lake Effect,” where he discusses events connected to Milwaukee’s North and South Side neighborhoods.

Filed Under: Community, Lake Effect Radio, Multimedia, Neighborhoods, NNS on the Radio Tagged With: 5 things, Adam Carr, Brown Berets, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Emilio De Torre, Georgia Pabst, January, Joy Powers, King Day, Lake Effect, Latino Wisconsin, Malkia Stampley-Johnson, Marcus Center, Milwaukee Turners, Vel R. Philips Juvenile Justice Center Scholl, Vel’s Voice, WUWM, yoga

Wisconsin’s nonvoters could be a powerful bloc — but barriers, disillusionment stand in the way

December 30, 2020 by Nora Eckert, Wisconsin Watch Leave a Comment

Working digitally and on the streets of Milwaukee, activists tried to convince nonvoters to go to the polls, but distrust and disgust kept some away.

Filed Under: Community, Neighborhoods Tagged With: election 2020, elections, voter registration, voter suppression, voting

‘I just kind of panicked’: Patients confused as hospitals file liens to recoup costs of treating injured uninsured

December 24, 2020 by Bram Sable-Smith (Wisconsin Watch/WPR) 2 Comments

Hospitals file liens against uninsured patients to get a cut of compensation in personal injury lawsuits.

Filed Under: Community, Health and Wellness, Neighborhoods

NNS wants to take your family’s holiday portrait, for free!

December 12, 2020 by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Leave a Comment

It has been a long year and NNS wants to end it on a sweet note by celebrating our community — that means you! Our photographers will be taking free family portraits just in time for the holidays.

Filed Under: Community, Neighborhoods

Aggressive policing escalates violence at protests, research shows. A former Madison police chief touts a better way.

December 12, 2020 by Clara Neupert, Wisconsin Watch 1 Comment

David Couper, Madison’s police chief from 1972 to 1993, says law enforcement should ditch the riot gear and tear gas to keep the peace.

Filed Under: Community, Neighborhoods, Public Safety Tagged With: police, police tensions, protests

Thousands await jobless aid as Wisconsin leaders blame each other for failure

November 20, 2020 by Marty Hobe (TMJ4 News) and Bram Sable-Smith (Wisconsin Watch/WPR) Leave a Comment

Wisconsin’s unemployment system buckled during the pandemic. State leaders are moving slowly to address a crisis years in the making.

Filed Under: Community, Neighborhoods Tagged With: employment, government, unemployment

NNS Spotlight: ‘We wouldn’t take a recess’: How the Southside Organizing Center presses on despite the pandemic

November 17, 2020 by Ana Martinez-Ortiz Leave a Comment

The SOC has been a staple in the community for over 30 years. Once the pandemic hit, the group found a way to adapt to the circumstances and continue providing resources.

Filed Under: Carousel, Community, Home, Neighborhoods, News, NNS Spotlight

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