McKenna and Celia Olson always knew they wanted to have a family after getting married. Through Wellpoint Care Network, the couple adopted four children, bringing their bittersweet journey as foster parents to 10 kids to an end and starting their next life chapter.
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Posted inEducation, NNS Spotlight
NNS Connects: We helped Audubon students develop video projects. Here’s what we learned.
NNS community ambassadors and reporters encouraged students at Audubon Technology and Communication Center to use their own perspectives and critical thinking skills to develop video projects.
Posted inPublic Safety & Criminal Justice
Wisconsin prisons hit record population as crowding strains staffing and programs
Wisconsin’s prison population broke records last week with 23,854 behind bars. It’s a new milestone for a system that has been thousands of people over capacity for decades.
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 inArts and Recreation
5 things to know and do the week of Aug. 31
Walk to raise awareness about overdoses; do some yoga; play games with the community; and more.
Posted inEconomic Development
Microsoft, ratepayer advocates challenge ATC plan for data center transmission costs
The world’s fourth-most-valuable company and Wisconsin ratepayer advocates say a plan to assign infrastructure costs to data centers falls short of protecting Wisconsinites.
Posted inEducation, Resources
You’re not too late. Here’s where you can get free school supplies and backpacks this weekend in Milwaukee
A number of organizations in Milwaukee are hosting backpack giveaway events this Saturday and Sunday.
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 inArts and Recreation
5 things to know and do the weekend of Aug. 28
Watch a free movie in the park; connect with mental health and wellness resources; grab free school supplies; and more.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
What to know about the US Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s mail ballot restrictions
A majority of justices said a lower court’s stay was premature, but legal and practical obstacles could still make it hard to put in place for November.