Opinion: Community Voices

Mark Rice, who received the 2016 Distinguished Leadership Award from MICAH (Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope) for his work to end mass incarceration in Wisconsin, argues that justice system reforms would reduce the scourge of imprisonment devastating Milwaukee neighborhoods.

Raina J. Johnson is a Milwaukee writer and daily transit rider. She offers ideas on how to attract and retain millennials on the move and to cure what she calls the “in constant motion, but going nowhere” syndrome of Milwaukee’s transportation infrastructure.

Margaret Rozga, poet, civil rights activist and professor emerita of English at UW-Waukesha, invites Milwaukeeans to participate in planning the 50th anniversary of the open housing marches led by Father James Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council in the 1960s.

Byron Johnson, a 26-year-old Milwaukee native reflects on why he is still looking for a job three years after graduating college. Johnson is a minister and lead facilitator for the Frank Zeidler Center For Public Discussion.

Margaret Rozga, poet, civil rights activist and professor emerita of English at UW-Waukesha, decries politicians who divert attention from the real issues.

Rick Deines, a conversation facilitator with The Zeidler Center for Public Discussion and a board member of Serenity Inns, writes that it’s time for Milwaukee to address the growing problem of drug abuse.

Margaret Rozga, poet, civil rights activist and professor emerita of English at UW-Waukesha, writes that recent political activism by young Latinos echoes that of an earlier time.

Laurence J. Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, calls for independent oversight of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ use of solitary confinement, especially for children.

Margaret Rozga, poet, civil rights activist and professor emerita of English at UW-Waukesha, writes that sacred Indian mounds in Wisconsin, including one in Milwaukee, would be destroyed if proposed state legislation moves forward.