Take a look at 2021 through the lens of opinions and personal essays from your neighbors.
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service invites community members to submit opinion pieces of 500-800 words on topics of interest to central city Milwaukee. To send a submission for consideration, please email info@milwaukeenns.org. The views expressed are solely those of the authors.
OPINION: Our neighborhoods are drowning in liquor stores — and it connects to rates of violence
What message does the high volume of liquor stores give to our communities, especially those highly impacted by violence? What message does this give to our children, who see advertisements on various alcoholic brands in these same neighborhoods?
OPINION: Wisconsin’s report cards for schools are bending the truth
Milwaukee parents deserve to know the score when it comes to school quality and student achievement, but the scoreboard is broken exactly when we need it most.
OPINION: Why I share my love of nature with other Black Milwaukeeans
I recognize the very real need to reconnect African Americans to the healing power of nature.
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.
OPINION: Three more reasons why we’re grateful in 2021
From the personal to the pillars in our community, Milwaukeeans tell us why they are grateful.
OPINION: Milwaukee gives thanks: 3 reasons why we’re grateful in 2021
In this season of gratitude, we asked contributors to our “Community Voices” column to honor a local person, organization or institution for which they feel thankful.
OPINION: ARPA funding should go toward community, not police
The City of Milwaukee is set to receive its second installment of American Rescue Plan Act Funding. Ryeshia Farmer of the African American Roundtable explains why the money shouldn’t go toward the police budget and how residents can ensure it doesn’t happen.
OPINION: What I’ve learned organizing across the Colombian and Palestinian struggles in Milwaukee
Due to a shared pain and a shared struggle, we were able to use culture as a bridge between our communities in order to begin building a unified struggle.
OPINION: ‘Heartbreaking and avoidable’: Reckless driving in Milwaukee needs to end.
Every time I am in the community, people talk about the number of people who run stoplights, speed or pass recklessly on the streets. We must act.
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