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In Wisconsin, we expect and deserve to have clean rivers and lakes, excellent public schools, and safe neighborhoods.
Over the past 12 years, our Legislature has strayed from those commitments.
Treating people with dignity and respect can create healing moments.
We want Milwaukee to be a region where every young person has what they need to be healthy, safe and thrive.
School choice programs have difficult choices to make because they get significantly less in per-student funding. Without a quality education, we are failing to set children up for success.
Getting rid of the stigma alone won’t end the HIV epidemic. And it won’t address the myriad other issues women face. But so long as the stigma persists, so will HIV.
Organizations that may appear to support reducing lead exposure and eliminating associated social ills are sometimes only paying lip service to this idea to garner community support while accepting funding from powerful institutions.
Milwaukee has a once-in-a-generation window to think big and work with residents to increase the creativity, opportunity and joy in our central city neighborhoods.
Although we may not always notice, the justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court make decisions that affect our daily lives.
If the aim is to improve the “relationship” between the police and the residents of Milwaukee, I would encourage the police department to look inwardly and seek radical change in its investments in racist systems of surveillance and regulation.
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.
