As cases of domestic violence continue to torment our communities, we have compiled a list of places where you—or someone you love—can get help.
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Posted inCommunity, NNS Spotlight, Public Safety
NNS Spotlight: Center teaches students the power of peace
The Peace Learning Center of Milwaukee works with students and others to help teach tools to increase safety.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Milwaukee has the rare chance to address the climate crisis. Let’s not blow it.
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.
Posted inCommunity, Health and Wellness
Here’s how to keep your power on as April 15 deadline nears
The annual winter moratorium that prevents utility providers from disconnecting residential services for nonpayment ends on April 15. Here’s how to keep your power on.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development, NNS Spotlight
NNS Spotlight: New Port Director Jackie Q. Carter serves as ‘a picture of the possibility’
Washington Park native Jackie Q. Carter is the first woman and first Black person to serve as the director of Port Milwaukee.
Posted inCommunity, Criminal justice, Public Safety
Got something to say about crime and justice in Milwaukee? Here’s your chance.
A new project to create a bird’s-eye view of Milwaukee’s criminal legal system has recently begun. Those working on it seek input from the community.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: An open letter to the police chief: Surveillance and profiling are the not the building blocks for police reform
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.
Posted inCarousel, Community, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Hope is the key to unlocking Milwaukee’s vast potential and moving our city forward
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.
Posted inCommunity, Public Safety
Advocates worry proposal to change Wisconsin’s cash bail system will penalize the poor
Will a proposal to change the cash bail system penalize the poor? Some advocates say so, but others argue doing nothing about the current system would be a mistake.
Posted inCommunity
On the chopping block: How quality-of-life issues dominate mayor’s 2023 budget proposal
Police, fire and library services are on the chopping block, among many other things. The $1.7 billion proposal offers cuts to almost every function of city government.