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This Menomonee Falls woman is honored as a Shining Star for making history come alive in the community
When lifelong resident Jill Schmidt sees all the new developments in the village that attract new people, she cannot help but ask: Who is going to preserve and share the history of Menomonee Falls?
Schmidt has answered her own question: She is.
Her family has lived in Menomonee Falls since the 1840s, and her father, John Badke Sr., is credited with exceptional storytelling.
Now, she is using historical storytelling to inspire others.
At any given community event, she will likely be seen giving a historical presentation. She has narrated and put together historical stories on the Menomonee Falls cable channel, spoken to school groups, coordinated programs at the library and is an active volunteer in many community groups.
Her commitment to keeping history alive in the village earned her the Shining Star award, presented annually through the Menomonee Falls Community Foundation. According to a news release, the Shining Star award is given to someone who volunteers or is a member of a nonprofit organization "who has dedicated his or her time and talent" to that organization.
"I was flabbergasted with the award. I had no clue, and this just blew me away," said Schmidt. "It is great to be recognized for something I love."
"I am very humbled," she said.
More:Menomonee Falls School District residents vote down proposal to change school board election process at annual meeting
Fire station history
When Schmidt's father died in 2011 at 92, he was the oldest living firefighter in Menomonee Falls. He had been a volunteer firefighter from young adulthood until his death.
Schmidt loves sharing stories about what it was like to be a firefighter in years gone by. She serves as a historical consultant to the Hot House Tavern in Menomonee Falls, a restaurant that occupies a former fire station site.
She remembers watching her father scrambling to put on his gear and race out on calls.
"I would wonder if he would come back," she said.
Sometimes, the fire department would allow residents to tour damage caused by fires.
It's important, she said, to share these stories with people.
When the Hot House Tavern opened at Main Street and Menomonee Avenue in 2019, Schmidt would share the story of how the building served as the village hall, a library, and a corrections facility, and ultimately as a fire station, from 1966 until 2015.
She donated her father's fire helmet and other parts of his uniform as decor to Hot House Tavern when it opened.
"Jill was very helpful, not only with the memorabilia she donated, but the history of the building," said Hot House Tavern owner Chris Leffler. "She knew a lot about how it was used and donated good eclectic items that were her dad's."
He said he found the siren tower an interesting part of history, and it was the history of the building that attracted him to make the former station into a restaurant.
Effect on the community
Schmidt has been a part of many organizations in the community, doing presentations and coordinating events to share the history of Menomonee Falls.
She has been a volunteer and a speaker at Old Falls Village. She has been an organizer of the holiday silver tea, an annual event that takes place at the historic Miller-Davidson House.
She also is an active volunteer at the Menomonee Falls Library's Maude Shunk Local History Room. She also has done presentations for the library, including The Streets of Old Menomonee Falls: Up the Big Hill. That presentation includes information about historic Menomonee Falls businesses and people such as George Neu and his cider business, the first firehouse and firefighters, Fritz Thomas and his hardware store and more.
On Falls Cable Access, the Menomonee Falls cable channel, she has created historical content, such as profiles of local people.
"Jill encourages everyone to learn about their roots and lends a hand to anyone wishing to explore their family as it relates to the Falls. She is a wealth of information, passionate about her community and truly a shining star," said Carol McGibany, wrote in nominating Schmidt for the award.
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Menomonee Falls named Shining Star for her work as a local historian
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Wauwatosa is considering an incentive program to get people to turn in their guns
A new program under consideration by the city of Wauwatosa would allow people to exchange guns for some kind of voucher or gift card.
The program, proposed by Ald. Sean Lowe, would be set up in conjunction with the Wauwatosa Police Department. It would be similar to a gun buyback program implemented in Dane County this year under which 577 guns were turned in to the Sheriff's Office there in return for various gift cards and vouchers.
Lowe said the program is a good way for the Wauwatosa community to control the effect guns have, citing stolen guns and kids interacting with guns as things the program could help avoid.
"We see gun crime every day in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee and across the country. This seems like an effective way to minimize the opportunities that guns may end up in the wrong hands if someone has one they don't want," he said.
Details of the proposed program
Lowe said he designed the program to function similarly to buyback programs in Chicago, Cleveland and Dane County. This would mean that in exchange for any gun turned in to the city, an individual would be given a gas or grocery voucher worth at least $100 — though Lowe said that number could be higher.
“Especially right now we want to give people gas or groceries because that can be much more helpful and beneficial than a gun,” said Lowe.
Lowe made it clear that the program would not be funded by tax dollars. Rather, Lowe plans to fund the program via sponsors — similar to the Dane County program that raised $45,000 from sponsors.
Lowe is acquiring the sponsors necessary to fund the program, but he said he felt uncomfortable doing so without knowing for sure whether the program would be approved.
If the program were approved, no one would be forced to turn in their guns; the program would be completely voluntary.
“It will just be an option that people who may want help with groceries or gas will have … plus in the process we can work to keep guns off the streets,” said Lowe.
How did the common council react?
The majority of feedback for Lowe’s proposed program was positive, although council members held off on a vote until they know more.
Ald. Margaret Arney supported the proposal and sees it as working similar to something such as the Tosa Green Summit. That organization has done projects such as collecting unwanted medications, bikes and textiles for recycling. It has also offered a shreding service to the public, and encourages awareness of all things green and sustainable.
Ald. Melissa Dolan gave an impassioned response, noting that she has lost people close to her as a result of gun violence. She wants to ensure the program is modeled after other programs that have been successful.
But Ald. David Lewis showed some resistance to the proposal, citing a report claiming that gun buyback programs do not reduce gun crime.
Dolan criticized the report and argued that if people want to turn their guns she is in support of them doing so.
“I think of Sandy Hook, and if anything we can do here can have one small ripple to prevent that from happening again, then I can’t sit here and not support it,” said Dolan.
Multiple council members criticized the simplicity of the proposal but did not dismiss the possibility. They asked that the idea be more developed before it is voted on.
In the end, the council tabled the program until further updates are presented.
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"Dahmer. Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," the new series on the Milwaukee serial killer by "American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy, will debut on Netflix Sept. 21.
The streaming service announced the release date Friday — five days before the series starts streaming — the same day it unveiled the first full trailer for the 10-episode series.
In the unnerving trailer, Dahmer, played by Evan Peters ("WandaVision") brings a guy home to his apartment at the Oxford Apartments in Milwaukee's Avenues West neighborhood. "Ohhh, what is that smell?" The camera then cuts to a bloody power tool, and Dahmer locking the door.
"Monster" tells the familiar story of Dahmer, who admitted to killing 16 people, as well as necrophilia and cannibalism, over more than a decade before he was arrested in 1991 by Milwaukee police. But it tells the story from a fresh perspective — fresh, at least, for pop-culture iterations of the horror story, in that it centers on "the underserved victims and their communities impacted by the systemic racism and institutional failures of the police that allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight," according to Netflix publicity.
Niecy Nash plays Glenda Cleveland, a neighbor of Dahmer's who tried to intervene after teenage boy Konerak Sinthasomphone was returned to Dahmer by police after he'd been seen fleeing Dahmer's apartment. (The police took Dahmer's word that the two were lovers; Dahmer later confessed to killing Sinthasomphone.)
In the trailer released Friday, Cleveland (Nash) confronts Dahmer about what's going on in his apartment (where, he confessed later, he killed, dismembered, destroyed and sometimes consumed his victims).
"What do you do in there?" she asks him. "The smells. Power tools going all hours of the night. I hear screaming coming from your apartment."
"I'm just trying to say I'm sorry," he replies. "So, you gonna open your gift?"
He opens the tinfoil-covered plate, revealing a sandwich. When she asks him what's in the sandwich, he tells her, "It's just meat."
Later in the trailer, she confronts a police officer, presumably on the night Dahmer was arrested, saying, "I called y'all for months. And it's too late! Y'all came too late!"
The impressive cast also includes Ryan Jenkins as Dahmer's father, Lionel; Penelope Ann Miller as his mother, Joyce; Michael Learned as his grandmother, Catherine; and Molly Ringwald as Shari Dahmer, the murderer's stepmother. Many of the real-life figures from the story, including several of Dahmer's victims and members of the Milwaukee Police Department whose conduct in the case came into question, are listed as characters in the show's credits.
Netflix teased the trailer's release in a post on Instagram Thursday.
Murphy's "Monster" will be Netflix's first Dahmer-focused project this year. The second, "Confessions of a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes," is a three-part documentary by director Joe Berlinger; it will be on the streaming service Oct. 7.
RELATED:Netflix will release documentary series 'Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes' in October
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Milwaukee officials again are seeking redevelopment proposals for the historic former Wildenberg Hotel on the city's south side
Milwaukee officials again are seeking redevelopment proposals for the historic former Wildenberg Hotel on the city's south side.
The two-story, 4,400-square-foot building, constructed around 1850, and its 81,400-square-foot lot are listed for sale at $200,000 by the Department of City Development.
That new sale listing for the property, 3774 S. 27th St., comes after an attempt by two development firms to create affordable housing there fell through.
Cardinal Capital Management Inc. and Scott Crawford Inc. in January 2020 disclosed plans to create 67 apartments at the site, with 56 units to be set aside at below-market rents for people with low and moderate incomes.
Their plans called for 59 units in a four-story apartment building, as well as eight townhouse units.
They would have been built on land left vacant after a mobile home court was demolished.
The former hotel, known for its Italianate architectural style, was to be renovated into community space for the apartment residents or some other commercial use.
That proposal didn't obtain financing. So, city officials are again listing the property.
The city's conditions include a requirement that the Wildenberg building be restored in accordance with preservation guidelines.
The Cream City brick Wildenberg building was originally constructed as a home for Jacob Nunnemacher, who immigrated to Milwaukee from Switzerland in 1843 — three years before the city was incorporated.
Nunnemacher, a butcher, operated a public market meat stall and used the profits to buy real estate. That included a farm on what was then known as Kilbourn Road, in the Town of Lake, where he raised beef cattle and opened a distillery.
The Italianate mansion, Nunnemacher's home, was built in 1854. The building was sold after Nunnemacher's death in 1876 and it later became the Evergreen Hotel, which included a campground.
It was sold in 1947 to Ed Wildenberg, who replaced the campsites with mobile homes. The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern that served as a community center for Wildenberg's tenants.
The city acquired the Wildenberg property through property tax foreclosure in 2013.
The mobile home court closed in 2014 and the dilapidated mobile homes were demolished in 2015.
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Wisconsin lawsuit asks for federal voter registration form to be declared illegal
MADISON - A conservative law firm is challenging the use of a federal voter registration form in Wisconsin, saying it doesn’t meet the requirements laid out by state law.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a judge to declare the National Mail Voter Registration Application illegal in the state and order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to withdraw its approval for the form because it doesn’t ask for all information required by state law.
The federal form and same-day registration are far from the only ways people in Wisconsin can register to vote. Residents can also register online, at their municipal clerk’s office or by mail with a state form, which is available in English, Spanish and Hmong on the elections commission’s website.
“Wisconsin law is abundantly clear on the required content of voter registration forms in Wisconsin, yet WEC has somehow approved the use of a form that fails to meet those requirements,” said Anthony LoCoco, an attorney with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. “It is a shame that, once again, a voter has to go to court simply to ensure that WEC follows the Legislature’s lawful commands.”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission declined to comment because of the ongoing litigation. It’s unclear how many people use the form to register.
The registration form includes a blank second page where clerks can fill in additional required information including the type of identification and ID number a voter uses. In a letter sent to the elections commission in July raising the issue, LoCoco stated that his records requests to municipal clerks have shown that the blank page is not always used to include the required information.
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Wisconsin lawsuit challenges federal voter registration form
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You may have experienced trouble finding the Week 2 "Thursday Night Football" broadcast on your TV last night, unless you have Amazon Prime.
For the first time, a streaming service has exclusive broadcast rights to NFL games, and starting with last night's contest, that means only those with a subscription to Amazon Prime Video can watch; the games are not televised nationally elsewhere.
Most Packers fans won't care too deeply until they get around to the Nov. 17 clash against the Tennessee Titans slated for Thursday Night Football.
But it doesn't mean every Packers fan has to get an Amazon Prime subscription ... yet.
As part of the agreement, the games will air on local broadcast TV channels in the home market. In Milwaukee, WITI (Fox 6), and in Green Bay, WGBA (NBC) will carry the game using the Amazon feed with announcers Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit. But, if you don't get those channels (living anywhere outside those two markets), you will indeed need a subscription to the streaming service.
If you sign up for a 30-day free trial, you can even start with the Oct. 20 game between the Saints and Cardinals and see four straight weeks of NFC foes before the Titans-Packers game in Green Bay. After that, you'll need a subscription to either just Amazon Prime Video ($8.99 a month) or the larger Amazon Prime service that also includes delivery perks ($14.99 a month).
The component of the deal featuring local-channel simulcasts isn't guaranteed beyond this season.
The broadcasts include a number of alternate streams available on Prime, including a Spanish broadcast and access to alternate camera angles, plus real-time stats using the service's "X-Ray" feature.
Bars and restaurants (at least, more than 300,000 of them) will also carry the games through an agreement with DirecTV.
Perhaps a bit more urgently, the Week 5 game against the Giants in London will air on the NFL Network but will also simulcast in local markets on more widely available channels, including WGBA in Green Bay and WTMJ (NBC Channel 4) in Milwaukee.
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Packers' Thursday Night Football game in November on some local TVs
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Tosa Green Summit celebrates 12 years of taking action and teaching sustainable habits
The Tosa Green Summit started 12 years ago as a one-day event where community members could view exhibits to learn more sustainable habits.
Now, the event spans two weekends and has used both education and action in evolving into an award-winning fixture in Wauwatosa.
This year, the second day of the Tosa Green Summit is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot at Wauwatosa City Hall, 7725 W. North Ave., where household hazardous waste and electronics will be collected in partnership with Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and RD E-cycle. The event is limited to Milwaukee County residents.
The Tosa Green Summit expects to collect more than 30,000 pounds of hazardous waste and more than 8,000 pounds of electronics — all items that would otherwise have ended up in landfills.
The summit has always worked to provide education to the community on sustainable habits. However, as it evolved, organizers added a second component: to organize major sustainability-centered events for the city.
This year, the second component included events centered around recycling paper, bikes, textiles, medicine and nonperishable food. Each of these events were made possible due to help from major factions like the police department, the health department, Milwaukee Textile, Dream Bikes and the Wauwatosa Food Pantry.
“This event provides a great community service to divert waste from our landfills, and we've been very, very pleased with the response that the community has had toward these events,” said Jeff Roznowski, an organizer for Tosa Green Summit.
Participation in the events this year has resulted in impressive results. Roznowski said 9,000 pounds of paper, 200 pounds of medicine, 65 bikes, 3,200 pounds of textiles and 78 bags of nonperishables were collected in just the first weekend of the summit.
In 2021, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recognized the Tosa Green Summit with its Recycling Excellence Award. The award encourages and rewards communities and programs for outstanding efforts, innovation and performance in recycling and landfill diversion.
Mike Arney is a Wauwatosa resident and climate enthusiast who thinks the continued success of the event exemplifies how involved and committed the Wauwatosa community is to itself.
“The event has grown every year and has had a good turn out this far this year … I think that just shows that this community has an appetite for something like this, and so I’m glad we can provide it,” said Arney.
He said that, as a resident, he takes pride in Wauwatosa's response to the event.
“I think it's great, I feel supported in it, I feel like I'm among friends, and I think that an event like this can be a positive thing in any community,” Arney said.
Learn more about Tosa Green Summit at www.wauwatosa.net/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/5745/18. Note that there may be a charge to donate some items.
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Tosa Green Summit is taking action and teaching sustainable habits
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Panic! At The Disco postpones Milwaukee concert less than 3 hours before show because of COVID; Chicago show delayed, too
Don’t panic, Milwaukee and Chicago Panic! At The Disco fans, but we have some bad news.
Less than three hours before the 7 p.m. start of the band's concert Friday at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Panic! At The Disco has postponed that show, as well as a show Saturday at the United Center in Chicago, due to COVID-19.
"Milwaukee and Chicago, unfortunately COVID has made it impossible to play these shows and we have to postpone," Brendon Urie's band said in a statement issued at around 4:40 p.m. Friday. "Please hold on to your tickets while we work to reschedule. We’re beyond bummed we have to do this and hope to be back soon. Ticketholders for both shows will be emailed with more information and we’ll update you soon!"
Previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date. Typically refunds are available for firsthand tickets through the point of purchase once a new date is announced.
The band's "Viva Las Vengeance" tour is currently scheduled to resume Tuesday in Detroit, with North American dates booked through Oct. 25.
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WAUKESHA - Well, it looks like we're about to have a debate on debates in the race for U.S. Senate.
With the race a toss-up, Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Friday that he's willing to participate in up to three debates with his opponent, Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
And the Johnson campaign said he has accepted three debate invitations including Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) and WISN-TV (Channel 12).
The Barnes campaign quickly countered saying it had accepted an invitation for a debate to be hosted by WTMJ-TV on Oct.13.
So, that means there's at least one debate the two sides have agreed to.
And the Barnes campaign challenged Johnson to join a forum hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union and Main Street Alliance in Oshkosh.
"Listen, I'm willing to tell Wisconsinites what I believe, you know that," Johnson said after attending a panel discussion on school choice in Waukesha. "There's one person hiding who doesn't want Wisconsin to know what he truly believes. And that's Mandela Barnes. I'm happy to be transparent and honest."
Three main broadcast outlets or groups are trying to arrange debates. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association has scheduled its event to air Oct. 7.
WTMJ-TV and WISN-TV have also been negotiating with the two campaigns.
"Depending on what we can agree on, I'd do three," Johnson said. "I'd do three. I'll do two. I'll do one. I can't force the other guy out of hiding."
WTMJ-TV used two moderators to host debates ahead of the August primaries, while WISN-TV had a town hall-style event.
Barnes campaign manager Kory Kozloski said that Barnes "looks forward to holding" Johnson "accountable for his record of putting himself and his wealthy donors first on the debate stage in Milwaukee, and then in his own backyard in Oshkosh.”
During his two previous campaigns, Johnson debated Democrat Russ Feingold. Johnson recalled that he and Feingold debated three times during the 2010 campaign and twice during the 2016 campaign.
The latest Marquette University Law School Poll showed Johnson and Barnes in what amounts to a toss-up contest, with Johnson at 49% among likely voters and Barnes at 48%. The poll showed that Johnson erased a 7-point deficit in a month as Barnes was subjected to a barrage of negative advertising by Republicans.
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul removed top Republican lawmakers from his lawsuit to block enforcement of Wisconsin's 1849 abortion law and instead named the district attorneys of Dane, Milwaukee and Sheboygan as defendants.
The replacement of Sen. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, came to avoid delays after Republicans sought to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming they aren't the correct defendants.
Kaul sent a letter to the Republican legislators’ attorney on Sept. 12 saying if they didn't withdraw their dismissal request by Thursday, the DOJ would remove their names and replace them with the names of the district attorneys.
"We would rather have the Legislature as defendants, they are the ones that are fighting to keep this draconian 19th century ban in place, but we want this suit to move forward so we can get clarity for Wisconsinites," Kaul said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday. "And we've also been clear if the Legislature wants out of the case, that's their decision, but we're going to hold that moving forward."
Kupenga, LeMahieu and Vos could not immediately be reached for comment.
District attorneys John Chisholm, Milwaukee; Ismael Ozanne, Dane; and Joel Urmanski, Sheboygan, could not immediately be reached Friday afternoon.
MIlwaukee, Dane and Sheboygan were the only counties in the state where abortions were taking place before Roe was overturned.
The district attorneys have 45 days to respond to the amended summons filed by the Department of Justice Friday.
More:Ron Johnson wants Wisconsin voters to decide abortion laws by referendum. Here's why that's unlikely
More:Johnson says abortion should be left to states as Baldwin decries proposed federal abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Kaul filed the lawsuit arguing that a 1985 law allowing abortions up to the point of a fetus' viability supersedes Wisconsin's 1849 ban on nearly all abortions.
The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board and the chair of the board, OB-GYN Sheldon Wasserman, are also plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The Kaul lawsuit was filed in Dane County Circuit Court just days after the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs Wade.
Abortion ban is a key election issue
Wisconsin’s criminal abortion ban — which originated in 1849, before the Civil War and at a time when Wisconsin women did not have the right to vote — would ban nearly all abortions in the state, including in cases of rape and incest.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels gave a total of $175,000 from his personal family foundation in 2020 to Wisconsin Right to Life and Pro Life Wisconsin Education Task Force, and a New York based anti-abortion group.
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Wisconsin Republican lawmakers replaced in abortion lawsuit
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WIAA relocates state high school boys, girls hockey tournaments to Bob Suter's Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton
The WIAA state boys and girls hockey tournaments will have a new home for at least the next two years, after an agreement announced Friday by a WIAA press release.
Bob Suter's Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton was announced as the host for the 2023 and 2024 state tournaments, after a two-year deal was approved by the WIAA Board of Control on Friday. The agreement takes effect in March, in time for the scheduled 2023 boys and girls tournaments on March 2-4.
“We are excited about the opportunity to host the upcoming WIAA Boys and Girls State Hockey Championships at Bob Suter’s Capitol Ice Arena,” WIAA assistant director LeVar Ridgeway said in the press release. “With the move, we look forward to creating a great State championship atmosphere for our student-athletes, coaches and fans in a hockey centric facility.”
Opened in 1999, the venue underwent a multi-million dollar renovation in 2018. According to the press release, the current facility features: "two full sheets of ice with seating for 2,611 spectators, a state-of-the-art sound system, scoreboard and a high-definition video board." Additional features include a media broadcast booth, eight public locker rooms, six public bathrooms and one family restroom.
Bob Suter's Capitol Ice Arena is also the home of the USHL's Madison Capitols and Madison Capitols AAA hockey.
“We are thrilled to be hosting the WIAA State Tournaments for the next two years,” Bob Suter’s Capitol Ice Arena President Ryan Suter said in the press release. “We are thankful to the WIAA for entrusting us with this historic event and believe our venue will provide an incredible atmosphere for the players and fans. We look forward to working with the WIAA and the City of Middleton to host this event and crown State champions.”
Both the boys and girls state hockey tournaments had previously been held at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Alliant Energy Center, a facility opened in 1967.
The boys state tournament had been held there since its inception in 1971, excluding the 1974,1975 and 2021 seasons.
The girls state hockey tournament had been held in conjunction with the boys tournament since the sport became WIAA-sanctioned in 2002.
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'It'll be fun': Two Irishmen make history at Erin Hills in advancing to the U.S. Mid-Amateur final
TOWN OF ERIN – Matthew McClean and Hugh Foley traveled to the United States from the Republic of Ireland together on Sept. 4, friends who have been dueling one another in amateur golf events in Europe all summer with a chance to do it again at the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Erin Hills.
After a long week of competition delayed early by heavy rains, the friends finally reached the final on Friday with the 36-hole championship match beginning in the afternoon. McClean took a 2-up lead into Friday thanks to a run on the back nine where Foley conceded birdies on holes 12-14.
“I pretty much look at it as being all-square,” McClean said after the round. “We both played pretty well there so just trying to play pretty similar tomorrow.”
McClean said he hit one of the shots of his life into the green on the par-4, 12th hole — a 206-yard 7-iron to 6 feet, to start the birdie binge. But he did give one back on 18, where he went back and forth over the green before conceding.
"I was walking off 15 feeling like I was 10-down," he said with a smile. "So 3-down wasn't too bad. Birdied 16 and I had a good finish to get one back to two-(down). Momentum is huge in match play and it definitely felt like it could've been worse there for a little bit. It's nice to get in and get one back."
The match will conclude Saturday morning, with the duo teeing off at 7 a.m. If additional holes are needed, they will play No. 18 continuously until a winner is determined.
Irishmen and roomates feeling comfortable at Erin Hills in Wisconsin
After arriving in the U.S., Foley and McClean first played the Seth Raynor-designed Shoreacres Golf Club in Lake Bluff, Illinois, a couple times as prep for the Raynor layout at co-host site Blue Mound Golf and Country Club in stroke play.
They then headed north to Wisconsin, where they were taken in by Dan Benedum, a wealth adviser for Silverleaf Wealth Management. He not only offered up some rooms at his home in Colgate, but he also then picked up the bag for Foley to caddie for him.
“They invited us over for a barbecue and little did he know we were bringing all our luggage with us, and we moved in,” Foley said with a grin. “I had never met Dan until this week, and he's been great.”
The hospitality — and the Irish feel at Erin Hills — made the pair comfortable enough to advance through a weather delayed tournament to face one another.
It is the first time any male Irish player reached a United States Golf Association amateur final, and they are just the second pair of foreign players from the same country to face one another in a USGA amateur final since two Canadian women went head-to-head at the 2017 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur.
“I'd say we'll talk to each other a bit, but it won't be a social round of golf I don't think,” McClean said. “I'm sure we'll work it out, but it'll be fun either way.”
Hugh Foley and Matthew McClean have had a banner amateur season in Europe
Both men have had success on the amateur circuit in Europe this summer, with McClean recording seven top-10 finishes. He began the tournament as the 120th-ranked amateur in the world. Foley has won twice, joining Darren Clarke (1990) as the only player to win the North and South Ireland titles in the same year.
He bested McClean in winning the North of Ireland Men’s Amateur Open Championship.
“It was easier in Ireland, to be honest,” Foley said of keeping a competitive balance with his friend on the course. “When we play in Ireland it's easier. We probably wouldn't have been joking or speaking much.
“Now that we're in America, feels like it's brought us a bit closer together. I don't know. I think we'll just play it in good spirit and just stay really focused rather than — there won't be any gamesmanship, hopefully just two focused guys rather than two guys having a laugh and joking. Still serious matter at hand.”
Foley has claimed six other top-10 finishes in his events and entered the tournament No. 195 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
Winner of Mid-Amateur gets 2023 U.S. Open, Masters exemptions, other perks
This tournament is the first USGA championship for either player.
And there are far more than bragging rights on the line Saturday, too. Winning the Mid-Am comes with some significant perks for either Foley or McClean.
The champion will earn exemptions into the following events:
Foley said he can’t run away from what could be, but only embrace it and try not to let it seep too deeply in. McClean felt largely the same way, saying he couldn’t allow himself to think that far in advance.
And as for their evening at Benedum’s?
Foley smiled and wondered if they’ll talk about any of the holes and McClean said they probably would, but the friends have been having meals together every night for two weeks — so why stop now? For dinner, at least.
“We play a lot of golf together,” McClean said. “We're sort of foursomes partners for Ireland, so played a lot of golf together this year especially, and sort of the more time you spend together, then obviously the better friends you get. But we'll sort of put it on hold to a certain extent.”
U.S. Mid-Amateur golf semifinal recap
Foley bested Bryce Hanstad in his morning semifinal 3-up and was never in any real trouble of losing the match after taking a three-hole lead after the first five holes of the match. Foley sandwiched a par on the fifth hole with a couple of birdies to take the commanding advantage and Hanstad could never get closer than 2-down. Foley was steady, playing his next 11 holes at 1-over par.
“I just didn't feel crisp today,” Hanstad said. “I don't know if I ran out of energy or what, but not quite sharp today, which is a little disappointing. It's been an incredible week.”
Josh Persons beat two past champions on Thursday to advance to the semifinal and McClean survived a playoff in the round of 16, so the two weary competitors traded leads through the first seven holes of their match.
McClean took control as they made the turn, winning the eighth hole with a par and the ninth with a birdie to go 2-up. He doubled that margin after 12 holes, and while Persons did win the 15th, he could not extend the match beyond the 16th.
“I didn't put a lot of pressure on him, to be honest,” Persons said. “I didn't play great, and he definitely made some birdies there for a stretch around the turn. I had a chance to maybe put some pressure on him there, what is it, 13, the par-3? And I kind of missed a very makeable putt. That kind of took the wind out of my sails, but I fought hard.”
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At least four people hospitalized following a shooting, Milwaukee fire department says
At least four people were hospitalized following a shooting on the north side Friday night.
The Milwaukee Fire Department said they transported four people to the hospital from the 4100 block of North 13th Street, and are also investigating a possible gas leak in the area.
Milwaukee Police call logs show units reported to the area for a shooting around 8:15 p.m.
This is a developing situation, check back for updates.
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The Lilly Center’s partnership between local residents and environmental groups is unique — but it's becoming more necessary as climate change increases toxic algae blooms with the combination of rising water temperatures and more rain causing fertilizer run-off from fields.
Due to funding and staff restrictions, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management can test only a small number of Indiana’s lakes. The Lilly Center takes over in Kosciusko County, home to Lake Wawasee and the most lakes overall in the state — too many for IDEM to test.
In the last two years, the Lilly Center also started sharing its testing information in a newsletter so visitors and residents can recreate safely, which is helpful because the results of the testing vary greatly each year. Last year, toxin levels in many of the lakes were consistently above the level that is considered safe for dogs. This year the lakes haven't had many toxins at all.
Across the Midwest, state algae testing programs are often limited — such as the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s — which has the resources to cover only 18 lakes.
A 2021 Environmental Working Group report identified 39 news reports written about an algae outbreak in Wisconsin in the previous decade. But 29 of those locations were not tested by the state for microcystin, the nonprofit research and advocacy group found.
More:Wisconsin doesn't have full information on algae blooms in its 15,000 lakes, though algae can make humans and pets extremely ill
More:Blue-green algae blooms, once unheard of in Lake Superior, are a sign that ‘things are changing’ experts say
More:What's the state of the Great Lakes? Successful cleanups tempered by new threats from climate change
"If an individual had something going on at their local lake or if a city or community has an issue with their lake, we don't necessarily have the ability to accept a sample from them now,” said Lynn Milberg, director of the department’s Environmental Services Program.
“If you have a state level program that tests a lot of water bodies, then it's just the one website you go to check,” she said. “Or you know that this one lake is going to be tested because it's on the schedule for the state agency.”
In Missouri, about 200 volunteers work to help monitor the state's lakes. The Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program, which is run by the University of Missouri and supported by various state agencies, recently marked its 30th year.
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Groups monitor lakes for toxic blue-green algae with no state testing
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Al's Run returns to Milwaukee's streets with its usual blend of competitiveness and fun
The Briggs and Al's Run is a Milwaukee staple, so there was a lot of anticipation for Saturday's race after a two-year absence due to the pandemic.
It felt like a triumphant return on a sun-kissed morning, with almost 8,000 runners, walkers and wheelchair athletes streaming from Marquette University's campus to the Summerfest grounds to benefit Children's Wisconsin.
The race, began by former MU basketball coach Al McGuire in 1978, has always drawn a mixture of super-competitive elite runners and participants looking to have a fun time while supporting a good cause. As usual, the winners of the 8K event were a mixture of both.
Annamarie Strehlow has competed in several Al's Runs, but this one was special. Not only because the race was back on Milwaukee's streets, but the 32-year-old physical therapist at Froedert Hospital was using it as part of her training for the Ironman World Championship that begins Oct. 6 in Kona, Hawaii.
Strehlow was the fastest women's finisher in 30 minutes 22 seconds, so she is definitely in a good place.
“This is just a challenging part of my build into the world championships," she said. "It’s a perfect race. It’s great to get out and support the Milwaukee community. It’s a historic race. It’s one of the oldest races in Milwaukee.”
Strehlow, a 2009 Mequon Homestead graduate, played soccer at the University of St. Thomas and then got into trail running when she was studying physical therapy at St. Scholastica. That led to marathons, including competing in Boston in 2016, and then ironman races.
Her physical therapy work helps with the punishing preparation.
"In many ways," Strehlow said. "Training, post-race, pre-race. Making sure I’m not overdoing it or causing any overuse injuries. There’s a lot of benefits."
Zach Shoemaker-Allen isn't preparing for a world championship, he just loves running and getting the chance to hang out with some old friends.
Shoemaker-Allen, 25, competed in track and cross country at UW-La Crosse – he's even got the school's logo tattooed on his leg – and jumped at the chance to run with college teammate Josh Schrader.
"It’s all for a good cause," Shoemaker-Allen said. "It was really just coming out just to see some buddies in Milwaukee. We all ran in college also, so I thought it’d be neat to meet up. It’s all really flat and downhill, too, so that helps."
Shoemaker-Allen was the top finisher in 26:31 and Schrader was second just 27 seconds behind.
“I got out and I had no clue where anybody was pretty much the whole way," Shoemaker-Allen said. "I guess I kind of led it and then I’d like peek behind me every mile or so and kind of see somebody but I think I was mostly making distance on people.”
Shoemaker-Allen lives in the Madison area, and can't stop running even with a busy job at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Middleton. He stays competitive with Wisconsin Runner, a club for post-collegiate athletes.
“It kind of keeps me grounded," Shoemaker-Allen said. "When I’m not running, I’m a little squirrelly. So it kind of helps me stay focused during the work day. It keeps me calm, I guess.”
It's been a squirrelly couple years for everybody. That's why it's good for the city to have Al's Run back.
"It’s absolutely wonderful to have everybody back together and to feel the love and support of the community," Strehlow said. "I think it’s really good for the city of Milwaukee.”
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Irishman Matthew McClean wins 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Erin Hills
TOWN OF ERIN – Rory McIlroy. Graeme McDowell. Padraig Harrington. Matthew McClean.
That is the list of Irishmen who have won a United States Golf Association national championship, as McClean claimed the 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship title Saturday morning at Erin Hills by besting his fellow Republic of Ireland countryman Hugh Foley 3&1.
McDowell (2010 U.S. Open) and McIlroy (2011 U.S. Open) of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland's Harrington (2022 U.S. Senior Open), of course, all won their U.S. titles as professionals. The duel between Foley and McClean was the first time any Irishman made the championship final of a U.S. amateur championship.
That means McClean is the first from his country to win one.
“Sort of probably hasn't sunk in just yet,” McClean said. “It's been a very long week, but I'm sure once we sort of sit down this evening, it'll sort of sink in a wee bit more, but yeah, it's unbelievable really.”
And know that his home country was watching.
News outlets reported on their progress throughout the tournament, which lasted eight days due to rain delays. Harrington and fellow countryman Shane Lowry, the 2019 Open champion, tweeted they were following the championship match, also.
McClean isn’t just coming home with a trophy, either.
The 29-year-old optometrist from Belfast is not only exempted into the next 10 Mid-Am championships, but he’s also earned exemptions into the 2023 U.S. Open, Amateur in England and 2023 and 2024 U.S. Amateur. The winner has also received an invitation to the Masters Tournament every year since 1989.
“I think it probably hasn't quite sunk in yet,” said of the championship perks. “It's going to take a wee bit of time. I think there's going to be a good few Irish players in it next year, so can't wait to sort of get an invite to join it. It will be a tough week, but hopefully if I can play well, we'll just sort of enjoy it and see how it goes.
“We actually got a message from Shane Lowry last night, as well, who just won Wentworth. So he sort of; at least there's one more Irish guy in the Masters next year guaranteed. Just thankfully it's me going there.”
The Mid-Am championship is open to amateur players 25 years and older, and while there are often international players in the field the only other one to win the championship over its 41 years was Australian Lukas Michel in 2019.
McLean is also the 16th individual golfer to win a USGA event in Wisconsin, and the second to capture a Mid-Amateur title.
Foley said he will remain an amateur for another year before turning professional. He will return to the states for the 2023 U.S. Amateur in Colorado.
The 2023 U.S. Senior Open will be held at Sentry World in Stevens Point and the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open will be held at Erin Hills.
It was an interesting end to the championship for Foley and McClean as they each won their semi-final matches Friday morning and then played the first 18 holes of their championship match in the afternoon. McClean took a 2-up lead into Saturday, having to sleep on the fact he posted an eight on the 18th hole to lose it to Foley.
So, McClean said he was going to approach Saturday as if the match were all square while Foley said he felt relieved to get off the golf course after stealing one back.
Unfortunately, the overnight didn’t help Foley.
He bogeyed the first two holes on Saturday morning and McClean went back to 3-up after the 20th hole of the final. Foley eventually fell 4-down and didn’t win a hole on the front nine (holes 19-27 of the competition) until the par-5, seventh.
“I felt like I got a few bad breaks, but that's all right,” Foley said. “I've had a lot of good breaks this year, including a couple against Matt and a couple against other guys. Matt deserves it. It's golf. Eventually it comes back, and to get here was pretty special.
“I didn't feel like I deserved it today, but I gave it a go.”
McClean quickly re-established the four-hole advantage on the par-3, eighth with a par and made the turn for the final nine holes of competition with a comfortable advantage. Foley made a late charge in the closing holes, however, with strong birdies on holes 14, 15 and 16 to cut his deficit to two with two to play.
On the 17th (the 35th hole of the final), McClean found the fairway and Foley was just right in the rough. That was the difference, as McClean hit the green in regulation and Foley’s approach found the left rough above the green. He could not get up and down and conceded the par and the championship to his countryman and friend.
“I made a late charge there, decent back nine,” Foley said. “Must have been 3-under back nine there, so that's kind of like -- what was I, 3- or 4-down? I thought maybe 3- or 4-under back nine might have a chance, but he held on great. That birdie on 12 was really, really good. Almost put the nail in the coffin. That's when I had a little bit of a run and freed up. But he held up great with those pars there at the finish. Yeah, he deserved it today.”
The two hugged on the green, with “well played” and “cheers” to go home with.
“He’s beaten me twice,” McClean said. “This is the first time I've beaten him. It was hard not to think that it was going to be three in a row that I was going to get beat. We know each other pretty well; as I said, we're staying with each other for the past two weeks that we've been here. Yeah, it's been fun. It's probably in a way who I wanted to play in the final, but at the same time it's not the person you want to lose in the final, as well.
“Hugh has played unbelievable golf this year. For the past three months he's probably been the best player in Ireland comfortably. So it's a final; this is still obviously a very, very good week.”
USGA championships in Wisconsin
1951: Dave Stanley, U.S. Amateur Public Links (Brown Deer Park Golf Course)
1966: Lamont Kaser, U.S. Amateur Public Links (Brown Deer Park GC)
1969: United States, Walker Cup (Milwaukee Country Club)
1977: Jerry Vidovic, U.S. Amateur Public Links (Brown Deer)
1986: Cindy Schreyer, U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links (Sentry World)
1988: Clarence Moore, U.S. Senior Amateur (Milwaukee C.C.)
1998: Se Ri Pak, U.S. Women’s Open (Blackwolf Run)
2007: Brad Bryant, U.S. Senior Men’s Open (Whistling Straits)
2008: Steve Wilson, U.S. Mid-Amateur (Milwaukee C.C.)
2008: Tiffany Joh, U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links (Erin Hills)
2011: Kelly Kraft, U.S. Amateur (Erin Hills)
2012: Na Yeon Choi, U.S. Women’s Open (Blackwolf Run)
2017: Brooks Koepka, U.S. Open (Erin Hills)
2019: Lei Ye, U.S. Girls Junior (Sentry World)
2022: Matthew McClean, U.S. Mid-Amateur (Erin Hills)
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Matthew McClean wins 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Erin Hills
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College football has many time-honored traditions and Wisconsin is no different.
Wisconsin Badgers football games are known just as much for "Jump Around" as they are for fans witnessing star running backs year in and year out at Camp Randall Stadium.
Here are some basics you need to know about "Jump Around" and its connection to Wisconsin football games.
When does "Jump Around" take place during Wisconsin football games?
It occurs before the fourth quarter begins.
What happens when "Jump Around" comes over the speakers?
It's simple. People jump around, raise their hands in the air and Camp Randall shakes as the catchy tune plays with its distinctive horns in the background.
Who sings "Jump Around?"
The American hip hop group House of Pain. DJ Muggs produced the song.
When was "Jump Around" released?
The song was released in 1992 and made House of Pain a household name.
Was "Jump Around" a hit song?
Yes, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for best rap performance by a duo or group. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song was No. 24 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 1990s
When did "Jump Around" first play at Camp Randall Stadium?
"Jump Around" was first played at a Badgers football game against Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium in 1998 during a homecoming game Oct. 10, as the late Meg Jones recounted in this 2019 report. Ryan Sondrup, a former player on the team who was given the assignment to play music during lulls in the action, first put the song on the loudspeakers. It's been played after the third quarter ever since, with the exception of one time due to construction at the stadium.
Do the Wisconsin players participate in "Jump Around?"
Yes, many Badgers players are often seen on the sideline raising their hands and head bobbing to the music.
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'Jump Around' at Wisconsin football games played before fourth quarter
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The Milwaukee Brewers are working through so many injuries to their pitching staff that even their manager has a tough time keeping all of the various timelines straight.
Freddy Peralta, Eric Lauer, Aaron Ashby and Matt Bush are all critical arms attempting to make their way back to the mound before the season ends in just over two weeks.
Saturday afternoon was a busy day in terms of the rehab for each of them as Lauer and Bush threw bullpens and Peralta threw in the outfield prior to that night’s game against the New York Yankees.
It’s a lot to keep track of, to be fair.
“I don’t know if it’s the first day (of him throwing),” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “I’ve got three calendars going. Sorry.”
There may be a lot going on in the trainer’s room for the Brewers, but the latest news is all positive.
Status various for injured Milwaukee Brewers pitchers
Lauer (left forearm) threw a 30-pitch bullpen Saturday and reported positive returns. He is on track to be the first of the three injured starters to return, likely needing another bullpen or two, but said he wants to be a full go when he returns.
“I’d prefer to go full-bore right away,” Lauer said. “We’ll see what I can do. Conditioning-wise, I’m all good. I didn’t need to make up any ground after getting hurt. I should be able to go and throw 100 pitches.”
One-hundred pitches may be a bit too aspirational, Counsell indicated, but the Brewers don’t plan on having to place too many restraints on Lauer’s pitch count.
“I don’t know about full (workload) but I don’t think we have to take a big step back,” he said. “I think we’ll have to read it a little bit. I think we’ll take a small step back but I don’t think we have to go into it with big limits on him.”
Ashby, out since Aug. 19 with a left shoulder injury, threw a bullpen of 25 to 30 pitches Friday and has an intensive bullpen on Monday featuring one “up-down” in which he simulates sitting down between innings before going back and throwing again.
The Brewers plan to utilize Ashby in shorter stints out of the bullpen upon his return.
As for Peralta, his timeline to return remains more unclear than the others as he battles back from right shoulder issues. After being removed from his last start on Sept. 8, Peralta indicated he expected “100%” to return before the end of the season, something Counsell confirmed Saturday.
“We’re absolutely planning on Freddy pitching this year,” he said.
Bush, who exited after facing three batters Tuesday with a groin strain, was scheduled to throw a bullpen Saturday and if it went well, would potentially be available as soon as Sunday.
Brewers database:All the Milwaukee Brewers walk-off wins in team history
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Brewers injury updates to Freddy Peralta, Eric Lauer and Aaron Ashby
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Milwaukee police are asking for the public's help to find "critical missing" 75-year-old Dennis Pastorius, who was last seen on the city's north side.
According to police, Pastorius was last seen around 5 a.m. Friday in the 4100 block of North 22nd Street, in the Rufus King neighborhood.
Pastorius is white, 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 180 pounds, is bald but has long white hair on the sides and a white beard. He was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with white writing, gray jeans and a black jacket.
"Critical missing" is a label police apply to missing persons who may be in immediate danger because of a variety of factors. Police said Pastorius suffers from dementia.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sensitive Crimes Division at 414-935-7405.
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Milwaukee police need help locating 'critical missing' 75-year-old man
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Win over New Mexico State gives UW transfer cornerbacks a final tune-up before facing Ohio State
MADISON – During the offseason the Wisconsin Badger coaches recruited cornerbacks Jay Shaw, Cedrick Dort and Justin Clark to be impact players in the secondary.
Saturday the three moved a step closer to making that a reality. The transfers each saw action in the Badgers’ 66-7 win over New Mexico State at Camp Randall Stadium.
That tidbit was a notable development in a predictably lopsided affair. Shaw started for the third straight week. Dort has played in all three games, starting the last two. Clark, who is recovering from a hamstring injury, played his first game and saw limited action.
Shaw nearly picked off a pass in the first half for what would have been his second interception in as many weeks. Otherwise, it was a quiet but solid showing for three veterans whose performance could weigh heavily moving forward.
Wisconsin opens Big Ten play next week at Ohio State where the Buckeyes offense is fueled by All-American quarterback C.J. Stroud and game-breaking receivers Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka.
The Badgers are going to need as many good cover men as possible. Saturday was a good chance to get in some more in-game work before playing in the national spotlight of a Saturday night game.
That was especially true for Clark.
“It was important to get some reps under my belt, knock the rust off,” he said. “I’m going to be doing some of that next week too with practice. We’ll go through the whole week and just go through the mental game."
The Badgers have been playing a lot of dime and nickel defense this season, More of the same is expected when they try to contain the Buckeyes.
The contributions of Shaw, Dort and Clark takes on added significance given the hits the secondary has taken this season. Senior Alex Smith, who was having a great fall camp before suffering a hamstring injury, has yet to dress for a game. The team’s coverage has also taken a hit with the loss of safety Hunter Wohler, who is out indefinitely with a leg injury. Wisconsin also finished Saturday without junior Semar Melvin, a backup who left the game in the first half due to a leg injury and did not return.
Clark, who played at Toledo last season, can empathize with those players. He hurt his hamstring during the second week of fall camp. He returned to practice in advance of the Washington State game, but the coaches/trainers thought it best to wait until the third game to play.
Despite being a seventh-year senior trying to make his mark on a new team, Clark remained patient with his recovery.
“It’s a little more urgency, but I know I have to take my time with things,” he said. “I know what kind of player I am when I’m 100% healthy. I think I showed that when I first game here in the spring and in camp. I just need to take my time and get right.”.
Dort and Shaw, sixth-year seniors, brought immense experience with them to UW. Dort played 43 games, 22 starts at Kentucky. Shaw started 16 games at UCLA and played in 43 overall.
Shaw finished with two tackles and broke up a pass against New Mexico State. Dort and Clark didn’t record any statistics.
Dort, however, said afterward that he feels he is finding his voice within his new team.
“I feel like I help this team with more of a mental phase of the game and off the field because I’ve been through everything you can possibly think of… ,” he said.
“It’s crazy seeing these young kids and how they react to certain things. I remember I used to react that type of way when I was their age. I just want to help them the best way I can. I feel like God places me in their life to catch them at a right time and give them some points of what I’ve been through.”
Clark, meanwhile, passed a major step against the Aggies. He played and left the field feeling good.
Good thing because the Buckeyes are poised to present UW with its toughest test of the young season.
Will UW be up to the challenge? Seven Wisconsin players, including five defensive backs have intercepted passes this season. It’s safe to say that Dort, Shaw and Clark would like to keep the turnovers coming in Columbus.
“Any time the defense is out there any of us can make a play at any time of the game,” Dort said, speaking about the entire unit. “That’s good to see. Being an older guy, it’s good to see that’s the type of defense I’m going out there with.”
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A Frank Lloyd Wright home in Mount Pleasant is on the market for the first time, listed for $725,000.
The six-bedroom, 6.5-bath house sits on the bluff of a ravine overlooking the Root River and Colonial Park.
The Tony Veranth Team is listing the house, and photos by Chris Wohlgefahrt reveal the unique Usonian architecture inside. The great room is cantilevered over the ravine, a distinctive feature of Wright's style.
The 1956 home was commissioned by Karen Johnson Boyd, daughter of Herbert Fisk Johnson and heiress to the S.C. Johnson & Inc. fortune.
More:TikTok star Sophia Zang's Whitefish Bay house flip sold for $1,089,900
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Popular Twitter account Zillow Gone Wild quipped, "I bet you didn't wake up today and think you were going to be moving to Mount Pleasant, WI."
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'Titanic' musical begins second voyage, because Milwaukee Rep was not finished telling the story
Melissa Vartanian-Mikaelian saw the musical "Titanic" four times last spring.
Every time it came to the scene of families separating, with men ushering women and children into lifeboats, she cried.
As they try to convince their families to escape, the men tell them they'll be reunited soon. But we know they won't, she said. "I cannot watch that scene without crying."
Vartanian-Mikaelian has a personal stake in this story. Her great-grandfather, David (Davit) Vartanian, an Armenian immigrant seeking a better life in North America, survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, and was reunited with his wife, Mary, 11 years later.
She'll need to stock up on tissues, because Milwaukee Repertory Theater is bringing "Titanic" back for performances from Sept. 20 through Oct. 23 at the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater.
When Milwaukee Rep staged "Titanic" last season, breakthrough cases of COVID-19 among cast members forced cancellation of 15 of the scheduled 49 shows. More than 10,000 ticketholders didn't get to see the mostly sold-out show, the Rep said.
"We weren't finished telling the story," Vartanian-Mikaelian said.
When not weeping at families being separated onstage, Vartanian-Mikaelian is the Rep's managing director, overseeing human resources, facilities, information technology and other departments.
RELATED:100 unsinkable facts about the Titanic
Moving quickly in May, the Rep was able to re-sign most of the cast to return for this season's performances, including Andrew Varela, Emma Rose Brooks, Matt Daniels and Carrie Hitchcock. But several new performers in key roles, including Alex Keiper as Alice, the second-class passenger who longs to experience the lives of millionaires, and Jeffrey Kringer as Barrett, the stoker, will give this voyage its own flavor.
As a form of insurance against COVID-19 disruptions this time, the Rep has hired an additional 10 actors, who are rehearsing separately. They'll be prepared to step in if a cast member gets sick.
Hiring so many extra performers "is not going to be sustainable long term for our industry," Vartanian-Mikaelian said. But Milwaukee Rep wants this production to come off without a hitch.
Dreams and ambitions on all decks
The musical "Titanic," by Maury Yeston and Peter Stone, premiered in 1997, the same year as James Cameron's popular movie "Titanic," but they are not connected. The Broadway production won multiple Tony awards, including best musical and best original score.
Act I introduces us to the dreams of its passengers and crew, from three Irish women in third class, all named Kate, to publicity-conscious White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay (Varela), who wants the Titanic to become a legend. (Be careful what you wish for, J. Bruce.)
When the vessel is under way, Ismay clashes with Capt. E.J. Smith. The chairman wants maximum speed to cut a day off the voyage and boost the Titanic's reputation; the captain resents Ismay's demands but gradually yields to them.
Meanwhile, life goes on throughout the ship. In third class, the feistiest of the Kates strikes up a shipboard romance; on a snootier deck, beleaguered steward Etches (Daniels) keeps chasing Alice out of the first-class area. The ocean liner is a hierarchical world, for passengers and crew, both before and after the disaster.
As a tribute to the Vartanian family, director Mark Clements has a character in third class playing cards, one of David Vartanian's favorite pastimes, his great-granddaughter said.
Music director Dan Kazemi's orchestra plays with more power and provides more musical variety than you might expect from a septet, stoking the sweeping quality of the score.
Passing on a family legacy
Vartanian-Mikaelian's great-grandfather David was in the ocean liner's steerage level with other passengers when the Titanic struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912 — his 22nd birthday.
"They knew something was happening. Exactly like in the movie, they broke down the gate so they could get out," his daughter Rose Vartanian told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl in a 2009 interview.
Shortly before the Titanic foundered, David and some other men, none of whom spoke the same language, discovered a collapsible lifeboat that had not yet been lowered. Working together despite the language gap, they released it into the ocean. It started to wash away, so they jumped into the water and swam for it.
That lifeboat collapsed shortly after David got into it, but he swam through the icy water to a different lifeboat. He was one of the 700-plus survivors rescued by the RMS Carpathia.
Vartanian-Mikaelian said her grandmother Rose, David's daughter, was "kind of obsessed" with all things Titanic, taking her and her sister to any event or exhibit related to the doomed ocean liner within driving distance. Rose felt, and Melissa herself feels, it is important to learn the history and honor both the souls that survived and the ones who didn't.
When a major traveling exhibit of Titanic artifacts came to the Milwaukee Public Museum in 2008-'09, Vartanian-Mikaelian entered and won an expenses-paid wedding at the Titanic exhibit. Her then-fiancé, now-husband Vache Mikaelian was on board. "It’s her family history," he told Stingl in 2009. "It’s become an important story to me, too, now."
Vartanian-Mikaelian has passed the family story down to her sons, ages 8 and 10. She and Vache have taken them to visit the Titanic museums in Branson, Missouri, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. They've listened to the musical's cast album in the car, and the boys came to spring's opening night performance.
They're definitely absorbing it.
"I catch my youngest singing ('Titanic' songs) in the shower, I can hear it through the door," she said.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater performs 'Titanic: The Musical" Sept. 20-Oct. 23 at the Quadracci Powerhouse, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, visit milwaukeerep.com or call (414) 224-9490.
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Milwaukee pushes rehousing County Jail and Juvenile Justice Center overflow in Racine
In an effort to alleviate ongoing overcrowding at the Milwaukee County Jail, the county has opted to consider rehousing the jail's overflow in Racine County.
The controversial move among board members won a crucial 6-1 vote at Milwaukee County's Committee on Finance on Thursday. Some committee members, as well as Milwaukee residents and incarceration reform advocates, questioned how much oversight and accountability Milwaukee County would have, including in the event of a death at the Racine County Jail.
"The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office can investigate the jail on demand," Milwaukee Corporation Counsel Margaret Daun told the Journal Sentinel. "Depending on the facts of a particular case, either Milwaukee or Racine County would bear more relative responsibility."
The Sheriff's Office will end the year with a projected $5.8 million overtime deficit — which has gone up $1.2 million since May — as the jail faces plummeting staffing levels.
Following a court-ordered consent decree reached in 2001, there is a maximum capacity of 960 people that can be housed at the Milwaukee County Jail. As of Sept. 15, there were 958 individuals housed there, with 88% of the individuals awaiting trial. There were 144 correctional officers on Sept. 19 — just over half of the 251 positions that are authorized.
In this tentative agreement with Racine County presented by incoming Milwaukee County Sheriff Denita Ball, Milwaukee will temporarily rehouse an undetermined number of individuals in the County Jail's custody at the Racine County Jail. The agreement would not fall under the consent decree, according to Daun.
The agreement is set to last until Dec. 31, 2022, and would be paid for by $497,000 of the county's $4.1 million unallocated county funds as of July 31. The county is also looking to send youth held at the Vel R. Phillips Youth and Justice Center to Racine County.
"This is a result of a capacity issue," Ball said. "If it's not approved, we have no other choice."
While the Milwaukee County House of Correction (HOC) has previously provided a relief valve for the County Jail, that is no longer an option as it is plagued by similar shortages in staffing and hiring numbers have dropped for correctional officers.
As such, this agreement with Racine County would be a "temporary measure," according to Ball, going on to explain: "This was a way in which to house them humanely so they are not waiting hours and hours to be processed."
Supervisor Ryan Clancy told the Journal Sentinel he does not see an end to the time-limited agreement between the two counties.
"I'm hesitant to send someone from a terrible situation in our jail to a terrible situation in another jail, if there are other options," he said.
The Racine County Medical Examiner was unable to provide the number of deaths at the County Jail between January 2019 and September 2022.
Media reports show that, in 2021, the Racine County Jail was the site of at least two in-custody deaths, with two young men reported as dead within three days of each other. No criminal charges were filed.
The Milwaukee County Jail has had four in-custody deaths between January 2020 and April 2021. No criminal charges were issued. Most recently, 21-year-old Brieon Green died at the jail in an apparent suicide in June. The investigation into his death is being carried out by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department and still remains open.
Understaffing, overcrowding at Milwaukee County Jail lead to 'deplorable' conditions
With only 3 ½ months until the end of the year, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office is projecting a 2022 overtime deficit of $5,837,967. The projection is up from the $4.6 million reported in May.
This comes as the jail, wrestling with one of its most dire staffing shortages among its correctional officers, is also in the grips of a retention and hiring crisis.
The Journal Sentinel previously reported in August that individuals at the Milwaukee County Jail have faced sleeping on the floor, cramped cells, endless lockdowns and long booking times due to an ongoing backlog of criminal court cases built up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Individuals housed at the jail, advocates and officials all have noted the use of makeshift, plastic beds with thin mattresses — also known as "boats" — at the site in order to house the growing number of individuals who are pre-trial.
Under the consent decree, individuals cannot be held for more than 30 hours without being assigned a bed and no one will be required to sleep on a mattress on the jail floor or the floor itself.
Milwaukee County Jail commander Inspector Aaron Dobson, however, told the committee: "We have no other options and that's why we're in kind of dire straits with overcrowding in our booking room, serving hot meals in the booking room, having occupants down there for several days at a time, throwing mattresses on the floor."
In her presentation, Ball also noted that occupants are "now spending much more time in the booking room, up to 50 hours at times," because of the limited availability of beds at the jail.
Representatives of the ACLU of Wisconsin also recently visited the jail and found it was not in compliance with the consent decree, according to Robert Thibault, an organizer with Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.
"The conditions of the jail are deplorable," he told the county committee. "The HOC has the ability to house more residents and house them in appropriate ways. It's been done before. Why not use these proposed funds to support the House of Correction?"
The ACLU of Wisconsin did not respond to requests for comment.
The House of Correction is not an option due to staffing shortages
The HOC is run by the county, and not the Sheriff's Office. It mostly houses individuals serving sentences, many of whom have release privileges for work, school, treatment, among other activities, or are entirely on electronic monitoring bracelet.
In August, the HOC was "still taking overflow cases from the jail when they have the appropriate staffing to do so" and were "accepting transfers," according to Brandon Weathersby, spokesperson for Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.
As of Sept. 15, the HOC's current population was at 715 — 31 individuals on work release and the remaining 684 in the building. The HOC can hold 1,766 people.
The HOC cannot take overflow as it also faces similarly straining staffing shortages.
"We are experiencing a staffing crisis, which prevents us from taking
on more residents at this time," said HOC Superintendent Chantell Jewell. "We currently take two buses a week from the jail. We just are not able to help with population control from the jail as needed at this time."
Jewell reported that the HOC has a roughly 40% vacancy rate — with 239 of the 394 staff positions filled — and that it is "not for lack of effort," as the department has held nine recruitment events this month. The HOC now projects a $1.9 million overtime deficit. This is due to having nearly 100 correction officers vacancies throughout the year, Jewell said.
"They're working (double shifts) back to back," "tensions are very high" and that "mandatory overtime is driving people out the door," according to Jewell.
This year, the County Board approved a 2% raise overall and some lump sum payments for all Milwaukee County employees, which includes correctional officers, but not deputies.
The board also signed off on a pay raise for correctional staff, making a $3 hourly premium permanent that was first added for officers who had received the COVID-19 vaccine.
The current hourly rate for a correctional officer at the HOC is up to $24.44.
In July 2021, the Racine County Board approved a boost in the minimum hourly pay for correctional officers, pushing it up to about $29.25.
Why was Racine County selected to house Milwaukee County Jail occupants?
The Racine County Jail provides some benefits to its occupants, including 20 minutes of visitation time and 15 minutes of free calling per week. That's unlike Milwaukee County, which has not allowed in-person visitation since 2001, has inconsistent and limited free calls and has seen families pay $5.1 million per year for calls with loved ones at the jail.
Under Wisconsin state statutes, Milwaukee County and Racine County are permitted to enter into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement for the temporary housing of certain Milwaukee County Jail occupants.
Ball assured the committee they would not send anyone to Racine who was experiencing any mental health challenges.
"We are very cognizant of people we send," Ball said. "So, those that have mental health issues or severe health issues or disciplinary problems and things like that they would not be sent to Racine."
The agreement between the two counties lays out that:
Milwaukee County would have to pay Racine County $70 daily for each individual rehoused.
Milwaukee County would be responsible for transporting all occupants to and from the Racine County Jail.
Milwaukee County would have the right to inspect the Racine County Jail at any and all times, including access to records concerning those rehoused in the jail and staff.
Any death of an individual housed at the Racine County Jail under this agreement would be carried out by Racine County's internal policies and procedures.
Milwaukee County would be responsible for 50% of any costs incurred for performing an autopsy. Racine would be covering the costs of transportation of the deceased back to loved ones.
"The Racine County Sheriff holds the ultimate authority to control the Racine County Jail, just in the same way that our sheriff holds ultimate authority to control our jail," Lael MacLellan, contract manager with the procurement division of the Department of Administrative Services, told the committee.
Youth offenders at Vel R. Phillips juvenile center could also go to Racine
Department of Health and Human Services leaders have requested a similar partnership that would see the transfer of youth offenders to Racine County to alleviate the county's overcrowded Vel R. Phillips Juvenile Justice Center. In a 6-1 vote, the committee voted to recommend to the County Board.
The partnership would last through Dec. 31 of this year and use $350,000 in unallocated county funds.
The 127-bed juvenile detention center hit a record of 150 youth in May. As of September, that number has dropped to 115 youths, according to Kelly Pethke, who heads DHHS's Children, Youth and Family Services division.
In 2017, Maricella Chairez died while in custody at the Racine County Juvenile Detention Center. The 16-year-old died by suicide. A Journal Sentinel investigation found authorities had repeatedly failed Chairez for years and that county workers did not often find her proper mental health care.
The Milwaukee County Board is set to take up the requests on Sept. 22.
If approved, Racine County would need to vote and approve the agreement.
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Some Wisconsin students could be learning about the Holocaust for the first time this school year.
State legislation taking effect requires all Wisconsin schools to teach students about the Holocaust and other genocides at least once in grades 5-8 and again at least once in grades 9-12.
While some schools were already doing so, for others it's new ground. And many schools are taking the opportunity to expand their curriculum on the subject.
In the last year, about 550 teachers from 232 school districts in Wisconsin have started, or bolstered, their Holocaust curriculums with training from the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, a program of the non-profit Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
"We went to a more rural area of Wisconsin recently, and we were really bringing Holocaust education to that district for the first time," HERC Executive Director Samantha Abramson said.
"They really weren't doing it, not because they didn’t want to, but because they just they don't have as many teachers, their school is small, and it just hadn't been a priority."
The center reached out to every district in Wisconsin, Abramson said. They hope to provide training for all by the end of the school year.
What are schools teaching?
The legislation doesn't specify how schools should teach about the Holocaust or how long they should spend on it. Districts don't need to report anything to the state about how they are complying, a spokesman for the Department of Public Instruction said.
Some might offer multi-unit courses, Abramson said; others might only do two days, or two hours.
Merrill High School in northern Wisconsin has a semester-long course devoted to teaching kids not only about the Holocaust, but also the psychology involved so they can understand how it swept society.
"Every day I have to think about everything these people went through and I have to make sure I am doing justice by telling their stories," said Merrill High School social studies teacher Alison Krohn, in an email. "Even though it can be difficult, I don't know if I could have a more rewarding job. I help students to be able to recognize prejudice and hatred, I help them be able to understand bias and human behavior, and develop an understanding for valuing human life that I hope stays with them forever."
Milwaukee Public Schools asked HERC in August to provide a two-week curriculum on the Holocaust for this fall, Abramson said. A spokesperson for MPS didn't answer questions from the Journal Sentinel about the new requirement.
At St. Anthony on the Lake Catholic School in Pewaukee, Rachel Kaschak is entering her second year of teaching, and ramping up her curriculum about the Holocaust after attending a training session.
She said she expects her middle school students to be drawn to the personal stories beyond the facts and figures. She found materials focused on such stories from the resource center and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The students "relate more to, 'Whoa, this happened to an 11-year-old kid my age?'" Kaschak said.
At St. Anthony on the Lake, Kaschak said, the Holocaust gets taught through literature in sixth grade, European history in seventh grade, and U.S. history in eighth grade — including the lack of action from the U.S. during much of the genocide.
"I think that's important to mention," Kaschak said. "You have to be able to confront that."
After attending a HERC workshop specifically for Catholic schools, Kaschak said, she picked up ideas for discussing actions taken, and lack of action taken, by the Catholic Church.
"Sometimes sixth graders will have the most deep questions. There will be one kid who asks, well, as Catholics, why didn't any Catholics do anything, or who did do things?" Kaschak said. "We need to understand that in some places, the world didn't help or the world didn't acknowledge what was happening, and that's not good."
Kaschak said she also encourages her students to apply the lessons to other events and their own lives.
"Discrimination against one group can feed into discrimination against another, and festers if no one's pushing back against it," she said. "And you can bet at (age) 11, you can push back against it. They can start grappling with that question of: What behaviors have I noticed that I haven't stopped?"
What about other genocides?
Wisconsin is among 20 states that have reported Holocaust education requirements to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
While the state requirement includes the phrase "other genocides," HERC is focusing their training specifically on the Holocaust because it is the organization's area of expertise, Abramson said.
It is also providing training about genocides as a general concept, and the stages of developments that tend to precede a genocide. It also partnered with other groups, such as the Burmese Rohingya Community of Wisconsin, to teach about other genocides
The overarching goal, Abramson said, is encouraging students to reflect on "their own roles as citizens of this world."
“It allows students to get beyond themselves and think about ways they can be acting as as upstanders, people who make the world a better place through their actions, through their words, rather than being a bystander, which was the case for much of the Holocaust — a case of ordinary people doing nothing," Abramson said.
Over the years, Wisconsin lawmakers have voted to enshrine social studies guidelines on a few other subjects.
In 1989, Wisconsin lawmakers passed Act 31 establishing "goals and expectations" for schools to provide "an understanding of human relations, particularly with regard to American Indians, Black Americans and Hispanics."
Beginning in 1991, schools were required to "teach about the history, culture and tribal sovereignty of federally recognized American Indian tribes and bands located in this state" at least twice in elementary school and once in high school.
Recently, the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Coalition of Wisconsin has pushed for a new law that would require instruction on Asian American history.
Kaschak said she thought that was a good idea, noting that many people are unaware of how the U.S. incarcerated nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the country during WWII.
"There are plenty of people who don't know that that happened. And I think it is important that we're learning not just the history of the "victor," but we're also learning the histories and the stories of those that were impacted negatively," Kaschak said.
"All parts have to be told and talked about, or else it does get forgotten. And once it's forgotten, behaviors can happen again."
How districts can get trained
Workshops with HERC are nearly free. Teachers have to pay $25 to reserve a spot, and the rest is covered with help from the Department of Public Instruction, community donations, and grants from the Claims Conference, a non-profit that has won financial reparations from the German government to disperse to Holocaust survivors and related organizations.
The Holocaust Education Resource Center has also developed a free online resource, teachholocaust.org, which allows teachers to search for lesson plans by subject, grade level and class time.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo signs on as executive producer on 'The Flagmakers,' a National Geographic movie about workers at Oak Creek's Eder Flag
A new short documentary on Oak Creek's Eder Flag and its workers, many of whom are immigrants, has lined up an MVP executive producer: Giannis Antetokounmpo.
National Geographic announced that the Milwaukee Bucks star has signed on as an executive producer for "The Flagmakers," a new short documentary that entertainment site Deadline.com says is expected to be a strong Academy Awards contender.
National Geographic released a trailer for the documentary Friday.
National Geographic describes "The Flagmakers" this way:
"'The Flagmakers' pose one of today's most pressing questions: Who is the American flag for? Employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, sews and ships five million American flags a year. The flagmakers — locals, immigrants and refugees — stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging."
In a news release issued Friday, Antetokounmpo said: “As an immigrant myself, I find this film incredibly personal and a deeply moving testament to those who call this country ‘home.’ Each one of these inspiring individuals have overcome adversity and challenges in their lives and bring those unique experiences and stories as they craft the American flag.”
In the statement, co-directors Cynthia Wade (who won an Oscar for her 2007 short documentary "Freeheld") and Sharon Liese presented Eder Flag as a unique place for understanding the relationship people of diverse backgrounds have with the American flag.
“When we first walked into this Midwestern flag factory staffed by immigrants, refugees and locals, we instantly saw that this would be an ideal setting to explore the layered and deeply nuanced relationships Americans have to our flag and to our country,” Wade and Liese said in the statement.
Shot during the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, the film, which screened this weekend at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine, will have a brief theatrical run in Los Angeles to qualify for the Academy Awards and is expected to make the festival circuit before turning up on streaming services — most likely Disney+ — later this year. Antetokounmpo has another connection with Disney+: In June, the streaming service debuted "Rise," a dramatized origin story depicting the early years of the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player.
RELATED:Real-life brothers talk about playing Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo in new Disney+ movie 'Rise'
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Here's how you can get involved in Milwaukee's listening sessions about community-oriented policing
In an effort to improve its community-oriented policing efforts, the Milwaukee Police Department is hosting feedback listening sessions in all 15 aldermanic districts over the next year.
For four hours one Saturday a month, officials with the city, Police Department and community groups are providing free lunches while asking the public what they want and don’t want from law enforcement.
“If people are really looking for accountability and reform in law enforcement, here’s an opportunity, the first-time opportunity, to get actually engaged and go on record as to how you want to be policed in your community,” said Fred Royal, the first vice president of the NAACP in Milwaukee and an organizer for the listening sessions.
After the 15 sessions are completed, the information will be compiled by the Wisconsin Policy Forum into a report that will inform a “citywide community policing plan” to compliment the Police Department’s standard operating procedure about community-oriented policing.
Community-oriented policing is a law enforcement strategy that emphasizes close working relationships with community groups. In 2021, the Fire and Police Commission codified the strategy into the Police Department’s standard operating procedures.
If community members “say that we want non-law enforcement personnel to respond to mental health crises, then they should state that,” Royal said. “If they want non-law enforcement individuals to deal with traffic stops, then they should state that. If they want homelessness addressed in another form other than having people arrested, then they should state that.”
The listening sessions are organized by the Police Department, the Fire and Police Commission and the Community Collaborative Commission – a community-based city committee that works with the Police Department. It received $100,000 in grant funding through the American Rescue Plan Act.
The effort began with sessions for Ald. Robert Bauman’s District Four in July and Ald. Khalif Rainey’s District 7 in August.
Those meetings featured underwhelming turnout from the public. Officials have encouraged anyone to attend the meetings, including anyone who lives, works and spends time in any of the aldermanic districts.
This page will be updated as more information about future sessions are arranged. Each meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Here is the schedule for the remaining 13 sessions:
Sept. 24: Ald. JoCasta Zamarripa’s District 8, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, 1818 W. National Ave.
Oct. 29: Ald. Michael Murphy’s District 10, location to be decided.
Nov. 19: Ald. Mark Borkowski’s District 11, location TBD.
Dec. 17: Ald. Jose Perez’s District 12, location TBD.
Jan. 28, 2023: Ald. Scott Spiker’s District 13, location TBD.
Feb. 25: Ald. Marina Dimitrijevic’s District 14, location TBD.
March 25: Ald. Nikiya Dodd’s District 5, location TBD.
April: TBD.
May: TBD.
June: TBD.
July: TBD.
August: TBD.
September: TBD.
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MADISON – Jim Leonhard understands the challenge Wisconsin’s defense faces Saturday at Ohio State.
The Buckeyes rolled up 763 yards last week in a 77-21 victory over Toledo and are averaging 47.7 points and 565.3 yards per game through three games.
They have arguably the league’s best quarterback, best wide receiver and best line.
UW offensive coordinator Bobby Engram can empathize because all that firepower has overshadowed the fact that the Buckeyes’ defense is better under new coordinator Jim Knowles.
“Everybody is fast,” UW tailback Braelon Allen said Monday when asked about that defense. “It is a very fast defense. Very talented. Those guys are there for a reason.”
The Buckeyes (3-0) entered the week allowing 14.3 points and 278.7 yards per game. Last season they allowed 22.8 points and 372.9 yards per game.
They pitched a second-half shutout in their 21-10 victory over Notre Dame in Week 1, allowed only field goals in a 45-12 victory over Arkansas State in Week 2 and were solid save for three big scoring plays for a total of 113 yards in the victory over Toledo.
UW senior left guard Tyler Beach raved Monday about the play of the Buckeyes’ defensive line, which might be the deepest in the Big Ten.
“They move a lot at the snap,” he said. “There are some similarities to Washington State that we saw, some carryover which we’ll be able to apply.
“They are blasting up the field. It is important that we’ve got to hit them first. That is the biggest thing.”
Tackle Michael Hall Jr. has been the unit’s most disruptive player. He had a combined two sacks and five tackles for loss in the Buckeyes’ first two games but did not play against Toledo because of an apparent left shoulder injury suffered in Week 2.
More:Wisconsin gets back on track in rout of New Mexico State ahead of the team's Big Ten opener vs. Ohio St.
Ends Javontae Jean-Baptiste (two sacks), J.T. Tuimoloau (three tackles for loss) and Jack Sawyer (2½ tackles for loss) and tackle Tyleik Williams (1½ tackles for loss, five tackles) are all active.
Sawyer has been given the freedom to move up and down the line to look for an opening to attack.
“He moves around a lot and tries to find places to pressure,” Beach said. “Compared to when we played them a couple years ago, they move around a lot more. They’re not just playing in their base the whole time. They are more pressure oriented, which is going to be a challenge.
“But maybe we can find some holes and split them on some stuff. That presents some good opportunities.”
Ohio State is allowing just 84.3 rushing yards per game.
“I think we just have to play our brand of football,” said Allen, who leads UW in rushing at 110.7 yards per game. “Physical, downhill running. Just try to do what we do best.”
UW’s depth chart released Monday had Riley Mahlman as the No. 1 right tackle and Michael Furtney as the No. 1 right guard.
Mahlman has missed the last two games because of a left leg injury suffered in the opener but has not been listed on the team’s injury report. He could miss his third consecutive game this week.
Although the coaches likely won’t give away their plan, Trey Wedig and Tanor Bortolini are on track to start at right tackle and right guard, respectively.
That duo took over for Logan Brown and Furtney on UW’s fourth series last week against New Mexico State and they were on the field together for five possessions. UW scored touchdowns on all five possessions.
UW’s offensive linemen were penalized five times in the loss to Washington State in Week 2. The unit trimmed that number to one holding call last week against New Mexico State.
“It hasn’t been guys just getting beat,” Beach said when asked about the growth of the line. “It has been small things, easily correctable. It makes me excited because we can be better than we’ve been.”
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Wisconsin Badgers must contend with Ohio State Buckeyes defense
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Don't remind Keeanu Benton that Wisconsin hasn't won a Big Ten championship since the 2012 season
MADISON – Keeanu Benton has no idea how many times he has been inside the McClain Center and looked up at the mammoth wall on the south end of the field.
Each time he does, however, he focuses on the section that lists Wisconsin’s 14 Big Ten championships.
His eyes eventually stop at the last entry.
“Twenty-twelve,” the senior nose tackle said. “That’s the last year.”
What does Benton think when he sees the drought, nine years and counting?
“Bite my tongue and want to grind even harder,” Benton added. “When you win a Big Ten championship here you’ll remember it for the rest of your life.
“That means a lot to us up there, even when we’re out here pushing. That gives you extra juice.”
And when don’t win it?
More:Inserting Tanor Bortolini and Trey Wedig helped solidify Wisconsin's offensive line Saturday. Will they start at Ohio State?
More:Replay: Wisconsin beats New Mexico State, 66-7, at Camp Randall
“That puts another chip on your shoulder,” Benton said. “It makes you work even harder. For me personally, losing wasn’t the worst thing that happened to me.”
UW has reached the Big Ten title game three times in Paul Chryst’s seven seasons as head coach – 2016, 2017 and 2019.
The Badgers lost to Penn State in 2016, to Ohio State in 2017 and again to the Buckeyes in 2019, Benton’s freshman season.
UW last season came within a victory of returning to the league title game but a 23-13 loss to Minnesota in the regular-season finale allowed Iowa to win the Big Ten West Division.
“We made it to the Big Ten championship in 2019 and haven’t made it there since,” Benton said. “You never know when your chance is going to come so take advantage while you’ve got it.
According to Benton, the 10-point loss to the Gophers last season stung more than the 13-point loss to the Buckeyes in 2019.
“Just Minnesota,” he said when asked why. “The ax. That means so much to us. Just seeing the seniors not have the ax that last year, it kind of messes with you mentally.
“I don’t ever want to feel that again.”
The Badgers (2-1) face both teams in 2022. They close the regular season against the Gophers on Nov. 26 in Madison and open Big Ten play and their quest for a league title at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at No. 3 Ohio State (3-0).
UW has lost the last eight meetings against the Buckeyes, with three coming in the Big Ten title game (2014, 2017 and 2019).
Traveling to Ohio will hold extra meaning for defensive linemen Rodas Johnson (Columbus), Isaiah Mullens (Columbus) and James Thompson Jr. (Cincinnati).
Johnson notes that every time he returns home, he has to hear from friends that UW can’t beat Ohio State.
“They say: ‘You go to Wisconsin? Aw,’” Johnson said.
Thompson has cousins who he calls typical Ohio State fans – face-painters.
“I am excited,” he said. “My family … they talk a lot of (crap). They always give me (crap) about not going there. I’m like: ‘I don’t care what you say. I love where I’m at.’
“It is all out of love. They always say: ‘I’m a fan of you but not of your team.’”
UW defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard did not win a Big Ten title as a player and has yet to experience that thrill since he joined Chryst’s staff in 2016. He did, however, go 3-1 against the Buckeyes during his time at UW (2001-2004).
“To me, the older you get as a player it is the urgency,” he said. “As a young player a lot of times it is: 'How do I establish a role? How do I make my own name? How do I get on the field?'
“As you get older you look outside of that a little bit more, at the program: 'What have we done? What has our class done? What is really that legacy of our class?'
“I think that is where it gets talked about it a lot.”
Regardless of the outcome Saturday in Columbus, the Badgers have enough playmakers on defense and offense to challenge for the title in a West Division that appears bereft of outstanding teams.
UW is allowing 8.0 points and 246.0 yards per game and Graham Mertz is completing 71.0% of his passes for an average of 232.3 yards per game.
“We’re going to take it week by week and truly enjoy the process,” Mertz said after UW's 66-7 victory over New Mexico State. “That is what I was so proud about this week. Guys after the loss (Washington State) … it fueled the guys.
“Everybody had a little reflection: 'How do I need to practice this week to ensure that I am doing my job on Saturday?'
“We’re more focused on how do we get better as a team.”
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Wisconsin fights to win Big Ten title for first time since 2012 season
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Milwaukee County Medical Examiner Brian Peterson has retired, effective immediately, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said in a statement Monday.
Peterson shared his intention to retire from his role earlier in the day, according to the statement.
"On behalf of Milwaukee County, I offer my deepest gratitude to Dr. Peterson for his many years of work and service," the statement said. "I wish him and his family a healthy and fulfilling retirement."
Peterson joined the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office in 2008 and was appointed to lead the office in 2010, according to a previous Journal Sentinel report.
Deputy Medical Examiner Wieslawa Tlomak will now serve as interim Milwaukee County Medical Examiner, the statement said.
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Milwaukee County Medical Examiner Brian Peterson retires
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Jake Cousins returns to Brewers bullpen; Aaron Ashby will start Tuesday vs. Mets
Finally, reinforcements are on the way for the Milwaukee Brewers' pitching staff.
On Monday, in advance of their three-game series against the New York Mets at American Family Field, the Brewers recalled right-hander Jake Cousins from Class AAA Nashville to bolster their bullpen.
Next up will be left-hander Aaron Ashby, who will be reinstated from the injured list and start Tuesday's game.
Ashby's return is especially noteworthy considering Milwaukee's need to bolster a rotation that has been short-handed due to injury as the team scrambles to earn a fifth consecutive postseason berth.
Aside from Ashby's absence – he's been on the IL since Aug. 20 with a left-shoulder issue – the Brewers have also been without left-hander Eric Lauer and right-hander Freddy Peralta, although they too could be back soon.
"We'll just see what we can get from Aaron," manager Craig Counsell said. "Full start, no, but he's been throwing the ball very well and feeling very good, so we'll just see how it goes."
Typically, a pitcher in Ashby's situation might make a start or two in the minor leagues to build up. But with time running short in the season, the Brewers will use Ashby in shorter stints while hoping for good production.
"We're making a decision, absolutely, with this number of games left, trying to pitch him," said Counsell of Ashby, who is 2-10 with a 4.85 earned run average and WHIP of 1.43 in 23 appearances (17 starts).
Ashby, who last pitched Aug. 19, has also struck out 116 in 96 ⅓ innings.
"Extending him in a minor-league game just cuts off another three or four days that with our pitching situation; we don't feel like we can afford right now," Counsell continued. "We don't have any health questions. It's just questions of getting more time on the mound that we're passing up on."
Lauer, who's eligible to be reinstated from the IL on Friday, should be ready to go at that point and probably won't be limited like Ashby because he hasn't missed as much time and has continued throwing since shortly after leaving his last start on Sept. 7 at Colorado with elbow tightness.
Same goes for Peralta, who was backed off with shoulder fatigue following his last start on Sept. 8. He's eligible to return the day after Lauer.
As for Cousins, he was on the IL from May 1-Aug. 24 with swelling in his elbow.
He was 1-0 with a 2.91 ERA and WHIP of 1.20 in 20 appearances and 30 strikeouts in 21 ⅔ innings at Nashville.
Last season, he was a valuable contributor out of the bullpen since making his major-league debut in late June, riding his tremendous slider to a 2.70 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 30 appearances (30 innings).
"He's the same guy. There's not going to be anything different," said Counsell. "He's ready to go and he's going to get used. Right now, where we're at it with the schedule and the games and the pitchers, we're expecting these guys are going to pitch.
"Everybody's going to pitch, and we're going to need good innings from everybody."
Right-hander Trevor Kelley was optioned to Nashville to clear space for Cousins on the 26-man roster.
Over five stints with Milwaukee, Kelley is 1-0 with a 6.08 ERA in 18 appearances. He last pitched Sunday against the New York Yankees and allowed a two-RBI, ninth-inning double to Aaron Judge.
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Mightier app uses video games to help kids with ADHD and autism regulate their emotions
A decade ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital started working to find a new therapy for children who have problems with emotional regulation. They wanted it to be a coping mechanism that was scientifically proven, and that kids would be excited to engage in.
They developed an app called Mightier that uses video games and a heart rate monitor to allow children to practice the skills they need to identify their emotions, reduce anxiety and calm down.
"They were working with lots of kids and families in Boston Children's Hospital who needed more help with emotional regulation than they got just through therapy, and they did randomized trials with them to test it out," said Emily Stone, a licensed social worker and lead clinical strategist at Mightier. "The families that used the app were reporting reduced outbursts and oppositional behavior from kids, which also decreased parents' stress."
With the positive results under their belt, Mightier was brought "out of academia" in 2018 and started selling directly to families all over the country through their website. Since then, the app has been used by more than 100,000 children, many of whom have been diagnosed with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder or oppositional defiant disorder.
The app includes about 30 mobile-based video games, which kids gravitate toward because they're both fun and familiar — racing games, puzzle games and games that are similar to ones they've played on their own gaming consoles or phones.
"There's a lot of educational software out there that are like, math or reading," said Stone. "But these are fun play-based games that kids gravitate toward. Kids can also look for something that speaks to them as they choose a game, like animals or racing."
More:Islands of Brilliance finds 'their way into' worlds of students with autism by embracing the things they're passionate about
While the child plays a game, they wear a heart rate monitor on their arm. When the game gets difficult, the child's heart rate often increases as they get frustrated. When that happens, the game adjusts by doing exactly the opposite of what you might expect. The game gets even more difficult to play.
In Crossy Ninja, a game where the player has to slice flying fruit while walking back and forth on a bridge, a heart rate in the "red zone" causes the character to pick up speed, making it harder to slice fruit. In Return of Invaders, players protect their planet by firing at invading ships, but while in the heart rate red zone, they can't control the direction of their fire. And in Super Best Ghost Game, the player controls a growing group of ghosts through different levels of puzzles. Most of the screen gets covered up while in the red zone.
"When a kid is playing a game and it suddenly gets harder, we know they want to go back to playing normally," said Stone. "So they're incentivized to use methods they've learned to calm down, which brings their heart rate back down and the game back to normal."
Those calming skills can be coping mechanisms the kids have learned in therapy or methods that are recommended by the Mightier app itself.
When children are in therapy sessions, the atmosphere is often calm and they're just recalling stressful situations as they relate them to the therapist, rather than experiencing them in the moment. Because of that, the coping mechanisms therapists suggest can feel too abstract for kids to grasp. Mightier addresses that issue by incentivizing them to use calming methods in a moment of stress and then immediately seeing results when the techniques work.
Stone said children who use the Mightier app often play the games during their therapy session so the therapist can help them identify their anxiety as their heart rate goes up, observe them using calming techniques to bring their heart rate back down and then reinforce how those skills can be used when they're in a "tricky situation" in their real lives.
"We would never say Mightier is a replacement for therapy," said Stone. "This is just another tool in the toolbox for people to use along with therapy, especially for kids who are in treatment and need additional skills to help."
How does the app get to kids who need it?
The Mightier app has been available for purchase through the website since 2018. It can be used on many mobile phones and devices, although Mightier will also send a device if needed. The games, calming techniques, heart rate monitor and a companion app for parents are available through a subscription fee that costs between $28 and $40 per month depending on the plan .
Stone said they've also worked with doctors, therapists and insurance providers to make the app available to kids who need it. And just recently, Mightier has partnered with the Wisconsin Children's Long-term Support System, which means that families who qualify for Medicaid can receive funding to pay for the Mightier device and monthly subscription fee.
"We've known for a long time that kids aren't getting what they need in mental health, and the pandemic has made that more clear to everyone," said Stone. "Working with CLTS helps more families get this tool sent right to their home that they can use along with services they're already getting."
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In first budget, Milwaukee Mayor Johnson reluctantly calls for cut in sworn police officers, fire engines, library hours
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson's first proposed city budget is the equivalent of a big wince, calling for cuts that he acknowledged he doesn't want to make in police, fire and library services.
The 2023 proposed budget, released Monday, calls for a 1% reduction in sworn police officers, the elimination of two fire engines, and substantial cuts in the hours and programming at five of the city's 12 neighborhood libraries.
"It's not that we don't want to fund them. It's that we don't have the resources to fund them or the resources to generate the revenue ourselves to fund them," Johnson told the Journal Sentinel.
Johnson has proposed a tax levy increase of 2% and an increase in most annual fees of 4%.
The tax levy of $311.2 million is $6.1 million higher than the 2022 levy.
The property tax rate has decreased to $9.16 per $1,000 of assessed home value.
The total budget is $1.7 billion — less than former Mayor Tom Barrett's adopted 2022 budget of $1.75 billion. The budget was higher last year in part because of federal pandemic aid.
As has become something of a budget tradition, the mayor's office blamed the state for some of its problems. On the first page of the proposal, it referenced 1995, when the Wisconsin state government stopped its tradition of shared revenue increases. Shared revenue is made up of sales, income and excise taxes paid in communities by residents, workers and visitors, and then distributed — or shared — back to those communities by the state.
The budget proposal said the city gets back less than it puts in, and that adjusted for inflation it receives $155 million less than in 2000.
"If the state doesn't fix the system, it seems like what you'll hear is this giant sucking sound of local government services that are being sucked out of not just Milwaukee, but communities all across the state," Johnson said.
Further, the proposal said the city continues to approach the brink of a fiscal cliff caused by the significant spike in the annual pension contribution. That is the second biggest driver of the city's structural budget gap — the difference between what city departments ask for, and what the administration believes the city can afford.
"I certainly don't want to see that, but those are the cards we're dealt right now," he added.
The mayor stressed that everything in the budget should be seen through this grim filter of limited shared revenue and perilous pension payments.
Reduction in sworn police officers
In the proposed budget, the average sworn strength in the police department would drop from 1,657 officers to 1,640. Two recruitment classes are set for for next year, one in the spring, one in the fall.
The reduction of fire engines would come in two stages, with one eliminated in January 2023 and one eliminated in July 2023. Milwaukee Budget Director Nik Kovac said the decision of which engines to cut will be decided by Milwaukee Fire Department Fire Chief Aaron Lipski.
The city divides its libraries into three geographic clusters — north, south and central.
Though city officials said they didn't know which specific branches would be targeted, it said four branch libraries — one each in the north and south clusters, two in the central — would remain at current service levels.
Four branches — two each in the north and south clusters — would reduce staffing and services. Computers and community rooms would be limited; programming would not be offered.
One branch in the central cluster would be closed temporarily.
The library system plans an expansion and redesign of its online and virtual resources as a means to continue reaching out to users, even as its physical operations are cut.
The budget proposal also included an item that is a high priority for the city, even though it doesn’t technically have a dollar amount attached. The Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Budget Management Division, continue to discuss how to “develop a set of racial equity tools that will guide our future management strategies.”
It called advancing racial equity a moral priority, and a guiding principle for this and future budgets.
The mayor is set to present his budget to the Common Council on Tuesday. The Common Council's Finance and Personnel Committee will hold hearings on the new proposed budget in late September and into October.
Residents will be able to weigh in during the Joint Public Hearing on Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m.
The committee's budget amendment days are scheduled for Oct. 27 and 28.
The Common Council is tentatively set to adopt the new budget on Nov. 4.
The mayor also painted a bleak picture of the years ahead, with locked-in state revenue, expiring federal grants, historically high inflation, and ever-higher pension costs.
"There's certainly a storm coming,” Johnson said in the interview.
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Go behind the scenes of these 11 places beyond downtown during Doors Open Milwaukee
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It's time for one of the city's biggest annual events: Doors Open Milwaukee.
More than 100 city and cultural landmarks will be open for behind-the-scenes tours and exploration Sept. 24-25.
And while downtown locations get a lot of attention — like Milwaukee City Hall and the Fiserv Forum — there's plenty to see and experience across the city's neighborhoods.
Here are a few places outside of downtown to check out during Doors Open, which is presented by Historic Milwaukee Inc.
North Milwaukee Arthaus
Open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 24, closed Sept. 25
A former firehouse built more than 100 years ago will be the new home of Quasimondo Physical Theatre, a local performance company.
The North Milwaukee Arthaus still has the original 56-foot tower when it served as the North Milwaukee Village Hall and Fire Station. North Milwaukee eventually became part of Milwaukee.
Join a tour of the new theater led by Brian Rott, Quasimondo's executive director, at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Sept. 24, or explore at your own pace.
Water Works Pumping Station
626 E. North Ave.
A 20-million-gallon pump is large. Now picture three of them.
The centrifugal pumps and giant transmission pipes will be on full display at the Milwaukee Water Works Kilbourn Reservoir Pumping Station. The station was decommissioned in 2004 when the reservoir was drained and a hill mounded over it.
Take a peek inside a rarely open building to learn more about water in Milwaukee and then head to the top of Reservoir Park for one of the best views of the city's skyline.
Green Tech Station
4101 N. 31st St.
A parcel of land that was once abandoned, blighted and contaminated is now home to an environmental laboratory, a research plaza and art installation for researchers and field trips for students of all ages.
The city of Milwaukee, a nonprofit called Reflo and the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation partnered to turn the former railway supply staging area into a place to learn about stormwater management, green infrastructure, the environment, brownfield redevelopment and clean energy.
The site is now home to 450 planted trees, 21,000 square feet of native prairie, a constructed wetland, a 20,000-gallon cistern to capture stormwater and art pieces scattered about.
Community Within the Corridor
3100 W. Center St.
Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept 24-25
Doors Open visitors will get an early look at the $68 million transformation of a former Briggs & Stratton industrial complex.
Spanning two blocks, the property will house almost 200 affordable apartments and 60,000 square feet of commercial and community space, including a courtyard, gym space, day care and development programs for youth and adults.
The complex includes six industrial buildings that date back to 1906 and have mainly been used for storage for decades. Redevelopment of the site began in spring 2021, and already about a third of the apartments are occupied.
The project has been spearheaded by a group of younger Black developers. You can view photos of their progress here.
The Collaborative Farm
5500 W. Silver Spring Drive
Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 24-25
The Collaborative Farm is a three-acre urban farm redesigned into a hybrid of a farm and public space.
The site includes a historical greenhouse from 1926, and inside there is an aquaponics system, a small music venue and public space. Outside, visitors can see space for animals and other forms of agriculture.
Visitors who attend the Doors Open event will receive a free pass to the Farm Music Festival, hosted by the Collaborative Farm Oct. 8-9.
Indigenous Milwaukee
App-based walking and bike tour
Available beginning Sept. 24
A former Coast Guard station the scene of a successful American Indian Movement occupation, a cemetery home to Mississippian mounds centuries old, and a boxing club started by a state Golden Glove champion on Milwaukee's south side.
All are stops on the Indigenous Milwaukee tour that will show what came before the city now known as Milwaukee, and how Native Americans continue to shape the city and its future.
The Coast Guard station at McKinley Park has been torn down, but 51 years ago, Native American activists took the building over, which had been vacated by the Coast Guard, and occupied it for several years. The building became one of the first homes of the Indian Community School, which was founded by three Oneida women who wanted their children's schooling to be informed by Indigenous culture, language and values. The school lives to this day in Franklin.
More:American Indians occupied Milwaukee's Coast Guard station 50 years ago. It was a uniquely successful operation.
Basilica of St. Josaphat
Open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 25
The Basilica of St. Josaphat is located Milwaukee’s south side. The parish, rich in Polish history, serves Milwaukee’s diverse Catholic community.
The Basilica’s history dates to 1888 and was made from parts of a demolished Chicago Federal building.
Visitors will learn about the challenges architects, religious leaders and parish members overcame to make the Basilica the historical treasure it is today.
Join for a guided tour Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. or explore on your own on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Havenwoods State Forest
6141 N. Hopkins St.
Open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 25
Wisconsin’s only urban state forest is located on Milwaukee’s north side. Encompassing 237 acres, Havenwoods State Forest is a place to hike, run, bike, and watch wildlife on over 6 miles of trails.
But the history of the forest is as diverse as the fauna that call it home. Once a family homestead in the mid-1800s, it was later the site of a jail and Army base — including a Nike missile site — and then a city landfill.
Visitors will learn how a vocal group of citizens, community leaders and public officials worked together to set this land aside as a green space in the middle of a large urban community.
The Havenwoods Nature Center is open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Doors Open visitors can join for a special Havenwoods history presentation at the start of the hour on Sunday only, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Valor Creative Collective
128 East Burleigh St.
See how a model-turned-carpenter is transforming a former historic bakery into a community resource center.
Tonda Thompson is the brains and brawn behind Valor MKE, a creative collective space that consists of a wood shop, photography and videography studio, and a resource center. The mission is to create a safe space to learn, encourage entrepreneurship, self-determination and physical and mental wellness in the community.
Hardhats are required as the building is under construction.
More:After picking up carpentry as hobby during COVID-19, this Milwaukee woman turned it into a profitable business
Lynden Sculpture Garden
2145 W. Brown Deer Road
Lynden Sculpture Garden combines art and nature, offering visitors a unique outdoor experience. The former estate of Harry and Peg Bradley contains more than 50 sculptures scattered across 40 acres of park, lake and woodlands.
The Bradleys purchased the original farmhouse, barn and cornfield in the 1920s. They began collecting sculptures in 1962.
During Doors Open, visitors can explore independently, take mini tours of the sculptures or take part in a self-guided activity.
HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apothecary
1819 N. King Drive
Striking the right balance in life is the mission of HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apothecary. HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apothecary is a “global community of homegrown healers" dedicated to helping people restore, maintain and improve their health and wellness.
The apothecary has become a resource for herbs, medicinal herbal teas, clean body products, and metaphysical healing tools. The apothecary partners with local creatives and healers to offer a wide array of products, and recently expanded to King Drive from its original location at 9141 W. Lisbon Ave.
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Aaron Richardson is the Democratic nominee for state treasurer. He was elected by a narrow margin during the primary election and has been vocal in his advocacy for the treasurer’s office to take a larger role in state government.
Richardson, the mayor of Fitchburg, will compete against Republican nominee John Leiber to replace current Treasurer Sarah Godlewski.
Here is a look at Richardson as he heads into the general election this fall.
Treasurers also may promote Wisconsin's unclaimed property program — an initiative based on a state law that requires businesses to provide all unclaimed money to the Department of Revenue to assist Wisconsinites searching for unclaimed assets.
Richardson hails from a Democratic stronghold
Richardson has served as the mayor of Fitchburg for three years, drawing on support and name recognition in deep blue Dane County, a region of the state where high turnout will be essential for Democratic victories in November.
Richardson earned a business degree from UW-Green Bay and his MBA from UW-Whitewater. Though he lives and works in the greater Madison area, Richardson has emphasized his time in Green Bay and relatives near La Crosse as evidence of his potential appeal to wider swaths of voters.
Richardson has experience in local government and education
Prior to his election as mayor of Fitchburg, Richardson served on the city council and the parks and recreation commission. He also worked in tech support for the Oregon School District. Richardson has capitalized on his work managing the Fitchburg budget and operating in a public school setting as experiences that prepare him to manage a multibillion-dollar trust fund and distribute cash to state schools.
What are Richardson’s notable policy positions?
Richardson voiced a desire to wield the treasurer’s office as an instrument to improve statewide financial literacy and expand investments in solar energy.
He has also signaled support for implementing a program piloted in Fitchburg during his tenure as mayor that allows local government to purchase housing, rent living spaces out to tenants for a discounted price and allocate a portion of each month’s rent to a down payment on the residences, providing renters an opportunity to purchase the spaces for themselves.
Why did Richardson enter the race?
Richardson said he threw his hat in the ring for state treasurer to build upon work started by Godlewski and implement programs such as the Fitchburg housing initiative and perusing similarly lofty green energy goals statewide as the plan to rely on 85% renewable sources in Fitchburg by 2025.
How popular is Richardson?
Richardson’s popularity statewide is difficult to gauge, as he won his primary by just under 9,000 votes. He was elected mayor of Fitchburg by a margin of almost 60% in 2019 and won reelection overwhelmingly in 2020.
How do I contact Aaron Richardson?
Richardson can be reached by calling the mayor’s office at 608-270-4215.
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What to know about Aaron Richardson, Democrat running for treasurer
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John Leiber is the Republican nominee for state treasurer. He has taken a small-government-minded approach to the office — a stance that set him apart from both his Democratic counterparts and his primary opponent from within his own party.
He is running to replace outgoing Treasurer Sarah Godlewski and wrest the office from Democratic party hands.
Here’s a look at Leiber as he prepares to take on Democrat and Fitchburg Mayor Aaron Richardson in the general election.
Treasurers promote Wisconsin's unclaimed property program — an initiative based on a state law that requires businesses to provide all unclaimed money to the Department of Revenue to assist Wisconsinites searching for unclaimed assets.
Leiber worked in county-level politics
Leiber sat on the board of the Racine County Republican Party. Chairman Ken Brown said Lieber was instrumental in working toward major conservative priorities such as organizing for Republican candidates and leading efforts to break up area school districts. He recently earned a law degree from UW-Madison.
Leiber leaned on his experience working in a managerial position as a conservative in a purple county as potential assets in his pitch to voters in November.
Leiber worked in the state Legislature and bureaucracy
In addition to his time with the Racine County GOP, Leiber worked as a legislative aide in Madison for Republicans in the Assembly. Leiber also said he worked for the Department of Revenue looking over tax returns.
What are Leiber’s notable policy positions?
Leiber has branded himself as a “fiscal conservative” who hopes to "advocate for fiscal restraint.” On numerous occasions, he has voiced opposition to expanding the powers of the treasurer’s office.
Leiber said he believes other state agencies are currently better equipped to handle the previous responsibilities of the treasurer that were transferred to them over time than the office he is running for.
His stance puts him at a stark contrast to Democrats who have called on the treasurer to take up a more active role in rolling out social programs and investing in green energy and climate resiliency initiatives.
Why did Leiber enter the race?
Leiber said he entered the race out of frustration with Godlewski, who he claimed was inflating the responsibilities of the treasurer’s office. He has said he believes Godlewski, who spearheaded an effort to prevent the position from being eliminated entirely, used the position as a steppingstone to run for U.S. Senate. Godlewski this year ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Ron Johnson.
Leiber also said he hoped to oversee state budgets in a fashion aimed at cutting what he described as excessive spending, but the office does not have that power.
How popular is Leiber?
Leiber is mounting his first bid for statewide office this year, making his current popularity among the general electorate of Wisconsin relatively unknown. Leiber won the lion’s share of the vote in the Republican primary, however, defeating his opponent Orlando Owens by more than 171,000 votes.
How do I contact Leiber?
The Leiber campaign can be reached at lieberfortreasurer@gmail.com.
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Nickel: Delafield outdoors athlete promotes health benefits of nature immersion in new book
We already know it’s good for us. But going outside may be more than instinctive. There’s a reason we feel so good when we’re moving our bodies in the waters and hills outside, and breathing in the fresh air.
And a Delafield resident and multi-sport amateur athlete has self-published a book to help explain it.
Anne Wall, who worked for the Olympics and Paralympics, was like so many of us 2½ years ago: When the pandemic shut things down in the spring of 2020, she went outside. And felt better for it.
“I knew I felt good, I knew I felt energized. I didn't understand the cascade of neuro chemicals that were being given off,” Wall said. “Even just sitting by the water's edge allows us to relieve some of the stress that we might have been carrying.
"Whether you're doing moving meditation, sight active silence, sports engagement, or whether you're simply practicing mindfulness through stillness and nature – all of those things are health-promoting.”
For that reason, Wall wants us to continue paddling, biking and trekking outside.
Wall was born in Milwaukee and now splits her residence between Delafield and Montana. She was once the corporate secretary and a board member of the Pettit National Ice Center and spent most of her business career in branding and sports marketing with the Olympic and Paralympic movements. She was an Olympic torchbearer and a brand protection manager for the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, and she also worked at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing.
She participates in a dozen amateur sports – the silent sports – all outdoors.
Wall began compiling the idea for her book, "Awaken in Nature. Discover Your True Self," during the early stages of the pandemic when being outside felt restorative for her physical and mental health.
“I learned that if we look for the good in every situation, we can find it, and sometimes it's very challenging to do that,” Wall said. “During the lockdown, I spent a lot more time by myself and in nature. I really felt connected with the outdoors and felt that we are interdependent on nature for our survival. The water that hydrates us, the air that we breathe, the food that nourishes us, and how important it is to protect nature for future generations.
“Awaken to Nature really is a call for people to reconnect with what energizes us – and that's our natural surroundings. So my hope was that it would help people rediscover their true self in nature.”
Wall said she’s been interested in the studies that indicate nature immersion has been linked to significant physical, emotional and psychological health benefits. She has several links to those researched materials on her website, soulforcecreative.com.
But her book is a first-person account. Wall explains that skiing, biking, running and walking – in all conditions – teaches perseverance and fortitude. And people tend to be more engaged, and re-engage more often, with outdoor sports, she said. Aerobic sports with a rhythm can even let mind wander. And that’s a break from being plugged up with earbuds or plugged into a device.
Wall said the terminology varies: biophilia or eco therapy or forest therapy. But the consistent theme is the mental and physical health benefits.
“I refer to it as nature immersion because I don't limit it to the forest. But when you're out in the forest there's essential oils that are given off by the trees that are actually health promoting and can positively affect your immune system,” Wall said.
She also painted a lot of the scenes that she felt a connection with and that art is included in the book. The front cover features Glacier National Park, but several scenes are from Wisconsin's Lake Country.
Wall's book can be purchased through the Soulforce Creative website.
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These are the great running backs the Wisconsin Badgers have had in their history (especially recently)
Sophomore tailback Braelon Allen has already left a major impression on University of Wisconsin football, starting with his 1,268-yard rushing performance over 12 games in his freshman season in 2021 and continuing into year No. 2.
Allen, a Fond du Lac alumnus who reclassified in high school to join the team a year early (and famously at age 17), worked his way up to a starter's role despite opening the season buried on the depth chart, behind Jalen Berger and Chez Mellusi, not to mention Isaac Guerendo, Julius Davis and maybe even Brady Schipper. Allen finished the year with 12 touchdowns.
He may be the next great running back from a program that has developed a reputation as a proving ground for elite ball carriers. Take a look at a legacy of great Badgers running backs:
Jonathan Taylor (2017-19)
At UW: 6,174 rushing yards, 55 total touchdowns
Draft: Second-round pick (41st overall) by Indianapolis Colts in 2020, two NFL seasons
In the pros (through 2021): 2,980 yards, 32 total touchdowns
A three-time all-Big Ten selection at Wisconsin, Taylor set the record for most rushing yards through three seasons, and he would have almost certainly set the NCAA record had he not gone to the NFL after his junior season of eligibility. He twice won the Doak Walker Award for the nation's best running back. He went on to lead the NFL in rushing yards and become a first-team All-Pro in his second NFL season, with a runner-up finish in the league's offensive player of the year voting. He set the NCAA freshman rushing record with 1,977 yards at Wisconsin.
Corey Clement (2013-16)
Draft: Undrafted in 2017, five NFL seasons
In the pros: 795 rushing yards, 10 total touchdowns
The first-team All Conference choice worked his way up with the Philadelphia Eagles and appeared in Super Bowl LII, winning a championship when his team defeated the New England Patriots.
Melvin Gordon (2011-14)
Draft: First-round pick (15th) by San Diego Chargers in 2015, eight NFL seasons
In the pros (through 2021): 6,144 rushing yards, 67 total touchdowns
The unanimous All-American won the Doak Walker Award for the nation's best running backs in 2014 and was a Heisman Trophy finalist that season, taking second in the voting behind Marcus Mariota. The Kenosha native rushed for 251 yards in his final college game to help the Badgers win the 2015 Outback Bowl in overtime, but more memorably, he ran for 408 yards in a win over Nebraska on Nov. 15, 2014, setting a single-game NCAA record (albeit one that only stood for one week). In the pros, he's made two Pro Bowls with the Chargers, and the 2022 season marks his third with the Denver Broncos. He's started double-digit NFL games in each of his pro seasons.
James White (2010-13)
Draft: Fourth round pick (130th) by New England Patriots in 2014, eight NFL seasons
In the pros: 1,278 rushing yards, 36 total touchdowns
In the pros, White was more of a receiver (3,278 receiving yards, 25 touchdowns) than rusher, a perfect fit for the Patriots system and winning three Super Bowls in the process, not to mention a spot on the Patriots All-2010s team. The Florida native was Big Ten freshman of the year in 2010 and often didn't get the same fanfare as teammates Montee Ball and Melvin Gordon. There's a strong case to be made that White should have been the MVP of the Super Bowl after the 2017 season — he scored the winning touchdown in overtime to cap a wild comeback over Atlanta.
Montee Ball (2009-2012)
Draft: Second-round pick (58th) by Denver Broncos in 2013, two NFL seasons
In the pros: 731 rushing yards, 5 total touchdowns
The two-time Big Ten running back of the year won the Doak Walker Award in 2012 commemorating the nation's best running back and broke a number of records along the way. He set the Big Ten's single-season rushing touchdown record in 2011 and broke Ron Dayne's career rushing touchdown record in 2012, on his way to becoming the FBS record holder for total touchdowns when he scored his 79th rushing touchdown on Nov. 24, 2012, against Penn State. He scored touchdowns in three straight Rose Bowls (2011-14). Though his pro career was brief, he led the team with six carries in Super Bowl XLVII as Denver lost to Seattle, 43-8.
John Clay (2008-10)
Draft: Undrafted in 2011, one NFL season
In the pros: 41 rushing yards, one total touchdown
Clay briefly saw action in two games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2011, getting one carry in the team's lone postseason game that year. The Racine native was named Big Ten offensive player of the y ear in 2009 and earned MVP of the 2009 Champs Sports Bowl when the Badgers upset Miami, 20-14, and Clay ran for 121 yards and two touchdowns. He was a finalist for the Doak Walker Award.
P.J. Hill (2006-08)
At UW: 3,942 career rushing yards, 44 total touchdowns
Draft: Undrafted in 2009, two NFL seasons
In the pros: Did not play
Hill ran for 1,569 yards as a freshman but began to lose carries in the subsequent years and turned pro after his junior season (after which he was still the program's third-leading rusher, and he still ran for no less than 1,100 yards each season). Hill didn't get drafted, however, and his NFL experience was limited to preseason; he ran for three touchdowns in a game for the Saints after signing a three-year deal as an undrafted free agent in 2009, and he spent time with Washington and Philadelphia on practice squads, as well.
Brian Calhoun (2005)
Draft: Third-round pick (74th) by Detroit Lions in 2006, two NFL seasons
In the pros: 54 rushing yards, two total touchdowns
The graduate of Oak Creek High School transferred after two years at Colorado and became a second-team All-American in his lone season, with an MVP nod in the 2006 Capital One Bowl when UW shocked Auburn, 24-10 and Calhoun ran for 213 yards and the winning touchdown. He left a year early for the draft and was taken in the third round but wound up on injured reserve after tearing an ACL.
Anthony Davis (2001-2004)
Draft: Seventh-round pick (243rd) by Indianapolis Colts in 2005
In the pros: Canadian Football League
The 2001 Big Ten freshman of the year is still in the top five in program history in both career rushing yardage and single-game yardage from his 301-yard performance against Minnesota in 2002, in which he ran for a program-best five touchdowns. His pro career was limited to a couple seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League.
Michael Bennett (1999-2000)
Draft: First-round pick (27th) by Minnesota Vikings in 2001, 10 NFL seasons
After two years backing up Ron Dayne, the speed demon from Bradley Tech in Milwaukee got his shot and had a breakout junior season with 1,681 yards rushing in just 11 games. In the pros, Bennett made the Pro Bowl with Minnesota in 2002 and wound up playing for Kansas City, Tampa Bay, San Diego and Oakland. His WIAA state track and field records in the 100 and 200 meters have remained intact since 1998.
Ron Dayne (1996-1999)
Draft: First-round pick (11th) by New York Giants in 1999, seven NFL seasons
In the pros: 3,722 rushing yards, 6 total touchdowns
The gold standard for Badgers running backs, Dayne won the Heisman Trophy in 1999 and racked up an NCAA-record 6,397 rushing yards plus 728 in bowl games. Technically, that combined total of 7,125 should remain an NCAA record today, though it's a bit complicated.
The NCAA's stat-keeping changed when it started counting bowl-game yardage during the 2002-03 football season, so Donnel Pumphrey of San Diego State officially has the honor with 6,405 yards, including the postseason yardage. The offical NCAA record book doesn't give Dayne (or anyone else before 2002-03) credit for bowl-game y
Dayne was a two-time Rose Bowl MVP and won a slew of awards (Maxwell, Walter Camp, Doak Walker), and his number 33 is planted on the façade at Camp Randall Stadium. He played in the pros with the Giants, Broncos and Texans, and though he wasn't able to replicate his college magic, he remains one of the icons of Wisconsin sports.
Carl McCullough (1993-97)
At UW: 2,111 rushing yards, 9 total touchdowns
McCullough often gets forgotten as the man Dayne supplanted as starting running back, but he did rush for 1,038 yards as a sophomore the year before Dayne arrived and still got a shot with the practice squad of the Bills and Vikings before playing pro football in Germany.
Terrell Fletcher (1991-94)
Draft: Second-round pick (51st) by San Diego Chargers in 1995, eight NFL seasons
Could there have been a better backfield in program history than Fletcher and Moss, both of whom remain in the program's all-time top 10 for rushing yards? OK, probably the White-Clay-Ball trio in 2010, but this was a good one at an important time in UW history. Fletcher surged as a senior with Moss sidelined, racking up 1,476 yards after three productive years. In San Diego, he was a major receiving threat with 1,943 yards receiving.
Brent Moss (1991-94)
In the pros: 90 rushing yards, 0 touchdowns
The Racine native led the Badgers to their first Rose Bowl berth in 30 years and rushed for 158 yards in the 21-16 win over UCLA after the 1993 season, garnering the game MVP award. He was a sensation for the Badgers, but legal troubles compelled a suspension to short-circuit his 1994 season, and he went undrafted (though did play four games with the Rams and appeared in other professional leagues).
Don't forget about
Alan Ameche (1951-54): The Heisman Trophy winner in 1954 has his number retired after running for 3,345 yards in his career and the Badgers' first 1,000-yard season with 1,079 in 1952. He's one of the signature names in UW history and was taken third in the 1955 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts.
Billy Marek (1972-75): With 3,709 rushing yards, he's still eighth in program history, and he racked up 46 touchdowns, almost all of which in just three seasons.
Mark Montgomery (1990-93): He shared the field with some star players but was consistent and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1994.
Larry Emery (1983-86): Rushing for 2,979 yards and 19 touchdowns, Emery went on to be selected in the 12th round of the 1987 draft by the Atlanta Falcons, and he played in five games as a kick returner.
Dare Ogunbowale (2013-16): This steady option out of the backfield at UW is in his sixth NFL season after signing as an undrafted free agent.
Rufus Ferguson (1970-72): He ran for 2,814 yards and was responsible for 26 touchdowns. Ferguson was selected in the 16th round of the 1973 draft by the Falcons, although he didn't record any NFL game experience.
Alan Thompson (1969-71): He rushed for 2,0005 yards and 22 touchdowns and was taken in the 14th round of the 1972 draft by the Cowboys.
Gary Ellerson (1981-83): Ellerson ran for 1,106 yards and scored 14 touchdowns and then played two seasons with the Green Bay Packers and one with the Lions before becoming a Milwaukee-area radio personality.
Ira Matthews (1975-78): He rushed for more than 1,600 yards and 13 touchdowns for UW and then made his mark in the pros as a return man, making the All-Pro team as a rookie. His Oakland Raiders squad won Super Bowl XV, and he spent three seasons in the league after getting selected in the sixth round of the 1979 draft.
Dan Lewis (1956-57): He rushed for 1,165 yards over two seasons with nine touchdowns and then played eight years in the NFL, mostly with the Detroit Lions, leading the team in rushing twice.
The fullbacks: Wisconsin has always had a history of talented fullbacks, including College Football Hall of Famer Pat Harder and current NFL player Derek Watt (graduated in 2015). Cecil Martin, Bradie Ewing and Alec Ingold have also been drafted or competed in the NFL. Rich Reichardt was the fullback on the Badgers Rose Bowl Team in 1963 and then played Major League Baseball for a decade with the Angels, Senators, White Sox and Royals. Montgomery also served as a fullback blocking for Moss and Fletcher.
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Braelon Allen follows star running backs in Wisconsin football history
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If Wisconsin upsets Ohio State on Sept. 24, it surely will count as a significant upset and perhaps one of the better showings against Ohio State in program history.
The Badgers haven't beaten OSU since 2010 and own an overall record of 18-61-5 against the Buckeyes. Ouch. At least when the wins do happen, they're a big deal.
Take a look at some of the most memorable showings for Bucky against the Buckeyes, honing in specifically on the past 50 years.
10. Don Morton's first Big Ten win (1987)
An 0-5 Badgers team got coach Don Morton his first Big Ten win, 26-24, with a bit of good fortune and some sloppy playing conditions. Three times that season, UW had been beaten by fourth-quarter field goals, but OSU's Matt Frantz missed a 22-yard chip shot with 6:57 left on fourth and goal.
9. National respect (1992)
The Badgers won a Big Ten opener for the first time since 1981 and beat a ranked opponent for the first time since downing OSU in 1985. If you wanted a sign the program was on the rise, look no further than Wisconsin's 20-16 win over the No. 12 team in the country at Camp Randall.
It was a game in which redshirt freshman Darrell Bevell wrestled away firm control of the starting quarterback spot, Brent Moss ran a workmanlike 80 yards with two touchdowns, and fans stormed the field and tore down goal posts.
Wisconsin, unfortunately would lose four of its next five games and finish the season with a losing mark at 5-6 overall.
8. Ruining their Roses (1985)
The Buckeyes' Rose Bowl hopes took a fatal blow when Ohio State fumbled three times in the second half, including one that was picked up and returned for a touchdown by freshman Marvin Artley with 3:25 to go in the third quarter.
That was enough for UW to score an improbable 12-7 victory in Columbus. Junior Larry Emery cleared 1,000 yards in the game and became the first UW rusher to hit that mark in a decade.
7. The shutout (1982)
Winning in Columbus for the first time since 1918 (and the first time ever in the 60-year history of Ohio Stadium), the Badgers survived a 6-0 battle in steady rain. Wisconsin scored on its first drive for the game's only points. With quarterback Randy Wright nursing a badly injured thumb, the Wisconsin defense rose to the occasion, including Brad Grabow's fumble recovery with OSU driving into Wisconsin territory with 8:33 left.
6. It's blocked (1993)
In the moment, a 14-14 tie was a devastating blow to the Badgers' Rose Bowl dream. Rick Schnetzy's 33-yarder with less than 10 seconds remaining was blocked by Ohio State cornerback Marlon Kerner, leaving the teams deadlocked before overtime became part of college football. The 15th-ranked Badgers fell to 4-1-1 and Ohio State kept its lead in the conference at 5-0-1. Wisconsin even fell to third, with Illinois (5-1) moving into second.
"It feels like a loss," Badgers cornerback said. "We had the game and gave it up."
But Wisconsin handled Illinois in its next game, 35-10, and Ohio State lost on the same day at Michigan. The Badgers won in Tokyo over Michigan State to move to 6-1-1, tied with Ohio State, and earned the Rose Bowl berth on tiebreaker. Now the tie felt like a win, and the Badgers made the most of it by going on to topple UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
5. The magical run continues (1981)
Wisconsin defeated No. 18 OSU at Camp Randall Stadium and was suddenly thinking about a bowl game, with a 3-0 record in the conference after opening the year with an unforgettable win over No. 1 Michigan.
Wisconsin hadn't beaten the Buckeyes since 1959 but snagged three interceptions and recovered two fumbles for the 24-21 win. Quarterback Jess Cole, who suffered injured ribs on the first play of the game, gutted it out and helped the Badgers rally from a 14-6 deficit before half, with Wendell Gladem's 50-yard field goal as time expired in the first half giving the Badgers a foothold.
Ohio State scored with 38 seconds left, but the defense had done its job. Wisconsin, unfortunately, would lose its next two games and had to settle for the Garden State Bowl against Tennessee — nonetheless the program's first bowl game since the 1962 season.
4. The Columbus Kid (1984)
In the rain and missing injured tailback Larry Emery, the Badgers clawed their way to a 16-14 victory against an eventual Rose Bowl-qualifying OSU team before a national TV audience on CBS.
The upset over the No. 6 team in the country came thanks in large part to an unlikely hero. Backup running back Marck Harrison, a Columbus native who wasn't wanted by OSU, ran 31 times for 203 yards. It was the first start at tailback for the fifth-year senior, and he'd never gained more than 60 yards in a game before.
3. Wisconsin's point of resurrection (1999)
Ron Dayne ran for 161 yards and four touchdowns, helping the Badgers overcome a 17-0 deficit to crush the No. 12-ranked Buckeyes in Columbus, 42-17. Two weeks earlier, the Badgers had lost to unranked Cincinnati and then they missed their chance at an upset against No. 4 Michigan, dropping out of the national rankings in the process.
But in this game against a team ranked No. 12 at the time, first-time starter Brooks Bollinger and the Badgers bit back after a sluggish start. Ryan Marks forced a fumble on the second-half kickoff return with OSU ahead, 17-6, and Bobby Myers recovered at the Buckeyes' 14-yard line. Dayne scored to make it 17-12, and the defense held Ohio State to minus-8 yards on three plays on the next series after OSU rolled up 238 yards in the first half. UW took the lead and never looked back.
Wisconsin finished the Big Ten season at 7-1 and reached a second straight Rose Bowl.
2. Schabert to Evans (2003)
Booker Stanley, taking the reins for injured running back Anthony Davis, compiled 125 yards on 31 carries in the rain against the nation's best rushing defense and the Badgers prevailed against the defending national champs, 17-10, and handed the No. 3 team in the nation its first loss in 19 games.
Quarterback Matt Schabert, entering the game in place of injured Jim Sorgi, found Lee Evans for a 79-yard touchdown bomb with 5 minutes and 20 seconds left to break the 10-10 tie.
1. David Gilreath starts it with a bang (2010)
You knew this one would be at the top of the list, right?
David Gilreath returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown under the lights in a moment that might represent the loudest in Camp Randall Stadium history.
With ESPN's "College GameDay" in town for the clash that featured No. 1 OSU, the event turned into an all-day festival, culminating with Wisconsin downing a top-ranked team for the first time since 1981.
John Clay became the first player in 29 games to rush for 100 yards on Ohio State when he went for 104 and two touchdowns, and Scott Tolzien found Nick Toon for six receptions and 72 yards. James White ran it in from 10 yards midway through the fourth with Wisconsin nursing a 21-18 lead, and the Badgers went on to win, 31-18.
More:Gilreath enjoys revisiting upset of Buckeyes
Even in defeat...
Some Badgers-Buckeyes games that went OSU's way still had their moments.
Half enough? (2019): Can one half of football count as a highlight? The Badgers came into the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis as major underdogs but sprinted out to a 14-0 lead behind Jonathan Taylor and Jack Coan. Then Coan's 1-yard run with 10 seconds left gave the Badgers a stunning 21-7 edge at halftime.
But the Buckeyes had tied the game within the first 4:15 of the second half and went on to win 34-21, despite 157 yards rushing and a touchdown from Taylor in the final season of his electric career.
A record for Montee (2012): Ohio State won the game in overtime and finished the Big Ten season at 7-0, but since the Buckeyes were ineligible for the Big Ten title game, Wisconsin knew it was heading to the Big Ten Championship Game two weeks later.
Montee Ball tied the major-college career record with his 78th career touchdown, a 7-yard run in the second quarter. But Wisconsin ultimately fell in the extra session, 21-14.
An unforgettable close call (2011): Braxton Miller's 40-yard touchdown pass with 20 seconds left gave OSU a 33-29 win, part of an unforgettable back-to-back showing for Russell Wilson's Badgers, who had lost to Michigan State the week before on a miracle pass as time expired. Wilson had found Jared Abbrederis for two fourth-quarter touchdowns, with the latter giving the Badgers the 29-26 lead with 1:18 remaining.
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Wisconsin Badgers football team's best moments against Ohio State
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WAUKESHA - Along the streets where the horrors of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade still hang in the air, the city has OK'd a plan to bring a more tangible way to honor those killed and hurt.
But there's still a lot more to be done before two memorials honoring victims and celebrating the community's unity are ready to be constructed.
Members of the Waukesha Parade Memorial Commission selected Thrive Architects to design and implement both memorials in downtown Waukesha along and near the parade route where an SUV struck parade participants, killing six, nearly nine months ago.
For Thrive, a Waukesha-based company, its role in creating the memorial is beside the point.
"We're honored and humbled, but ... this isn't really about us," said Jeremy Bartlett, the principal owner. "It's a memorial. At the end of the day, we want to fade into the background. This is about the victims, the first responders and the people who were at that parade and were affected."
The firm's South Street office is a block away from the parade route downtown. The parade commission on Sept. 13 selected Thrive's proposal from among five applicants for a Main Street memorial and another three applicants for a larger memorial in Grede Park on Wisconsin and St. Paul avenues off the west end of Main Street.
The memorials will be built at the Five Points and Grede Park
In Thrive's presentations and a subsequent interview, Bartlett said the task his firm undertook to create two memorials — separated by several blocks but sharing a common design — tried to capture the sense of tragedy and healing simultaneously.
"I can say I share with everyone the emotions — first the shock, and I think the reality of walking the police line the next morning to get to our office," he said. "From that day on, we all thought about ways we could pick the community up.
"This isn't about being unhappy forever," he added. "This is about taking something that was terrible and turn(ing) it into something positive. So, today, that's what we're here to do."
As such, Thrive's plans both recalls the tragedy — six metal ribbons, meant to represent the six people killed, are a key part of the designs — and tries to deliver a message of "healing and caring," Bartlett said in a separate interview.
The smaller downtown memorial, which will stand at the Five Points intersection, would allow the linked ribbons to flow into an eye-catching design that also carries the words "Waukesha Strong" and the date of the attack.
At Grede Park, the larger memorial that includes walkways and landscaping, the ribbons would form a six-layer heart at the center with swirling concrete accents around it.
Memorials will likely be complete by September 2023
Much remains before the plan comes together in time for spring construction and completion in September 2023.
While the final design will largely incorporate Thrive's concepts, the parade memorial group also pointed to some potential revisions using other ideas presented to the commission in August.
Notable among those was TV celebrity Carmen De La Paz's three-piece sculpture, a design that featured a hands-and-heart theme.
“I pored over all these quite a lot, and I found elements of almost each proposal that I thought were really great,” said Commissioner Dan Taylor.
Bartlett, who said revisions will likely take place over the next few weeks, said he is looking forward to collaborating with De La Paz, who he previously worked with on a local board in 2021 and whose ideas in design he appreciates.
"She and I have spoken quite a bit, and so I'm really comfortable and happy that we're all joined together and we are going to move forward into something we are all passionately looking to give back to Waukesha," he said.
Despite the fact that the central design has been accepted, the plan for the two memorials is still in the earliest of stages.
"The wild thing is we're just getting started," Bartlett said. "Now we need to hire structural engineer. We need to hire a civil engineer. We'll have a landscape architect who can help us, and there will be a few other consultants."
The city has also encouraged the designers to individually talk with family members of the victims to see what they would like to see in the final design, Bartlett added.
Parade memorial fund is still seeking donations
At the Sept. 13 meeting, Rebecca Pederson, assistant to the mayor and city administrator, told the committee that it should shift its discussions toward fundraising. To date, less than $10,000 has been contributed to the memorial fund administered by the Waukesha County Community Foundation.
Thrive Architect estimated the project at between $150,000 and $180,000. But Bartlett doubted the actual costs would come close to that estimate, based on the willingness of residents to donate their time and materials to the effort.
Ultimately, the site plans would have to be approved by the city's Plan Commission, Community Development Director Jennifer Andrews told the parade commission.
The memorial planning process coincides with the anticipated trial of the man accused in the parade attack. Darrell Brooks Jr., 40, of Milwaukee, is facing 77 criminal counts and remains in custody on $5 million cash bail. His trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 3.
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Waukesha Christmas Parade memorial designs approved by the city
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After winning two of three nonconference games, Wisconsin opens Big Ten play at powerful Ohio State, ranked No. 3 in the country.
Here's what you should know about the college football game between the Badgers (2-1) and the Buckeyes (3-0) on Saturday at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
What's the TV channel for Wisconsin vs. Ohio State?
ABC (Channel 12 in Milwaukee and Channel 2 in the Green Bay/Appleton region)
What's the radio station for Wisconsin vs. Ohio State?
Can I livestream the Wisconsin vs. Ohio State game?
Streaming is available on fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, and YouTube TV.
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Hartland woman killed after being hit by car driven by 90-year-old
A 71-year-old Hartland woman has died after she was hit by a car Monday morning in the village of Hartland.
Police have not released the name of the victim.
The Hartland Police Department responded to the incident at about 11:13 a.m. at Merton Avenue and East Capitol Drive.
First responders discovered the woman and her dog had been struck by a vehicle driven by a 90-year-old Delafield woman, according to a news release from the police department.
The Hartland Fire Department took the Hartland woman to the Aurora Medical Center in Summit. Several hours later, the Waukesha County Medical Examiner told police she had succumbed to her injuries.
This incident remains under investigation by the Hartland Police Department.
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Fire and Police Commission expands to 8 members for the first time after two more appointment confirmation
For the first time in its 137-year history, Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission now has more than seven members.
The civilian oversight board – one of the oldest and most powerful of its kind in the nation – expanded to eight members Tuesday when the Common Council unanimously approved the confirmations of Ruben Burgos, a former police lieutenant turned university lecturer, and Gerard Washington, a former Milwaukee assistant fire chief who is now the fire chief in Menomonee Falls.
The confirmations would have filled out the board to the maximum of nine members allowed by state law – a stated goal of Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s and something long desired by community members – were it not for the resignation of Commissioner Joan Kessler for personal reasons Sept. 6.
The commission has typically only had seven members at a time, and Todd said last week it has never expanded beyond that number before.
Jeff Fleming, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, said Johnson intends to act promptly to fill a ninth seat, but did not have an estimated timeline for the next appointee.
The council confirmed the two appointees without discussion Tuesday. At a committee meeting earlier this month, the executive director of the Fire and Police Commission, Leon Todd, said the expanded membership of the commission allows for greater representation and for each member to perform better under a significant workload.
Appointments to the Fire and Police Commission are made by the mayor and confirmed by the Common Council. The commission has the power to hire and fire police and fire chiefs and preside over disciplinary proceedings for members of both departments.
The confirmations continue to bolster a Fire and Police Commission that has been almost completely revamped after the legally flawed move to oust former Police Chief Alfonso Morales in 2020, which cost taxpayers $627,000 in settlement payments and just under $60,000 to an outside attorney hired to represent the city in the matter.
Just one commissioner remains from that decision – Fred Crouther, whose term expires in 2024. Those around him have been replaced by commissioners with expertise in the legal field, police-community relations, youth mentorship in Milwaukee and sex trafficking and sexual assault.
Burgos and Washington, two lifelong Milwaukee residents, will now bring a combined 55 years of experience as first-responders in their hometown to the commission.
Burgos retired from the Milwaukee Police Department as a lieutenant after a 30-year career in 2013. He soon after became a lecturer in criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. He is also the president of the board of directors for the Wisconsin Hispanic Scholarship Foundation.
Washington spent 25 years in the Milwaukee Fire Department by the time he left as an assistant fire chief in 2019. He has been chief in Menomonee Falls since 2020 and is a board member for Diverse + Resilient, which serves the LGBTQ+ community.
At a committee meeting on Sept. 9, council members pressed Burgos and Washington on their ability to stay objective during disciplinary matters. Both pointed out they had a hand in those activities at their respective departments as an assistant fire chief and police lieutenant.
Burgos said corrective discipline can lead to changed behavior among officers and spoke positively about his experience being disciplined as a younger officer for his temper and language.
Former Milwaukee Fire Chief Mark Rohlfing said in a letter of recommendation Washington previously collaborated with the Fire and Police Commission and city attorneys to update most of the Fire Department’s discipline matrices, its code of conduct and rule book when he was a member of the department.
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There could be an alligator on the loose in Kewaskum, according to the police department
An alligator on the loose in Kewaskum? Possibly.
On Sunday, the Kewaskum Police Department received a report of an alligator in the Reigle Family Park pond, Chief Thomas Bishop said in a post on the department's Facebook page.
Police received assistance from the state's Department of Natural Resources, but the reptile was not located, according to the post.
"The DNR states that if there is an alligator it may be a black caiman alligator that was raised domestically, but then was set free by its owner," the post said.
If anyone sees the alligator, they should contact the police department (262-626-2323) or the DNR (1-888-936-7463).
The chief also asked potential witnesses to try to get a photo so it can be positively identified.
According to Britannica and an international database of crocodilian attacks, black caimans were reported to have attacked 43 people between 2008 and 2013. Adult male black caimans may be longer than 13 feet. It is not known how large the alligator may be.
If it is found, the DNR plans to relocate the alligator.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday did not say whether he would support bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing future attempts to overturn presidential election results, saying only that he is "open" to looking at the bill.
"I've expressed willingness to look at them," Johnson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, adding that he hasn't read any version of the measure that would reform the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act.
"I'm open to looking at the bill, but we'll have to see what the bill says... I'll wait to see what might come before the Senate."
There are multiple bills circulating Congress that would, in part, clarify that the vice president's role in certifying the presidential election is solely "ministerial" and increase the threshold necessary for both chambers of Congress to object to a state's results.
On Monday, U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced a House version of the bill prompted by former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election — an effort that included pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to object to certification of the election and involved the submission of false electors from Wisconsin and six other states.
"Our proposal is intended to preserve the rule of law for all future presidential elections by ensuring that self-interested politicians cannot steal from the people the guarantee that our government derives its power from the consent of the governed," Cheney and Lofgren, members of the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol, wrote in a recent op-ed.
The House bill would establish that there is one slate of electors for each state and require each state's governor to certify the appointment of the state's electors.
It also would require one-third of the members of both chambers of Congress to object to a state's election results in order to force debate during joint session. A Senate version of the bill, led by Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, sets that threshold at one-fifth of the members of both chambers.
Under current law, one senator and one House member are needed to raise an objection.
Johnson has come under fire in recent months after the Jan. 6 committee revealed the Oshkosh Republican's office was involved in attempting to deliver false packets of electors from Wisconsin and Michigan to Pence moments before Congress was set to certify Joe Biden's presidential victory on Jan. 6, 2021.
Johnson himself has repeatedly downplayed his involvement in the effort to pass to Pence the false electors, saying his involvement lasted just "seconds."
Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson told the Journal Sentinel in June Johnson’s connections to the false electors were not a priority for the group. Further investigation into those electors in Wisconsin and six other states, Thompson said, is being pursued by the Department of Justice.
The DOJ has subpoenaed a number of people connected to the elector scheme as part of its probe in multiple states, including some of the false electors themselves.
The House could consider the electoral relegislation as early as this week.
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Key leaders of the Wisconsin Badgers realize magnitude of game at Ohio State and are preparing for the challenges
MADISON – Weeks like this can be tedious, from a been-there, done-that point of view. It’s like, here we go again: Wisconsin the Underdog faces Ohio State, the Stockpile of the NFL draft. Everyone knows who is favored.
But there’s lots to study in a sport with 22 people on the field at all times, and games within the game that make football so complex. And we should never forget, these are teenagers and early 20-somethings, taking their first swing at the piñata – and they have every right to their exuberance and enthusiasm.
Beyond that there was a sign of progress from Wisconsin's football program coming out of Madison on Monday, less than 48 hours after Wisconsin walked all over New Mexico State in a game that probably didn’t do a whole lot to prepare the Badgers for what is to come.
There was the subtle emergence of more leadership, and it came from two star players and a star assistant coach.
The game Saturday at Ohio State is going to be a first – for both sophomore running back Braelon Allen and junior quarterback Graham Mertz. This is their first time playing in Columbus, Ohio.
It’s going to be loud. Impossible to hear. The atmosphere is going to be highly charged and intense.
The Badgers can’t do anything about Ohio State’s No. 3 ranking and home field advantage. But they can work on the things they can control, starting with their non-verbal communication in the din of high decibels in preparation for the big game Saturday. And that started in practice already Monday.
“We even started today with our silent count,” said Allen. "You kind of have to have a plan in place to be able to execute. So I mean, it's part Graham, part coaching staff – everybody making sure everybody's on the same page.”
Wisconsin always prepares for noise for the road games, but this game should deserve extra attention in practice this week, if only to help out these two.
More:Wisconsin opens its Big Ten schedule Saturday against No. 3 Ohio State. The Buckeyes have firepower on offense and playmakers on defense.
“A lot of music,” said Mertz. “It’s detailed. You can replicate noise. We pump sound in the speakers, play music. We got a good plan as far as silent cadence and understanding you’ve got to be a little bit louder.
“We got a bunch of bunch of things that, to anybody else's eye would make no sense – but it's kind of our own little our own little language that we’ve got to have.”
Mertz went so far as to say he was looking forward to playing on the road, a good sports psychological approach to something he witnessed as a backup in 2019. And what’s he supposed to say, anyway?
Still, it was what defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard told the team on Monday following practice that was refreshing; every week an assistant coach addresses the team personally, and this week, Leonhard was up.
He simply told the Badgers that it was OK to acknowledge the magnitude of this game, the history behind the programs, the fan excitement, the talent on the field and the task at hand. Rather than the robotic cliches athletes say to guard their vulnerability and protect themselves, Leonhard gave everyone permission to be real.
"Before, I was kind of approaching it, you know, just like another game,” said Allen. “Coach Leonhard talked to us after practice. He said, we're not going to treat this like another game because it’s not.
"This is a big game. And once you kind of realize that – accept that fact – everything will calm down for you. The preparation, it's just as important.”
It’s not that it’s wrong to try to de-mystify Ohio State and try to make things feel as normal as possible. And some Badgers did take that approach Monday. Whether they did not want to diminish their own talents or back away from their competitive nature, they wanted to deconstruct the Buckeyes. And that's cool too. There is no one-approach-fits all.
But when Leonhard simply allowed for self-awareness, it was permission to be authentic about this week. We live in an era where we are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. And Allen, 18, from Fond du Lac, appreciated what Leonhard was saying.
"I did. As you know, he's played in many big games. This is really my first one,” said Allen. “This is the biggest game I've ever played in. So hearing that, like, ‘don't treat it like it's another game.’ You know it's big. So that just makes you want to play better.
“We are looking at as a big game; we know what it is. We're not going to ignore that."
It's small, OK? But it is progress, this kind of leadership, because it allows for teamwork. Because it would be insulting to try to say this is just another game, and ridiculous to say it is the only game that matters. It's good to accept what it is. There's nothing to do now but prepare with purpose.
He did comment on Leonhard’s advice. Here are his thoughts, if you can use anything.
“In an environment like this, it is easy to get distracted and not play football,” said safety John Torchio. “I think coach Leonhard’s message was: ‘Come to terms with what you’re walking into and let’s just play football.’
“Because we’re going to get after these dudes playing football. All that other stuff doesn’t matter. Just come to terms with it right now…
“I like that approach. I’m a pretty calm, level-headed guy. I think for guys on this team to know that it is going be a big game and not get there and be wide-eyed, that is important for us.
“It’s not like we’re going to shy away from the moment. It is more to know what to expect when you walk into that building and be ready to go. It comes down to football at the end of the day.”
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Wisconsin Badgers football team set to face No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes
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Construction will start Oct. 5 on Highway K in Sussex. Here’s what drivers need to know.
Highway K just east of Highway 164 in Sussex is expected to be closed much of October for a construction project.
Replacement of the culvert on Highway K (Lisbon Road) is slated to begin Oct. 5 at the Pewaukee River tributary. The project is scheduled to take 21 days, according to a news release from the Waukesha County Public Works Department.
Project manager Ryan Hilgendorf said the project will replace the existing corrugated steel culvert with concrete, which should last longer. The project is estimated to cost $360,600, which will be paid for through the county.
He said the existing culvert had a life of about 25 years and was nearing its end. The concrete should last 75 years, he said.
"This replacement is important as the culvert prevents flooding," he said. "We take it seriously, that the integrity of the highway system is in excellent service." He also said that the project will project neighboring properties from excess flooding.
During construction, Highway K will be closed to traffic at the project location. There will be detour signs posted to lead drivers to Highway 164 to Highway 190 to Highway F.
For more information, call Hilgendorf at 262-548-7746 or email RHilgendorf@waukeshacounty.gov.
For more information on Waukesha County projects, visit www.WaukeshaCounty.gov/DPW or follow Waukesha County DPW on Twitter at www.twitter.com/WaukeshaCoDPW
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WASHINGTON – Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes last week released a list of current and former law enforcement officers who purportedly supported him.
But Barnes' campaign since scrubbed two of those names from its website after one officer said he hadn't endorsed Barnes and another reportedly indicated he wasn't aware his name and occupation were going to be used on an endorsement list.
La Crosse County Sheriff’s Capt. John Siegel and Racine County Sheriff's Deputy Malik Frazier were among nine people listed on a news release last Thursday touting Barnes' law enforcement endorsements. But neither man was included on an updated list of supporters sent out by the campaign Saturday.
Siegel on Monday told conservative website Wisconsin Right Now that he never endorsed Barnes and does not plan to endorse anyone.
"I spent most of my day Friday trying to get a hold of people asking how did this happen," said Siegel, who is running as a Democrat for La Crosse County Sheriff.
"I was not supposed to be on his endorsement list," Siegel added. "I talked with one of his staffers and agreed to talk with them when they were in town sometime, which I’ve done with everybody. They said there was a mistake within the clerical part of things."
Frazier's name was taken off the same endorsement list when the man reportedly said he wasn't aware his name and position was going to be used on it.
In a phone call with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Racine County Sheriff's Office Lt. Michael Luell said Frazier told his supervisor that while he "may personally support Mandela Barnes, he is not professionally endorsing Mandela Barnes."
"He was unaware that they were going to list his name with his occupation," Luell said. "So, according to Deputy Malik Frazier, listing his name and identifying he was a Racine County Sheriff's deputy was a mistake by the Barnes campaign."
That development was first reported by CBS58.
Maddy McDaniel, a spokeswoman for Barnes, on Tuesday said Siegel's name appeared on the initial release due to "a clerical error from our staff."
"The error has been corrected on our website," McDaniel said. "The Lt. Governor is proud to be endorsed by a coalition of over a dozen members of law enforcement across the state including the Sheriffs of Rock County and Green County."
McDaniel said the campaign removed Frazier "out an abundance of caution" because the man is "a non-elected active duty officer" but did not provide details on how his name was added in the first place.
Johnson's campaign on Tuesday called the endorsement discrepancies "an attempt to distract."
“Mandela Barnes can’t even tell the truth about who is endorsing his campaign — voters shouldn’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth,” said Johnson campaign spokesperson Alec Zimmerman.
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Danielle Hart's comeback plus a week of milestones highlight our midweek review of Wisconsin volleyball
UW finishes non-conference slate 6-2
The Badgers dropped two spots to No. 6 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll after falling to then-No. 16 Florida in five sets Friday in front of an NCAA-record regular-season crowd of 16,833 at the Kohl Center and defeating Rhode Island in straight sets Sunday.
Danielle Hart hits her stride
You can't tell that it's been only about a year since the sixth-year senior suffered a knee injury that sidelined her after six matches last season.
Sunday, she established a career-best single-game attack percentage of .875 (seven kills, zero errors, eight attacks) against Rhode Island while leading the team with three blocks. Two days earlier she had season highs in points (14) and blocks (eight) against Florida.
Hart ranks second in the nation with 1.81 blocks per set.
“She is moving well. She’s confident. She’s working on the connections with our setters. Knowing her, does it surprise me? No,” Badgers coach Kelly Sheffield said of Hart's return to form. “You think about that knee and a middle blocker where you’re pushing off … It’s a lot on that body part, especially at that position.”
3 THINGS TO WATCH IN BIG TEN PLAY
Playing clean: It is no coincidence that the Badgers’ two losses came when they committed their most hitting errors of the season. It especially proved to be costly Friday when the team had a chance to come back to beat Florida. Better competition, as they'll face in the Big Ten, is going to force some of those mistakes. The key is to keep them from snowballing.
Big with the block: With the help of Hart’s return to health, the Badgers are one of the best blocking teams in the nation. Junior Caroline Crawford, sophomore Anna Smrek and junior Devyn Robinson enter Big Ten play averaging at least one block per set, defense that could provide a boost as the team's attack evolves.
More efficient on the attack: With two new setters, a new offense and some transfers to fit in, it wouldn’t be realistic to think UW’s attack would be humming at this stage of the season. It has its moments, but eight matches is less than one-third of the regular season. There is a lot of time to grow.
6 Aces recorded Sunday by freshman Gulce Guctekin, which ties senior Izzy Ashburn’s program record for a three-set match.
12 Team record for aces recorded by the Badgers against Rhode Island.
600 Career kills for sophomore Sarah Franklin, who recorded 19 in the last two matches to reach the mark.
504 Career kills for junior Devyn Franklin, who reached No. 500 Sunday.
Big Ten play starts with matches with Northwestern, Minnesota
Vs. Northwestern, 7 p.m. Friday (BTN+): The Wildcats (11-1) are off to their best start since 2012. The team’s signature win came in straight sets over Pepperdine, which is ranked 17th in the country. Their only loss came, 3-1, to No. 18 Washington.
At No. 8 Minnesota, 7 p.m. Sunday (BTN): The Gophers prepared themselves for conference play with a rugged non-conference schedule that included wins over No. 12 Florida and No. 14 Baylor and losses to No. 1 Texas, No. 5 Stanford and 17th-ranked Pepperdine. The team includes former Brookfield Central star Mckenna Wucherer, who has yet to make her college debut due to injury.
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Player of the week Danielle Hart leads Wisconsin Badgers volleyball
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6 things to do in Milwaukee this weekend, including Doors Open Milwaukee, Festa Italiana, Harvest Fair at State Fair Park and Fromm Petfest
1. Doors Open Milwaukee 2022
It's time for Milwaukee's most popular peep show: More than 100 places will open their doors, appropriately enough, for Doors Open Milwaukee Sept. 24-25. Most stops are free; some are open only to ticketed tours. For a full list of participating venues and tour schedules, see Historic Milwaukee's website. Info: historicmilwaukee.org/doors-open.
RELATED:What you need to know about Doors Open Milwaukee 2022, including featured buildings, ticketed tours and stuff for kids
2. Festa Italiana
After canceling its traditional summer lakefront dates, Festa Italiana is back, in a smaller form, a new location — and a new season. Festa comes to the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 24 and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 25. There are a half-dozen music performances and a bunch of foodie-first events, including a kids' pizza-making contest (3 p.m. Sept. 25) and Festa's popular cannoli-eating contest (4 p.m. Sept. 24). Admission is $5 at the gate. Info: iccmilwaukee.com/festa-italiana.
RELATED:Festa Italiana will happen in 2022 after all, but smaller and no longer on Milwaukee's lakefront
3. Wisconsin State Fair Park's Harvest Fair
It's going to start looking and feeling more like fall — good timing, then, for the Harvest Fair at State Fair Park. There's live music on multiple stages, a lumberjack show, pumpkin bowling, rides and an array of eats, including pumpkin spice and latte cream puffs. Hours are 5 to 11 p.m. Sept. 23, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 24, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 25. Admission is free. Info: wistatefair.com/harvestfair.
4. Fromm Petfest at Maier Festival Park
Fromm Petfest returns for its ninth year to Maier Festival Park Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Doings include dock diving, lure and agility courses, a pet-centric marketplace, live entertainment, and more. Admission for people and their four-legged friends (well, dogs and cats, on a leash and current with vaccinations), is free. Info: petfestmke.com.
5. Mac & Cheese Fest
Mac & Cheese Fest serves up one of nature's perfect foods at Wisconsin Brewing Company Park, 1011 Blue Ribbon Circle N, Oconomowoc, from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 24. More than 10 mac-and-cheese purveyors will be peddling their wares. VIP tickets are sold out, but "Mac and Beers" tickets (with tokens for seven mac-and-cheese samples and five beer and hard cider samples) are $45 and "Just the Mac" tickets (good for seven mac-and-cheese samples) are $35. Info: wisconsinmacandcheesefest.com.
6. Milwaukee Comic Con
Close to 100 vendors, comic-book dealers, illustrators and related aficionados will be on hand at Milwaukee Comic Con at State Fair Park's Wisconsin Expo Center 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 24. Admission is $8, free for kids 12 and younger; attendees receive a free comic book at the door. Info: mightyconshows.com/show/milwaukee.
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Among those sidelined is Georgia Linders of Onalaska. After struggling for months in 2021 with debilitating symptoms typical of long COVID, Linders was fired.
Linders began working remotely even before the pandemic for Logistics Health Inc., a La Crosse-based military health service contractor where she had worked for almost 10 years. The former administrative assistant managed clinic contracts, making multiple phone calls daily.
Linders filed a complaint to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, claiming discrimination based on long COVID as a disability, in August 2021. According to federal guidance, long COVID may be considered a disability “if the individual’s condition or any of its symptoms is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.”
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Menomonee Falls man is a recipient of the Patriotism Award for his volunteer efforts and work helping veterans
Volunteering is the result of "a calling" and a "passion," maintains Wally Kangas. This longtime Menomonee Falls man has both.
Due to his plethora of volunteer activities — especially with veteran organizations and activities — Kangas received the Patriotism Award through the Greater Menomonee Falls Foundation.
His volunteering young, when he would raise his hand in school, offering to take on any task, even when he wasn't quite sure what was involved.
For example, when he was in about fifth grade, his teacher asked his class who would be willing to memorize the Gettysburg Address and present it at the library to parents.
Kangas raised his hand.
He admitted he didn't consider whether the address would be hard to learn, whether he'd have stage fright, even if it was really something he wanted to do. Raising his hand was just a "spontaneous action," he said.
He was just one of those students who would volunteer for anything. "It was just something ingrained in me," he said.
Now 80, Kangas said offering to volunteer is still a "spontaneous action." His passion is to help organizations and activities that benefit and empower veterans.
Kangas served in Washington State, Vietnam, Japan and the Philippines when he was in the U.S. Air Force from 1960-64, Rank A2C. He has participated in and volunteered for Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 9496, Wisconsin Vietnam Veterans Chapter 1 and the American Legion Post 382 Honor Guard.
His relationship with other veterans is like family, he said. "Being in the military is an automatic bond," he said.
More:Menomonee Falls man is honored as a Lifetime Achiever for going all out as a local sports announcer and for volunteering
'The veteran bond is special'
Veterans' shared experiences makes it easy for them to relate to each other, he explained.
He said he volunteered with many veteran organizations in many capacities trying to find his niche, how he can contribute and what needs to be done.
But one of the most special, he said, was the Honor Flight, in which veterans get an all-expenses paid trip to the war memorials in Washington, D.C.
He hoked that he must have done about 50 different jobs for the Honor Flight over the last 10 years. He has helped veterans board the planes, provided directions to activities, engaged in hospitality and organized the mail that was sent to veterans to welcome them home. The staff and volunteers "live and breathe to make the veterans a hero," said Kangas. Which they are, he said.
"I wanted to learn every facet of the organization," he added.
He said that one of the highlights of his involvement with the organization has been relationships he has developed with a few of the veterans who have gone on the trips.
"The veterans all have a different story," he said.
"That veteran bond is special," he said.
'A quiet volunteer'
Carolyn Koebert nominated Kangas for the Patriotism Award for his quiet volunteerism.
She has known Kangas as they are both parishioners of Grace Lutheran Church in Menomonee Falls, and she sees him volunteering.
"He volunteers all his time. He is just there. He is unselfish and works quietly," said Koebert. She is also impressed that he does the flag ceremony at veterans' funerals and is present at so many community veteran events. Every time she is at an event, he is there, explained Koebert.
"He volunteers a lot and does it quietly," she said.
Kangas said he is probably called a "quiet volunteer" because he always volunteers when called on or is in a position to volunteer without saying too much. "I will get my hands dirty and do whatever needs to be done for the community," he said.
"It (volunteering) is a calling and a passion," he said.
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The Waukesha School District has announced it is considering selling two of its buildings, one of which houses the district's administration and the other an elementary school, to Carroll University.
In a news release, the district said it is looking to sell the Lindholm Administration Building, 222 Maple Ave., and the Randall STEM Elementary School Building, 114 S. Charles St. The district said Carroll University "is looking for growth opportunities and additional space in their downtown area."
"As we continue to address changes in enrollment and look to maintain our various facilities, we have an obligation to investigate opportunities to optimize the number of facilities within our district portfolio. The School District of Waukesha also has a structural budget deficit between $3-4 million per year which we are working consistently to reduce," the district said in its news release.
The district said students and staff from Randall STEM Elementary would be relocated to the vacant Whittier Elementary School building at 1103 S. East Ave. for the 2023-24 school year and beyond. Staff working in the Lindholm Administration Building would be relocated to the vacant Blair Elementary School Building, 301 Hyde Park Ave.
Whittier Elementary School was closed at the end of the 2021-22 school year and was merged with Hadfield Elementary School. Blair Elementary School was closed at the end of the 2018-19 school year and was merged with Hawthorne and Lowell elementary schools.
Waukesha-based Carroll University said in a news release that the opportunity to add the buildings to its campus "is unique and exciting."
"These purchases, if we decide to pursue, allow us to expand our footprint to meet the current and anticipated growth of our academic programs and student services," the university said.
The plan isn't without some concern.
The Alliance for Education in Waukesha questioned the deal and said the district previously had not been transparent about its plans to sell the buildings.
"(T)he Alliance will be working to answer numerous questions relating to this sale," the group said in a statement.
An informational session will be held Sept. 21 at 6 p.m. in Randall STEM Elementary's gymnasium. The Waukesha School Board will consider the sale of the buildings at a special meeting Sept. 27 and then a joint press conference with both schools might be scheduled for Sept. 28.
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Panic! At The Disco officially cancels Milwaukee concert, reschedules Chicago date, following COVID-related postponements
Less than three hours before it was set to begin Friday, Panic! At The Disco postponed its "Viva Las Vengeance" tour stop at Fiserv Forum due to COVID-19.
Now Brendon Urie's band won't be playing Milwaukee on this tour at all.
The band announced via Instagram Stories Tuesday night that the Milwaukee date will now have to be canceled because "we could not find a new date due to venue availability to play this show."
A second show that had been postponed because of the COVID-19 situation — originally set for the United Center in Chicago last Saturday — will go on. It's being rescheduled for Oct. 28. Previously purchased tickets will be honored and refunds for firsthand tickets will be available through the point of purchase.
Panic! At The Disco is traveling across North America through Oct. 25 with little wiggle room in the band's schedule to have made rebooking the dates before then feasible.
The week of the make-up Chicago concert will be especially busy at Fiserv Forum. The Bucks have home games on Oct. 26, 28, 29 and 31 and Nov. 2. And there's a Smashing Pumpkins concert booked for Oct. 30 at Fiserv Forum.
Milwaukee ticket holders will be refunded through the point of purchase and will receive emails with more information, according to the band.
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Amid calls to replace Milwaukee's I-794 with an at-grade boulevard to help spur downtown development, a more modest plan has surfaced.
Removing two freeway ramps between the Milwaukee River and the Hoan Bridge would better connect downtown and the Historic Third Ward — helping promote more commercial projects just north of I-794.
That's the idea veteran commercial real estate broker Bruce Westling is promoting, including a presentation Tuesday at a commercial real estate conference.
Westling is targeting the I-794 on-ramp for eastbound traffic at North Broadway as well as the off-ramp for westbound traffic to North Milwaukee Street. That would still leave the on- and off-ramps at North Lincoln Memorial Drive and East Clybourn Street, just a few blocks away.
He's been discussing the idea with city leaders and others because the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has started planning to replace portions of I-794 from North Broadway through the Hoan Bridge's northern approach.
DOT has proposed spending $300 million to replace different pieces of I-794, including on- and off-ramps tied to the Hoan Bridge. Construction is tentatively set to run from 2025 through 2028.
The freeway portions to be replaced date to 1974.
They were not touched when part of I-794 east of the Milwaukee River was reconstructed from 2013 through 2016 — a project that included rebuilding the Hoan's concrete deck.
Calls to remove the I-794 freeway in downtown Milwaukee face uncertainty
DOT recently began seeking public comments on the project — leading 1,000 Friends of Wisconsin, a Madison-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group, to ask people to speak in favor of taking down the freeway. That group and others say that would help bring development similar to what replaced the former Park East Freeway.
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, the Milwaukee area's largest business organization, supports studying the idea. A DOT representative said all ideas will be considered.
Westling, however, is dubious that such a plan would proceed — in part because then-Gov. Scott Walker and other state officials over a decade ago chose to instead spend $239 million on I-794 upgrades instead of demolishing the freeway.
"That ship has sailed," Westling said at Tuesday's Wisconsin Retail Conference sponsored by Commercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin.
Removing the two ramps would be a much easier step, said Westling, managing director of the Milwaukee branch of Newmark, a commercial real estate brokerage.
"This is low-hanging fruit," Westling said during a presentation to brokers, developers and others attending the conference.
Area near I-794 and Milwaukee's Third Ward sees jolt in development in recent years
Removing the ramps would allow for more activation of the space beneath I-794, he said.
That's already been done in other areas beneath the freeway, including pickleball courts and event space beneath I-794 in the 400 block of North Water Street.
Also, removing the ramps would help downtown's southern portion tap into the Third Ward's strong development activity, Westling said.
That includes a heavy demand for retail space as well as a 31-story, 305-unit apartment tower that Houston-based Hines is developing at 333 N. Water St.
The area just north of I-794 has seen new developments in recent years, including the Couture apartment tower, under construction at 909 E. Michigan St,; the Huron Building, anchored by Husch Blackwell law firm and Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar, 511 N. Broadway; Central Standard Craft Distillery's new distillery, restaurant and event space at 320 E. Clybourn St., and two buildings at 515-525 N. Jefferson St. that house three hotels: a Home2 Suites by Hilton, a Tru by Hilton and a Holiday Inn Express.
But, Westling said, that same area between Clybourn and Michigan streets also has large parking lots and other underused properties.
He's hoping the idea of removing the ramps makes its way into the the city's revision of its downtown comprehensive plan. That work is ongoing and is expected to result in a draft plan for public review this fall.
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MADISON - Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is calling lawmakers into session to take up a constitutional amendment allowing statewide referendums, citing support from Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for a public vote on the issue of abortion.
The amendment would ultimately give the public a say in whether abortions should resume in Wisconsin by allowing residents to bring referendum questions to the ballot — a practice known as direct ballot initiatives that is not allowed in Wisconsin.
But Republican lawmakers who control the state Legislature immediately rejected the idea. If they had agreed, Wisconsin would have joined 26 states that allow referendum questions driven by the public.
"At the end of the day, Wisconsinites and women in particular, are not only stripped of their reproductive freedom, they currently don't have a right to enact the change that needs to protect that freedom without having to get permission from the Legislature. That's just wrong and it's time to change that," Evers said.
Evers cited agreement with Johnson, who told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last week he wants to see changes to Wisconsin's 1849 law outlawing nearly all abortions, saying that voters in the state should decide how the law is modified by referendum.
“I’ve said about the 1849 law, it doesn’t include the exceptions" for rape and incest, Johnson said. "I would at minimum want it updated for that.”
In a joint statement from Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, the legislative leaders called the proposal a "desperate political stunt" and said Evers should instead address rising crime and inflation.
Evers' proposal to put abortion access in front of voters would take several steps — and it's unlikely to get traction
Under Evers' proposal, the amendment would have created a statewide binding referendum process through a constitutional amendment, allowing voters to file petitions with the Wisconsin Elections Commission to hold a vote on proposed state laws and constitutional amendments or to repeal current state law, according to Evers' office.
If enough signatures by qualified electors are validated by the commission, a vote would be held during the next general election at least 120 days after the petition is filed, according to the governor's office. Under the proposal, a simple majority vote would be required to decide the referendum.
Voters in Wisconsin currently cannot change law by a statewide referendum. Rather, a constitutional amendment is required, which goes to voters to be approved after being passed during two consecutive legislative sessions.
Introducing statewide referendums to Wisconsin would allow residents to pursue all sorts of new policies outside of the Legislature, and to repeal laws a majority of voters don't want.
Abortion has become focus of governor, attorney general races
The issue of abortion has become a focal point of Evers' re-election campaign against Tim Michels, a Republican construction executive who supports the state's abortion ban. A spokeswoman for Michels did not immediately respond to whether Michels supports changing state law to allow such referendums.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, abortions halted in the state in accordance to an 1849 law that bans the practice in all circumstances except when the mother could die.
Under Roe, Republican lawmakers passed legislation that banned abortions after five months of pregnancy and required women to receive an ultrasound before undergoing the procedure.
Since 1996, women seeking abortions also have been required to participate in counseling and wait 24 hours before undergoing the procedure.
Evers and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul are now in court suing to block enforcement of Wisconsin's 1849 abortion law.
Some legal experts agree with Kaul's argument in the lawsuit to block the law and believe subsequent abortion statutes repealed the original 1849 law, but some conservative attorneys have disagreed.
Under the state law, doctors could be charged with felonies for performing abortions and face up to six years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
In June, Evers announced he would grant clemency to anyone charged under the abortion ban and would not appoint state prosecutors who agreed to enforce the law.
Evers called lawmakers into a special legislative session last week to repeal the state's longstanding abortion ban but Republican lawmakers swiftly rejected the call.
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An $80 million urban sports complex proposed for Milwaukee's north side has landed a $5 million grant and named a new president.
Known as The Opportunity Center, plans for the development were announced in 2021.
The 300,000-square-foot facility would make sports and wellness activities accessible to all people, regardless of race, gender, age, level of experience, ability or disability.
It is planned for 22 acres at 4206 N. Green Bay Ave.
Bader Philanthropies Inc. has announced a $5 million grant to support The Opportunity Center's development.
“On one level, The Opportunity Center is about bringing people together to push their physical limits,” said Daniel J. Bader, president and chief executive officer.
“But, what makes The Opportunity Center special is it will be a place where city limits will become invisible and people will get curious about one another and spark meaningful connections," Bader said in a statement.
The project would cost an estimated $80 million to $100 million, with its construction to occur within three to five years.
More:A Milwaukee nonprofit that helps teens earn while learning to grow produce, flowers and other greenery is planning a $7 million expansion
The center also has named David Cooks as the group's president and CEO. He previously served as board chair.
Cooks was a rising Milwaukee high school basketball star when he experienced a spinal aneurysm at age 15, according to the center.
Cooks, a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair, has worked as a motivational speaker and educator.
He is a graduate of Marquette University High School and earned a bachelor of business administration in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, as well as a master's of business administration in finance from Duke University.
“We’re going to supplement what kids are involved in during the school year,” Cooks said.
“The Opportunity Center will serve the whole person, not just serve to develop athletes," he said.
The Opportunity Center will be holding listening sessions to obtain community input later this year and in early 2023.
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Tin Widow is welcoming back the official Miracle Christmas pop-up experience for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the celebration in 2020 and unforeseen circumstances kept it from returning in 2021.
"We're very excited," said Sam Berman, co-owner of Tin Widow, 703 S. Second St. "While it is a very different presentation than what the Tin Widow is known for, it is a special part of our year. It takes a lot of preparation and a lot of care."
Berman said over the last two years they had come up with new Christmas decoration ideas that patrons will be able to enjoy at this year's Miracle pop-up.
"We are just excited to have the holiday spirit be a part of our season again," Berman said.
More than 100 bars across the country participate in the Miracle pop-up, which started at Mace bar in New York City.
The bars all share cocktail menus while creating their own unique décor.
One new cocktails on the menu includes Grandma Got Runover by A T-Rex, made with vodka, orange liqueur, gentian aperitif, aloe vera, spiced pomegranate and grapefruit mix, lime, and aromatic bitters.
Returning cocktails include the Snowball Old-Fashioned made with rye whiskey, gingerbread, aromatic bitters, wormwood bitters and orange essence, and Jingle Balls Nog made with cognac, cream sherry, almond milk, cream, egg, vanilla and nutmeg.
The Tin Widow's pop-up will start Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving, and end on Christmas Day. It is open from 7 p.m. to bar close daily.
For more information visit www.facebook.com/TinWidow.
2019:Christmas pop-up bar Miracle on 2nd Street is coming back to The Tin Widow
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Milwaukee Christmas pop-up bar Miracle at Tin Widow returns
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A Franklin construction firm got a family member to pose as a disadvantaged Black business owner to win Army contracts set aside for such enterprises, federal investigators say.
The investigation claims that Nikki Platt's company, Broadway Construction, with an address in Milwaukee, was a front to funnel $7 million in government contracts set aside for minority companies to Platt Construction, her father's firm.
Details were revealed in a recently unsealed application for a search warrant, filed last year, by an agent with the Inspector General's Office of the General Services Administration, which is in charge of federal buildings.
It sought to search information kept by a technical solutions company that provided internet, network and server operations, plus IT equipment, support and maintenance for Platt Construction and Broadway Construction.
No charges had been filed as of Wednesday. Neither Nikki Platt nor her father, James Platt, returned messages seeking comment.
A 2015 article in the Daily Reporter, a construction industry publication, said Nikki Platt, 44, was joining her family's construction firm as office manager and director of marketing after a career in musical theater in New York City.
She also used to operate Nikki’s Fabulous Feet Dance Studio in Kenosha, and helped stage musicals at her alma mater, St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy, in Kenosha.
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In applications for certification as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Platt represented she was Black, and that Broadway didn't share office space, employees, finances or operations with any other company.
"Contrary to the ethnicity information on the application, Nicole Platt’s Wisconsin Driver’s license shows her to be a blond, blue-eyed, white female," the affidavit states. "Other evidence, as further described herein, demonstrates that both then and now, Broadway
Construction has a close and ongoing relationship with Platt Construction."
Wisconsin's Department of Transportation rejected Broadway's DBE application. In 2109, she applied to the Small Business Administration for qualification to bid under a federal set-aside program. The SBA rejected Broadway because it didn't appear to have equipment or employees, and because Platt — who had been a dancer and in the dance business until 2015 — didn't have a background in construction.
Later in 2019, Broadway won HUBZone certification from the SBA. In her application, Platt said the company was located in a Historically Underutilized Business Zone and at least 35% of its employees lived in the same zone.
That application did not include a claim by Platt to be Black; her driver's license was part of the application.
From 2019 to 2021, Broadway won six HUBZone set-aside contracts worth $7 million from the U.S. Army for a variety of projects at Fort McCoy. The Army relied on the SBA designation that Broadway Construction was eligible for the contracts.
According to the investigator, though Broadway had an address at a barber shop that was within a qualifying zone, the firm only had four employees, none of whom were construction workers or tradesmen. The four also worked for Platt.
The affidavit says that Platt later self-certified to another government database that Broadway Construction was a disadvantaged, Black, woman-owned business and HUBZone certified.
The affidavit said investigators conducted surveillance on job sites, reviewed bank transactions between Platt Construction and Broadway and emails between Nikki Platt and various other contractors, accountants and insurers. According to the government, it shows how Broadway functioned as a mere pass-through for work done by Platt.
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Feds say white Wisconsin woman claimed she was Black to win contracts
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Tammy Baldwin is the junior senator from Wisconsin. She has made headlines in recent months for spearheading the push for codifying same-sex and interracial marriage in the U.S. Senate.
What is Tammy Baldwin's political party?
Baldwin is a member of the Democratic Party.
When was Baldwin elected and how long has she served?
Baldwin won her first seat in politics on the Dane County Board of Supervisors at the age of 24. She was elected to four terms.
Since then, she has continually held seats in the state Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. In each chamber, she has been the first openly LGBTQ representative elected, and she was also the first woman elected to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin.
Baldwin has used her platform to seek progress on LGBTQ issues, from proposing the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state Assembly to criticizing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Her advocacy came during a period when even her own party was divided over gay rights.
In 2008, she founded the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus along with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). Baldwin was the first LGBTQ representative in Congress; the House now has nine openly LGBTQ members.
Baldwin was elected to her Senate seat in 2012, succeeding the retiring Herb Kohl. She ran uncontested in the primary election, then defeated the Republican nominee, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson.
She won a second term in 2018, defeating Republican Leah Vukmir by 11 points. Baldwin has now served nearly 10 years and would be seeking a third term if she opts to run in 2024.
Baldwin is now one of two openly LGBTQ people in the Senate, along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz).
Where did Baldwin grow up?
Baldwin was born in Madison and attended Madison West High School.
How old is Tammy Baldwin?
Baldwin is 60 years old.
Where did she go to college?
The senator attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Who is Tammy Baldwin's family?
Baldwin was raised by her grandparents, who both worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has spoken openly about her mother, who struggled with opioid addiction and mental health.
The senator was in a domestic partnership with attorney Lauren Azar. They ended their relationship in 2010.
How has Tammy Baldwin voted on recent bills?
Baldwin twice voted to convict Donald Trump after the former president was impeached by the House of Representatives.
Baldwin voted to create a commission to study the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021.
Baldwin voted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Baldwin voted for the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Baldwin voted for the CHIPS Act and the climate, tax and health care bill.
Baldwin is currently pushing legislation to codify the right to gay marriage.
Baldwin voted with Trump's position 22.7% of the time. She has voted with President Joe Biden's position 94.1% of the time.
How popular is Baldwin?
Baldwin had a 38% approval rating in a 2021 Marquette Law School poll. She has generally won elections by wide margins.
What are some controversial moments of her tenure?
Baldwin's office came under fire for inaction in 2015 over alleged overmedication at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah.
How do I contact Tammy Baldwin?
Baldwin maintains offices in Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Madison, La Crosse, Green Bay, Ashland and Washington, D.C. Feedback can be submitted on Baldwin's website. For time-sensitive issues, her staff can be reached at 202-224-5653.
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Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin has fought for LGBTQ issues for years
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The Milwaukee Brewers weren't the only stars at Wednesday's game.
Iconic Dominican artist La Materialista threw out the first pitch at American Family Field, the Brewers shared in an Instagram post.
La Materialista has been making us dance for more than a decade, a Los 40 report said.
She became a benchmark of the urban scene in 2014 with the song "La Chapa Que Vibran.” The performer paved the way for a generation of women who began to rule the urban music scene, which until then had been dominated by men, per the Los 40 report.
Outside the dugout Wednesday, La Materialista posed for a pic with Brewers pitcher Freddy Peralta and shortstop Willy Adames, who are also from the Dominican Republic.
It was Adames’ solo homer — his 31st of the year — in the sixth inning that brought the team's offense to life.
The next inning, Milwaukee tallied five more runs against the New York Mets. The Brew Crew would go on to win, 6-0, avoiding a sweep and keeping their postseason hopes alive.
If you missed the first pitch, La Materialista shared a video of it with her 4.1 million Instagram followers. Her post had more than 16,100 likes within hours.
At this year's Heat Latin Music Awards, La Materialista was nominated for Best Dominican Artist, and was also a presenter.
Curt Hogg of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
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Dominican star La Materialista throws pitch at Milwaukee Brewers game
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With less than two months to go before the Nov. 8 midterms, polls have shown Wisconsin's two big political races for governor and U.S. Senate are awfully close. The latest poll from Marquette University Law School showed the Senate race between Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes and Republican incumbent Ron Johnson as a toss-up, while Democratic Gov. Tony Evers held a narrow lead over his Republican challenger, Tim Michels.
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Wisconsin voters urge candidates to earn their vote before midterms
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De Pere-based construction engineering firm Foth & Van Dyke LLC was just beginning work on a large, complicated project when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020.
The company, which does business as Foth, had been hired to provide engineering services on a new $300 million vegetable processing facility that food industry giant Conagra Brands Inc. was developing in Waseca, Minnesota.
Foth's 80 or so engineers involved in that project worked from remote locations during the pandemic — a practice made possible through the use of such technology as 3D digital design models and virtual reality headsets, said Chief Executive Officer Randy Homel.
"We just took it to a whole new level," Homel said.
That work on the Conagra project, the largest in Foth's history, helped the firm win the Distinguished Performer Award for Innovation in this year's Wisconsin 75 program.
Foth is among five winners of the Wisconsin 75's Distinguished Performer Awards.
The others are Plymouth-based Sargento Foods Inc., for the community award; Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual, for the diversity, equity and inclusion award; Janesville-based J.P. Cullen & Sons Inc., for the succession award, and Green Bay Packaging Inc., for the sustainability award.
Six companies are on the Wisconsin 75 list for the first time
Foth also is among six companies to land for the first time on the Wisconsin 75 list, which requires the businesses to have their headquarters in Wisconsin and post at least $50 million in annual revenue.
The other new entries are Waukesha-based Walbec Group Inc., Menomonee Falls-based R.J. Schinner Co., Middleton-based Hy Cite Enterprises LLC, DeForest-based Hooper Corp. and Schofield-based Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.
Foth, which ranked No. 64 on the list, posted revenue of $277 million in 2021 — up 58% from $175 million five years earlier, Homel said.
The company has more than 650 employees at 28 locations nationwide, including 280 people based at its headquarters.
Founded in 1938 by Herbert Foth, it is owned by 180 of its employees.
"We've been growing a lot," said Homel, who's spent his entire career at Foth — which includes serving as CEO since March 2013.
Foth has attracted business in part by focusing on specific clients and their needs, he said.
"We're not trying to serve everybody," Homel said.
Foth does a lot of work with companies that make food, beverage and paper products, such as toilet paper, which have been less prone to shifting their manufacturing operations to other countries, Homel said.
Its clients include such well-known firms as The Kraft Heinz Co., Molson Coors Beverage Co. and George-Pacific LLC.
Also, an increasing number of companies are outsourcing their design and build work, along with engineering work, to companies such as Foth.
The Conagra project is an example of a food industry development.
The 245,000-square-foot facility opened in June.
It processes fresh vegetables to support Conagra's frozen meals business and Birds Eye brand.
The new building replaced a 92-year-old facility in Waseca.
It provides approximately 20% more capacity for processing corn, peas and rice, while using 25% less water per pound of food produced compared with the older facility, according to Conagra.
Dashboards help with organization
Foth's work on that project, as well as others, included remote meetings using virtual reality and 3D technology so the company's clients could immerse themselves in the design — and suggest changes.
"This interactive decision-making ultimately reduced design iterations and rework which saved the clients’ money and allowed us to complete the projects on schedule," according to Foth's submission to the Wisconsin 75 program.
The firm's project management processes provide a common approach, common language, common roles and practical tools for all projects.
"Digital supply chain procurement tracking dashboards were created to procure and deliver materials needed to construct projects on time. These tools were invaluable during global supply chain delays," the submission said.
Also, augmented reality technology was used during the design and construction process, as well as 3D models in a computed cloud environment.
Foth's ability to adapt was appreciated by Conagra.
"We leveraged new technologies that allowed for seamless offsite collaboration with Foth," said Jim Prunesti, Conagra's senior vice president of engineering.
"Innovative virtual reality and 3D design tools enabled us to stay agile and paved the way for new ways of working,” Prunesti said.
In adapting to the pandemic with remote work, Foth also relied more heavily on such programs as Microsoft Teams, Homel said.
New recruiting tools include remote work
Foth is operating more efficiently by sticking with those practices even as the pandemic has waned, he said.
Also, the ability to do remote work helps with recruiting talent "in a wider fashion," Homel said.
The company's operations are split among three broad areas: production solutions, such as the Conagra project; environmental services and infrastructure work.
Foth's higher profile projects in Wisconsin include work on improvements to Fincantieri Marinette Marine's shipyard in Marinette, and DeLong Co.'s new agricultural products export terminal at the Port of Milwaukee.
Winning the Wisconsin 75 innovation award seems especially fitting for Foth, Homel said.
The award recognizes an individual or company whose new product, business processes and/or service development have positively impacted how an organization is able work or do business.
"Innovation is what we do for a living," he said.
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One of Milwaukee's darkest chapters is back in the zeitgeist with the arrival Wednesday of Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," a dramatization of the serial killer who drugged, murdered and dismembered 17 men, including 16 in Milwaukee.
The series comes from creator Ryan Murphy, whose celebrated projects have included TV shows "Glee," "Pose," "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story." It stars Emmy winner Evan Peters as Dahmer and two-time Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins, among other prominent actors such as Niecy Nash, Molly Ringwald and Shaun Brown.
The stomach-turning details of the story, particularly his acts of cannibalism, have been oft-represented in popular culture, including a 2002 movie starring Jeremy Renner. Murphy used Dahmer as a character in one installment of his American Horror Story franchise, when Seth Gabel portrayed Dahmer in the 2011 "Hotel" series.
It's obviously not for the faint of heart, but it's sure to bring renewed attention to the murders.
From the archives:Dahmer's legacy is not one that should be immortalized in film
Former reporter's book 'Monster' is first-person account of covering Dahmer story
Anne E. Schwartz, a former reporter who broke the story for the Milwaukee Journal, recently republished her 1991 book, "The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough," with updated content and a new title: "Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders."
The update arrived in 2021, though she didn't consult on the Murphy show and said the new title was a publisher decision. She is part of another Netflix series arriving in October — a more documentary-style approach called "Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes."
"I don't criticize anyone else's approach — there are people who don't like my approach, so that's OK — but what Ryan Murphy has said he's going to do is highlight what he says were instances where Dahmer got away," Schwartz said.
"Telling it from the point of view of the victims is a work of fiction, and he wouldn't be insulted by me saying that. We aren't going to know what the victims thought when these crimes were happening. But he's got a good track record in Hollywood, good stars in this," she said.
"What I'm hoping is people will perhaps become interested in the case itself and buy my book, which is a first-person account of what it was like to cover this story."
Netflix's 'Monster' spends most of its time with Dahmer rather than his victims
Of the show's 10 episodes, at least the first three include details from the original reporting found within Schwartz's book. But it also spends only fleeting time with anyone other than Dahmer and tells, at least initially, a traditional origin story.
At least one review, from Variety, was negative.
The first episode centers on July 22, 1991, the day would-be victim Tracy Edwards escaped from Dahmer's apartment, flagged down two police officers and set in motion the events that would lead to Dahmer's capture.
There are also some creative liberties, such as witness Glenda Cleveland living in the same building and hearing power-tool noises (she lived in a building next door to the Oxford Apartments) and suffering through an unsettling encounter with Dahmer featured in the trailer (there's no report that suggests the two ever met). It's possible Cleveland is used as a composite character.
The second episode covers the confrontation that ultimately divided the city.
Milwaukee police officers returned victim to Dahmer
Milwaukee police officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish responded May 27, 1991, and found a naked and confused Konerak Sinthasomphone outside the apartment. When Dahmer returned from an errand, he convinced the officers that Sinthasomphone was drunk and the two were lovers.
Cleveland, who observed part of the exchange along with her niece and daughter, later called to follow up with officers, insisting Sinthasomphone was just a child. He was 14, but Dahmer led the officers to believe he was 19.
The officers left Sinthasomphone in Dahmer's care, enabling Dahmer to make Sinthasomphone his youngest victim. He committed four more murders afterward.
In July of 1991, human remains of multiple victims were found at Dahmer's residence in the Oxford Apartments on 25th Street between North and Kilbourn.
From the archive:Cleveland tried to stop Dahmer from killing
The show even includes a documented exchange over the radio after the encounter, in which Balcerzak said, "... my partner's gonna get deloused at the station" — highlighting the officers' distaste for the gay community.
Murphy has previously explored law enforcement's lack of vigor delving into crimes that include LGBTQ victims and perpetrators, most vividly with "American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace" in 2018.
The officers were eventually fired and then reinstated. The revelation of the encounter led to widespread accusations of racial and sexual orientation bias, as the officers believed the word of an unassuming white man over Black neighbors and didn't correctly judge the age of the Laotian victim.
Schwartz, who after leaving journalism worked for years with law enforcement as a communications strategist, believes it's one of the more misunderstood chapters in the saga.
"I know the officers that were involved and I can say with certainty there was no craven disregard for human life on either of their parts," she said.
It was one of many close calls that allowed Dahmer to evade police, and it's not a chapter Milwaukeeans are eager to revisit.
"What has happened in the 30 years since the case ... there has been a surge of interest in true crime," Schwartz said. "You see it in podcasts. Adnan Syed was released from prison essentially because a podcast kept (his story) out there. There are so many more ways to tell the story now and also people are much more interested in it.
"I had to remind people when I wrote the book back in 1992, when people ask, 'Did you build a house, or buy a boat (with the money from the book?)' that no, it was Jeffrey Dahmer, not Harry Potter. People were creeped out by it, it was not something you heard a lot about. There was no 'Dexter' on television. It was an anomaly back then and still people that don't want to hear it."
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A new 'flagship' Dairyland location has been proposed for a major development in West Allis
The next phase of a food and beverage-based development in West Allis will be anchored by a hamburger and frozen custard restaurant and have a large, vintage milk can as an eye-catching architectural element.
Dairyland Old-Fashioned Hamburgers, which has two locations in Milwaukee, is being eyed as the anchor for The Market at Six Points, the next phase of the Makers Row development along South 66th Street, near the West Allis Farmers Market.
The proposal by Milwaukee-based Mandel Group was recommended by the West Allis Plan Commission Aug. 24; the city's common council approved the conditional use on Sept. 6.
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Since 2015, Mandel Group has completed more than $50 million in investments on the broader project site bounded by West National Avenue, South 66th Street, West Mitchell Street and the railroad, according to city documents.
That includes SoNa Lofts, a 110-unit apartment building currently under construction, and Phase 1 of Makers Row on the corner of National and 66th.
The Dairyland project is part of Phase 2, which will add 13,200 square feet of food-centric commercial space to the broader mixed-use development.
Aside from Dairyland, expected tenants include restaurants, food product producers and a wine bar with event space. All businesses are expected to be from West Allis or Metro Milwaukee.
Between all tenants, expected hours of operation will be from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. daily.
Dairyland would be the anchor of The Market at Six Points
Dairyland would be the corner building of a three-building cluster, with 3,116 square feet of space.
A 5,700-square-foot building to the west would house an event space and include an outdoor reception area.
To the south would be a 4,381-square-foot building subdivided into 4 smaller spaces, each housing smaller restaurants.
The development is being designed to have an industrial, commercial-type look.
But the milk can is planned to be the signature element, Mandel Group Senior Partner Bob Monnat told the plan commission.
"It's the kind of thing where every kid's going to say, 'You know, Mom, Dad, I want to go to the milk can for ice cream,'" Monnat said. "So it's just that kind of an attractor."
Monnat said the inspiration for the vintage milk can came from a visit to Little Man Ice Cream in Denver, Colorado.
"I was in Denver several years ago and I saw this Little Man Ice Cream, with a line going literally all the way around the block (with people) waiting to get in," he said. "So I said, we've got to do that sometime on a project in Milwaukee."
Dairyland currently has two locations, both in Milwaukee
Dairyland was formed to steward Wisconsin's treasured hamburger and frozen custard culture, according to its website.
"We aspire to bring back the fond memories of the roadside burger stands we had growing up," Dairyland says. "We promise to serve you the very best we can, as pure and good as you deserve."
Dairyland has two locations, at the 3rd St. Market Hall, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave., and at Central Waters Brewing Co., 1037 W. Juneau Ave.
Monnat said the West Allis location would be the company's "mothership."
"They're actually going to have like a custard production place where kids can go up to the window and watch the custard being made and stuff like that," Monnat said.
Construction on The Market at Six Points could start by late fall or early winter with an opening eyed by the end of 2023, Monnat said.
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Landfill space is a precious and possibly finite commodity in an urban area.
The Orchard Ridge Landfill in Menomonee Falls, the largest in the state, was close to capacity in 2019 with a pile of waste nearly 16 stories high. It expanded its footprint by 40 acres, and now has plans for more capacity.
Nationally, about 108 billion pounds of food — equaling 130 billion meals and more than $408 billion worth of food — are wasted each year in the United States, according to Feeding America.
In Wisconsin, the Department of Natural Resources studied state landfills last year and found that more than 30% of the waste thrown away is made up of food that is or was edible, along with food scraps, peels, bones and coffee grounds.
Understandably, most residential areas are not interested in having mountains of waste in their neighborhood. But with the average Wisconsinite throwing away 4.7 pounds of trash a day, all that waste needs to go somewhere.
Well, not all that waste. Much of it is compostable.
For many, the idea of composting comes with notions of smelly piles and backyard pests. A properly maintained compost pile is possible, but for many people, it’s not practical. Those who live in apartment buildings and condominiums are unlikely to have room for home gardens, and many don’t have the need for organic fertilizer.
But that doesn't mean they can't compost.
“Focusing efforts to reduce organic wastes can make a significant difference in Wisconsin’s waste stream and the environment," Casey Lamensky, the DNR solid waste coordinator, told the Journal Sentinel last year. "In addition to taking up valuable landfill space, landfilling these materials contributes heavily to the production of methane, a greenhouse gas 28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide if released into the atmosphere.”
In southeast Wisconsin, small businesses like Compost Crusaders, Curby’s Compost, Brew City Compost and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Panther Pails program have made composting easy.
They use slightly different models, but all work by subscription: They provide composting buckets or bins and pickup services so that customers only have to divert acceptable food waste into the pail, and the rest is done for them. The different operations have different rules for what can and cannot be composted.
With so much food waste taking up space in landfills and polluting the air, a robust composting program can divert thousands of pounds of waste from a landfill each year, said Melissa Tashjian, founder of Compost Crusaders.
The point is to get rid of waste, to transform it into a usable outcome.
More:Everything you need to know about composting, from bins to benefits
More:Food waste in landfills is a surprisingly potent driver of climate change. This Door County farm uses it to fuel their crops
Curby's makes composting cost-effective
Composting is good for the environment, but there's also a financial incentive. It can save individuals and municipalities money and be profitable. Curby’s Compost owner Susan Bonucci saw that there was money to be made in composting.
Curby’s is a vermicomposter, meaning it uses worms to convert food scraps into castings that are sold as organic fertilizer. What makes this process unique is how clean and efficient it is.
At its Port Washington site, Curby’s uses a proprietary process to grind and press the compost it collects to remove moisture. Within 24 hours of collection, the waste is reduced to about one-tenth of its weight, Bonucci said. The worms eat the resulting product and excrete castings, which are nutrient-rich and help stabilize soil. They are sometimes referred to as black gold.
“What I wanted to do is create something that could be in a small urban area, without the smell, without the pests, that would be efficient and that would create a high value. Castings have a higher value. Our byproduct is worth more,” she said.
In addition to Curby’s, Bonucci owns a sister business, Dirty Dirt soil company. There she sells the castings, making Curby’s not just environmentally friendly, but ultimately a successful business.
“I became intrigued by figuring out if there was a way to make taking things out of a landfill that would be profitable so that there would be economic gain to the community for composting.
"That apple core you throw in the trash dies in the landfill. There’s no other market for it at that point. But if you take that same apple core and you put it in a compost bucket, now it's going into another marketplace,” Bonucci said.
“We can create economic gains for our community. We can create jobs for our community. We can create other marketplaces for our community. And we can also use it as a way to address some of the issues in our community. Throwing that apple core in the compost can really change our community.”
For each 5-gallon pail that Curby’s customers turn in, they receive $1.50 in soil credits. They can use those credits to buy soil or fertilizer from Bonucci if they choose. But customers who do not garden can donate those soil credits to programs working in the community on issues such as food insecurity.
Shorewood, Wauwatosa offer composting
Both Shorewood and Wauwatosa offer composting services in conjunction with Compost Crusaders.
Ann McCullough McKaig, Shorewood village president, now composts because the Shorewood Conservation Committee pitched the idea of a compost program to the Village Board. Partnering with Compost Crusaders makes it easy and manageable.
The Shorewood program allows neighbors to “share” collection carts, expanding the program and making it more accessible. At other people's homes, McKaig finds she feels strange throwing away items that she knows she’d compost at her own residence.
“It has really changed the way I think about waste,” she said.
A shift in mindset about all types of trash is common once people start composting, Tashjian said, even in the restaurants Compost Crusaders serves.
“We found that composting also helped implement just an overall more conscious behavior and habit of proper source separation,” Tashjian said.
Composting in Wauwatosa also is through Compost Crusaders, which offers a discount for referrals. Having a number of pickups in one neighborhood is good for a number of reasons, Tashjian said, but principally because it lessens the carbon footprint of her truck picking up compost.
Compost Crusaders also takes some of the more complex food waste from UWM. Coffee grounds, fruit and vegetable scraps and egg shells are collected by the university's Office of Sustainability through its Panther Pails program.
Anyone living on or off campus can sign up for a pail to fill with food scraps and drop it off at the Sandburg Garden Hoop House, where UWM students maintain a compost pile that nourishes on-campus gardens.
For other area residents, Compost Crusaders' costs start at $5 a month.
Brew City Compost in Brookfield serves a number of Waukesha County communities, with biweekly residential pickups and on-site processing. It also collects food waste from businesses and sells compost. Brew City's website lists a cost of $20 a month.
Brew City recently began serving two area schools, Arrowhead High School and University Lake School, too.
A struggle to expand composting
Compost Crusaders does not process compost in part because it lacks the land to do so but collects it and delivers it to Blue Ribbon Organics in Racine, which processes it.
For Compost Crusaders, demand is outpacing the ability to meet it. The company has a waiting list for new customers and recently reduced a route because of staffing shortages.
Also, a City of Milwaukee composting pilot program that diverted more than 600 tons of waste was canceled in September 2020, just seven months after the city called for proposals to expand the program. The decision baffled Tashjian, who worked with the city on the pilot and knew the community interest in taking part.
What she and the other small composting businesses can accomplish is minor compared to the environmental impact the City of Milwaukee could have, according to Tashjian.
“What the compost industry needs to succeed already exists out there. We just need access to it. If we had some of the infrastructure ability that municipalities have at their disposal, we would be able to figure out a lot of pieces of the puzzle on our own,” Tashjian said.
“Wisconsin leadership is just really failing to make the connection between climate change and composting and, even more, so clean water and composting. … I don't see that there's any one right way to do it. I think it just needs to be done.”
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Composting companies help turn food scraps into natural fertilizer
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Cami Kronish, Jane Gervais battle for spot in goal
Kennedy Blair graduated with a 1.55 goals against average for her career, the fifth-best all-time. Her heir apparent will be either Cami Kronish, a fifth-year senior, or Jane Gervais, a third-year sophomore. Neither player has much game experience. Coach Mark Johnson plans to play both early in the season with an eye on making one the starter.
Olympians Jesse Compher, Caroline Harvey lead influx of talent to roster
The Badgers don’t just boast of two 2022 Olympians on the roster – Jesse Compher and Caroline Harvey – but Britta Curl, Natalie Buchbinder and Lacey Eden are back with the team after taking redshirts last season to compete for U.S. national teams. The Badgers also welcome a talented freshman class that includes Harvey as well as three players – Laila Edwards, Claire Enright and Kirsten Simms – who played in the IIHF Under-18 women’s world championship in June. Edwards, a forward, was the tournament MVP.
Casey O'Brien ready to build on super sophomore season
While some of the team’s top players redshirted last season, Casey O’Brien, a junior forward, rose from a solid player as a freshman to one of the nation’s best last year. She was a top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given annually to the top player in NCAA Division I hockey. An alternate captain, she will again figure largely in the team’s plans.
The WCHA is loaded ... as usual
The last three national champions have come from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and based on the national polls a team from the league has a strong chance of extending that streak. Teams from the conference own the top three spots in USCHO and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls. Ohio State is No. 1 in both rankings. UW and Minnesota are 2-3 in the USA Today ranking, and Minnesota is ahead of the Badgers in the USCHO poll.
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Four storylines to watch in Wisconsin women's hockey this season
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MADISON – The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is on the verge of a special season and no one knows it more than the people in the midst of that storm.
“Fans should be excited to see the level of hockey and creativity out there,” senior captain Britta Curl said. “Just in practice multiple times a day my jaw drops.”
The Badgers could lead the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in oohs and aahs this season. Bolstered by the return of a handful of players from an Olympic redshirt and fortified by a strong freshman class, UW is once again expected to be among the nation’s elite teams.
What could make the team special, even at a place with Wisconsin's tradition, is the addition of Jesse Compher and Caroline Harvey. How often does a college program have two returning Olympians much less one?
Their presence is a big reason UW isn’t expected to fall off this season despite the loss of a large class of seniors from a team that reached the regional final.
“We are so lucky to have them,” senior goaltender Cami Kronish said. “Jesse’s just an absolute beast and (Caroline), she’s only a freshman. When she’s a senior she’s going to be out of this world. She’s already out of this world.
“I’m really excited to see them play. I’ve already had so much fun with them in practice. They’re just such amazing players. They’re going to bring a lot to the team.”
This marks just the third time in program history that a player fresh off an Olympic experience returned to the Badgers. In 2018-19 Emily Clark returned after helping Canada capture the silver in the 2018 Games. In 2010-11 Meghan Duggan and Hilary Knight came back after winning silver in 2010, when Badgers coach Mark Johnson was the Olympic coach.
Those players were extremely talented when they left for Team USA and came back better.
“We know every four years we have this Olympic cycle and during that cycle year kids are going to be taken away from your team,” Johnson said. “If they’re taken away, it’s always a positive experience. They’re going to go play for six or eight months at a high level. They’re going to get better, and when they come back to you with eligibility they’re going to be a better player.”
Compher and Harvey arrive at UW at different ends of their college experience. Compher, a forward, is using her COVID year of eligibility at UW after four seasons at Boston University, where she served as captain in 2020-21. Harvey, a defenseman, has yet to play a college game.
The two will make their Wisconsin debut at Penn State at 6 p.m. Thursday.
This program comes with high expectations and I think every girl in this locker room knows that,” Compher said. “But I’m just here to compete and play the best I can and hopefully bring whatever I can to this team so we can bring back a national championship.”
Compher had decorated career at Boston University
Compher, who is from Northbrook, Illinois, scored 127 points in 109 games for the Terriers. As a sophomore she was a second-team All-American who was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, which is given to the top Division I player in the nation. She started her junior year late due to injury. She played nine of the team’s 12 games in 2020-21 as a senior, a campaign that started late and was shortened by the pandemic.
At the Olympics she scored three goals and made one assist and then played in all seven games of the world championships in August and September.
“It’s been lot,” Compher said of the experience. “It’s been nothing like I’d expected but I wouldn’t trade it for the world, traveling so much and playing at the highest levels meant a lot. You have to focus on the little things and remember why you’re there, to play hockey every single day and get better.”
Harvey was youngest member of Olympic team
Harvey, who hails from Salem, New Hampshire, and goes by the nickname KK, played in every Olympic and world championship game. At the words, she posted three goals and five assists to help Team USA win a silver medal.
At 19, she was the youngest player on the team and the only one who didn’t have at least college-level experience.
“I just think at the beginning of residency I was a different person and player last year,” Harvey said. “I was definitely a little girl compared to now. I think off ice and on ice I’ve matured a lot.”
Compher and Harvey were part of a large contingent of players with UW ties in the national residency program last year. Former Badger All-Americans Hilary Knight and Abby Roque were on the Olympic and world teams. Current teammates Natalie Buchbinder, Lacey Eden and Curl participated in the residency program but didn’t make the Olympic team. Eden, however, made the world championship team.
Add a strong freshman class that includes some key players for the Team USA under-18 world championship squad and the 2022-23 Badgers just might be able to follow in the footsteps of the previous team in the program that returned Olympians.
“All of us have so much confidence in one another no matter who is going out there,” Harvey said. “With this level of elite players on our team, I just think that no matter who goes in we support each other. We’re all in and we’re ready to go.”
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Jesse Compher, Caroline Harvey join Wisconsin hockey after Olympic run
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Investigation continues after construction workers find a dead body in the town of Delafield
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Department is continuing to investigate after a construction crew found a dead body in the town of Delafield on Sept. 9.
The body was found at N15 W28300 Golf Road, near Orthopedic Associates of Wisconsin, according to a news release.
Lt. Nicholas Wenzel of the sheriff's department has declined to provide any additional information until the investigation is closed.
The Journal Sentinel submitted an open records request, but the department has denied it on the grounds that it remains an open investigation, an exemption permitted by state law.
"I have weighed the public's interest in disclosure of the records versus the public's interest in nondisclosure," wrote Lisa Zielke of the sheriff's department in response to the request. "The public benefits from allowing law enforcement the time necessary to conduct a thorough, accurate and complete investigation into a death.
"The full scope of the investigation needs to remain confidential until all fact gathering and interviewing of witnesses is completed and there has been time to examine audio and video evidence from all sources.
"Premature disclosure of records while the investigation is pending may interfere with law enforcement's ability to effectively complete it."
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Jack Black made up a song about Giannis Antetokounmpo at Milwaukee Tenacious D concert
The greatest rock band in the world has made a song about the greatest basketball player in the world.
Well, Tenacious D — featuring comedians and friends Jack Black and Kyle Gass — proclaim themselves the GOAT. That's up for debate, although Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo's greatness isn't.
And so, when Tenacious D played a sold-out BMO Harris Pavilion Sunday (impressive, considering it was during the Packers-Bears game), Black made up and performed a song in tribute to the Greek Freak.
"Well, you know me and Kage (Gass), we're Lakers for life," a video on YouTube shows Black saying at Sunday's Milwaukee concert. "But there's one player, no matter what team he's on, we (expletive) love him. You know why? He's incredible."
After that, Black made up a tribute song to Giannis on the spot, with a little help from Gass and the band's touring members.
"Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo/123," Black sang. "Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo/MVP."
"Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo/Yes it's true," Black sang. "Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo/We love you."
Hey, at least Black did a Giannis song.
We're still waiting for Bucks fans Sheryl Crow and Chance the Rapper to do theirs.
Black isn't the only one singing Antetokounmpo's praises this week.
Milwaukee-born rap breakout Lakeyah is releasing her latest project Friday, "No Pressure (Pt. 2)," and the fourth track is called "Giannis."
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Wauwatosa chicken lovers could soon be enjoying a new Chick-Fil-A at 2825 and 2835 N. Mayfair Road, but the city said many steps need to be approved before the much-loved franchise could open there.
This would be Chick-Fil-A’s first location in Wauwatosa; the closest locations to the city are in nearby Brookfield, which house two Chick-Fil-As.
The proposed location would feature the latest designs for a Chick-Fil-A storefront, which includes two covered wraparound drive-through lanes and a state-of-the-art look.
Plans for the new location were recently submitted to Wauwatosa’s Design and Review Board. The board did not take action on the plans, but decided to take up the issue at a later date.
When the board does revisit the plan, it would need to be accompanied by various applications, including a zoning application, that would likely be discussed in public meetings with the Plan Commission, various committees and then, eventually, the Common Council.
Since the franchise has not filled out all the necessary applications, a timeline for when it might open has not yet been defined.
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A longtime Racine manufacturer might be moving its headquarters to Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. Twin Disc could bring 50 employees.
A longtime Racine-based manufacturer might be moving its headquarters to Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.
Twin Disc Inc. would lease 8,100 square feet on the fourth floor of an office building at 222 E. Erie St.
That's according to a new building permit application filed with the city Department of Neighborhood Services.
That application, for alterations to that space, lists "Twin Disc Tenant Improvements" as the project name.
Twin Disc executives didn't immediately respond Thursday to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's request for more information.
Twin Disc in March announced it had agreed to sell its Racine headquarters, including an office building and former manufacturing space, to a group led by Milwaukee development firm J. Jeffers & Co.
At that time, Twin Disc said it would seek smaller space for around 50 employees based at the complex, according to a Racine Journal Times article.
The sale of the Racine headquarters to Jeffers, who's redeveloped other historic buildings, fell through in August, according to a filing by Twin Disc with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The company is listing its longtime Racine headquarters for sale because it no longer uses most of that space, which has been largely replaced by newer industrial buildings in the Racine area.
Twin Disc designs and makes marine and heavy-duty off-highway power transmission equipment, including marine transmissions, propellers, power-shift transmissions and industrial clutches.
Its revenue for the company's latest fiscal year, which ended on June 30, totaled $242.9 million, with net income of $8.4 million.
The company was founded in 1918 by P.H. Batten.
Current President and Chief Executive Officer John Batten represents the fourth generation of his family's leadership of Twin Disc.
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Twin Disc might move headquarters from Racine to Milwaukee
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The City of Superior, in northwest Wisconsin, is pursuing something similar. The main difference is that, in Superior, the city would own the fiber and lease it to service providers.
There's nothing available yet in terms of customer prices and service plans for the Kenosha network, but residents and businesses can learn more about it at the website Kenoshafibercity.com.
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Kenosha starts construction of open-access broadband network
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But those who attended Sunday's home opener, when the Packers toppled the Bears, 27-10, didn't hear the familiar jingle. But it's apparently not a sign of things to come.
A Packers spokesman confirmed that it wasn't played but would remain in rotation going forward, noting that in recent years, a new variety of music has been introduced into the gameday experience, and it didn't come up this time around.
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Despite no 'Go Pack Go' cheer Sunday, Packers staple will be back
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Wisconsin is getting a new telephone area code as 608 runs out of assignable prefixes, the three digits in a phone number following the area code.
Area code 353 will be used for new telephone customers, by late 2023, in what's now the 608 area, according to the state Public Service Commission.
All current customers will retain their existing telephone numbers and will continue to dial and receive calls without change, the PSC said.
Once 608 runs out of assignable prefixes, new customers in south-central and southwestern areas of the state may be assigned telephone numbers in the new 353 area code.
This isn't the first time Wisconsin has seen this kind of change.
Area code 262 was put into service in September 1999 and was created from 414.
The 920 area code was created in 1997 when it was also split off from 414.
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CINCINNATI - The Milwaukee Brewers' rotation could be back in full force by the time the team's four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park is completed.
Eric Lauer is poised to be reinstated from the injured list and start Friday's game, and in something of a surprise manager Craig Counsell said Freddy Peralta is likely to see action of some sort as well.
Lauer has been on the IL since Sept. 10 after having left his last start at Colorado 2 ⅔ innings in with left-elbow tightness.
He took only 3-4 days off from throwing, however, and has gotten back onto a regular routine, meaning he was able to avoid a minor-league rehab stint and should be able to hit the ground running Friday.
"I’m really excited that it wasn’t anything more extended, for sure," he said. "I’m excited to get back out there and compete again. That’s what you miss the most when you’re on the bench – that competitive atmosphere.
"Just to get back on the field, it’s where you want to be."
Fortunately for Lauer and the Brewers, the injury was a minor issue and turned out to have a relatively simple fix.
"I was able to pinpoint the muscle that was spasming and shutting everything down (on the outer part of his elbow), so we were able to get in there and flush that out and loosen it up and all of a sudden, my arm felt better," he said.
The cause, as it turns out, was a small tweak Lauer made to one of his pitches while doing his between-starts throwing.
"I had changed my changeup grip," he explained. "I had changed my pressure. I had been throwing it a lot more and I’d noticed that on the extension, it was putting a lot of pressure on that muscle to tighten up.
"It’s a completely different muscle than on the inside and it was getting crushed because it’s not used to it and I don’t throw a sinker and I don’t throw anything that way.
"So, I think that’s what did it."
How long Lauer will be allowed to pitch remains the question. He threw 101 pitches on Aug. 28, 88 on Sept. 2 and 60 in his last start.
"He hasn’t pitched in two weeks so we’re going to be cognizant of that, but we also feel like we didn’t necessarily have to shut him down from throwing," Counsell said. "And medically, he’s kind of checked out from the beginning. He’s in a good spot but the two-week absence will affect his usage tomorrow.
"I will say of the guys who have missed time, he is the guy we can be most aggressive with."
Lauer, 10-7 with a 3.91 earned run average in 26 starts, is 2-0 with a 3.38 ERA in two starts against Cincinnati this season.
"Hoping to just go out there and treat it like a normal start/ That’s kind of my game plan," he said. "Even if there is a limit, I prefer for them not to tell me just because you can have it in your mind that, ‘I’m this far, I’ve got to push,” or you try to do too much because you know you have less time.
"But I’d rather go out there with the mind set of this is a normal start, full go, everything is fine, we’re going to just ride it out as long as we can and when they take me out, they take me out."
Peralta, meanwhile, went on the IL one day prior to Lauer with right shoulder fatigue.
The Brewers don't yet have a starter listed for Sunday, but the right-hander is a good bet.
"Freddy’s trending pretty good and I think he’s got a shot to be involved this weekend," said Counsell.
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Milwaukee's Housing First programs shows how lifting people out of homelessness can improve health, and cut costs
By Vanessa Rivera, Guy Boulton and Angela Peterson Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Enjoying time with his family, Elijah Edwards, center, hangs out with, left, brother Albert Edwards, sister, Viola Edwards, right on at their family Fourth of July in Milwaukee. Edwards worked most of his life, starting at the age of 13, in a variety of jobs including a counselor at what is now the Boys and Girls Club. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Elijah Edwards begins each day reading Scripture from a Bible as worn from use as his leathered hands are from years of work.
He does this from a modest apartment that helped him rebuild his life, providing a foundation to move beyond addiction and homelessness.
“I’m grateful because this is what God is doing,” Edwards said.
He moved into the apartment, after living at a shelter for 19 months, in July 2019 through the Milwaukee County Housing Division’s Housing First program.
The program, based on a national model, was introduced in Milwaukee County in 2015. It provides permanent housing to people who are homeless without any requirements, such as participation in programs, employment or sobriety. Instead, it offers optional services, such as treatment for substance abuse.
Elijah Edward starts his day with his morning devotional. In his 50’s his life began to unravel for Edwards. For a time he was living at the Milwaukee Rescue Mission. While there he learned about the Housing First Program. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The idea is that people need the stability of a place to live before they can make other changes in their lives.
The United House where Elijah Edward lives is an affordable supportive housing apartment building with 24 one-bedroom apartments. The building includes a community kitchen, fitness center, lounge, classroom, library and chapel. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“It is not necessarily the cure-all for all the layers of the things they are going through,” said Eric Collins-Dyke, assistant administrator of supportive housing and homeless services for the Milwaukee County Housing Division. “But it is the first step to having that stability.”
People have the comfort and stability of waking up in their own bed and walking into their own kitchen.
“They have that each day, before they start the day,” Collins-Dyke said, “as opposed to the constant grind, the daily grind, of surviving on the street and all that comes with that.”
Program aims to reduce hospital visits
The majority of people who are chronically homeless have behavioral health conditions or substance abuse disorders. And the Housing First program was started with $1 million in funding from the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division.
“Housing is the single greatest need in our community,” said Mike Lappen, its executive director.
Michael Lappen, executive director of the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Behavioral Health Division continues to give $1 million a year to the program. The idea is that providing housing to people will reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations for behavioral health conditions.
The Housing First program — which costs $2 million to $3 million a year — has done that.
The program has reduced costs for state Medicaid programs by $2.1 million a year and for behavioral health services by $715,000 a year for mental health services, according to a brief by the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
It also has saved the judicial system money by reducing the number of homeless people who are incarcerated.
The Housing First model — which has been used in other communities — is an example of how in some cases spending on social services can save money by lowering health care and other costs.
A three-day stay in a behavioral health hospital, for instance, can cost $4,500 or more. By comparison, the cost of a housing voucher — which limits what a person pays for rent and utilities to 30% of his or her income — averaged about $800 a month, or $9,600 a year, in February 2020.
New approach to help homeless
Homelessness reached crisis levels in the 1980s, prompting a rethinking of how to combat it.
Sam Tsemberis founded Pathways to Housing in New York City in 1992, the program that inspired the Housing First model. When Tsemberis came up with the idea, he was working as the director of Project H.E.L.P. (Homeless Emergency Liaison Project) in New York City, an emergency outreach team that serves people who were homeless, mentally ill and a possible danger to themselves or others.
Before Housing First, there was no alternative for people facing such challenges. Programs required they be clean and sober before housing. His team took a different approach — to stop dictating and start listening to those they served.
“Pretty much everybody said, ‘I want a place to live.’” Tsemberis said.
His team found homeless individuals to be much more capable than other programs imagined them to be.
“All of that day-to-day, exhausting — figuring it out,” Tsemberis said. “If they can do that, of course they can do an apartment where everything is right between four walls.”
Today, this model has been replicated all over the U.S. and has been adopted in other countries, such as Canada, France and New Zealand.
Injury led to addiction, challenges
A cascade of personal issues led Edwards to the program.
Since he was 13, Edwards has waxed and stripped floors and has done tile and grout work. He worked for a company that did remediation for water damage. His favorite job was working as a teen counselor and an assistant physical education director for what is now the Boys & Girls Club from 1970 to 1975.
TOP: Elijah Edwards, second from left, with his 12 siblings in this 1960’s family photo; BOTTOM: Elijah Edwards' family, clockwise from upper left: sister Mae Kirby; sister Viola Edwards; niece Kathy Conley; brother Larry Edwards; Elijah; and brother Albert Edwards. TOP: Elijah Edwards, second from left, with his 12 siblings in this 1960’s family photo; BOTTOM: Elijah Edwards' family, clockwise from upper left: sister Mae Kirby; sister Viola Edwards; niece Kathy Conley; brother Larry Edwards; Elijah; and brother Albert Edwards. LEFT: Elijah Edwards, second from left, with his 12 siblings in this 1960’s family photo; RIGHT: Elijah Edwards' family, clockwise from upper left: sister Mae Kirby; sister Viola Edwards; niece Kathy Conley; brother Larry Edwards; Elijah; and brother Albert Edwards. Photo courtesy of Elijah Edwards and Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He also was an intramural basketball coach at the club.
“The exciting part was working with the kids through their hard times,” Edwards said. “Every time I see them, they always call me Coach Edwards.”
Then, in his mid-50s, his life began to unravel, starting with being injured while working and needing hip replacement surgery. He eventually ended up addicted to cocaine and living at the Rescue Mission.
Father Steven Block offers Communion to a resident at Brentwood Park Home in Franklin. Block also has a homeless ministry called St. Martin's Mission. Block was able to help Elijah Edwards get assistance through the Housing First program. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If the weather was good, he said, he would stay in his truck and get high or drink.
A turning point came when Father Steven Block, a friend and spiritual mentor, put him in touch with an outreach worker for the Housing First program.
Block said the stability of a home provides crucial dividends to those with the challenges Edwards faced.
"I was able to help him make the transition smoothly. He knew how to get an apartment; he just didn’t have the resources to get it. And I think that goes the same with anybody who is looking for housing — it’s such a great thing to get people off the street."
He didn’t stop smoking crack cocaine immediately after getting housing, but achieved sobriety in March 2021. And he acknowledged that getting an apartment helped move him to take that step.
“If it wasn’t for Father Block, I probably wouldn’t be where I am today,” Edwards said.
Outreach to the chronically homeless
The Housing First program has helped more than 1,600 people get into housing since it was introduced in Milwaukee County.
Everything changed with the introduction of the program, said Collins-Dyke.
Outreach workers could go to an encampment and offer housing to people, some who have been homeless for more than a decade.
The initial response was often skepticism.
“‘OK, so what are the 9,000 hoops I have to jump through to get this?’” Collins-Dyke said. “And we were like, ‘None. There are no hoops. It’s yours.’”
The Housing First program gives priority to people who are chronically homeless — those who have been homeless for one year or had four episodes of homelessness in the past three years equaling 365 days — and who have medical and behavioral health conditions.
The Milwaukee County Housing Division contracts with Impact — the nonprofit, confidential 211 helpline and online directory of community resources for nine counties in southeastern Wisconsin — to screen people who have applied for housing and to determine who should be given priority when a housing voucher becomes available.
(The vouchers can be used for apartments that rent for up to 110% of what is determined to be the fair market rent in a city.)
The number of vouchers is limited — nationally, only one in four people eligible for vouchers receive them — but some become available on most weeks, said Emily Kenney, the director of systems change at Impact.
As a teenager, Kenney tutored children who were homeless.
“I got to know the families and the situations of the kids in my home community that were experiencing homelessness and got angry at the injustice of it all,” she said.
Kenney earned a degree in social work and then got her first job at Healthcare for the Homeless, now Outreach Community Health Centers.
Offer of housing made a difference
Kenney, too, has seen the effect of getting people into housing.
She remembers one of her first clients, a man who was always drunk. The approach at the time was to get him into treatment, and she would suggest it every time she saw him. He basically would tell her to walk away.
That changed when she could offer him an apartment in a supportive housing complex for people with behavioral health conditions.
“He sat straight up and said, ‘I didn't know that you could offer me housing,’” Kenney said.
The man, who had been without medical care, had a cognitive disability and was almost blind from glaucoma in both his eyes. He cut down on his drinking immediately after getting an apartment and the safety of a locked door.
“He was drinking just to get through the day,” Kenney said. “He was scared and lonely.”
Navigating other services
An estimated 800 people in Milwaukee County are living in on the street, in cars or in emergency shelters.
The Housing First model shows the potential benefits of helping people by starting with housing and meeting their basic needs, Kenney said. But people also need other services.
Two of the most important are a steady source of income — most people who are homeless are eligible for Supplemental Security Income because of disabilities — and access to behavioral health care.
Eric Collins-Dyke, right, talks to Akeem Lawrence about getting a place to live while outside Lawrence's tent in MacArthur Square Park in downtown Milwaukee. Collins-Dyke is assistant administrator of supportive housing and homeless services for the Milwaukee County Housing Division. Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Housing First program has a staff of case managers to help people once they get into housing.
“Most of the folks we serve on the street have faced significant trauma in their lives, whether in their childhood or in their adult lives,” Collins-Dyke said, “and they deal with it on a daily basis.”
The rising cost of housing, though, means that more people could find themselves homeless in coming years.
A new jump in homelessness predicted
Dennis Culhane, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania and a national expert on homelessness, estimates that the homeless population over age 65 will triple by 2030.
They will have access to health care. Medicare and Medicaid will pay their medical bills when they seek care at an emergency department or are hospitalized. They may not have access to housing.
Dennis Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. Candace diCarlo / University of Pennsylvania
Culhane challenges some of the projections on the potential savings from lower health care costs. But his research also has drawn attention to the high cost of shelters compared with housing vouchers.
“Building shelters isn’t the way to go to get out of this,” he said. “It’s to get people rental assistance.”
The Milwaukee County Housing Division receives support from several health insurance companies that contract with the state to manage the care of people covered by BadgerCare Plus, the state’s largest Medicaid program. It also receives money from the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, which includes the health systems in Milwaukee County, and the United Way.
But the money available for vouchers is limited.
“The only way we can end homelessness is through housing, and the only way people can afford housing is through rental subsidies,” said James Mathy, administrator of the Milwaukee County Housing Division. “That’s really the No. 1 thing when we talk about homelessness. That is what people need — rental subsidies.”
Despite its limited funding, the Housing First program has nonetheless help change, and in some cases, maybe save lives since 2015.
Elijah Edwards at his apartment at United House. Edwards said getting an apartment helped him recover from drug addiction. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Each day begins with thanks
Edwards, who turned 65 in July, once again has a home. He works a few hours several days a week for a car wholesaler.
Edwards begins each day with his morning devotional.
His favorite passage in the Bible is Deuteronomy 1:31. It reminds him of his own time in the wilderness:
“There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
Vanessa Rivera reported this story while attending Marquette University and working as a research assistant to Journal Sentinel reporter Guy Boulton. Boulton spent the 2021-22 academic year as an O'Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University examining the social determinants of health. Angela Peterson is a photojournalist with the Journal Sentinel.
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Milwaukee program shows how stable housing can improve overall health
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Chicago-based Pilot Project Brewing is taking over the closed Milwaukee Brewing Co.'s space at 1128 N. Ninth St., according to a news release.
The 25-year-old Milwaukee brewery's last day of business at the 43,000-square-foot space in the Pabst Brewery District was Aug. 30, a few years after it moved in there in 2019.
More:Milwaukee Brewing Co. is closing and selling its taproom near Fiserv Forum to a 'new brewery'
Pilot Project Brewing is buying the site, which includes a production facility, taproom and event space, thanks to $8 million in fundraising led by Chicago-based investment group InvestBev.
Pilot Project's website describes itself as "a launch pad for start-up breweries, offering assistance with fine-tuning recipes, production, business development, marketing, distribution."
Since it began in 2019, Pilot Project Brewing has launched 13 start-up breweries, including Luna Bay Hard Kombucha, ROVM Hard Kombucha, Funkytown Brewery, Azadi Brewing and others.
The expansion to Milwaukee will help the company grow so it can support its current brands, and add more brands in the future.
"The response was very positive and as far as we know we're the only business doing what we do in this industry, and we ended up filling our capacity very quickly," Pilot Project’s co-founder and CEO Dan Abel told the Journal Sentinel. "Around June last year my business partner and I looked at each other and said let's look for our next location. Let's get a bigger spot.
"We heard rumblings that the Milwaukee Brewing Company was open to selling," Abel said. "We met with the team here and we were pretty blown away. It's an absolutely beautiful facility and is the perfect size for the next step."
Abel and his business partner, Jordan Radke, both graduated from the University of Wisconsin. Abel said opening the Milwaukee location was a homecoming of sorts.
"Most of our friends are here, and a lot of our supporters of our Chicago operation are here," Abel said. "It was kind of a serendipitous."
Pilot Project Brewing will also continue operations at its current site, 2140 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago, in the Logan Square neighborhood.
It will invite back previous breweries that outgrew the Chicago space, which could produce up to 30 barrels of product at the time, to Milwaukee, where the smallest batch is 30 barrels of product.
The production space in Milwaukee could give Wisconsin brewers an advantage, Abel said. About half of Pilot Project's brewers are from Chicago and others are from around the nation.
"I would like to think that we're going to be a strong resource for potential brewery owners in Milwaukee to take the leap, and even further into Wisconsin. I see that as a natural step," Abel said. "Us coming from Wisconsin, we're excited to give that opportunity to a local brewer."
Pilot Project said it will "refresh the Milwaukee Brewing Company building, including its beer garden, rooftop, restaurant and tasting room."
Abel said they are looking to open later this fall, with food and four or five brewers already involved in the Pilot Project operation.
Any events previously scheduled in the events space run by Noble Catering and the Bottle House 42 restaurant at the site will be honored and managed by the Noble Catering team.
Milwaukee Brewing Company also announced in March that it was looking for someone to take over its brands and leases, including the Milwaukee Ale House at 233 N Water St., which closed Sept. 11.
No announcements have been made regarding the sale of Milwaukee Brewing Company brands or the Ale House space.
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A historic Cedarburg farmhouse is listed for $1.6 million. See the wine cellar, smokehouse and frog pond
An 1858 farmhouse built by the earliest settlers of Cedarburg is on the market, listed for $1,599,000.
The house's original architecture blends into new, high-end additions. The Falk Ruvin Gallagher Team of Keller Williams is listing the property, which is on St. John Avenue near Bridge Road.
Chestnut plank floors feature in the original cream brick farmhouse. The house includes a front porch and two screen porches off either side of the kitchen. An addition was built in 2009, in the style of a limestone barn, and includes a basement wine cellar.
The Cedarburg farmhouse has a spiral staircase and a tunnel
Connected by an underground tunnel is the black walnut barn, built in 2014. The barn's timber frame is supported by whole trees in their original form. The floors are granite cobblestone reclaimed from a Milwaukee street.
Inside the connecting tunnel, residents can climb a spiral staircase built out of a cherry tree. The house's previous owner was a woodworker.
Another timber-frame barn, built in 2009, features oak siding and a pine interior.
A stone outbuilding, built in 1858, stands beside a fountain and a frog pond. It was originally built as a smokehouse, and it still functions today.
The property is a block from Cedarburg's downtown.
More:A Frank Lloyd Wright house in Mount Pleasant is on the market for the first time, listed for $725,000
More:Take a look inside this $3.8 million Elm Grove mansion that oozes with eccentric opulence
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$1.6 million Cedarburg farmhouse hits the Milwaukee-area market
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On Saturday, Milwaukee will rename North 34th Street in honor of a man who left his mark on the city and the world — Ralph Metcalfe.
An Olympic athlete, Marquette graduate, and U.S. representative, Metcalfe already has a park, school and neighborhood named after him in Milwaukee.
Now, 34th Street, which leads to Metcalfe Park, will be renamed and affixed with the name Metcalfe. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at 3401 W. Center St. Metcalfe’s grandson, Nasser Metcalfe of New York, will offer remarks on behalf of the family.
Here is what you need to know about Ralph Metcalfe.
Metcalfe arrived in Milwaukee in the early 1930s
Born in Atlanta in 1910, Metcalfe moved to Chicago as a child, where he graduated high school in 1930. It was in high school where Metcalfe began a long and successful career as a track athlete.
“I was told by my coach that as a Black person I’d have to put daylight between me and my nearest competitor,” said Metcalfe, according to an Oct. 11, 1978, Chicago Tribune article. “I forced myself to train harder so I could put that daylight behind me.”
Metcalfe then traveled to Milwaukee to attend Marquette University some time after high school.
'America's leading sprinter from 1932-1934'
According to his Marquette University biography, "Metcalfe was America's leading sprinter from 1932-1934."
During his sophomore year at Marquette, Metcalfe equaled the world of record of 10.3 seconds in the 100-meter dash, as well as the 200-meter world record of 20.6 seconds. He won the first of three NCAA championships in 1932, in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
Robbed of gold at the 1932 Olympics
Metcalfe competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He won a bronze medal in the 200 meters and a silver in the 100. Metcalfe finished second in the 100 meters to U.S. sprinter Eddie Tolan, but believed he was robbed of the gold medal.
"I ... went out with the one idea of beating Eddie to the tape and thought I had done so," Metcalfe told the Milwaukee Journal in an Aug. 2, 1932, story. "The twine was taut when I touched it with my chest, but the officials had seen Tolan across the finish line."
Metcalfe returned to campus and beat Jesse Owens in a race
"Over the next several years Metcalfe remained a world class runner, competing for Marquette in sprints between 40 yards and 220 meters," according to his university biography.
Metcalfe was an outstanding student and campus leader. In 1933, he was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, which is the elite Jesuit academic honor society on campus.
At the Amateur Athletic Union national championship at the former Marquette Stadium in 1934, Metcalfe bested Olympic great Jesse Owens in the 100-meter dash. Owens and Metcalfe would go on to be rivals and teammates.
In 1936, Metcalfe was elected president of his senior class. He graduated cum laude that same year.
Competes in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany
Metcalfe was selected to compete at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Nazi Germany.
He and Owens were late selections for the U.S. team competing in the 400-meter relay, reportedly because the runners they replaced were Jewish. The U.S. 400-meter relay team would go on to win gold.
In addition to the gold medal for the relay team, Metcalfe won another silver medal, again the 100 meters, losing this time to Owens.
Following the Olympics, Metcalfe retired from competitive sports. During his career in track, Metcalfe equaled or bettered 13 world records.
Years later, Owens credited Metcalfe with helping his Black teammates get through the Berlin Games. "(Metcalfe) said we were not there to get involved in the political situation. We were there for one purpose — to represent our country," Owens said, according to a Oct. 11, 1978, Chicago Tribune article.
Metcalfe leaves Milwaukee; serves in the Army
Metcalfe left Milwaukee in 1936 to attend the University of Southern California, where he obtained a master's degree in 1939.
Then, Metcalfe accepted a teaching and coaching position at Xavier University of New Orleans, where he developed five national champions in track and field. He then left New Orleans and served in the Army during World War II.
Returns to Chicago
Following the war, Metcalfe moved back to his hometown of Chicago, and began a 30-plus-year career in politics.
By 1947, he was director of Chicago's Department of Civil Rights. The same year, he told the Milwaukee Urban League in a meeting that understanding and education were the best ways to combat racism.
"Sometimes it is as necessary for the Negro to remove a prejudice as it is for white people to remove a prejudice against the Negro," Metcalfe said, according to a Jan. 20, 1947, Journal story on the meeting.
In 1947, Metcalfe married Madalynne Fay Young. The couple had one child, Ralph Metcalfe, Jr.
Elected to the Chicago Common Council
In 1955, Metcalfe was elected alderman in Chicago. He became a leader among Black Democrats trying to shape the party's stance on civil rights.
He then became president pro tempore of the City Council and served as a longtime ally to Chicago's powerful mayor, Richard J. Daley.
Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
In 1970, Metcalfe is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after essentially being hand-picked by his predecessor, U.S. Rep. William L. Dawson.
Metcalfe did have a contentious primary, where he was criticized for his ties to Daley. He would win the general election with 91% of the vote.
"Metcalfe’s appointment to the influential Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee marked the first time an African-American Member served on the panel in the 20th century," his official U.S. House biography states.
In 1971, Metcalfe helped found the Congressional Black Caucus, which still exists today.
Breaks from Daley and the Democratic machine
Metcalfe received national attention in 1972 when he publicly broke ranks from Daley and the Democratic machine. "The Mayor doesn’t understand what happens to Black men on the streets of Chicago, and probably never will," said Metcalfe, according to a July 8, 1983, New York Times article.
Metcalfe believed Daley was too lenient on Chicago's police department and the ongoing police brutality in the Black community. Metcalfe would hold public hearings before Congress from victims and witnesses of police brutality.
In 1975, Metcalfe endorsed Daley's primary opponent, and in turn Daley endorsed Metcalfe's primary opponent in 1976. Both men were reelected. "The mayor decided he wanted to destroy me and I decided I wouldn't let him," Metcalfe said, according to Associated Press coverage of the election that ran in newspapers around the country March 17, 1976.
After Daley died in December 1976, Metcalfe began to mend fences with the Democratic establishment in Chicago.
Metcalfe's sudden death
During the 95th Congress (1977-79), Metcalfe co-sponsored legislation to declare February as Black History Month.
Then, Metcalfe died suddenly of an apparent heart attack on Oct. 10, 1978, at age 68, about a month before his certain reelection.
U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes of Ohio praised Metcalfe's dedication to the Black community. "Ralph was a man who had the ability to inspire people," Stokes entered into the Congressional Record. "The type of individual who, as you came to know him, you would have to admire."
As a Black Olympic gold medalist during the 1936 Berlin Games, Metcalfe's impact is profound, it was during his time in Milwaukee at Marquette that Metcalfe became well known. The city has recognized Metcalfe by naming a neighborhood (Metcalfe Park) and school after him (Ralph H. Metcalfe School).
Chris Foran of the Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.
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On the show, Dahmer acknowledges that he'd heard of another notorious Wisconsin serial killer, "Butcher of Plainfield" Ed Gein, through a comic book. It's unclear if there really was an Ed Gein comic book that Dahmer read when he was younger (there's definitely a graphic novel today), but the Jeffrey Dahmer comic book shown in the series was real, to the horror of family members, in 1992.
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What’s real, fiction on 'Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ on Netflix
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Wisconsin to receive 350 new Housing Choice Vouchers from HUD. Here's how you can qualify
Roughly 19,000 housing vouchers are being awarded to public housing agencies nationwide, with more than 350 of those expected to go to Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge made the announcement Friday, in Falls Church, Virginia.
The Housing Choice Voucher program involves low-income qualified residents paying around 30% of their income toward rent and the voucher being used to pay the remainder. Local housing agencies federally managed by HUD are responsible for administering the program.
More than 26,000 households used Housing Choice Vouchers in Wisconsin in 2020, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Milwaukee and Milwaukee County housing authorities had a combined 8,661 vouchers in 2017, the center estimated.
On a call with reporters, a senior HUD spokesperson described the new batch of housing vouchers as “the most expandable award of flexible rental assistance in more than 20 years.”
Each voucher will include an additional $750 available for supplemental administrative fees, which can be used by housing agencies to help pay for security deposits and other “landlord incentive and retention payments.”
Nearly every community, including rural areas, should receive additional vouchers, he said.
HUD is strongly encouraging public housing agencies to use the new vouchers to reduce homelessness.
This recent addition of vouchers echoes a measure taken by HUD last year, when it added 70,000 emergency housing vouchers nationwide, funded by the American Rescue Plan. Those vouchers were focused on residents who were homeless, at-risk of being homeless or experiencing domestic violence situations.
It also follows a recent announcement from HUD to increase the housing choice voucher subsidy in light of inflation causing rents to rise. In Wisconsin, the average voucher increase is expected to range from 8.9% to 19.9% after Oct 1.
The HUD official noted the Biden Administration has requested $1.6 billion in its 2023 fiscal budget for an additional 200,000 vouchers.
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Wisconsin granted 350 of 19,000 new Housing Choice Vouchers by HUD
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There's perhaps no greater symbol that the city of Milwaukee simply wanted to move on from the Jeffrey Dahmer murders, discovered in 1991, than the empty lot at 924 N. 25th St., the former site of the Oxford Apartments where Dahmer drugged, strangled and dismembered many of his victims.
A new Netflix miniseries has put Dahmer back in the public consciousness, for better or worse.
Few remnants of Dahmer's gruesome history are still around. The 49-unit building was razed in 1992, 15 months after human remains were found in apartment 213.
The Oxford Apartments were purchased for $325,000 by the Campus Circle Project, a public/private organization affiliated with Marquette University, and quickly razed. Since then, any efforts to put something in the space have floundered, and it remains a vacant lot surrounded by a fence today.
For years there was talk of turning the site into a play area, a storyline alluded to in the Netflix show, where the dramatized version of Glenda Cleveland pushes for a memorial to Dahmer's victims.
In 1998, the city of Milwaukee bought a number of vacant lots in Marquette's possession — but not that one.
"We'd be happy to entertain an offer for it," said John Hopkins, then vice president for communication at Marquette. "There has not been any interest in taking this parcel. Given its history, you can understand people's reluctance to become the new owner of it."
Plans by Campus Circle to initially turn the space into a "tot lot" didn't materialize.
"It was back-burnered, and the flame has been extinguished at this point," said Sally Maddick, director of the West End Community Association, in 1998. Her organization worked to improve the area. "I think that would be a terrific site for a tot lot development, but who will step up to the plate for that?"
"My sense is that the city is not in the parks business and the county parks people are somewhat reluctant to operate a site that small," Hopkins said.
For a while talk circulated of using the lot as an environmental study space for students at nearby Grand Avenue Middle School, but again, nothing materialized. Before the building was torn down, a Hartford couple pitched a plan to convert it to a museum of criminal artifacts.
It wasn't just the apartment that went away.
In 1996, real estate magnate Joseph Zilber and his Milwaukee Civic Pride Fund successfully won the right to many of Dahmer's personal belongings, including items that were in the apartment.
Zilber, appalled that many of the items were going to auction, raised $407,225 to buy the objects and destroyed them at a waste management site.
"No one will ever be able to find them again," said Zilber, who's briefly portrayed in the Netflix series distributing money to the victims' families. Those with claims received $32,500 each.
The Ambrosia Chocolate factory, where Dahmer was employed in the late 1980s before getting fired for missing work, was slowly demolished in 1993 in downtown Milwaukee, with the company relocating to the city's northwest side. For decades, the factory filled downtown with the sweet smell of chocolate.
The old factory occupied space that now belongs to Fiserv Forum, the Milwaukee Bucks' arena that opened in 2018.
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Site of Dahmer's murders in Milwaukee remains vacant today
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MADISON – Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels now says he would sign legislation creating exceptions to Wisconsin's abortion law for rape and incest, despite opposing such exceptions for at least two decades and saying as recently as this month that he would not change his position.
Michels, who is narrowly trailing Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers in recent polling, told conservative radio show host Dan O'Donnell on Friday he would sign a bill creating such exceptions to the state's 1849 law that bans all abortions unless the mother's life is in danger.
"Yes, I would sign that bill," Michels told O'Donnell. "And let me say a couple of things about that. I am pro-life and make no apologies for that. But I also understand that this is a representative democracy. And if the people — in this case, the legislature — brought a bill before me, as you just stated, I would sign that."
Evers, who is suing to overturn the state's abortion ban, accused Michels of being disingenuous with voters at a time when the issue of abortion is front of mind for many after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
"I have been firm in my support for abortion rights. Tim Michels has been clear that he supports a criminal ban on abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of a mother — we cannot let this divisive and radical candidate win," he said in a tweet.
Republican lawmakers who control the state Legislature are in court defending the state's abortion ban against Evers' lawsuit and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who supports adding the exceptions, has said the likelihood of passing legislation creating exceptions for rape and incest is low.
Michels' Friday comments don't match the position he has taken on this issue going back to at least 2004, and in a handful of interviews during this year's governor's race. Michels also has donated money to an anti-abortion lobbying and advocacy group that does not support such exceptions.
Tim Michels claiming he's being pressured to change his position on abortion
On Sept. 6, Michels said he was being pressured to change his stance on abortion but would refuse to do so.
"You'd be amazed at the people that have called me up, I won't give you their names, but you would know their names, that say Tim, you have to soften your stance, you need to be for the exception of rape and incest as well. And I'm principled and my wife and I, we know we have to answer to somebody higher than anybody on the face of the earth," he said at a GOP event in Dane County.
"I'm not gonna soften my stance on abortion. And I think at this point, anyhow, I won't do it, but at this point anyhow, I think it would actually be a negative. I'm winning because people see a strong leader, a man of conviction, a man who doesn't waffle, a man who doesn't flip-flop. I'm gonna stick with what I know is right. And that's what I'm gonna do until the bitter end."
Michels has long opposed abortion exceptions for rape or incest
During his 2004 campaign for U.S. Senate, Michels was asked whether a woman should be forced to have a baby if she were raped and became pregnant, according to a June 13, 2004, article in the Wisconsin State Journal.
"I think she's going to pick up mental trauma from having the abortion as well," Michels said. "To ask her to go through the birth is not unreasonable when you talk about killing the life of that baby."
More recently, during an interview with a WISN-TV reporter in June, Michels said the state's abortion ban "is an exact mirror of my position, and my position is an exact mirror of the 1849 law as well, which has an exception for the life of the mother."
A WISN-TV reporter asked, "But you wouldn’t support exceptions for rape or incest?" Michels responded: "That's correct."
A spokeswoman for Michels did not answer why Michels was changing his position on the issue.
Recent statewide polling shows that opposing exceptions for rape and incest is a very unpopular position.
The vast majority — 90% — of voters surveyed by Marquette University Law School pollsters this month said the state should allow women to obtain a legal abortion if they become pregnant after being raped or because of incest. The view was held by 81% of Republican voters.
More:Gov. Tony Evers calls on Wisconsin lawmakers to take first steps to put abortion access question in front of voters
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Yep, it's that time of the year again for David Gilreath.
Inevitably, when the University of Wisconsin football team gears up to face Ohio State, his name will surface, particularly until the Badgers beat OSU for the first time since the night of his legendary 2010 kick return.
"I always tell people the more we don't beat them, the aura of the return gets bigger and bigger," Gilreath said. "I suppose that's how Lee Evans felt (after his big catch against Ohio State in 2003), and he passed the baton over to me. It's not a bad moment to be remembered by."
More:Here's our scouting report on No. 3 Ohio State: the Buckeyes have firepower on offense and playmakers on defense
More:Ohio State has dominated Wisconsin under Paul Chryst. Here's a look at their last four meetings.
But 12 years after GIlreath started off an unforgettable 31-18 win over No. 1 Ohio State with a bang, he's a full-time employee with his alma mater and planning for UW's many years ahead. He's the university's director of development, housed in the athletics department.
"We raise major gifts for the athletic department," he explained. "If we have a need for a facility, it's our job to raise money for it. For student-athlete scholarships, programming ... different things we need on campus ... I speak to specific to alumni, donors, stakeholders, volunteers, anybody associated with Wisconsin that wants to use this as anything philanthropic."
Does it help, when he's meeting one on one with potential donors, that he has a heck of a story from when he traveled 97 yards in 12 seconds for one of the biggest wins in the program's recent memory?
"It doesn't hurt, I'll tell you that," he said with a laugh. "It helps when I'm reaching out to the people via email and tell them my story but maybe it hurts a little bit if they're coming to have a meeting about priorities in the athletic department and they just want to re-live the kick return."
After Gilreath saw some action with NFL practice squads and with the Steelers in 2012 for three regular-season games, his success story really begins with another sport entirely — the NBA. He was part of the business development team with the Minnesota Timberwolves for two years, working in the same office as former UW basketball player Greg Stiemsma.
Prior to that, he became involved with a jewelry company based out of Hong Kong called Top Fancy Creation Limited and traveled extensively.
"When I was getting recruited, I kept hearing how we have the most Fortune 500 CEOs in the world (who graduated from Wisconsin), or at least in the country, and I thought it was amazing," Gilreath said. "As you get out of college, you think, 'How do I get ahold of those people?' But those are the people I talk to on a daily basis, CEOs, VPs ... (I can say) even if you don't want to donate here, can I at least have your contact info if Jonathan Taylor (for example) is looking for an opportunity to work when he's done, so he can sit down or shadow for a year? That sort of thing was important for me as I transitioned out of football."
His 3,025 career kickoff return yards are still the most in Badgers history, and he'll always be associated with that play, but you wouldn't necessarily know it when you first meet Gilreath.
"You wouldn't walk into my house and know I played football at all," he said. "I don't know if that's on purpose, but people remind me. I won't forget, even if I tried. I do have a picture of the crowd that stormed the field; it's one of the coolest pictures in Badgers history. My wife, she went to UCLA, and she still doesn't believe that it's a real picture."
They won't storm the field if the Badgers can win in Columbus on Saturday, but it wouldn't be forgotten anytime soon as the shocker that finally got UW back in the win column against the Buckeyes.
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David Gilreath, known for kick return vs. Ohio State, back on UW staff
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The Brewers' upcoming two-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals at American Family Field will perhaps be the last that Milwaukee sees one of its all-time nemeses, Albert Pujols. He's looking for his 700th career home run, joining the three luminaries ahead of him on the all-time list (Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron, Babe Ruth) in the rarest of air.
Pujols entered Sept. 23 with 698 on his ledger and three more games before getting to Milwaukee.
Brewers fans naturally would prefer he simply move on and save the achievement for someone else. After all, he already has 45 of them against the Brewers — which, perhaps surprisingly, is the fewest of the other four teams in the National League Central (and well shy of former NL Central colleague Houston, against whom Pujols has a career-best 62 blasts).
But hey, a little history might be cool too, right? Right?
Perhaps you still have ticket stubs (remember those?) to some of these milestone moments to take place on Milwaukee soil, some for the good guys and some for ... the other guys.
A list of all the MLB no-hitters in Milwaukee
Jim Wilson, Milwaukee Braves. A 2-0 win over Philadelphia on June 12, 1954
Lew Burdette, Milwaukee Braves. A 1-0 win over Philadelphia on Aug. 18, 1960
Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves. A 4-0 win over Philadelphia on Sept. 16, 1960
Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves. A 1-0 win over San Francisco on April 28, 1961
Steve Busby, Kansas City Royals. A 2-0 win over Milwaukee on June 19, 1974
Carlos Zambrano, Chicago Cubs. A 5-0 win over Houston on Sept. 14, 2008*
Alec Mills, Chicago Cubs. A 12-0 win over Milwaukee on Sept. 13, 2020
*Milwaukee served as neutral site for a game relocated because of a hurricane in Houston.
The four-homer games in Milwaukee by Willie Mays and Shawn Green
Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants. A 14-4 win over Milwaukee on April 30, 1961. At the time, he was the ninth player in Major League history to hit four home runs in a game, and he drove in eight.
Shawn Green, Los Angeles Dodgers. A 16-3 win over Milwaukee on May 23, 2002. Green went 6 for 6 with a record-tying six runs scored, record-tying five extra base hits and and record-setting 19 total bases. He broke the latter record of 18 set by Joe Adcock of the Braves at Brooklyn, and speaking of him...
May 26, 1959: The Harvey Haddix Game is considered one of MLB's greatest pitching performances
For 12 dazzling innings, Harvey Haddix spun what many consider the greatest game ever pitched, and he still lost. He retired the first 36 men he faced, but though Milwaukee Braves starter Lew Burdette wasn't perfect, he matched the Pittsburgh Pirates star with zeroes through the 13th.
In the bottom half, Braves leadoff hitter Felix Mantilla reached on a bad throw by third baseman Don Hoak. Three batters later after an intentional walk to Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock hit the ball into the stands (though he was ruled out for passing Aaron between second and third base in the aftermath, and it was re-classified as a double and just one RBI instead of two).
Either way, the game was over, officially a 1-0 win and heartbreak for Haddix.
May 1, 1975: Henry Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's RBI record
It's not as celebrated as the home-run record, of course, but when Henry Aaron singled in Sixto Lezcano in the third, it gave him 2,210 RBIs, eclipsing Babe Ruth's all-time mark of 2,209 (though Baseball-Reference has a mark of 2,214 for Ruth).
There wasn't much of a celebration that followed, unlike his home-run record set April 8, 1974. Aaron, who spent the final two years of his career in 1975 and 1976 with the Brewers, added an RBI double later in the game against the Tigers. Aaron's final game came at County Stadium on Oct. 3, 1976, and he singled in his last at-bat.
Aug. 27, 1982: Rickey Henderson sets single-season stolen-base mark
Oakland star Rickey Henderson stole his 119th base of the year, bypassing Lou Brock's 118 set in 1974, with a swipe of second base in the third inning despite a pitch-out. He received a cursory standing ovation from Milwaukee fans at County Stadium, with Brock also in attendance, and he stole three more bases in the game before Milwaukee prevailed, 5-4.
He finished the year with a record 130 steals, and the only player that's come close to that is Vince Coleman with 110 in 1985 and 109 in 1987. The most steals for any one player since the dawn of the 1990s: Marquis Grissom with 78 in 1992.
Sept. 23, 1988: Jose Canseco reaches 40/40
It was a big deal when Oakland star Jose Canseco became the first player in Major League history to hit 40 homers and steal 40 bases in a season, a feat that's only been replicated three other times in league history.
Facing the Brewers and Juan Nieves, Canseco singled and stole second in the first for his 39th steal of the year, then bunted for a single in the fifth and stole second to notch the mark. He also hit a three-run homer in the eighth — his 41st of the year — to give the A's an 8-3 lead into the ninth. But after he left the game in the bottom of the eighth, the Brewers rallied back for five runs in the ninth to tie the game, with most of the damage coming on singles against Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley.
But Oakland won in the 14th, 9-8, pushing Canseco's press conference for his achievement until nearly 1 a.m. local time.
The other three to turn the feat are Barry Bonds (1996), Alex Rodriguez (1998) and Alfonso Soriano (2006), who stole No. 40 to reach the milestone against the Brewers in Washington.
July 31, 1990: Nolan Ryan's 300th win
At 43 years old and already one of the greatest pitchers of all time, Ryan threw 146 pitches over 7 ⅔ innings and secured his 300th career victory, considered one of the most hallowed accomplishments in the sport. He allowed three runs (one earned) on six hits with eight strikeouts as the Texas Rangers prevailed easily, 11-3, though six of their runs came in the top of the ninth.
Sept. 9, 1992: Robin Yount's 3,000th hit
This one is unforgettable. The lifetime Milwaukee Brewers infielder and outfielder, Yount recorded another of the sport's great achievements when he delivered his 3,000th hit against Jose Mesa and Cleveland.
The game was marred by a rain delay and a ninth-inning collapse that led to a 5-4 loss, but it was still a magical night in which Yount's seventh-inning single made history. He became the third-youngest player to reach 3,000, behind Aaron and Ty Cobb.
September 1998: The Home Run Chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa
They won't be remembered as the ultimate home runs from the storied 1998 season as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa jockeyed for the single-season home run record, but there was a wild stretch in Milwaukee from Sept. 18-23 in which the Brewers faced the Cardinals and McGwire for three games followed by Sosa and the Cubs for two.
McGwire hit his 64th and 65th homers of the year, technically both setting new single-season records two days after his 62nd homer in St. Louis officially bypassed Roger Maris, with blasts against Rafael Roque and Scott Karl. Not to be outdone, Sosa drilled two homers on Sept. 23 against Roque and Rod Henderson to tie McGwire at No. 65.
The only game Milwaukee won in that stretch was the second one against the Cubs, fondly remembered as the "Brant Brown Game."
McGwire finished the year with 70, and Sosa, who pulled ahead of McGwire with his 66th homer two days after leaving Milwaukee, never got past 66.
McGwire later hit his final career home run at Miller Park in 2001 against Rocky Coppinger.
Sept. 7, 2010: Trevor Hoffman's 600th save
Trevor Hoffman, who had scuffled in the second of two years with the Brewers and hadn't been called upon regularly as the closer, was given a chance to lock down his 600th career save, becoming the first reliever to reach that milestone. The 42-year-old secured the 4-2 win over the Cardinals and set off an enthusiastic celebration; he'd finish his career with 601, a mark only surpassed by Mariano Rivera (652).
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A look at Major League Baseball milestones in Milwaukee
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A new lodge at Lapham Peak in Delafield is one step closer to becoming a reality after receiving a $1.3 million grant from the American Rescue Plan's Travel, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation program.
The group began planning for the new lodge in 2021 and received official DNR approval to move forward in December. They will continue to work with the DNR through the planning and construction process, then donate the building to the state for ongoing operations and maintenance when it is complete. The goal is to begin construction by the mid-2023 and complete it by mid-2024.
More information: Lapham Peak is at W329-N846 County Highway C, Delafield. For more on the park, see wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/laphampeak.
For more on Lapham Lodge and to donate, see laphampeakfriends.org/lodge.
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New $2.4 million Lapham Peak lodge moves forward with federal grant
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Eric Lauer takes the mound for the Brewers, who continue a four-game series against the Reds. The first pitch is scheduled for 5:40 p.m.
More:Will Brewers fans see history and Albert Pujols' 700th home run? These other MLB milestones also happened on Milwaukee soil
More:Brewers' starting rotation could be back to full strength by the end of the weekend
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Brewers vs. Reds at Great American Ball Park: lineup, score, updates
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CINCINNATI - As of Sunday, the Milwaukee Brewers' rotation will finally be back to full strength.
Manager Craig Counsell confirmed Friday that Freddy Peralta will start the team's series finale against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park.
The right-hander has been on the injured list since Sept. 9 with shoulder fatigue that had cut his last two starts short.
Peralta's return will "absolutely be limited" and come two days after left-hander Eric Lauer returned to the mound Friday to start against the Reds after his own stint on the IL.
"We're getting some guys back and we're getting innings back and we're getting quality innings back," Counsell said. "Getting those two guys back is important, and hopefully we can get those innings and then get a little bit more the next time.
"We're in this stage of two to probably three appearances here before the end of the season. That could be a game's worth of innings – and we need innings at this point."
Peralta missed more than two months with a significant shoulder strain before returning Aug. 3. He bumped his pitch count from 67 to 95 before dropping to 85 and 82 and then finally just 44, when fatigue forced him out of his last start Sept. 8.
Peralta was even given an additional three days' rest heading into that last start, a development that made his early departure all the more head-scratching.
"I'm feeling ready good. Great," Peralta, 4-3 with a 3.45 ERA in 15 starts, said Friday. "I think right now is the best I've felt the whole season.
"(Returning) makes me feel part of the group again. In this part of the season, we're playing really important games and we're pushing hard to win and get to the spot that we want to be."
Peralta said his latest stint on the IL has focused on further strengthening his shoulder in an effort to improve his endurance.
"We're working hard on making my muscle strong again. Making me comfortable in what I'm trying to get right now," he said. "Our goal is just to feel good again without pain. A lot of routines, a lot of different exercises.
"It's not like trying to find something different. It's just getting to the point where I feel comfortable, and trying to stay there."
In order to clear space for Lauer's reinstatement to the 26-man roster, right-hander Jake Cousins was optioned to Class AAA Nashville.
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Freddy Peralta will start Sunday against the Reds
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Skylight Music Theatre cast brings high spirits to ABBA songs of 'Mamma Mia!'
ABBA fans can be grateful that Sophie (Camara Stampley) and Sky (Ben Broughton) must have skipped the pre-Cana counseling sessions before their Greek island wedding.
All the excitement, anxiety and secrets they might have shared with each other comes roaring out to us in ABBA songs, from "The Name of the Game" to "Slipping Through My Fingers," in Skylight Music Theatre's new production of "Mamma Mia!," which opened Friday to an enthusiastic full house at the Broadway Theatre Center.
Monica Kapoor, who performed in this jukebox musical on Broadway, directed and choreographed the Skylight production. Her dance background shows: The production's strong ensemble is deployed creatively and energetically, often as a source of boisterous humor.
Raised by single mother Donna (Lisa Estridge) on a Greek island, Stampley's Sophie, 20, wants her father to walk her down the aisle. But who is he? Based on a reading of her mother's diary, she invites three likely suspects to the wedding: architect Sam (Victor Wallace), Australian writer Bill (Jake Horstmeier) and British banker Harry (Ben George). Naturally, she doesn't tell Mom, who's startled to see three former lovers show up after a couple of decades.
That's a ridiculous situation concocted by writer Catherine Johnson, but it provides all the scaffolding necessary for the bouncy pop-rock songs and heart-on-sleeve ballads written by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus with help from Stig Anderson. David Bonofiglio music-directs the Skylight's capable band.
Conveniently, Estridge's Donna was the leader of a female singing trio. Her former partners Tanya (Kelly Britt) and Rosie (Amanda Satchell) arrive for moral support and knockout versions of "Dancing Queen" and "Super Trouper." Britt and Satchell also make a terrific comic duo with a touch of Ginger/Mary Ann dynamic.
Estridge and Stampley bring powerful voices to the show. In tune with the music, Stampley displays Sophie's giddiness early, then her consternation when she realizes she's in way over her head.
Subtlety is not the name of the game in "Mamma Mia!," but George and Estridge provide an unexpectedly sweet and gentle moment with the nostalgic "Our Last Summer." More typical of the production's high spirits is "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do," but you'll have to see the show to see who does.
Oh, and wear comfortable shoes for the encore, as you'll be on your feet for a while.
Skylight Music Theatre performs "Mamma Mia! through Oct. 16 at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. Visit skylightmusictheatre.org or call (414) 291-7800.
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In commercials and on the stump, Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has sought to make combating crime a major issue in his reelection campaign against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
On Friday, Johnson brought the campaign to God Touch Milwaukee, a nonprofit group on the city's south side, where he convened a roundtable discussion on the issue.
"My macro solution, renewed faith, stronger families, more supportive communities," Johnson said during the discussion.
Later, he added: "The blunt public policy prescription for me is school choice."
Johnson backs universal school choice that would allow parents to receive taxpayer-paid vouchers to attend church-based and other private schools without any income limits.
Meanwhile, after weeks of being pounded on criminal justice issues, including his call to end cash bail, Barnes' campaign is attempting to push back.
PolitiFact Wisconsin: Mandela Barnes says under his plan to end cash bail "the Waukesha perpetrator wouldn’t have been released "
The Barnes campaign said that in his nearly two terms in the U.S. Senate, Johnson has voted more than a half-dozen times against increasing the number of cops, firefighters and criminal justice programs that would have benefited Wisconsin.
Most of the bills cited by the Barnes campaign were omnibus legislation that contained many provisions beyond being related to the police. Also included was Johnson's vote against the 2021 American Rescue Plan. Among the many items in President Joe Biden's signature bill was an allocation of $10 billion to law enforcement.
More:Wisconsin U.S. Senate election updates: Mandela Barnes agrees to second televised debate
Johnson backed a 2013 gun owner privacy amendment that "would withhold 5 percent of law enforcement grant funds to states and localities that release gun-ownership data, with an exception for the release of data necessary for a criminal investigation or legal proceeding."
In 2011, Johnson helped block President Barack Obama's plan to provide $35 billion in funding to retain or hire teachers, police and firefighters. The measure never got an up or down vote.
Asked about his record, Johnson said: "First of all I support law enforcement, that's a big thing ... just going up to a cop and saying thank you for your service. Not supporting the defund efforts that so dispirit law enforcement, which has driven down their recruitment numbers."
He added: "Have I voted against spending? Yeah. We're $30.08 trillion in debt."
Johnson explained: "I vote against mortgaging our children's future. And when you vote against a 2,000-page omnibus spending bill that's probably spending a trillion dollars, there's going to be good things in there they're going to spend money on. But somebody has to have the courage to say no, we have to stop this. We're seeing at least the beginning of a major debt crisis."
The Barnes campaign was critical of Johnson's record.
“Ron Johnson fought for millions of dollars in tax breaks for himself and his biggest donors, but he couldn’t be bothered to fight for funding to keep communities safe," Barnes said in a statement issued by his campaign. "We shouldn’t be surprised he played politics with our safety — this is the same man who encouraged an insurrection that injured 140 police officers. He can’t be trusted to keep us safe.”
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Ron Johnson touts universal school choice as remedy for rising crime
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Milwaukee renames street in honor of Olympic sprinter and Marquette grad Ralph Metcalfe
The name Ralph Metcalfe can evoke many images. A record-breaking Olympic sprinter. A trailblazing United States representative. A hardworking graduate of Marquette University.
But for New Yorker Nasser Metcalfe, he will always just see his loving grandfather.
“This beautiful community carries the name Metcalfe,” said Metcalfe’s grandson, who shared some words on behalf of his family during an event showcasing the latest effort by the city of Milwaukee to honor Metcalfe's legacy.
“I declare today that we are all Metcalfes — every last one of us — and that his name and his work and his legacy and all that it means will continue within all of us and our future generations,” he added as he held Ralph Metcalfe’s watch and spoke to a crowd of residents.
The ceremony held in Milwaukee's Metcalfe Rising Park at 3401 W. Center St. on Saturday unveiled the renaming of part of the roughly four-mile stretch of North 34th Street — a main street discontinuously threading from Metcalfe Park near West Meinecke Avenue toward Glendale. The honorary street name will be applied to the signs lining 34th Street from West North Avenue to West Center Street.
This is not the first time the city has celebrated Metcalfe, who also has a west side park, school and neighborhood named after him.
The event drew residents, both young and old, to his namesake park, where organizers also distributed community resources on voting and housing.
“I'm blessed to be on the block that I grew up on and to see the name change,” said Melody McCurtis, deputy director of Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, which hosted the ceremony.
“We are going to celebrate this historic moment and we are going to keep going,” she added. “It's almost like Ralph Metcalfe has passed the torch to our community.”
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Many members of the area were present, including District 15 Ald. Russell W. Stamper II, whose district includes the sites renamed to honor Metcalfe, and the district’s former alderman, Willie Hines Jr., as well as Wisconsin Black Historical Society founder and director Clayborn Benson.
Benson was one of the people who submitted an application to have the signs renamed to honor Metcalfe, which was later approved by the city’s Common Council.
“We're not just simply talking about a student who comes to Marquette and runs track,” Benson said. “He was engaged in this community.”
Who was Ralph Metcalfe?
Born in Atlanta in 1910, Metcalfe was primarily raised and went to school in Chicago.
It was during his time at high school that he started his long and fruitful career as a track athlete. After graduating in 1930, Metcalfe moved to Milwaukee, where he enrolled at Marquette University.
It was there his fame took root and his impact on the city began.
Metcalfe was named America's top sprinter between 1932 and 1934, according to his Marquette University biography.
He competed in the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Germany, where he and Jesse Owens ran for the U.S. Olympic team in the 400-meter relay. They ultimately took home gold. Metcalfe also won a silver medal in the 100 meters, losing to Owens. Metcalfe then retired from competitive sports.
Following a career as a teacher and coach and later serving in World War II, Metcalfe entered the political sphere, rising up from director of Chicago's Department of Civil Rights to city alderman and temporary City Council president to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the span of 30 years.
During his time as a politician, Metcalfe helped found the Congressional Black Caucus and co-sponsored legislation that would ultimately declare February as Black History Month.
On Oct. 10, 1978, Metcalfe died suddenly of an apparent heart attack. He was 68 years old.
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Milwaukee renames street after Olympian, Marquette alum Ralph Metcalfe
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CINCINNATI – After 14 years in the major leagues, Andrew McCutchen has achieved plenty.
And the latest box he can check on his list of personal milestones is a big one.
Having driven in three runs to help beat the Cincinnati Reds, 5-3, at Great American Ball Park on Friday night, the Milwaukee Brewers designated hitter-outfielder became just the 11th active major-leaguer to surpass 1,000 for his career.
“Doing it for a while, I guess,” McCutchen said when asked what the achievement meant to him. “Anybody who has that attached to them, they’ve been doing it for a while and for the most part, have been doing all right.
“It’s something I don’t take lightly. I’m happy to be in the position to do it.”
The big moment came in the fifth inning and gave the Brewers a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. He added a two-RBI double on an 0-2 count in his next at-bat in the seventh, leaving him with 1,002 and counting with 11 games left in the regular season.
“He’s gotten plenty of RBIs off of me,” joked Friday’s starter, Eric Lauer, whom McCutchen hit for a .500 average (7 for 14) — including a pair of home runs — and three RBI before Milwaukee signed the veteran this spring to help bolster its lineup against left-handed pitching.
“I mean, any milestone to that degree, pushing that far into a career, it’s impressive,” Lauer continued. “It’s fun to watch, it’s fun to be a part of and it’s fun to know the guy on the other side of the lines, too.
“The guy’s a great hitter, he’s always been a great hitter and like I’ve been saying since we got him, I’m just glad he’s on our team.”
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McCutchen would be the first to admit his season hasn’t quite gone as well as either he or the Brewers had hoped with a .240 average, 17 homers, 69 RBI and .706 OPS.
But he’s generally been available, having played in 127 games (fourth-most on the team) as well as versatile enough to have logged starts at DH as well as all three outfield spots.
His veteran leadership in the clubhouse has also been extremely valuable.
“Cutch is kind of the definition of a presence to me,” manager Craig Counsell said. “And you’re a presence because of the way you handle yourself on a daily basis and the decisions you make at work every day, how you conduct your day, how you handle the good stuff, how you handle the bad stuff.
“And probably how you handle the bad stuff makes people want to talk to you and ask you questions and learn from you.”
There hasn’t been a lot of bad in McCutchen’s 1,888 major-league games heading into Saturday.
He’s a career .277 hitter with an OPS of .839 who has 1,944 hits, 277 homers and 976 walks along with a National League MVP trophy (2013), five all-star appearances and a Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
“In order to be able to do that, you have to be on the field,” said McCutchen, who has played in a minimum of 108 games every season since breaking in with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2009, except for 2019 after a knee injury and the pandemic season of 2020.
“More often than not, I’ve been on the field enough,” he continued. “One major injury that knocked me out (torn ACL in 2019), but I take pride in being able to be on the field. My body’s been holding up well. I’ve been feeling good.
“It’s a testament to the way that I train and then the trainers, the strength trainers and PT people, and all the people who help get me out there. I don’t take their job lightly at all. They’re the ones who help get us out there on the field and producing and keeping us healthy. It’s a mixture of it all.
“It’s not just me. It takes a team. It takes an army to be able to stay on the field and stay healthy.”
McCutchen is now one RBI from tying Justin Upton for 10th on the active list; Upton hasn’t played since becoming a free agent July 22.
Albert Pujols leads the list with 2,208 with Miguel Cabrera second at 1,843.
They were followed by Robinson Cano (1,306), Nelson Cruz (1,302), Evan Longoria (1,123) Joey Votto (1,106), Paul Goldschmidt (1,039), Freddie Freeman (1,035) and Yadier Molina (1,020).
McCutchen is also one of only two active players — the Angels' Mike Trout is the other — with 200 homers and 200 stolen bases
“It’s longevity a little bit, too. Being good for a long time,” Counsell said of the achievement. “Think about 100 RBIs for 10 seasons and it’s kind of, ‘Oh my gosh.’ That’s ‘Wow.’ That’s playing a lot of games, being available, being healthy.
“Being in that lineup as much as you possibly can and then doing a lot of damage.”
McCutchen has twice driven in 96 runs (2012 and 2015) but never reached triple digits.
“I’ve never had a 100-RBI season,” he said. “So, to be able to put together the seasons that I have, it’s nice being able to get it.”
Despite the impressive numbers, the soon-to-be-36-year-old believes there’s more to come.
“I’m pretty close to 2,000 hits,” he said. “Hitting milestones is great. Cross another one off the list tonight, but it’s not like a farewell thing for me. I want to keep playing, so hopefully the more I play, the more milestones I’ll hit.
“It’s all-around good.”
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New surveys highlight broad public support for Recovering America's Wildlife Act
Two surveys conducted in the last month highlight strong support across political, social and demographic lines for the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, a potentially "game changing" proposal to provide $1.4 billion annually to state and tribal wildlife management efforts.
The bill passed the House in June but awaits action in the Senate.
Supporters of the legislation are hopeful the recent polling will help spur a Senate vote before the session ends this winter.
The bill would provide $1.3 billion for state agencies and $97.5 million for tribes in dedicated, annual funding to restore habitat and recover wildlife populations.
The monies would be used to execute state and tribal wildlife action plans on non-game species.
This is the fourth Congress in which the legislation was introduced. The three previous versions failed to pass either chamber.
But it hasn't been for lack of popularity with voters.
The recent surveys by Data for Progress and Responsive Management show RAWA's broad, bipartisan appeal.
The Data for Progress polling, conducted Sept. 16 to 19 among 1,215 likely voters, found 86% supported RAWA, including 92% of Democrats, 85% of Independents and 83% of Republicans.
The group did a similar poll in Dec. 2021 which found 84% of voters supported the bill.
The Responsive Management survey, performed Aug. 25 to 28 on a random sample of 1,002 U.S. residents age 18 and above, found 70% of Americans supported RAWA.
The information was fielded through a combination of telephone (including landline and cellular numbers) and online interviews.
The survey identified majority support for RAWA among every major demographic group examined in the research, including males and females; younger, middle-aged, and older residents; those of higher and lower education levels; and those in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
The bill was also supported across a range of outdoor recreation groups, including 80% of wildlife viewers, 78% of anglers, 77% of birdwatchers and 70% of hunters.
The results underscore how a pro-wildlife bill can bridge the partisan divide even when Republicans and Democrats are at loggerheads on many issues.
The bill's authors in the Senate are Sens. Roy Blount (R-Missouri) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico). Critical for its chance of passage, 16 Republican Senators have signed on as co-sponsors. Support among Democrats is very strong.
“The results could not be clearer: The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is one of the few bills that can unite this Congress and the American people,” said Mike Saccone, vice president for communications at the National Wildlife Federation. “Inaction is the ally of extinction. Congress should come together in the coming weeks to pass this landmark bipartisan legislation and secure our shared wildlife heritage for future generations.”
A model of RAWA funding shows Wisconsin would receive about $20 million a year from the bill.
The proposal does not have a "pay for" included in its current language but Senators are reportedly working on the issue. It could be passed as a stand-alone measure or included in a continuing resolution, a broad appropriations bill to provide funding to government departments, agencies and programs.
Supporters of RAWA have argued it makes financial and ecological sense to get ahead of habitat loss and wildlife population crises rather than respond with emergency action.
Egg take open houses: The public is invited to open houses at two of the egg take facilities run by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to support the Lake Michigan salmon and trout fishery.
The Root River Steelhead Facility in Racine will be open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 8 for guided tours and fish spawning demonstrations. Volunteers from Salmon Unlimited, Trout Unlimited and the Kenosha Sport Fishing and Conservation Association will provide educational fishing stations where visitors can try casting techniques and receive knot- and fly-tying lessons.
The facility is located at 2200 Domanik Drive, Racine.
The Besadny Anadromous Fish Facility in Kewaunee will be open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 1 for salmon egg collection demonstrations, fishing displays, guided tours and an "adopt a sturgeon" program. The Algoma Kewaunee Great Lakes Sport Fisherman will be providing wagon rides, and food and drink will be available for sale.
The facility is located at N3884 Ransom Moore Lane, Kewaunee.
The DNR's collection goals for the season are 750,000 brown trout eggs, 1 million coho salmon eggs and 2.5 million chinook salmon eggs. The eggs are provided to the state's hatchery system and the resulting fish are stocked as fingerlings or yearlings.
For more information, visit dnr.wi.gov.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – At the start of the season, the jelling of Wisconsin’s offensive line was going to be a key point of development for the team.
Four weeks into the season, however, the unit has experienced setback after setback.
Saturday it was redshirt sophomore left tackle Jack Nelson, who didn’t play in the 52-21 loss to Ohio State at Ohio Stadium due an unspecified illness.
The loss meant that Wisconsin played third-ranked Ohio State without its top two tackles. Redshirt freshman Riley Mahlman missed his third straight games due to a left leg injury.
UW spent most of this week knowing Nelson’s status was uncertain.
"Thursday night we kind of got an idea we wouldn’t have him,” Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst said.
Wisconsin’s lost Nelson for a game it hoped to test its revamped unit. Guard Tanor Bortolini and tackle Trey Wedig made their first starts of the season on the right side of the line after a promising showing against New Mexico State last week.
Fourth-year junior Logan Brown, who started the last two games at right tackle, replaced Nelson at left tackle.
The results were far from spectacular but that could be said of the entire team, which suffered a 31-point loss in a game played in front of a national TV audience.
Wisconsin finished with 296 total yards that included 192 yards in the ground. Seventy-five of those yards, however, came on a meaningless touchdown run by Braelon Allen in the fourth quarter. Takeaway that carry and the ground game produced 3.4 yards per carry.
Chryst withheld in judgment on how the unit fared without Nelson.
"I’ve certainly got to watch the film (on) how Trey and Logan did, so I don’t want to comment too quickly on how they did," he said. "I felt they seemed composed. I don’t feel anything jumped out that way.
As for Nelson, he appears poised to return to action against Illinois Saturday.
"I think we’ve got a chance to get him back next week and that will e good for us,” Chryst said.
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CINCINNATI – It’s been a career season for Kolten Wong in a couple respects.
The good? After his three-homer binge against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, Wong has now established a new personal high of 15 with a shot at tacking on a few more over the final 10 days of the regular season.
The bad? After his throwing error Friday, the second baseman has now tied his high-water mark for fielding miscues with 17 – a total that he first established in 2015 as an up-and-comer with the St. Louis Cardinals.
While the power surge has obviously been welcomed by a Milwaukee Brewers team that will take all the offense it can get, the regression in the field is something that’s been rather head-scratching for a player who’d won consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Awards in 2020 and 2021.
Last season, his first with the Brewers, Wong committed just two errors in 937 innings for a .995 fielding percentage en route to finishing as a finalist in the Gold Glove balloting (Tommy Edman of the Cardinals eventually won the award in the NL).
This season, Wong’s fielding percentage has dropped to .960 in 978 ⅔ innings over 122 games (110 starts), with the 17 errors leading all major-league second basemen. Baltimore’s Rougned Odor was second with 13 entering Sunday.
The metrics have also underscored the dropoff in the field for Wong; his minus-10 outs above average rank him 262nd among all defenders and his minus-3 defensive runs saved are tied for the lowest mark of his career.
By comparison, his double-play partner Willy Adames is the Brewers' top-rated defender, credited with nine outs above average at shortstop — a figure that ranks 22nd in the majors. His nine defensive runs saved are also a career high.
"I think we went through a stretch of the season where he struggled, and he struggled pretty significantly," manager Craig Counsell said of Wong. "When somebody makes two errors for a season, they’re not going to do better than that. The next season’s going to be worse.
"I think since early in the season, he’s made the plays that he needs to make. He makes that play in the ninth inning (Saturday), you don’t talk about that play. That’s a great play, and a really tough play. I think he’s played well defensively (overall).
"He hasn’t played as well as he did last year, no question about it. But I think after that (early) stretch, he’s been himself."
Wong acknowledged his struggles with the glove during a conversation earlier in the season.
"It just makes you want to work that much harder. Put in that much more work to get better and get back to where you want to be," he said. "I know I’m not going to make errors like this every year. It’s been a tough year for me, having a few tough plays and then I think just the shortened spring training didn’t give me enough time to get my glove broken in to how I would like.
"But I’m not going to make excuses. That’s just how the season’s gone for me, and I’m going to figure out ways to finish stronger."
While the defensive dropoff might indeed be an aberration, Wong's age (he turns 32 on Oct. 10) and contract (he has a $10 million team option with a $2 million buyout for 2023) would seem to suggest the Brewers will turn elsewhere next season.
Brice Turang, the team's 2018 first-round pick, has had an outstanding campaign at Class AAA Nashville and while he's a shortstop by trade, has played some second and third base as well this year.
The Brewers also have Luis Urías on hand and could potentially slide him from third base to second.
Wong, in his 10th year in the majors, has a clear grasp of the situation moving forward.
"I think if I take care of me being in the present, the future will take care of itself," he said. "Trying to focus on that, focusing on finishing strong. If they want me here next year, great. If not, I’m sure there are other teams out there that will want me. So, I’m not really worried about it.
"I’m just trying to play hard and show people that I’m still one of the best defenders out there. Even though my numbers don’t show it right now, I know who I am."
That said, Wong did want to make it clear his experience with the Brewers has been a positive one for him and that he'd like to return if it were up to him.
"I’ve enjoyed my time here tremendously," he said. "From the front office to the coaching staff to the fans – everyone’s welcomed me with open arms.
"It’s been such an easy transition. I never thought it would be this easy coming from St. Louis, but it’s been amazing being here and I’ve had a really great time with all these guys. And if it’s my time to go, it is what it is and I spent it with a great group of guys and a good organization."
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Aurora St. Luke's hospital a national leader in using implant to monitor heart failure, give patients added freedom
Last summer, eight years after being diagnosed with heart failure, 76-year-old Mary Korte was on vacation, hiking at about an 8,700-foot elevation in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
Korte was having a hard time breathing and felt extremely tired. Something was off.
Almost 1,400 miles away, in the cardiology department at Milwaukee's Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Korte's nurse knew the same thing. Something was off.
In January 2020, Korte had a small sensor implanted into her pulmonary artery, which carries oxygen-depleted blood from the heart to the lungs. The sensor measures the amount of pressure in that artery, looking for early indications of worsening heart failure.
On that morning, when Korte laid back on a pillow that beams data to her medical team in Milwaukee, the numbers the nurse saw looked concerning. She called her patient up to ask if she'd been doing anything different.
Korte seemed to be retaining fluid more, the nurse said, a dangerous situation for heart failure patients.
Would being at an 8,700-foot elevation have anything to do with it, Korte asked. Absolutely, her nurse replied.
"I thought, OK, well now there's a reason," Korte said. "I'm not being a wimp!"
The call from her nurse stopped her from going any higher. Korte also knew what to do until she could get back down to a lower elevation: increase her diuretic medication, which makes her body produce more urine and, as a result, combats excess fluid retention.
Most reassuring, Korte didn't reach the point of having to be hospitalized while in New Mexico.
The medical device that Korte had threaded into her pulmonary artery in 2020 is called CardioMEMS and was developed by Abbott. It was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014, and again for expanded use for people who are in earlier stages of heart failure earlier this year.
The Advocate Aurora Health System has implanted more of the devices than any other health system in the world: 1,000 across all of its hospitals. And Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee has established itself at the fifth highest-volume hospital for the devices nationwide, having completed around 350 of them.
Advocate Aurora Research Institute conducted two major studies on the devices that led to the device's approval by the FDA.
The goal of using the device is to keep patients with chronic heart failure out of the hospital. Advocate Aurora has seen a 50% reduction in the number of hospitalizations among patients who have the implant, according to data provided by the health system.
But there is also a major secondary benefit of the devices, said Dr. Nasir Sulemanjee, Korte's cardiothoracic surgeon at Aurora St. Luke's. Having the device empowers patients to take charge of their conditions and learn more about what managing heart failure looks like for them.
Left untreated, the average life expectancy for a heart failure patient is five years. New medications have improved outcomes for many, the doctor said.
"Unfortunately, the majority of the patients still don't get the right treatment for heart failure, and we still see very high rates of mortality in patients with heart failure," Sulemanjee said. "Five years, almost 50% of the patients don't make it."
Education and empowerment
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 6.2 million American adults have heart failure.
Despite the sense of immediacy that comes from its name, heart failure is considered a chronic condition. Patients live longer when given access to medical care and drugs, and when they adopt certain lifestyle changes that help manage the condition, including lowering sodium consumption and increasing physical activity.
Education around the condition is particularly important, for patients and for society as a whole.
The CDC estimates that in 2012, the nation spent $30.7 billion on treating heart failure, including costs of health services, medications and missed days of work. In 2018, 13.4% of death certificates mentioned heart failure.
Korte, an avid traveler and former professor in Concordia University Wisconsin's science department, got her diagnosis in 2013. She had visited her primary care doctor before leaving for a trip to San Antonio. He had run some tests, and when the results came in, he called her on vacation and told her to immediately pick up medication at a San Antonio pharmacy, and then come in to see him when she got back home.
Korte approached her diagnosis with a sense of resolve and a desire to do everything she could to manage her condition.
She became an avid label reader of grocery store foods, carefully watching her sodium intake. She started cooking with more fresh vegetables and ate more vegetarian meals. She had always been physically active, and made sure to remain so.
But getting the implant gave her an even more intimate understanding of her disease and gave her the chance to essentially be part of her own medical team.
The team at St. Luke's taught her how to take the readings, something she does every morning after waking up, along with weighing herself (weight gain with swelling in the feet, legs, ankles, or stomach is a symptom of heart failure). The monitoring is just part of her daily routine, she said.
She's even learned how certain foods can influence her condition. Cheese, which can have high sodium even though it doesn't seem salty, was one surprise food she now limits.
Doctors have to appreciate these individual differences in patients' diets and lifestyles while treating them, Sulemanjee said.
"It allowed us to manage Mary in a more educated and personalized fashion for her," Sulemanjee said. "We wanted her to live her life and we obviously wanted her to do what she wanted to do."
Increasingly, Korte will know exactly why and when to expect a call from her nurse. When when she eats sushi, for example, she answers her nurse's call and discloses that right away. Her nurse tells her to adjust her medications and keep living her life.
"You learn your limits," Korte said. "So if I have one dragon roll, I'm OK, but if I just stuff myself and stuff myself and stuff myself, that's too much. And I don't have the miso soup anymore."
She hasn't been admitted to the hospital once since getting the implant.
A renewed peace of mind
The procedure to get the CardioMEMS implant takes about 30 to 45 minutes, and is done by surgeons going through either a vein in a patient's groin or neck to reach the pulmonary artery.
Surgeons measure the size and structural quality of the artery before making an implant. Preparation for the surgery takes about an hour, and doctors ask the patient to stay for another hour or two before sending them home.
The medical team also takes time to train the patient on how to use the device, checking in with patients in the first week to make sure they're getting a hang of things.
There are some challenges that come with the expanded use of these devices, Sulemanjee said.
On the patient side, it's very important that people are empowered to follow through and make sure that they are taking readings every day. For some patients, even though most insurances cover the device, upfront costs can also create a barrier. Some insurance providers have "dragged their feet" on covering the device, Sulemanjee said, though that has greatly improved in recent years, especially since Medicare started covering it.
Another challenge is that of scale: St. Luke's started the program with just one nurse, but has since added one more nurse and two nurse practitioners to help read results and keep in touch with patients. In the Advocate Aurora system, all CardioMEMs patients are monitored by the heart team at St. Luke's. The hospital will need to keep growing those resources, the surgeon said.
"I think we've demonstrated the utility of this without any doubt," Sulemanjee said. "And I think that's why it's easy for us to now ask for more resources if needed."
Also key to expanding access to the technology is making sure that other cardiologists can see the power of the device. Sulemanjee said many clinicians feel the device is "unnecessary or not needed."
Some have raised questions about just how much the device helps patients after a study published in the Lancet journal found a slight, but not statistically significant, benefit from the implant. However, further analysis showed that the pandemic changed people's behavior, from fewer people going to the hospital because of COVID-19 fears to people just eating out less.
As a result, Sulemanjee said, both patients with the device and those without it saw lower hospitalization rates. However, an analysis done before the pandemic found the implants could be significantly beneficial.
For the doctor, who even has relatives of his own using the implant, those benefits are clear. He recalled a patient from Kenosha who, before getting the implant, had to be hospitalized while on vacation in Tennessee. His kids told him not to risk traveling again.
He was allowed to book another vacation to the Smoky Mountains right after he got his implant, finally able to get back to his family's annual tradition of going there. That's the type of peace of mind the device can bring to patients, their families and their doctors, both Sulemanjee and Korte said.
"And it makes you feel safe living your life," Korte said. "I mean nobody is 100% guaranteed of anything. But you know, as a patient, that people are caring for you on a daily basis, and monitoring the situation."
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With 'relentless optimism,' 'Where Did We Sit on the Bus?' recounts a story of Latinx life in America
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Bee Quijada ponders how she fits into the mosaic that is America.
She's been emulating the dance moves of a certain famous singer she watches on MTV, whose appearance has been changing over time.
"I keep thinking that there I sit," Bee tells us, "a brown kid, who wants to be a Black kid, who wants to be a white kid."
Welcome to "Where Did We Sit on the Bus?," Brian Quijada's energetic, soulful and frequently hilarious attempt to answer the question a teacher ducked in a lesson about Rosa Parks. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre performs this hip-hop-fueled production Sept. 30 through Oct. 23, with Chicago actor Isa Arciniegas as Bee. Kellen Abston, the local rapper and producer known as Klassik, has scored the show and is performing the music live.
When Arciniegas saw Quijada perform "Bus" some years ago, that "changed my life," she said. The show articulated thoughts she's had but couldn't put into words about being from another country but growing up in the United States. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, her family spent time in both countries before making the move here permanently when she was a girl.
Like Bee, she knows what it feels like to be brown at a table full of white kids.
This production has a white director, MCT artistic leader Brent Hazelton. After Arciniegas asked for more Latinx input on the creative team, MCT added local artist Ck Ledesma (like Abston, a winner of the Milwaukee Arts Board artist of the year honors) as a cultural consultant. The Latinx experience is so large and rich, one person can't represent it all, Arciniegas said, explaining her request. For example, "there are Spanish words in El Salvador that we don't say in Venezuela," she pointed out.
Productions of "Bus" have taken different approaches to creating the music that Bee raps to. Quijada used live looping, triggering music with foot pedals. In a Louisville production, Satya Chávez played guitars, keyboards and other instruments as well as looping.
Abston has scored the Milwaukee production, picking up elements from the script, like a guitar theme for Bee's dad, a guitarist. He'll perform and trigger the music live on keyboard, pads and devices.
While Bee comes from a specific culture, "Where Did We Sit on the Bus?" reflects an experience that's almost archetypal across American literature: the conflict between immigrant parents who want their children to succeed in this country — and their children, who want to be artists.
When 12-year-old Bee tells her father she wants to be an actor and a dancer, he is floored. “How will you make money? You will suffer. Playing only janitors and drug dealers," he tellls her. "If you can get the jobs. And if you can't? Just become a doctor.”
In contrast to Bee, Arciniegas said her growing up was privileged. Her parents always supported her desire to perform. But she understands the conflict between the impulse to make parents happy vs. doing what she needs to do to be happy.
"I think that immigrant guilt is like always kind of ingrained in us," she said.
The big question, Abston said, is "how do we repay our ancestors?" Being an artist may not be the life someone else envisioned, but having the freedom to make that decision is a legacy from them, he suggested. Abston sees his performance in "Bus" as a legacy, too. His late father, Robin Abston, acted on a number of Milwaukee stages.
Life throws challenges and microaggressions at Bee, but she keeps rolling. Abston describes her as a person of "relentless optimism." Bee loves the culture she came from, but is also hungry for new experiences, like eating beef brisket at a Jewish classmate's home, or playing Skimbleshanks in "Cats," or finding the love of her life in an Austrian-Swiss woman.
In the end, Bee answers the question of the play's title with characteristic exuberance.
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre performs "Where Did We Sit on the Bus?" Sept. 30 through Oct. 23 at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. Visit www.milwaukeechambertheatre.org/bus or call (414) 291-7800. Note: MCT is requiring audience members to wear masks during these performances.
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'Where Did We Sit on the Bus?' a story of Latinx life in America
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In 1967, a guy from New York City set out on a sure-it-sounds-crazy-now mission:
Go to Vietnam, find buddies in uniform from the neighborhood and bring beer from home to drink with them — to show them people at home are thinking about them.
The beer? Milwaukee's own Pabst Blue Ribbon.
That mission — and a short film co-produced by Pabst decades later — inspired the new movie "The Greatest Beer Run Ever," starring Zac Efron as John "Chickie" Donohue, the man who made the beer run.
Directed and co-written by Peter Farrelly ("Green Book," "There's Something About Mary"), "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" opens in a limited number of theaters on Sept. 30, the same day the movie debuts on Apple TV+.
And PBR appears to have a supporting role — in the movie at least.
The poster and promos for "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" feature Efron parachuting into Vietnam atop a giant can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, with a duffel bag full of PBRs on hand (and one in hand).
Scenes in the trailer show Efron tossing, and tossing down, PBRs with soldiers behind the lines, in the thick of battle and even from a helicopter.
Bill Murray plays the bartender who first gives Efron the idea, and Russell Crowe co-stars as a war correspondent in Vietnam who sets his character straight on the war.
In an interview earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, Farrelly told Deadline.com that he first got interested in Donohue's story after seeing "Pabst Blue Ribbon Presents: The Greatest Beer Run Ever," a 12-minute documentary by Andrew Muscato about Donohue and his buddies that was produced by Pabst Blue Ribbon and commercial filmmaker Makuhari Media.
In the short documentary, which is available on YouTube, Donohue tells his story with help from the guys he brought those beers to in 1967, in a reunion in a New York City bar in 2015.
In 1967, Donohue was a merchant seaman who, upset that antiwar protesters were detracting from the heroic efforts of buddies who were in uniform in Vietnam, lets himself get talked into the idea of grabbing a bunch of local beer and taking it to Vietnam, where he somehow would track down guys from the neighborhood and give them a brew.
Along the way, he has some adventures, including getting caught in a firefight and being stuck in Saigon during the Tet offensive. There are lighter moments, too, like when he surprises his buddies in the middle of a war zone looking like someone who should not be in a war zone.
In an interview in the documentary, Donohue says he brought along a case of Pabst. In the 2015 reunion, while recounting some of the zanier (and scarier) moments from Donohue's unlikely road trip, he and his buddies are all sitting at the bar, each with a can of Pabst in front of them.
"Needless to say," Donohue says in the short, "it was a while before I had to pay for my own beer."
However, the 2020 book version of Donohue's story serves up more than PBR. Turns out other Milwaukee-connected brewers may have been in on the action, too.
In "The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty and War," Donohue (with co-author J.T. Molloy) writes that, when a chance to hop a ship headed for Vietnam turned up at the last minute, he dashed to a bar near the dock to buy as much local beer as he could carry.
"I asked him to include New York brands such as Pabst Blue Ribbon, Schaefer, Schlitz, Piels, Ballantine and Rheingold," Donohue wrote. " … I felt assured that I could replenish my supply with the bigger American brands like Budweiser and Miller once I got there. But I wanted to bring some hometown favorites."
"When I told (the bartender) where I was bringing it, he gave me a great price," Donohue said.
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2022-09-26T11:28:30Z
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A conservative law firm said it will appeal a judge's decision to dismiss its case challenging the constitutionality of a college grant program because it excludes from eligibility some students, including those who are white.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, also known as WILL, sued the Higher Educational Aids Board last spring on behalf of several state residents, including a biracial couple who said their son didn't qualify for the Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant.
The Higher Educational Aids Board, also known as HEAB, awards scholarships and loans to college students, including the minority retention grant.
State law restricts the grant to African-American, American Indian, Hispanic and some Southeast Asian students.
WILL argued the criteria racially discriminates against groups that don't qualify, including students who are Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, North African, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and white.
Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge William Hue dismissed the suit on Sept. 16.
Dan Lennington, the legal group's deputy counsel, said WILL would appeal the ruling because of a federal case involving Harvard University that could change the national landscape around race-conscious admissions. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments next month.
"We are confident that ultimately the State of Wisconsin will have to end this race-based scholarship," he said in a statement.
Connie Hutchinson, who leads HEAB, said the lawsuit's dismissal means students of color will continue to be able to receive the grant, which provides up to $2,500 per year to help defray the cost of college.
The minority grant program was established in the 1980s to help students who face significant barriers to earning a college degree. An overwhelming amount of research shows Black and Hispanic students are less likely to go to college, more likely to drop out, and less likely to graduate compared to their white peers. Black students also carry more debt and face higher risk of default.
Nearly 800 students received the grant last school year, Hutchinson said. HEAB awards the grants based on financial need to students attending a technical college, tribal college or nonprofit private college.
Each school's allocation is based on their minority student population from the previous year and if any school doesn't use their full allocation, the difference goes to schools in need of more money. But most schools used their full allocation last year, she said.
A similar grant program is available for University of Wisconsin System students. While the UW grant wasn't part of the lawsuit, Lennington indicated at the time the suit was filed that it, too, could be the target of legal action.
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Lawsuit targeting Wisconsin college grant for students of color tossed
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The recently shuttered Milwaukee Brewing Co. will live on, continuing 25 years of business after it was bought by Milwaukee's Eagle Park Brewing.
Milwaukee Brewing Co.'s well-known beers like Louie's Demise, MKE IPA, and Outboard will stay on shelves and on tap thanks to the deal.
Brothers Max and Jake Borgardt and business partner Jake Schinker, who started Eagle Park Brewing almost six years ago, want to keep the recipes and names of the Milwaukee Brewing Co. beers that Wisconsinites have grown to know.
"It’s a huge deal. They are one of the oldest craft breweries in the city, and they're pretty cemented in this culture," Borgardt said. "To be in this spot is pretty surreal. We want to carry on what they’ve done and to make sure the city knows that the beer is not going away."
While Eagle Park will get distribution of Milwaukee Brewing Co. products back on shelves as early as Oct. 1, the brewery will take its time opening a taproom dedicated to the brewery.
Eagle Park will not take up the lease at the Milwaukee Ale House at 233 N. Water St., where Milwaukee Brewing Co. started in the Third Ward 25 years ago.
The taproom Milwaukee Brewing occupied at 1128 N. Ninth St. was taken over by Chicago-based Pilot Project Brewing.
"It's something we're not going to rush," Schinker said. "When we were looking for this place, we were looking for the right building or facility that should be a representation of a brewery that represents the city and make sure it’s the right fit."
Another change customers will notice is new labeling when the Borgardts’ and Schinker’s iteration of Milwaukee Brewing Co. hits shelves.
"We're not going to make it unrecognizable, but we're going to update the brand and give it a fresh look," Borgardt said. "It won’t lose its essence. We want something where it looks like it's going be coming from us."
Milwaukee Brewing Co. was created by Milwaukeean Jim McCabe in 1997.
A quarter-century later, Eagle Park owners are confident that the beers will continue to sell well.
More:MKE Brewing Co. expanded rapidly and opened at the Pabst complex. Why is the company now for sale?
“I think the one thing we noticed when Milwaukee Brewing announced their closure was a lot of social media content where people said that they were going to miss it,” Borgardt said. “We were watching, thinking, 'Don’t worry.' We are confident that there are a lot of consumers out there who are ready.”
A perfect partnership
Eagle Park Brewing owners said Milwaukee Brewing Co. fit perfectly into their brewing portfolio.
More approachable brews will come from the Milwaukee Brewing Co. brand, which the new owners plan to expand with new seasonal releases while keeping beers from the previous operation.
“That was a lot of the intrigue in the project, is the fact that Eagle Park exists in its own space and there isn’t a ton of overlap,” Borgardt said. “Eagle Park is the company that we built. We know our brand very well and what it's capable of. Deciding where new products will land isn’t going to be that challenging for us.”
That means Eagle Park Brewing will stay the same with more experimental, constantly rotating beers.
“People might be wondering, ‘What is this going to mean for Eagle Park?’ Nothing,” Borgardt said. “We’re going to keep on doing the same thing we do. We’re not going to change the amount we produce. It’s going to stay the exact same.”
About Eagle Park Brewing
The Borgardt brothers started producing beer on a small scale — first in the Borgardt family garage before they were old enough to drink.
The business began to grow in a 700-square-foot space in Bay View’s Lincoln Warehouse in January 2017. In April 2018 they moved to a larger space at 823 E. Hamilton St.
They have gained a following for limited-release beers, and carved out a space for unique offerings like a Milkshake IPA; Ekto Kooler, a green hard seltzer; and a Pineapple Upside-Down Sour beer.
In March 2020, they were set to open a 20,500-square-foot space at S64-W15680 Commerce Center Parkway in Muskego, but the opening was delayed until that July because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Muskego location includes a 20-barrel brewhouse and a state-of-the-art canning line, which made the acquisition of Milwaukee Brewing Co. possible.
“One of the reasons we were interested in Muskego is we have a lot of space. We have enough capacity to launch Milwaukee Brewing Company beers for the next six months,” Borgardt said.
Borgardt, 33, said they’re in a good place to take on the 25-year legacy of Milwaukee Brewing and continue its run.
“It seems like in talking to Jim that they are excited as much as we are. We’re younger. We have a lot of years to put into this, but it’s not going to someone who has a few years before retirement,” Borgardt said. “We have time to grow the brand and give it the time it needs. That’s why we’re excited, and we’re going to give it everything we have.”
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Milwaukee Brewing Company bought by Eagle Park Brewing
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