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Is Giannis the best player in the world? NBA luxury tax bills and Joe Ingles' trash talk highlight topics at Milwaukee Bucks media day
The Milwaukee Bucks kicked off the 2022-23 season with their annual media day Sunday, headlined by ownership, general manager Jon Horst, head coach Mike Budenholzer and the Big Three of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday.
Here are some highlights from the nearly four hours of availability at Fiserv Forum:
Governor Marc Lasry was not able to attend media day, so co-owners Wes Edens, Jamie Dinan and Mike Fascitelli handled the responsibilities of answering questions.
The NBA and the players association are currently in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, and either side can opt out of the current contract in December. Is there confidence a work stoppage will be avoided?
Edens: “I think the situation is the contract is in place right now. I think it could be opted here in the middle of the year where you’d be in a situation just like the last several where there would be a negotiation next summer. But from my standpoint I’d be surprised if there’s a work stoppage that’s for sure. In any event the contract exists for this year.”
How do you feel about the team being in the luxury tax each of the last three seasons?
Edens: “Well, one of the burdens of having a very talented and experienced team is the salary expectations are high. So we’re in the tax. Eleven of the 30 teams, I think, are in the tax, or something like that, so it’s not a unique situation for us. As a group we made a big commitment to deliver championships and do everything we can on the ownership side to be supportive of Jon and ‘Bud’ and the whole organization. So we’re obviously deeply committed to that. We think we have a special, generational talent in the form of Giannis and all the good players around him in Khris and Jrue, so we’re very committed financially to do what we can to give ourselves the best chance to win.”
How much is looking ahead to a new CBA and a media rights deal in about three years a part of the calculus for today? (For example, some players, like Khris Middleton, are extension eligible.)
Dinan: “I think it’s more in the present. We definitely think about it and have matrices and everything else. But the real world doesn’t work on your model, so to speak, and it’s a competitive marketplace. So I could say almost every decision you end up making – not all – is mostly determined by ‘the moment.’ But we do think of flexibility, we think of what our roster looks like as we look out every year for the next five, where the holes are, where the gaps are, where the opportunities are.
Fascitelli: “I do think it’s a huge opportunity for the NBA and individual teams, though, the TV contract coming up. That’s going to spill down to the teams as well as the players.”
Three times in the last eight years NBA teams in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Phoenix have gone up for sale after, in part, racist comments were made by owners. A fourth team (Dallas) was penalized for workplace misconduct. Do such instances have you self-audit, to make sure people feel safe and included either in your presence or coming to work every day?
Edens: “I think that the standards of conduct, not just in basketball organizations but across organizations broadly, have gone up – and appropriately so. And there’s no place in the world for racism, misogyny. Lack of tolerance for that is very high not just in the Bucks but every organization that we’re involved in. And, I think it just happens to be very public when it’s an NBA basketball team, but it happens in mainstream America and around the world frankly in terms of corporate life. And I think the one observation, clearly, is the tolerance for anything that is really offsides is much reduced and I think appropriately so.”
Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer discusses his right ankle replacement
Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer underwent right ankle replacement about five weeks ago. Will he be ready to be on the sidelines once games begin?
Budenholzer: “It’s a little bit to-be-determined. We play Saturday for our first preseason game and then we go to Abu Dhabi. They’ll be some version of this scooter still at that time, so I think we’ll just figure it out as we get closer to it. And I will be close to where I’m transitioning to just walking in a walking boot. I may stay planted on the seat. There’s a lot of different, variable options that we may go to but I don’t think I’m that important.”
Bucks injury updates
Khris Middleton (wrist) is out of his cast
Bucks general manager Jon Horst: “I think early in our season is really what we should expect. A little bit to-be-determined but he’s doing incredibly well. He’s out of the cast, he’s starting to do functional things, his conditioning is like peak. To say opening night, I don’t know, I think it’s too early.”
Middleton: “Got my cast off for almost two weeks now. Just trying to move it, that’s it. Trying to get the range of motion, so hopefully that comes back in the next couple weeks then we go from there.”
Joe Ingles (ACL) could be ready by December
Horst: “Joe is doing fantastic. It still is a ways out. I think some point in December is possible, I still think it’s later. More realistic (is) January. There’s so many steps kind of now and finishing rehab that will really determine that. But he’s doing fantastic.”
Ingles: “I’ve so far had six months or whatever we are of being good. I haven’t had any setbacks, I haven’t had anything lingering that’s stopped me doing anything of these kind of boxes to tick along the way. Knock on wood, so far so good.”
George Hill (neck/abdomen) back to feeling healthy
Hill: “It’s good. Last season was tough for me fighting injury and things like that. Wasn’t able to be myself. I took time over the summer and got my (cortisone) shots that I needed to, let it rest, and had a great summer. I’m back to being healthy. I feel good again and just ready to redeem myself.”
Jordan Nwora signs two-year deal
Horst said he expected something to be done with third-year wing Jordan Nwora by the end of the day in order for him to practice with the team on Monday. Nwora’s agency announced a two-year deal later in the afternoon.
Is Giannis Antetokounmpo No. 1 in the world?
Giannis Antetokounmpo on if he’s the best basketball player in the world: “Do I believe that I’m one of the best players in the league and the way I help my team be great and win games is efficient and effective? Yeah, I do believe. I’m mature enough, old enough to understand that. Do I believe I’m the best player in the world? No. I think the best player in the world is the person who is the last man standing, is the person who takes his team to the final, to the finish line and helps them win the game, win games and become champion. Two years ago when we did that, yeah. When I was sleeping in my bed I was like, ah, yeah, maybe I’m the best player in the world. But now, no. In my opinion, the way I do it, the winner is the best. The guy that wins in the best.”
Joe Ingles takes center stage
Holiday on new acquisition Ingles: “Joe is one of the ones you hate to play against. Like, he’s an (expletive) playing against him. I’m not even going to lie to you. Playing against him is the worst because he’s physical, he’s kind of dirty, and he talks trash. But now that he’s on my team I’m happy.”
Ingles: "Is that good? Is that good or bad? I don't know whether that's a compliment. I've had a lot of compliments or whatever in my life. I think for me, and kind of going back to (former Utah head coach) Quin (Snyder) a little bit, one thing for me defensively especially was to try and be as annoying as possible... Which might have some of the talk involved."
Middleton: “I think everybody knows about him – his trash talk. But maybe not.”
Ingles: "Jrue doesn’t say anything on the court. Neither does Khris. Khris doesn’t talk in general!”
Ingles on his trash talk: “I’m not going to do it anymore. I'm done. We’ve got Bobby. Bobby’s the one you guys can ask."
Bobby Portis ended his media session with an open-ended question: "Who gets more techs this season: Joe or Bobby?"
Ingles on getting No. 7 from Grayson Allen: “It was a bit of a joke and the next morning we were texting and he was kind of like I don’t really care that much about my number, kind of like you can have it if you want. And I was like really? Because I will. But as we all know the things that happen to get numbers around here so I will look after him. I’m not going to give him money, but I will get him a little gift. I’ll get my wife (Renae) to. She’s way better at buying presents. And he just got married. So we’ll get him a little something.”
Bucks' George Hill thought of retiring
George Hill on contemplating retirement after last season: “I thought about it. I thought about it hard. Sometimes you get inside of yourself sometime and for me, personally, I’m big on feeling and emotions. I felt like I let the city of Milwaukee down last year not being able to perform the way I normally perform. I let my teammate down being injured. And I thought about it. But as a competitor, I didn’t want to go out like that. So, had a great offseason for the summer, decided to come back and try to redeem myself and make myself better.”
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Germantown residents will vote in November whether to share their water and sewer services with a portion of Richfield. Richfield would bear all costs to the expansion, but locals are concerned that their personal wells could be negatively affected if the referendum is approved.
To address concerns, Village Administrator Steven Kreklow is planning three public information sessions: at 6 p.m. Sept. 29 and Oct. 20, and at 10 a.m. Oct. 11, all at Village Hall, N112 W17001 Mequon Road.
At the sessions, Kreklow will explain the question on the ballot and what a "yes" or "no" vote means, as well as answer questions from residents.
At past Germantown Village Board meetings, residents questioned the sustainability of sharing resources and worried their wells might dry up. Kreklow hopes to reassure residents that appropriate research has been done to avoid this.
"We do get the question about impact on wells quite a bit, and that is something that's been studied," Kreklow said.
The village hired hydrologists to study the new well that's proposed to be shared with the northeast corridor of Richfield and found that Germantown residents' personal wells would not be affected, he said.
"If it's going to be on the ballot, we want to try to do everything we can to make sure that people have the information that they need to make an informed decision," he said.
Residents also worry that their water bills will increase if the referendum passes. But Kreklow said sharing services would actually provide financial stability.
"More customers means more revenues and healthier sewer and water utility," he said.
At a March board meeting, local Katie Kautz questioned why this was Germantown's responsibility. The $7 million to $9 million infrastructure that will be built as a result of Richfield receiving these services will directly benefit Germantown, Kreklow said.
"One of the studies done by economic development in Washington County showed that the economic development that occurred in Richfield would also benefit the village of Germantown in terms of economic growth," he said.
Individuals can attend the sessions virtually via WebEx. A link to join the meeting will be available at germantownwi.gov/referendum.
The question on November's ballot will be:
Shall the Village of Germantown provide water and sanitary sewer service for a fee and on an ongoing basis to customers in a portion of the Village of Richfield pursuant to the terms of an Intergovernmental Agreement between the Village of Richfield and the Village of Germantown?
More:Germantown residents will vote on a water and sewer agreement with Richfield; the referendum question will be on November ballot
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MADISON - The U.S. House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol wants Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to testify about a phone call former President Donald Trump made in July asking the Rochester Republican to overturn the results of the 2020 election and other interactions with the former president.
Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said in a Friday letter to Vos that the details of the phone call and other interactions Vos has had with Trump regarding the 2020 election are relevant to the panel's investigation.
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Two Republican leaders of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee are calling on the State Patrol to provide answers about the security costs for Gov. Tony Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
Sen. Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay), co-chairman of the audit committee, and Rep. John Macco (R-Ledgeview), committee vice chair, wrote State Patrol Superintendent Tim Carnahan on Sept. 15 requesting security costs for state's top two officials from July 1, 2021, to Aug. 31.
The GOP pair also asked for documentation on how the State Patrol determines the level of security that is needed and the roles Evers and Barnes' staff play in this process. In addition, Cowles and Macco asked how state security officials handle private and political events.
The Dignitary Protection Unit, which is part of the State Patrol, provides security to the governor, his family and staff. It also provides security to other elected officials, including the lieutenant governor and those visiting Wisconsin on official business.
Evers and Barnes, both Democrats, are running in the November election. Evers is being challenged by Republican businessman Tim Michels, and Barnes is taking on Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson.
"Questions have arisen recently concerning perceived rising costs for security protection services of Wisconsin state public officials by the Wisconsin State Patrol, most notably services rendered for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor," Cowles and Macco wrote.
Carnahan was given until Oct. 6 to respond to the questions.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Barnes has averaged more than 13½ hours of security protection a day — including weekdays, weekends and holidays — at a daily cost to the state of $660 for patrol officers' wages during his first three years as the state's No. 2 elected official. That's more than 10 times the number of hours as his predecessor.
Overall, the cost of providing security to Barnes during roughly his first three years in office came to $608,528 for a total of 14,370 hours of work. The state provided records to the Journal Sentinel for the period from January 2019 to November 20, 2021.
No stories on Evers' security costs have run in the local media during his reelection effort. The Journal Sentinel recently requested those numbers.
More:Polling on Tony Evers and Joe Biden in 2022 looks a lot like polling on Scott Walker and Donald Trump in 2018
Britt Cudaback, a spokeswoman for the governor, criticized the effort by two Republican lawmakers to look into the security costs for the two Democratic state officials.
Like previous administrations, Cudaback said, the governor's office relies on "the law enforcement professionals who are trained in assessing and providing security to make the necessary security decisions for the governor’s safety."
"It’s the height of irony that two Republican legislators — neither of whom appear to have any significant law enforcement experience to speak of — believe they are remotely qualified to question security decisions made by the Dignitary Protection Unit of the Wisconsin State Patrol," Cudaback said. She said the unit was made up of "some of the most elite and experienced professional law enforcement agents in the state."
Evers officials noted that the state didn't break out the security costs for the governor and lieutenant governor until midway through 2015, so no comparison can be made between Evers' current term and Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Also making a comparison difficult was the number of vacancies during the coronavirus pandemic, driving up overtime costs, and pay raises for members of the State Patrol.
Maddy McDaniel, communications director for Barnes' Senate run, said the audit committee should next look into Johnson for billing taxpayers thousands of dollars to travel from his $2.8 million Florida vacation home to the Capitol.
The audit committee has no oversight of the U.S. senator.
The Senate Ethics Committee also cleared Johnson of any wrongdoing for using tax dollars for 19 flights from Fort Myers, Florida, to Washington between 2013 and May 2021. The Journal Sentinel reported that the trips cost taxpayers somewhere between $5,418 and $18,781.
Cowles and Macco did not return calls to the Journal Sentinel in response to the criticism.
“Wisconsin taxpayers deserve answers as to why Lt. Gov. Barnes had the audacity to push the defund the police movement while at the same time using State Patrol as his personal Uber service," Zimmerman said. "Hopefully, the Legislature’s investigation leads to explanations and the truth.”
Barnes has said he does not support the effort to defund police, but he is supported by several groups that back the unpopular cause.
In 2020, Barnes did say in a TV interview:
"We need to invest more in neighborhood services and programming for our residents, for our communities on the front end. Where will that money come from? Well, it can come from over-bloated budgets in police departments."
He also noted in the same interview that he did not want police budgets done away with, adding, "The more money we invest in opportunity for people, the less money we have to spend on prisons."
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Revival Home Interiors, specializing in modern farmhouse decor, is opening in Port Washington
After staying home for 11 years to raise her kids, interior designer Kristin Chapman is embarking on a new endeavor: opening a home decor shop in Port Washington.
Revival Home Interiors, 1040 S. Spring St., Port Washington, will specialize in modern farmhouse and bohemian-styled decor items such as wall art, pillows, signs, candles, gifts and more.
"This is not only revival of your home or your interiors, but ... kind of me as a person," said Chapman.
The shop's grand opening is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 5. Additionally, a Ladies Sip and Shop is scheduled for 4 to 8 p.m. the previous evening, Nov. 4. No RSVP is required for the grand opening event. The shop will be open weekdays and Saturdays, although the business hours haven't yet been determined.
Chapman said she saw the the need for a home decor store in Port Washington after noticing there weren't many options for interior design and decor in the area.
"I really liked the idea of opening a retail space to then offer the home goods that I would normally use in a client space," she said.
The products sold at the store will be U.S. made, with some specifically sourced from Wisconsin, such as local candles and soaps. The store also plans to offer interior design services, said Chapman.
When customers walk into her shop, Chapman said she hopes they "feel inspired to maybe branch out of their comfort zone and try something new in their space that they would have never really thought of before."
For more information, contact the owner at kristin@revivalhomeinteriors.com or visit www.revivalhomeinteriors.com.
RELATED:'It's going to have all that history:' Home restoration business moves into the former Hayek's Pharmacy in Shorewood
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MADISON – Wisconsin enters Week 2 of Big Ten play still without one of its better cornerbacks, down a starting tight end and with an offensive line that appears unsettled.
Senior cornerback Alexander Smith, who missed almost all of preseason camp and has yet to play this season because of a hamstring injury, is listed as out this week for UW’s home game against Illinois.
“It’s always hard to say ‘setback’ with injuries,” defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard said recently when asked about Smith’s effort to return to the field. “They are initial timelines, but they’re very general.
“Anytime you’ve got guys coming back from injuries … it is getting them to understand, we may have told you four weeks, but there is no magic in crossing that date off on the calendar.
“You’ve just got to continue to push and get better. We feel like he’s close but has not been able to go out there and be himself. We’re not going to put him in a situation where he can either hurt himself or just not play up to his ability.”
More:Captains insist they will help steer Wisconsin back on course after a humbling loss to No. 3 Ohio State
Safety Hunter Wohler remains out. Wohler suffered a right leg injury in the opener, thought to be a broken fibula, and was expected to be sidelined for at least a month.
Tight end Clay Cundiff is out, as expected, after suffering a fracture in his left leg Saturday in the loss to Ohio State. Officials have not listed him out for the remainder of the season.
Head coach Paul Chryst declined to speculate how much time Cundiff will miss.
“I’d be misspeaking I’m sure,” he said.
Cundiff is third on the team in catches (nine) and receiving yards (142) and is tied for the team lead in touchdown catches (two).
“He was making plays all year,” said quarterback Graham Mertz, one of Cundiff’s roommates. “The big thing now is they’ve all got to step up. They’ve all got to do their job just a little bit better.”
Jack Eschenbach, the team’s No. 3 tight end entering the Ohio State game, likely becomes the second option behind Hayden Rucci. Eschenbach has two catches for 33 yards; Rucci has four for 47.
Cundiff’s 2021 season was cut short when he suffered a dislocated right ankle, broken fibula and torn ligament in the back of the foot against Iowa.
If the injury he suffered against Ohio State is only a broken fibula, he could return late this season.
“You hate to see it happen,” Mertz said. “He fights. He is going to fight back.
“All you can do is be there for him. His room is three steps away from mine.”
Who will man UW’s starting offensive line Saturday against Illinois? That might not be determined until late in the week.
Left tackle Jack Nelson, who was out last week because of an unspecified illness, was not listed on the team’s injury report Monday. However, he was also not made available for interviews.
Right tackle Riley Mahlman, who started the opener but suffered an unspecified leg injury and has not played since, also was not on the injury report. Mahlman’s name wasn’t listed on the injury report last week and he didn’t travel to Ohio State.
UW went with Logan Brown at left tackle, Tyler Beach at left guard, Joe Tippmann at center, Tanor Bortolini at right guard and Trey Wedig at right tackle.
That unit could start against the Illini, but if Nelson is healthy he should return to the starting lineup.
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If the Green Bay Packers are winning in the final moments, it often comes down to a spectacular winning drive or a Mason Crosby field goal. But every now and then you get what Green Bay delivered on Sunday, when a defensive stand on a tipped 2-point conversion helped the Packers hold off Tampa Bay.
De'Vondre Campbell tipped the Tom Brady pass, and when the ball fell to the ground, the Packers had locked up a 14-12 win over the Buccaneers.
Take a look back at some of the red zone stands that saved games since the Super Bowl seasons of 1996 and 1997, with most occasions featuring critical late-game snaps inside Green Bay's 20-yard line.
Oct. 28, 2021 at Arizona (24-21 win)
One of last season's most unforgettable games saw Green Bay fall short at the goal line on fourth-and-1 with a chance to expand its 24-21 lead, and Arizona drove down the field starting with 3 minutes, 23 seconds on the fourth-quarter clock.
But on second-and-goal from the 5, receiver A.J. Green didn't realize the ball was heading his way, and Kyler Murray's pass was picked off in the end zone by Rasul Douglas, a former Cardinal who'd been signed by the Packers off Arizona's practice squad. The Packers had a remarkable win on Thursday Night Football to knock off a previously unbeaten team.
Nov. 10, 2019 vs. Carolina (24-16 win)
The Packers were nursing a 24-16 lead when JK Scott punted to the Panthers' 11-yard line with 2:25 left. Quarterback Kyle Allen then engineered a drive into the Packers' red zone thanks to a fourth-and-10 conversion to D.J. Moore with less than a minute to go.
On fourth-and-1 from the 4 with 13 seconds to go, Preston Smith was flagged offsides, giving Carolina two chances from the 2-yard line. But the first was an incomplete pass with 8 seconds left, and the second went to MVP candidate Christian McCaffrey, who was stuffed by Smith 1 yard short as snow fell in Green Bay. Kyler Fackrell had been lined up incorrectly but was able to make an initial hit in the backfield, and review held up the ruling that McCaffrey was down at the 1 as time expired.
Sept. 11, 2016 at Jacksonville (27-23 win)
Florida, man.
The Packers were nursing that 4-point lead with 3:17 to go when Blake Bortles took the ball from the Jaguars 36 and marched down to the Packers 14-yard line. But a third-and-1 pass went incomplete, and a short pass with 23 seconds left on fourth down went backward, with Demarious Randall leading a host of defenders to the game-ending play. That Jaguars team went 3-13, but the Packers always seem to have their issues in Florida.
Oct. 18, 2015 vs. San Diego (27-20 win)
San Diego took the ball at its own 20 with 2:37 to go and moved down the field behind quarterback Philip Rivers, who got the Chargers to Green Bay's 3-yard line with a first-and-goal and still 33 seconds to go.
But Danny Woodhead was tackled by Clay Matthews for a gain of 1, Rivers overthrew Antonio Gates and Woodhead lost a yard on third down, tackled by Datone Jones. That set up a fourth-and-3 with the game on the line, and Rivers' pass to Woodhead in the end zone was broken up by a lunging Damarious Randall to seal the game and avoid a big upset with 20 seconds left.
Sept. 9, 2011 vs. New Orleans (42-34 win)
It's perhaps ironic that the wild season opener one year after a Super Bowl triumph came down to defense. On Thursday Night Football to start the 2011 season, Drew Brees took over for the Saints with 1:08 to go at the New Orleans 20 and — of course — drove down to the Green Bay 9-yard line, spiking the ball with 3 seconds left. Brees then passed incomplete to Darren Sproles, but A.J. Hawk was flagged for pass interference, giving the Saints an untimed down at the 1-yard line with the game on the line.
But Clay Matthews and Morgan Burnett stuffed a leaping Mark Ingram at the goal line, and Green Bay had a thrilling win.
The playoffs: Jan. 9, 2011 at Philadelphia (21-16 win) and Jan. 23, 2011 at Chicago (21-14 win)
OK, neither one is a red-zone stop, but playoff games merit special mention. First, it was Tramon Williams with a game-sealing interception when Michael Vick took a snap with 44 seconds left at the Green Bay 27. Two weeks later, Caleb Hanie's pass from the Green Bay 29 with 47 seconds left was intercepted by Sam Shields to lock up a Packers trip to the Super Bowl. Green Bay, of course, would go on to win that Super Bowl over Pittsburgh.
Oct. 24, 2010 vs. Minnesota (28-24 win)
With the added buzz of what could be presumed was Brett Favre's final game at Lambeau Field, and on Sunday Night Football to boot, the Vikings started with the ball at the 6:07 mark from their own 17 and methodically moved downfield.
But after getting to the Packers' 15-yard line with 1:03 to go, penalties pushed the Vikings backward, and an apparent touchdown completion to Percy Harvin in the back of the end zone was overturned on replay with less than a minute to go (cameras showed he was out of bounds). Still, the Vikings got back to the 20-yard line before Favre threw two incomplete passes to Randy Moss and left the Packers with a cathartic victory.
Oct. 29, 2007 at Denver (19-13 win)
It's perhaps not quite in the same vein, because the game is remembered for the ending on Brett Favre's 82-yard touchdown pass to Greg Jennings on the first play of overtime. But the Broncos had two snaps from the Packers' 4-yard line, needing just 1 yard for a first down, and twice fell short to set up Jason Elam's game-tying chip shot as time expired. Ryan Pickett was credited with the third-down stuff of a rushing Jay Cutler.
Dec. 15, 2002 at San Francisco (20-14 win)
The 49ers were on the march and got into the red zone with 44 seconds to go, but everything gummed up from there. Jeff Garcia threw an incomplete pass, Garrison Hearst ran for 3 yards and Garcia threw incomplete again into the back of his guard against a heavy pass rush to set up fourth-and-7 from the 11. With Antuan Edwards defending the receiver, Garcia again faced pressure from Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, and his pass for Eric Johnson was too low.
Sept. 29, 2002 vs. Carolina (17-14 win)
This was as much about Shayne Graham missing a 24-yard field goal as anything else, but it's always interesting against Carolina. Rodney Peete and the Panthers got as close as the Packers 5-yard line with 27 seconds left, but the quarterback's rush was stuffed by Cletidus Hunt (who was injured on the play). That set up the Graham whiff wide right — 48 hours after the Panthers had brought him in as a free agent to replace injured John Kasay when Kasay's initial replacement struggled in practice.
Nov. 11, 2001 at Chicago (20-12 win)
In a battle between two teams with respectable records, Jim Miller and the Bears sustained a late drive that got as close as the Packers' 15-yard line. But incomplete passes to Dez White and James Allen allowed the Packers to escape. Both teams emerged with 6-2 records.
Dec. 24, 2000 vs. Tampa Bay (17-14 win)
It technically counts, because the Buccaneers got to the 19-yard line and were set up for a surefire win at freezing Lambeau Field, but Martin Gramatica missed a 40-yard field goal a couple of plays later, and the Packers won in overtime on Ryan Longwell's 22-yard winner.
Nov. 6, 2000 vs. Minnesota (26-20 win)
Surely, you remember how the rainy Monday night ended, with an unforgettable pass to Antonio Freeman and a 43-yard touchdown in overtime that gave Green Bay the win. But you may not remember how it even got to overtime.
Minnesota's Daunte Culpepper found Randy Moss for a 19-yard hookup to the Packers' 15 with 7 seconds left, setting up what would have been a 33-yard field goal winner. But the snap was botched, and Allen Rossum jumped onto holder Mitch Berger as he tried to throw the ball downfield. If Minnesota had downed the ball, the Vikings could have set up for another play, but Tyrone Williams was able to pluck the ball out of the air for an interception.
Sept. 27, 1998 at Carolina (37-30 win)
Like we said, there's something about Carolina.
Kerry Collins ran an effective 2-minute drill that took the Panthers from their own 35-yard line down to the Packers' 5, but passes on third and fourth downs in the final 5 seconds of the game were incomplete. Craig Newsome and Darren Sharper batted down the latter to preserve a five-touchdown passing performance from Brett Favre.
Oct. 12, 1997 at Chicago (24-23 win)
The Bears wanted to go for the win and nearly got it.
Erik Kramer's 22-yard passing score with 1:54 to go pulled the Bears to within 24-23, and 0-6 Chicago elected to go for the win against the defending Super Bowl champ with a 2-point conversion. But a pass to Raymont Harris was off the mark, pressured by Eugene Robinson when a discombobulated defense lined up initially to block a kick.
The Packers had earlier stuffed the Bears on fourth-and-1 at the goal line when nose tackle Bob Kuberski led the charge to seal off Kramer.
Dec. 24, 1995 vs. Pittsburgh (24-19 win)
OK, we can't resist one more.
Yancey Thigpen's inexplicable drop in the end zone on fourth-and-6 gave the Packers a thrilling win and a divisional title.
The Steelers had started with 5:27 left and, led by Neil O'Donnell, moved to the Packers' 7-yard line but ran six plays thereafter that never got more than 2 yards closer. With the game on the line and less than 20 seconds to go, O'Donnell had a wide-open Thigpen in the end zone, and the Packers were the recipient of a Christmas Eve miracle.
On Nov. 12 that season, the Packers also beat the Bears, 35-28, when Erik Kramer's pass from the Packers' 14-yard line went incomplete on the final play of the game, with Matt LaBounty providing the pressure.
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Sunday's severe thunderstorms across southern Wisconsin are typical for this time of year when warm, humid summertime air collides with colder air moving in during the transition to fall, a meteorologist says.
While June, July and August are the peak seasons for thunderstorms in southern Wisconsin, September-October is sometimes referred to as the region's second severe weather season as the approach of fall brings clashing air masses that generate storms.
That's precisely what happened on Sunday. The fast-moving storms brought 60 mph wind gusts and knocked down trees and power lines across the region.
"We have the cool air trying to exert its influence and we still have lingering warmth, instability and moisture," said Paul Collar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan.
"You do get these situations where you have a cold front and you can have strong to severe storms occur as a result as fall tries to take hold," Collar said. "Anytime you are talking about transition seasons, spring and fall, you're setting up the potential for (severe storms) to affect the area."
The transition on Sunday was abrupt.
The high temperature in Milwaukee was 68 degrees when the storms began to move through during the late afternoon.
By midday Monday, it was only 55 degrees in Milwaukee and there was a wind chill making it feel like it was about 50.
Milwaukee public works crews busy
Crews from the city of Milwaukee Department of Public Works answered dozens of calls after the storms moved through, said Brian DeNeve, a spokesman for the department.
Crews were continuing to respond to calls on Monday. "Calls continue to come in for mostly broken branches that we continue to address with forestry crews," DeNeve said.
As of 9:30 a.m. on Monday, city crews had responded to 80 calls for damage to at least 93 trees in the city.
"Most of the damage was broken branches, but we did have 11 trees down requiring immediate removal," DeNeve said.
Another 22 trees were damaged badly enough that they had to be cut down.
Storms knock out power
About 500 We Energies customers remained without power at midmorning on Monday.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday, the storms made their way from northwest to southeast, moving through an area that included Dodge, Columbia, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington, Milwaukee and Walworth counties. The storms leveled trees across the region before exiting the area and moving out over Lake Michigan.
As of about 7:40 p.m. Sunday, 24,226 Wisconsin We Energies' customers were out of service, according to the company's outage map.
Alliant Energy and the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association were each reporting fewer than 200 outages at midday on Monday.
There were no immediate reports of injuries as a result of the storms.
Frost possible on Tuesday, Wednesday
The storms brought much cooler air into the region and will likely lead to the first frost of the season.
The forecast calls for areas of frost overnight Tuesday night into early Wednesday in Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin. The forecast low for Milwaukee on Tuesday is 36 degrees.
There are also chances for frost overnight Wednesday into early Thursday.
Look for warm air to then move back into the region for the upcoming weekend, with a high temperature of 68 to 70 degrees on Saturday and Sunday.
Storms packed a punch
The storms that moved through on Sunday knocked down trees and power lines throughout the region.
Wind gusts of 60 mph were common across southern Wisconsin.
Here's a look at some storm damage reports compiled by the National Weather Service:
6:16 p.m. Numerous reports of downed trees and large limbs snapped in Wauwatosa.
6:24 p.m.: 60 mph wind gust reported in Milwaukee.
6:25 p.m.: Numerous reports of trees down and large limbs snapped in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood. Some streets were blocked.
6:30 p.m.: A fallen tree was reported on top of a car on Milwaukee's south side.
5:45 p.m.: 911 call center reported numerous trees down and blocking roads across northern and central Washington County.
5:54 p.m.: A trained storm spotter reported a 5-foot diameter tree was uprooted and fell on a house near West Bend.
6:05 p.m. Report of a large tree snapped near Delafield.
6:10 p.m. Report of a large tree uprooted and blocking a road in Waukesha.
6:20 p.m.: Trained weather spotter reports 60 mph wind gust in New Berlin.
4:50 p.m.: 911 call center reports numerous trees down in Ripon.
5:08 p.m.: 911 call center reports numerous trees down in Fond du Lac.
6:05 p.m.: National Weather Service office in Sullivan measured a 50 mph wind gust.
6:20 p.m.: 911 call center reported downed trees and power lines across Jefferson County, including Ixonia, Lake Mills, Waterloo and Palmyra.
The storms continued out over Lake Michigan. At 7:30 p.m., a buoy 35 miles east of Racine recorded sustained winds of 40 mph and a gust of 56 mph.
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Six of our top 10 teams squared off on Friday, leading to some upward movement in our rankings for the winners. Here is how our top 10 looks headed into the final third of the regular season.
Pearson made the most of limited touches in Pewaukee's 31-14 win over Wauwatosa West on Friday. In nine rushing carries, he had 157 yards and two touchdowns, including an 81-yard score. On his lone reception of the day, he also scored a 77-yard touchdown as well. Across his rushing and receiving stats, the senior averaged 23.4 yards per touch. Pewaukee moved to 3-1 in the Parkland Conference with the win, keeping pace with fellow 3-1 teams New Berlin Eisenhower and New Berlin West for second in the conference behind Catholic Memorial.
Ferguson did everything he was asked to and then some in Friday's 22-0 win over Pius XI. Defensively, the senior had seven tackles including five for a loss, a sack that led to a safety and an interception from his defensive end position. Offensively he made a switch to center from his usual guard position due to an injury, while playing 95 percent of the total snaps between offense and defense. On special teams he also made the most of two punt attempts. On a botched snap on the first, Ferguson tucked and ran for 24 yards and a first down while breaking multiple tackles. Later on in the fourth, a 42-yard punt from Ferguson helped pin Pius XI deep in their own territory to seal the game. Milwaukee Lutheran improved to 2-4 on the season with the win.
After two seasons without playing a snap due to the coronavirus pandemic and low participation numbers, Milwaukee North got their first win as a program since 2019 on Saturday. The Blue Devils defeated Milwaukee Obama, 16-14, led offensively by 105 rushing yards and a touchdown from Quavion Delaney. Defensive plays made the difference in the win, including a Terry Burbridge 25-yard fumble return for a touchdown and a safety also credited to Milwaukee North. The Blue Devils are 1-3 on the season.
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Oak Creek jumps in Milwaukee-area high school football rankings
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The Bucks start practice with Grayson Allen and Jordan Nwora eager to show what they learned from last season
It had been a while since Milwaukee Bucks guard Grayson Allen experienced an extended off-season, and he was starting to get a bit anxious.
The summer felt really long even after getting married, taking a honeymoon trip and having a minor procedure to fix the mobility of his left ring finger.
So Allen was glad to be back on the practice court on Monday, just over four months from when the Bucks' season ended in Game 7 against the Boston Celtics in the second round of the NBA playoffs.
“It was nice," Allen said. "This was the first offseason for me where I’ve actually felt like I got full rest and was away and I was itching to get back at it.
"Because I’ve been traded twice and had a COVID offseason and then my first year. I haven’t had that break where it felt like ‘Dang this feels like a long time and I’m ready to get back out there.’ That’s what this summer was for me. A few months ago I was ready to get going and play again.”
Milwaukee is hoping its season lasts longer this time around, and the process starts with two practices on both Monday and Tuesday.
"I think we’re able to maybe just go a little harder," Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. "They’re probably in more game (and) basketball shape. So I think we scrimmaged more today. We played more today. We competed more today.
"Whereas it felt like the last couple off-seasons they weren’t able to get the five-on-fives and the open gyms and things like that. So you kind of had to maybe drill more or do other things that were getting them ready for the five-on-fives and just building up their conditioning. We had a good September so I think they were just more basketball-ready with this offseason.”
More:Is Giannis the best player in the world? NBA luxury tax bills and Joe Ingles' trash talk highlight topics at Milwaukee Bucks media day
The 6-foot-4 Allen is seeking some redemption from how last season ended. He averaged 11.4 points per game and Budenholzer said during the team's media day Sunday that Allen "crushed Year 1 in Milwaukee."
But after an injury to Khris Middleton forced Allen to play a significantly expanded role, he struggled against the bigger and more rugged Celtics.
“Looking at the end of the year, I think it just points out stuff you need to work on," Allen said. "Especially in the playoffs when we know everything they’re going to do, they know everything we’re going to do. It just gets that much tougher, that much more physical.
"So it just adds something in my head that I need to improve on. I have a whole regular season to work on that and then hopefully have another year that continues upward.”
Jordan Nwora also had plenty of time to think about what he has to prove this season. The 24-year-old signed a two-year deal on Monday and was able to suit up for the first practice.
"Not a lot of people know but I was out here pretty much most of the summer trying to figure this stuff out," Nwora said. "Feels good to have it behind me. It was definitely a long summer. A lot of things going back and forth between my agent and the front office here.”
Nwora averaged 7.9 points per game in his second season with the Bucks, but cracking the rotation has been hard with the sharpshooter struggling on defense. That's what he worked on as the details of his contract were worked out.
“I know I can play," Nwora said. "I’ve shown it. I’ve been out there with the starters and done a good job. I’ve played with the guys when people are out. You guys know what I can do.
“For me it’s just competing on the other end. If I get an opportunity this year, I’m going to make sure I’m not in a position where I’m putting myself back on the bench. I’m somebody who can play. I know I’m good enough. I know I belong on the court. It’s just about the little things that Bud needs me to do to play.”
That work of impressing his coach started on Monday.
"He’s maturing and he understands that it’s a big priority to get on the court for him to help us," Budenholzer said. "Everybody’s got to be able to defend at a high level. He’s got to prove it every day now in camp. He’s off to a good start.”
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Body found in Lake Monona in Madison identified as 49-year-old Milwaukee man
The person who was recovered from Lake Monona in Madison on Tuesday and pronounced dead at the scene has been identified as a 49-year-old Milwaukee man.
The Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as Brian A. Noll in a Monday news release.
The Noll's body was found in Lake Monona, near the intersection of North Shore and John Nolen drives, according to the medical examiner's office. Authorities were notified shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday.
An autopsy was completed Thursday, the medical examiner's office said, and additional testing is underway.
Noll's death remains under investigation.
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Man recovered from Dane County lake ID-ed as Milwaukee man
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The Wauwatosa Common Council has rejected a proposal that would have depenalized the possession of less than 28 grams of marijuana.
In narrowly rejecting the plan, 9-7, council members cited concerns about how developed the proposal was and what effect it would have on the community.
The proposal to modify the THC ordinance in Wauwatosa originated with former Ald. Matt Stippich. After he decided not to re-run for re-election in April, the idea taken up by his successor, Andrew Meindl.
Meindl’s proposal would have reduced the citation to $1 for possession of up to 28 grams of marijuana. His decision to spearhead the proposal came after a meeting with his constituents, who he said seemed "overwhelmingly" in favor of the change.
Currently, the penalty for marijuana possession runs from $100 to $500, depending on the amount of marijuana. Failure to pay the fine, or previous offenses, can result in arrest.
“From what I've seen, THC has helped my friends in Illinois reduce anxiety, minimize pain, be an alternative to smoking tobacco and alcohol, or address symptoms of other medical issues,” Meindl said.
Meindl also explained that his proposal aims to depenalize marijuana because legalization is not possible at the local level. He said he thinks the Wisconsin State Legislature will not consider legalization until “at least 2030” and that he wanted to act for his community now.
Before the proposal went to the council, the Government Affairs Committee recommended denying it, 5-1-1. One of the committee's biggest concerns was a lack of police input on the proposal.
Ald. Joel Tilleson expressed similar concerns at the council's Sept. 20 meeting. Wauwatosa Police Chief James MacGillis said he opposed the proposal, arguing that marijuana is a gateway drug and that its presence usually correlates with other crimes.
“I respectfully disagree with Alder Meindl. It (marijuana) is a gateway drug, I have considerable experience in narcotics investigations … I can tell you from my experience there are other crimes related to marijuana possession,” MacGillis said.
Ald. Sean Lowe and Ald. Margaret Arney supported Meindl’s proposal, both arguing that the current Legislature has no intention of discussing legalization, and so it is up to the council to “make decisions that are right for the community.” Ultimately, those arguments failed, and the council voted against the proposal.
Council members who voted to reject the proposal were Tilleson, James Moldenhauer, Mike Morgan, Jason Wilke, Robin Brannin, Melissa Dolan, John Dubinski, Amanda Fuerst and Joseph Makhlouf II.
Council members who voted in favor of the proposal were Arney, Lowe, Meindl, Meagan O'Reily, Joe Phillips, Ernst Franzen and David Lewis.
Meindl said he will continue to fight for depenalization, and the vote would not stop him from eventually submitting another proposal. Council members do not have to wait any particular amount of time before coming back with another proposal. However, it is unusual for similar proposals to be submitted within a year of a denial.
“The outcome at council is immensely disappointing when 69% of Wisconsinites support legalization,” Meindl said, referring to a recent Marquette University poll.
“That said, the vote is the result of the democratic process. I want to thank those that wrote all the letters of support, and I will work even harder the next go round, whenever that occurs.”
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Coffee shop in West Allis provides job opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities
Kindly Coffee in West Allis isn't just another coffee shop.
Yes, you can purchase coffee, other drinks and food items. There's seating, and a big window that fills the space with lots of natural light. Customers can sign their name on a huge chalkboard on one of the interior walls.
But the business at 1205 S. 70th St. also provides vocational opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.
Sydney Tucker, who owns the business with her husband, Dujuan Cherry, said it's one of the shop's primary missions.
"Basically, I want to give people that have special needs jobs," Tucker said.
Some team members are volunteers, while others are paid.
"It's different for everyone," she said. The whole purpose is to employ or create opportunities for people with autism, Down syndrome, Fragile X or traumatic brain injuries.
"Those are the specific people that don't have enough opportunities, and we're trying to create opportunities for them," she said.
More:Hartland's Inclusion Coffee Co., set to open in March, will hire staff with special needs
Kindly Coffee was created to honor the memory of Tucker's sister
It's a mission borne out of Tucker's relationship with her younger sister Emma, who had disabilities. Emma died three years ago.
Tucker said the two would go on "sister dates" in their neighborhood where she would roll Emma around in her wheelchair and they'd take part in different activities.
"We'd go and we would just sit and color or do homework and just hang out together," Tucker said. "That was something that we could do that normal siblings did that I could share with my sister.
"She passed in 2019 when she was 16 years old, and I wanted to create something that was kind of in honor to her that was welcoming to everyone."
It's a place that feels welcoming to Michael Daily of Oak Creek, a customer who works nearby and visits the coffee shop a couple times a week.
"We're treated really nicely when we come in here," Daily said. "I actually like the story behind why she opened this. We heard the story from her mom, who was here on the first day, as to why she opened this in the name of her sister. It's just a nice, friendly place."
Mayor says Kindly Coffee is a 'new neighborhood gathering place'
West Allis Mayor Dan Devine called Kindly Coffee a unique, new neighborhood gathering place.
"Their mission of employing adults with disabilities adds a special quality to the business," Devine said in an email.
Devine said the shop also offers a "solid menu" of both hot and cold drinks.
"I have had a few business meetings there, and their house blend coffee is amazing," he said.
Tucker said Kindly Coffee's second mission is to spread Emma's kindness and God's love.
She said she and Dujuan are Christian, but they want to be selective in how they portray that to people.
"People should see that Kindly Coffee is a welcoming space for everyone, no questions asked," she said. "Just because we are Christian does not mean you can't come here if you don't believe the same things as us."
Employee Kacey Briggs has been with the shop since Kindly Coffee opened in June.
She said she enjoys making drinks for customers and said Tucker is a great boss.
Briggs said she liked it when a local news crew did a story about Kindly Coffee and she got to be on TV.
"My family was seeing me on TV," she said. "That was real fun."
The shop is looking to hire a manager so it can expand the staff
Right now the shop has a staff of four: Briggs and another employee, along with Tucker and Cherry.
Tucker said they're looking to add more team members, but they need to hire a manager first because their former manager left for a different position.
"We do have a waiting list of people with different disabilities that want to come work here, and we've done some interviews, but we can't bring on more team members with disabilities until we have a manager to support them," she said.
Once a manager is hired, Sydney said they have about three people they're ready to hire "right now."
Kindly Coffee is currently open six days a week, 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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The national chain Dave’s Hot Chicken is jumping into the ever-growing Nashville-hot fried-chicken field in Milwaukee. A restaurant opens Friday on downtown's northern edge, the second location in Wisconsin.
Franchisee MR Chicken will open Dave's Hot Chicken at 544 E. Ogden Ave., in the Yankee Hill neighborhood. Previously, it opened a Dave's in Menomonee Falls in January. One of the MR Chicken owners is Ron Stokes, the president of Roaring Fork Restaurant Group, which operates 58 Qdoba restaurants in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa.
Named for co-founder Dave Kopushyan, who trained at chef Thomas Keller's fine-dining French Laundry in California, Dave's Hot Chicken started as a late-night pop-up in Los Angeles. It now counts the singer Drake among its investors.
The restaurant serves chicken tenders, sliders and sandwiches, ranging from not spicy to "reaper," and sides including cheese fries and kale slaw.
Hours for the store on Ogden will be 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10:30 a.m. until midnight Friday and Saturday. It will have online ordering.
More:Italian restaurant Il Cervo will be on Trade Hotel's rooftop in Fiserv Forum's Deer District
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National chain Dave's Hot Chicken opens in Milwaukee on Friday
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What to know about early voting in Milwaukee at Fiserv Forum, 13 other locations for November's election
Fiserv Forum will serve as one of Milwaukee's early voting sites for the Nov. 8 election, when heated races for governor and U.S. Senate will be on the ballot.
"On six special days leading up to the election, people who live in Milwaukee can come here to cast a ballot," Mayor Cavalier Johnson said during a news conference Tuesday outside the arena.
Milwaukee Bucks President Peter Feigin called the arena "an ideal early voting location, where everybody's voice can be heard in a responsible way" and said he'd be casting his ballot there.
Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg said the site is accessible because of its downtown location.
The 14 early voting sites the city chose reflect voters' preferences for centrally located, familiar landmarks such as libraries, Midtown Shopping Center on the northwest side and Zeidler Municipal Building downtown, she said.
The arena's use this fall marks an accomplishment for the city two years after officials initially announced plans to use Fiserv Forum for early voting in the November 2020 election.
They backtracked months later due to concerns over potential legal challenges after a federal court rejected requests to expand in-person absentee voting and a Wisconsin Elections Commission notice to clerks said the state agency had "no ability to authorize" clerks to designate alternate or additional sites for in-person absentee voting for that November election. Those sites had to have been designated by June 12, the notice stated.
Early voting information for city residents is available at Milwaukee.gov/earlyvoting.
Absentee ballot return options are available at Milwaukee.gov/election.
Here's what you need to know about early voting:
When will early voting take place?
Tuesday, Oct. 25 through Saturday, Nov. 5.
Curbside ballot returns will be available at early voting sites during their operating hours, according to the Milwaukee Election Commission website.
Voter registration, including changes to addresses, ends on Nov. 4 at all locations.
Where does early voting take place?
Weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following locations:
Midtown Shopping Center, 5740 W. Capitol Drive
Zeidler Municipal Building, 841 N. Broadway
American Serb Hall, 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave.
Good Hope Library, 7715 W. Good Hope Road
Washington Park Library, 2121 N. Sherman Blvd.
Flores Hall, 2997 S. 20th St.
Clinton Rose Senior Center, 3045 N. King Drive
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 5, additional locations will be available weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. They are:
East Library, 2320 N. Cramer St.
Mitchell Street Library, 906 W. Historic Mitchell St.
Tippecanoe Library, 3912 S. Howell Ave.
Villard Square Library, 5190 N. 35th St.
These additional locations will also be available at the specific times listed:
Voters must use the Johnson Controls entrance on the corner of North 6th Street and West Juneau Avenue. There will be curbside voting at that location for those who are not able to go inside, and free parking will be available on Juneau between North 6th Street and North 5th Street.
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 25, Oct. 27, Nov. 3, and Nov. 4
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5
Social Development Commission (SDC)
1730 W North Ave.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4
UW-Milwaukee Student Union
2200 E Kenwood Blvd.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Oct. 31 through Nov. 4
What happens if I forget to add address information?
The Wisconsin Elections Commission earlier this month withdrew guidance allowing clerks to fill in missing address information on absentee ballots. The move was meant to comply with a recent court ruling declaring such practices illegal.
Woodall-Vogg previously told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that her office this year is providing an insert with every absentee ballot reminding voters to include a full witness address.
In cases where those addresses are not sufficiently filled out, she said if there is enough time before the election her office would be returning ballots to voters to make needed changes.
Closer to the election, they will be working to reach out to voters to see if they want the ballot returned to them or if they want to come to the city to cure it, she said.
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Early voting in Milwaukee includes Fiserv Forum, 13 other locations
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What's on your mind as Wisconsin's midterm elections approach? Join us Oct. 18 at the Clinton Rose Senior Center on King Drive.
What are your top concerns ahead of the November election? What would you like the candidates to talk about? Are your concerns being addressed? Are you registered to vote, and if not, what do you need to do?
These are just some of the questions we'll answer during a panel discussion sponsored by the Journal Sentinel from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 18, at the Clinton Rose Senior Center, 3045 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. The event is part of our Main Street Agenda project, which aims to hear grass-roots concerns across the state of Wisconsin.
Dinner will be included. The event is free.
Rev. Greg Lewis of Souls to the Polls, which raises awareness about voting
Michelle Bryant, radio personality and political strategist and consultant
Just Becca, community activist and organizer, who speaks out for voting rights for the formerly incarcerated
Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission
Journal Sentinel columnist and project reporter James E. Causey will moderate the discussion.
“This should be a great event because there is a lot that people need to know in the upcoming election,” Lewis said.
During the 2020 general election, Milwaukee County fell behind some of its peers in voter turnout, with 83.7% of eligible registered voters heading to the polls. Dane County, Ozaukee County and Washington County, reached 89.3%, 92.6% and 94.7%, respectively.
At a time when every vote counts, this event will give members of Milwaukee's Black community a chance to get their concerns heard.
A soul food style dinner will be provided by local chef Lyncoya Ilion.
Since Oct. 19, is the last day to register by mail or online to vote, a Milwaukee Election Commission official will be on hand to sign people up to vote. Bring a valid state identification and proof of residency.
For more information go to https://elections.wi.gov/
And remember to vote. Election day is Nov. 8.
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Wisconsin splits first two Big Ten matches
Wisconsin dropped two spots to No. 8 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll after splitting matches with Northwestern and Minnesota during the first weekend of Big Ten play. The Badgers (7-3, 1-1) swept Northwestern at home Friday and lost at Minnesota, 3-0, on Sunday.
No sophomore slump for Wisconsin's Julia Orzol, the Big Ten freshman of the year in 2021
The 6-foot outside hitter from Poland, last year’s Big Ten freshman of the year, has been a consistent force in the Badgers’ attack. Last week she hit .383 (23 kills, five errors, 47 total attacks). She posted double-digit kills in both matches to give her five double-digit kill performances this season, which is second on the team to Sarah Franklin. The efforts pushed her hitting percentage for the season to .305.
“She went and trained with her national team during the summer and the strength that this kid is playing with and freedom she is playing with is at a totally different level than it was a year ago,” Badgers coach Kelly Sheffield said. “She’s playing at a really high level but all of that has come through really purposeful work. This kid is on a mission and we’ve seen that from the very first day. She hasn’t let up.”
THE BALANCE OF THE BIG TEN AND OTHER NOTES
Ups and downs: Wisconsin wasn’t the only ranked team to experience the highs and lows of Big Ten play during the first week of league action. Two other ranked teams, Penn State and Minnesota, won and loss by sweep. Another ranked team, Ohio State, also came out of the week with a 1-1 record.
Six of the conference's teams are ranked among the top 11 nationally.
“That’s what makes this conference so gnarly,” Sheffield said. “It’s never the end of the world after a loss and you’ve never arrived after a win. You’ve got another one that is coming right around the corner. You’ve got to be a competitive junkie to want to be around it.”
Great service: For the past three matches, a UW player has established a career high for aces. Junior MJ Hammill had five against Northwestern and Franklin set her career high (five) against Minnesota. Freshman Gulce Guctekin started the run with six aces in a sweep of Rhode Island Sept. 18.
“We’ve had a lot of different people have moments of being really good and now our challenge as we move toward the middle part of our season is can we be more consistent with it,” Sheffield said
Focus doesn't change: When asked what was at the top of his list to work in practice following the loss to Minnesota, Sheffield said what he usually says after a win.
"No matter if you're winning or losing, when you're coaching, you're always in the mindset of we've got to find ways to get better...," he said. "That part of it doesn't really change. Ever."
8 Consecutive matches with at least 10 digs for Guctekin, who ranks eighth in the Big Ten with an average of 3.71 digs per set.
4 Matches with hitting percentages of .400 or better for Danielle Hart and Devyn Robinson, the most on the team.
.356 Hitting percentage for Minnesota against Wisconsin, the highest for a Badgers opponent this season.
12 Consecutive wins for UW over Northwestern with 10 coming in straight sets.
2018 Last time Minnesota defeated the Badgers before its win Sunday.
Two home matches on tap this week
Vs. No. 12 Penn State 8 p.m. Friday (BTN): The Nittany Lions, picked during the preseason to finish fifth in the conference, opened the season with 12 straight wins before getting swept at home against Michigan Saturday. They have victories over two teams ranked in the poll this week: No. 9 Stanford and No. 16 Oregon.
Vs. Illinois, 1 p.m. Sunday (BTN+): Illinois opened Big Ten play with a 3-1 win over Maryland Friday and a sweep of Northwestern on Saturday. The team is 7-5 overall. Junior outside hitter Raina Terry ranks fourth in the league in scoring with 4.53 points per set.
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Player of the week Julia Orzol leads Wisconsin Badgers volleyball
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MADISON – Inside linebackers Maema Njongmeta and Jordan Turner have four starts on their Wisconsin resumes.
All this season.
They have learned some difficult lessons, particularly Saturday night in UW’s 31-point loss at Ohio State.
“There is so much I learned about myself this first third of the season,” Njongmeta, a redshirt junior, said. “I don’t want to get too specific, but I’ve done a lot reflection, who I am (and) what I am.”
And the result of that reflection and self-evaluation?
“Everyone has a vision of who they are,” Njongmeta said, “and it is good to get reality checks.”
Njongmeta has a team-best 28 tackles, including 13 solos, as UW (2-2, 0-1 Big Ten) prepares to host Illinois (3-1, 0-1) at 11 a.m. Saturday. Turner is third on the team in tackles with 17, including nine solos.
Yet both first-year starters have to be more consistent and more productive.
Turner’s struggles at Ohio State started on the opening series.
It appeared he didn’t drop quickly enough into coverage and, as a result, didn’t get adequate depth on a 22-yard pass to tight end Cade Stover on the Buckeyes’ third play from scrimmage.
On the next play, it appeared Turner got caught too far inside on TreVeyon Henderson’s 10-yard run around left end to the UW 35.
Turner on the next play again didn’t drop deep enough in coverage on a 33-yard pass play to the UW 2.
Tailback Miyan Williams then scored on a 2-yard run. Njongmeta and nose tackle Keeanu Benton both were driven off the ball and into the end zone, which allowed Williams to drive across the goal line.
Njongmeta led UW in tackles at Ohio State with nine but acknowledged he missed at least two opportunities to make tackles.
One came on the Buckeyes’ third series. C.J. Stroud hit Stover in the left flat and Njongmeta got outside late and missed the attempted tackle at the UW 36. Stover was finally dropped at the 28.
One play later, Njongmeta couldn’t shed a block quickly enough at the 25 and Henderson gained 16 yards to the 12. Turner got blocked to the ground on the next play, a pitch to the right to Henderson for 10 yards. Ohio State scored on the next play to put UW in a hole from which it never recovered.
“You kick yourself in the butt with those,” Njongmeta said of the missed tackles. “Those are the ones that haunt you as a player. That is a point of emphasis this week.”
More:'I was prepared to die on the field': Wisconsin's Braelon Allen explains why he lobbied to stay on the field late in loss to Ohio State
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Turner, a redshirt sophomore, offered a simple solution for his struggles.
“I’ve just got to execute the game plan better,” he said. “There were times I didn’t do what I was supposed to do and it showed. I’ve just got to get better.”
Njongmeta and Turner are replacing Jack Sanborn and Leo Chenal, both of whom were multiyear starters and are in the NFL.
Sanborn and Chenal went through similar growing pains early in their run at UW. However, both benefited from playing alongside a veteran when they broke into the starting lineup.
Sanborn teamed with Chris Orr in 2019 and Chenal worked with Sanborn in 2020 and 2021.
“I believe you are always learning or you are reinforcing things you have done,” head coach Paul Chryst said when asked about the growing pains of Njongmeta and Turner. “I don’t think than Maema or J.T. are different than any other player in that regard.
“And it is every game you’re going to play…Can you free yourself up (mentally) to play the game, as opposed to thinking it? You’re always going to play your best when you are reacting and trusting your eyes and trusting those around you and trusting the call and your techniques.
“That is easy for a coach to say. (But) when you get in stressful moments…sometimes guys try to do too much. They try to help (others). Those are lessons you need to learn. You’ve got to take the lessons and applying them going forward.”
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MADISON – Football players routinely fight through injuries or postpone surgery until the offseason to stay on the field to be with and battle for their teammates.
Sophomore tailback Braelon Allen didn’t lobby to stay on the field deep into the fourth quarter of Wisconsin’s 52-21 loss to Ohio State to prove his toughness.
Allen wanted to stay in the game, with UW facing a 52-14 deficit, because he wasn't ready to quit.
"Regardless of what the score was,” he said, “I was going to keep playing my hardest.
“It obviously wasn't the outcome we wanted, but I felt like I gave everything I had. I feel like a lot of guys left it all out there.”
After the Buckeyes drove 75 yards in five plays for a touchdown and a 52-14 lead with 7 minutes 21 seconds left, Allen told running backs coach Al Johnson he wanted to keep playing.
Allen got his wish and broke free for a 75-yard touchdown on the first play after the kickoff. That pushed his rushing totals to 165 yards on 23 carries.
His night was done.
"He is a competitor," said offensive coordinator Bobby Engram, who calls plays from the coaches' box. "You love that about him.
"As a former player and as a coach you never think about injuries. There is a point where you are up and you want to pull guys and give (other) guys a chance to play."
Allen, who had 23 of the 29 carries by UW’s tailbacks in the loss, appeared to be sending a message to anyone who might have thought about surrendering before the final seconds ticked off the clock.
“To lose in the way that we did, it was heartbreaking,” Allen said. “It was very disappointing. But at the same time, you have to reflect on yourself before you watch the film and before you walk out of the locker room.
“Did I do everything I could have done to give the team the best chance to win?
“For myself, personally, I felt that I left everything out there. I was prepared to die on the field. I was going to do everything I could.”
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The Brewers turn to Adrian Houser as they continue their wild-card chase against St. Louis in the opener of a two-game series. The first pitch is scheduled for 6:40 p.m.
Kolen Wong, 2B
More:Tyrone Taylor has been an able replacement for Lorenzo Cain in center field for the Brewers
More:Kolten Wong has set a new career high in homers. But his defensive dropoff has been puzzling.
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Brewers vs. Cardinals at American Family Field: lineup, score, updates
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Economic uncertainty looms ahead, a top Deloitte economist told business leaders Tuesday. But one thing is clear:
"The world is slowing," said Patricia Buckley, managing director for economics at Deloitte.
Wisconsin business leaders gathered for an event recognizing the Wisconsin 75, Deloitte's annual ranking of the state's largest private companies.
Buckley warned that interest rate hikes will likely slow economic growth — while other pandemic-era problems, including worker shortages and supply chain disruptions, will likely continue.
Since the 2008 recession, low interest rates have been a fixture of the economic landscape — and that was especially true during the pandemic. But those days of cheap money are slipping away, Buckley said, and many company leaders will have to learn on the fly.
"It's interesting because many current CFOs have never been in a high-inflation environment and they haven't been in a high-interest-rate environment," Buckley said.
Despite slowing job growth, workers will remain hard to find, Buckley predicted. That's because population growth is slowing and the United States isn't hiring immigrants on pace with other nations.
"Even though businesses could be issuing more visas, because visas are available, they're just not doing it," Buckley said. "So visas are going unused."
Another unwelcome feature of the pandemic economy might be here to stay: expensive durable goods.
Higher interest rates might encourage consumers to tighten their belts and drive down demand. But supply chain disruptions have also been driving up prices, Buckley said, and interest rate hikes won't do much to solve those logistical problems.
Decisions being made overseas — in China, England and Russia, for instance — will reverberate across the global economy.
The likeliest economic outcome, Buckley said, is that growth will continue at a slower rate. The more painful alternative, a recession, has about a 30% chance of happening, according to Buckley's predictions.
These predictions, she cautioned, are no guarantee.
"People tend to get economists mixed up with fortune tellers," Buckley said. "We're not. We're storytellers."
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Deloitte economist tells Wisconsin 75 event inflation will likely slow
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The northbound lanes of Highway 175 near American Family Field will be closed indefinitely Tuesday evening as crews clean up from a crash.
Photos posted to Twitter by the Sheriff's Office show that the roof of a large shipping container resting on the truck bed was shredded when it struck the overpass.
Pieces of debris are in the roadway, the photos show. The container has a Kohler label and a sign that reads, "oversize load."
Officials will also assess any damage to the overpass, the sheriff's office said.
As of 5:15 p.m., the stretch of highway remained closed.
The Brewers have a 6:40 game against the Cardinals tonight right off the interchange.
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Highway 175 in Milwaukee closed after crash with semi-trailer truck
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In each of the previous four Septembers, the Milwaukee Brewers’ charge into the postseason was defined by manager Craig Counsell’s all-hands-on-deck approach with his pitching.
“Bullpenning” became the norm and worked extremely well – so much so that other teams began to employ similar methods following the Brewers’ first crack at it back in 2018, when they finished a game shy of their second-ever World Series appearance.
Milwaukee now finds itself in a do-or-die stretch with nine remaining home games that will determine whether it advances to the postseason yet again.
Will he manage yet again in the same manner?
“I think we have,” he said prior to Tuesday’s series opener with the St. Louis Cardinals at American Family Field. The Brewers entered the day 13-11 in the month and 1½ games behind the Philadelphia Phillies for the third and final wild-card spot in the National League.
The San Diego Padres, meanwhile, were 1½ games up on the Phillies for the second wild-card spot.
“I think we've done everything for a while now that would indicate that it has been (do or die),” he continued. “I think our guys have responded. I think we've pitched really well. We pitched really well in Cincinnati. I think we've pitched pretty well for a while now.
“We've got to get 27 outs for nine straight games. You think about that in a playoff series, too. There's no magic that happens. There's nothing different.
“We'll just try to get 27 outs.”
With starters Eric Lauer and Freddy Peralta each returning from the injured list in a three-day span in Cincinnati over the weekend, Counsell eased both back into action.
Lauer threw 66 pitches in 2⅔ innings of work in a Brewers victory Friday while Peralta lasted 44 over two innings in what might wind up being a very costly 2-1 loss Sunday.
Aaron Ashby, who like Lauer and Peralta had spent a spell on the IL, made his second appearance since returning in relief of Peralta but it didn’t go well as he struggled with his command.
Beyond rotation anchors Corbin Burnes and Brandon Woodruff and a recently resurgent Adrian Houser, the plan moving forward is going to be a bit more fluid with who starts and who will provide innings out of the bullpen.
“Eric, we've got a start scheduled for him so I don't think you'll see him,” Counsell said with regard to starters who might pitch out of the ‘pen. “But there's a chance you see Freddy and Aaron in both roles.”
Counsell generally can count on Burnes and Woodruff to deliver a minimum of six innings per start.
Beyond them, it’s fair to assume Counsell will be fairly aggressive in how he manages his staff of relievers.
He has versatility at the back end of games. But beyond Devin Williams and Brad Boxberger as well as Hoby Milner in a matchup/bridge role, the rest of the bullpen has performed rather inconsistently.
Getting the likes of Taylor Rogers and Matt Bush on track could prove huge.
“I think it remains to be seen,” said Counsell of whether there’s going to be more pressure on the bullpen the rest of the way. “I think it's a little bit of how the games go. That's probably where it's different. I don't think you send your starter out there counting on a certain number of pitches necessarily at this point.
“You look at the number of outs and where you are in the game. You're not necessarily just worried about the number of pitches they're thrown.”
The Brewers entered Tuesday with a 42-30 home record, which ranked sixth-best in the NL.
Beyond the two-game series with the Cardinals, they host the Miami Marlins for four games Thursday through Sunday and then finish up their home slate with three against the Arizona Diamondbacks – games that were originally scheduled to open the season but were pushed back to the finale because of the lockout.
Considering what's at stake, the way things have shaken out couldn't have been laid out more perfectly as Milwaukee seeks to join the Los Angeles Dodgers (10), Houston Astros (six), New York Yankees (six) and Atlanta Braves (five) as the only teams in the majors to advance to the playoffs each of the last five years.
"You get two choices there and we'll take the option that we've got," Counsell said. "We've got the good side of the coin, and we hope to use it to our advantage."
Knowing what's at stake, Counsell was asked if there's an even greater sense of urgency facing the team.
"You can say that, but I don't know what changes," he said. "That's the best way to say it. There's urgency in every game but the fewer games you have, the less time there is for things to happen.
"There's urgency every single time you play, and you have to treat it like that."
Despite being entrenched in his own team's battles, Counsell is well aware of the season the Brewers' Class AAA affiliate, the Nashville Sounds, have turned in.
With three games remaining, Nashville (90-57) has clinched the International League's West Division (the franchise's 12th division crown) as well as the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage in Triple-A Championship Weekend.
The Sounds will face the East Division champion and the winner of that series will face the Pacific Coast League champion on Oct. 2 in Las Vegas.
"There's a number of players who have spent a large chunk of the season there or the whole year there -- I think of Brice Turang right away -- and I think it's really meaningful," Counsell said. "And I think it's meaningful for the staff there that puts in all that work and has earned a reward for that.
"Just to be able to focus on winning, to have it matter, to have it play a part in your day every day, there's benefits to that. Exactly where and when, you don't necessarily know. But going through those experiences help."
In addition to Turang, outfielders Sal Frelick, Esteury Ruiz and Joey Wiemer as well as catcher Mario Feliciano are among the organization's top overall prospects who are playing for the Sounds.
Garrett Mitchell, currently up with the Brewers, was another who contributed to Nashville.
"There's no question that a lot of members of that team are going to be big contributing members of the Milwaukee Brewers in 2023," Counsell said.
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During a special public hearing at the Sept. 20 Common Council meeting, dozens of Brookfield residents spoke for and against a proposed planned development district rezoning that would enable the development of a mixed-use building at Lilly Road and Capitol Drive.
The proposed five-story development would house local bike shop Wheel & Sprocket, as well as 64 apartment units.
Residents raised concerns about height, density, traffic and property values. In opposing the development, resident Barbara Kass said traffic is getting too heavy in the city, and if the development were to happen she would move.
“If you’re going to widen Lilly Road, I’d sure like to know about that now because we would sell our house,” said Kass.
Another resident, Adam Qualler, said the needs of current residents should be the council's priority.
“The government should be serving the needs of its current residents exclusively … you are devaluing the appeal of the community with your push towards urbanization,” said Qualler.
But others spoke in favor of the development, saying they would like to see the stagnant corner redeveloped. One of those residents was Jeffrey Metz, who argued that the development is in line with what other metro areas are doing.
“I support this redevelopment of a blighted obsolete property. It reflects the mixed-use trend going on across the metro area, Shorewood, Mequon, Wauwatosa, Whitefish Bay, etc.,” said Metz.
Ald. Kris Seals spoke in defense of the proposal.
“One way to address the change is to make change,” Seals said as attendees booed him. “Something needs to go there. A blighted property brings crime … it's already a vacant property.”
The public hearing came after the Plan Commission could not come to a consensus about the fate of the development in late July. The hearing was intended to provide developers with feedback before they resubmit a revised plan.
The lots under consideration are currently zoned B-1 local business, but developers hope to have them rezoned as a planned development district, which would permit a mixed-use development such as the one proposed.
To try to achieve the rezoning, the developers have already made changes to their plan, such as removing a mezzanine and restructuring the financing model of the project to pay as it progresses rather than paying all at once. The developers could make still more changes before resubmitting the proposal to the Plan Commission.
In any case, the project still has a long road to approval. Even if the developers get the rezoning approved by the Plan Commission, they would also need approval from the Common Council.
The developers hope to obtain tax incremental financing for the project, which would also require approval by both the Plan Commission and Common Council.
Details on the development
Redevelopment of the corner would include razing the existing buildings to make way for the cleanup of environmental contamination.
The first floor of the development would be dedicated to commercial space, and the four floors above it would offer one- and two-bedroom apartments. The development would also include below-ground parking with 93 parking spaces.
One-bedroom units would offer 630 to 824 square feet, and two-bedroom units would be from 1,118 to 1,315 square feet. There are also plans to build single-family townhomes just south of the new building; they would have two or three bedrooms each and would include two-car garages with driveways.
Both the city's comprehensive and neighborhood plans designate the lot for “mixed use-higher density” projects with the goal of accruing investment and spurring economic development.
However, at the July Plan Commission meeting, some officials said the proposal is too dense and tall for the area. At that same meeting, other council members argued that the development is in line with plans the city has going forward.
“It’s the exact kind of development that we want to see in this city,” said Ald. Mike Hallquist. “We have a tenant owner who has shown some longevity in their business model.”
While there is currently no timeline for the project's resubmission, it is expected that it could be considered again by the Plan Commission in November or December, depending on when the proposal is resubmitted.
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Brookfield debates fate of five-story development at Lilly and Capitol
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That total includes $10,121,262 through campaign fundraising, plus $661,234 from a bequest "that will be directed to UPAF reserves for future use in aiding the long-term health of the performing arts sector," UPAF reported in a statement.
UPAF said 13,400 donors contributed to this year's campaign.
This was UPAF's third campaign affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the performing arts sector hard. UPAF's 14 member groups "experienced a collective revenue loss of nearly $38 million during the past three seasons," UPAF wrote in a letter to the Journal Sentinel earlier this year.
UPAF raised $10,148,461 during its 2021 campaign. The 2020 campaign raised $11,662,693, including $304,000 in grant revenue and $720,000 raised specifically for Kasey's Fund, a one-time initiative to support arts accessibility.
The remainder, $290,194, or 4%, will be distributed as one-year unrestricted grants to 33 UPAF affiliates. A one-time distribution of $50,000 from UPAF reserves is included to expand the affiliates' diversity and geographic reach.
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UPAF brings in more than $10.7 million in third campaign since COVID
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5 things to do in Milwaukee this weekend, including the Milwaukee Tattoo Arts Festival
The 12th annual Milwaukee Tattoo Arts Festival brings more than 400 artists of a tattoo variety (including a few from the reality show "Ink Masters") to the Wisconsin Center this weekend. There'll be vendors, seminars, live entertainment and, of course, tattooing all three days. Hours are 2 to 11 p.m. Sept. 30, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Oct. 1 and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 2. Admission is $20 for a single day, or $40 for a three-day pass. Info: villainarts.com.
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Forty artists will be on hand at 14 artist studios on the MKE Fine Craft Studio Tour, a free, self-guided event organized by Wisconsin Craft that stretches from River Hills and Wauwatosa to Bay View and South Milwaukee. Work ranges from jewelry and metalwork to painting and photography. The venues are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 1 and 2. Info: mkefinecraftstudiotour.org.
More than a half-dozen local drink slingers will be pouring at Old Fashioned Fest, offering samples of classic and newfangled updates of the proto-Wisconsin cocktail from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 30 at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. Phillips Ave. Attendees will get to vote on their favorite brandy and bourbon versions. Tickets (excluding fees) are $34, $47 for VIP admission (you get in an hour early) and $10 for designated drivers. Info: shepherdexpress.com/upcoming-events/oldfashioned.
Cider Sunday, the Wehr Nature Center's apple festival, returns Oct. 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with freshly made apple cider, apple treats, live music and guided hikes through the woods and prairie at the nature center, 9701 W. College Ave., Franklin. Admission is $7, free for Friends of Wehr Nature Center and for kids younger than 2. Info: friendsofwehr.org/cidersunday.
More than 45 venues, from galleries to taprooms, are taking part in this year's Bay View Gallery Night, from 5 to 10 p.m. Sept. 30. Some stops, including the historic Beulah Brinton House, also will have live music, and many will have refreshments on hand; others will have family-friendly doings as well. Info: bvgn.org.
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That was the largest increase in over 30 years.
Meanwhile, gross property tax levies approved in late 2021 for this year's local government budgets increased by 1.6% statewide.
That was far less than the rate of inflation and the smallest increase since 2014, according to new data released Tuesday by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
With property values growth exceeding the growth in levies, property tax rates continued their long-running decline.
The statewide gross property tax rate fell from $19.60 per $1,000 of equalized property value to $18.64, a 4.9% decrease, according to the forum.
This was the largest drop since 2005 and the eighth consecutive year in which the state’s aggregate tax rate has declined.
Those findings come from the forum’s newly updated 2022 Property Values and Taxes Data Tool, which features data for all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties and 1,850 cities, villages and towns.
• Statewide residential property values statewide increased 14.9%, the largest increase since at least 1985.
Residential values in the seven-county southeastern Wisconsin region increased 13.5%.
In Dane County, residential property values grew 14.5%.
• Commercial property values also saw record growth statewide, increasing 13.2%.
Commercial property values in southeastern Wisconsin grew 12.9%.
In Dane County, commercial property values increased 19.1%.
• In southeastern Wisconsin, overall equalized property values increased by 12.9%.
• Dane County overtook Milwaukee County to become the largest in the state in terms of property values.
However, Madison still trails Milwaukee in this measure. Milwaukee's total values grew 11.6% and Madison's values increased 17.2%.
• In southeastern Wisconsin, aggregate property tax levies increased by 1%.
In Dane County, the gross lax levy from all local governments grew by 2%.
The forum uses state data on property tax levies and tax rates approved for December 2021 tax bills, as well as updated property values as of Jan. 1, 2022 that will be used to calculate tax bills this coming December.
Meanwhile, local governments, including Milwaukee, are beginning their processes of approving budgets for 2023.
A forum report released last week said Milwaukee's finances are "closer than ever to a long-predicted day of reckoning."
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Wisconsin's total property values increased 13.8% in 2022, study says
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Those secret pieces, or secret places, have always been a special interest of mine. I’ve probably driven or biked down every street in Milwaukee, usually for book projects like the fondly remembered "Discover Milwaukee Catalog" (1986) or the more ambitious "Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods" (2015), and I’ve logged hundreds of miles in the suburbs as well. Over the years I’ve kept an informal list of places notable for both their interest and their obscurity, and this month’s column describes some of my favorites.
The list doesn’t include any easy oddities. I don’t mention Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System-Built homes on Burnham Street or the Marian Shrine on N. 68th. You won’t find directions to Barnacle Bud’s or a shout-out to Brewer’s Corners in Forest Home Cemetery. My selections require more granular knowledge and perhaps a closer acquaintance with the Milwaukee map. And so here, in no particular order, are 14 secret Milwaukee places I’ll bet most of you have never seen.
Kaszube’s Park
For nearly 50 years, from the 1870s to the 1920s, Jones Island was a commercial fishing village dominated by immigrants from the Kaszuby region on Poland’s Baltic seacoast. This park, the smallest in Milwaukee, was the Kaszubs’ last stand. When the Island was cleared for civic improvements in the 1920s, a tiny group of holdouts hung on until they were finally evicted in 1943. A remnant of their hideaway was declared a park in 1974, and it has become the site of a Kaszub reunion held every August. Go to the north end of Carferry Drive on Jones Island.
No, I don’t mean the Dan Hoan Bridge circa 1974. This one’s in West Allis, and it was built over flood-prone Honey Creek when New Deal work relief crews widened and lined the stream in the 1930s. Continued flooding convinced authorities to cover Honey Creek in the 1970s. West Allis buried the creek but left the Lannon stone bridge in place, and now it’s surrounded by grass, spanning nothing at all. West Allis historical park, S. 84th St. and National Ave.
German gingerbread house
The house itself is unusual, a half-timber beauty, but its location is the real wonder. Built in 1894 by a Vienna-born woodcarver, the home stands in the middle of a 1960s-era North Side housing project. The Robert Machek residence was supposed to come down with all the other buildings that were urban-renewed out of existence, but its owners fought City Hall and won. Today the home stands out as a distinguished senior citizen in a gaggle of architectural adolescents. 1305 N. 19th St.
Falk Brewery
The last building of a brewery that was once Milwaukee’s fourth-largest stands on the south rim of the Menomonee Valley, just west of the Mitchell Park Domes. German-born Franz Falk opened his Bavaria Brewery there in 1856 and rose through a crowded field to rub competitive elbows with Pabst and Schlitz. His heirs sold out to Pabst in 1892, but the Cream City brick icehouse, built in 1870, still stands. Franz’s son, Herman, moved his Falk Co. to the filled wetland north of the brewery in 1900, and Falk gears are still made there. Private property, but plainly visible from the north end of S. 29th St.
Pompeii Square
Tens of thousands of motorists pass this wisp of green space every day, but I doubt that even a handful notice it. The square’s modest concrete monument stands across Jackson St. from the site of Blessed Virgin of Pompeii Church, built in 1905 by the Third Ward’s Sicilians. The “little pink church” was the neighborhood’s spiritual anchor until it was torn down for freeway construction in 1967 — shortly after being declared Milwaukee’s first official landmark. Foot of Jackson-Van Buren off-ramp on eastbound I-794.
Unit Drop Forge
Watching Milwaukee manufacturers at work isn’t easy, particularly as their numbers have dwindled, but it’s still possible at this venerable plant, at least on occasion. If you’re lucky, the side louvers will be open, revealing a hellish scene of men wrestling red-hot billets from fiery furnaces and pounding them into useful shapes on earth-shaking forge hammers. The smell of hot metal is a bonus. S. 62nd St., a dead end, south of Burnham St.
Statue of Commerce
She looks a little forlorn, this Greek goddess, tucked into a quiet grove of oaks and hickories in Jackson Park. Representing the spirit of commerce, the 1881 statue once adorned the entrance to the Grain Exchange on Broadway and Michigan. She was declared surplus in 1909 and exiled to the South Side park, where she is still, as the inscription reads, “a silent witness to the progress and growth of Milwaukee.” South bank of the Jackson Park lagoon, off Kinnickinnic River Parkway.
Ghost signs
Their creators are long gone, as are the products they promoted, but advertisements painted directly on brick walls persist by the dozens in the oldest parts of town. Although the neighborhood gets a little shinier every year. Walker’s Point has perhaps the greatest number. See if you can find the “Ziegler’s Giant Bar 5¢” sign high on the back of the building at 408 W. Florida St. or make out “World’s Breakfast Quaker Oats” on Pierce St. at S. Second.
Milwaukee’s other City Hall
You’re no doubt familiar with the towering landmark at 200 E. Wells, but there’s another historic seat of government on the north side. It was built in 1901 as the municipal hall and firehouse for North Milwaukee, an industrial suburb incorporated in 1897. When local residents voted overwhelmingly to consolidate with Milwaukee in 1929, the building was redundant. It has since housed a succession of public and private tenants, most recently Quasimondo Physical Theater. 5151 N. 35th St.
Unique streets
Most Milwaukee streets follow the standard Midwestern grid pattern, but there are some striking exceptions. Elliott Circle, near 60th and North, is a perfect pie sliced into 14 equal pieces that taper to a shared alley where the garages practically touch each other. Oak Park Court, just off Hawley Road south of Interstate 94, is a dead-end rectangle of sturdy working-class homes bordered by two cemeteries. The area is well-tended, and the neighbors? Dead silent.
Unique addresses
There are lots of them in Milwaukee, especially where diagonal streets encounter the rectangular grid. Two of my favorites are in Bay View. One home in the 1900 block of E. Rusk Ave. rests securely in a triangle of alleys. (Good luck, Uber drivers). One mile north, just off Kinnickinnic Ave., you’ll find Brunks Lane, which is exactly one house long.
Faded glories
Milwaukee has dozens of wonderfully restored mansions, but there’s a melancholy appeal to grand old homes left in the dust by the march of progress. The Gerhard Winner residence, 2532 W. Wisconsin Ave., is fronted by a check-cashing place and a fried-chicken restaurant today, but the lines of this 1897 Grand Avenue landmark are still visible. The Jacob Nunnemacher mansion, 3774 S. 27th St., was once the focal point of a pioneer whiskey distiller’s 600-acre estate. After years as the community center of a trailer park, the 1854 home stands vacant today, an Italianate Cinderella awaiting the touch of a fairy godmother with deep pockets.
WPA murals
You’re not likely to drop by unless you’re a local resident, but the West Allis post office has a pair of lovely woodland murals painted in 1943 by Frances Foy, a Chicago artist working for the federal Works Progress Administration. Intended to lift the spirits of a populace beset by depression and war, the murals continue to charm nearly 80 years later. 7440 W. Greenfield Ave.
Conservancy for Healing and Heritage
This Franklin beauty spot shouldn’t be a secret at all, but it’s still largely undiscovered. Perched on a glacial ridge overlooking one of Milwaukee County’s few kettle lakes, it was created in 2003 as a partnership of the Reiman Cancer Center and the Polish Center of Wisconsin — two neighbors on the lake. Now an independent nonprofit, the Conservancy has developed a healing garden, hiking trails, and a stunning Polish-inspired chapel that’s open every weekday. Stop by for a few moments of guaranteed tranquility. North of the Reiman Center parking lot, 7410 W. Rawson Ave.
My list of Milwaukee secrets is, I know, incomplete, idiosyncratic, and largely incidental. I firmly believe, however, that these grace notes add significant life to our landscape, and the list isn’t a bad measure of what might be termed your Milwaukee cred. Have you seen all these sights? Then welcome to my little urban Scout troop and please accept a Master Milwaukeean merit badge. If any of these places are largely or entirely unfamiliar to you, there’s an easy remedy. Whether you’re a native or a relative newcomer, get out and explore your hometown, keeping your focus at the grassroots level. You never know when you might discover something overlooked, undersung, and filled with the elusive essence of Milwaukee.
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Fox Point-Bayside School District voters to decide in November whether to renew $3.1 million operational referendum
Fox Point-Bayside School District voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to renew a $3.1 million operational referendum.
Voters originally approved a four-year referendum in November 2018 that gave the district an additional $3.1 million per year to help the district maintain programming, class sizes and teacher staffing levels, according to a news release from the district.
If approved, the new referendum would start in the 2023-24 school year and run through the 2026-27 school year, according to the district.
If voters approve it, the replacement referendum would maintain the cost to voters of 79 cents per $1,000 of property value for the referendum. That equates to $316 annually for the owner of a $400,000 home.
If the referendum fails, the district said that starting in the 2023-24 school year, it would not be able to afford current staffing levels, which would affect student programming and services.
Renewing the $3.1 million amount "will help the District remain fiscally stable despite expected increases in future expenses due to rapid inflation, made more concerning by the uncertain funding support from the state," the district said on its website.
"Additionally, by renewing the exact amount from the previous referendum, the district can ensure financial stability during the short-term while also ensuring financial predictability for our residents," the district said.
The operational referendum is separate from a $58.5 million capital referendum approved by voters in April to replace Bayside Middle School and provide upgrades to Stormonth Elementary School.
"The last operating referendum (2019-2023) included funds to upgrade technology infrastructure, and provide for some facility maintenance that will now be funded by the approved capital referendum," the district's website noted. "Because the district is now facing increasing inflation and a tighter job market than it did during the previous referendum cycle, we can focus these funds on affording our current levels of staffing, and maintain our high-quality programs and services for students."
The district is planning the following informational sessions about the proposed operational referendum: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in the gym at Bayside Middle School, 601 E. Ellsworth Lane, Bayside; 9 to 10:30 a.m. Oct. 1 in the gym at Stormonth Elementary School, 7301 N Longacre Rd, Milwaukee; and 6 p.m. Oct. 12 online.
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This Waukesha program began in a small room at the YWCA. It's been serving adults with disabilities for 40 years.
Patty Chones started working for the Adaptive Community Approach Program when the organization launched in 1982. She had no idea it would grow to where it is today.
"I just kept thinking to myself, I have no idea what we're doing," Chones said of her first days. Today, still working as what ACAP calls a community guide, Chones has been able to witness the organization's effect on the community for the past 40 years. She has also seen its effect in her own family: Her daughter, Olivia, is a member.
"Our members are not only citizens in downtown, but they are consumers," Chones said. "They lunch where other people eat lunch. They volunteer where other people are volunteering. And that is the beauty of everything."
Inspired by her own life, Carol Ann Kay founded the Adaptive Community Approach Program. On Sunday, Sept. 25 ACAP celebrated its 40th anniversary of advocacy, inclusion and volunteerism.
"(Kay's) father acquired a disability later in life after having been a successful businessman for many years, and so she saw firsthand the obstacles that he had to face once he acquired his disability and how people treated him differently, and how there was just a general lack of respect and lack of inclusion," said Sandra Gines, executive director.
The organization began in a small room in the YWCA with just eight members. Today, ACAP has 80 members and two locations, at the First United Methodist Church and Art Links 333 in downtown Waukesha. Members perform in plays as part of the ACAP playmakers at the Waukesha Civic Theatre.
"(ACAP) really works hard to look at individuals' abilities rather than their disabilities and to build experiences around what is possible and what their capacities might be," Gines said.
Members are able to choose their own classes out of a rotating list of programs offered, many times going off site to experience things they've never done before, like rock climbing, skiing and sailing.
"The variety is amazing because for people who have limited mobility such as myself, they adapt so that you can do more things," said Alex Knapp, ACAP member.
ACAP works to give back to the community
ACAP's work goes beyond just serving its members; it also works to give back to the community.
"ACAP believes that our members deserve their rightful place in the community as citizens, but as a good citizen, we always give back to the community, as well," Gines said. "So we have a very strong program around volunteering where our members will go to different organizations, businesses, groups and give of their time and energy and efforts to help them."
Knapp volunteers for St. Vincent de Paul's, which has helped him with his confidence, he said.
"It makes you feel good when you can do something for them," Knapp said.
ACAP teaches advocacy classes, helping members speak up for equal rights in a society that often excludes individuals with disabilities.
Member Karen Simmons has gone with others to Madison for Disability Advocacy Day, and has learned the importance of independence and serving the community, she said.
Over her 30 years of membership, Simmons has watched ACAP grow.
"I think (ACAP's growth) shows that they're getting out in the community and showing them how valuable they are," Simmons said.
Mason Masino's been a member for over a year, and said that trying such a variety of programs, from academic to dance classes, has helped him become more sure of himself.
As he struggled with schizophrenia, it was hard for him to stay in the present and not worry about what was to come next, and ACAP has helped him with that, he said.
"I'd say ACAP has helped me grow as a person, and it's helped me be around all sorts of people," Masino said.
His favorite class has been Dance Tracks, where he learned new moves and exercised through dance.
"It's been one of my favorite classes here because I like to move, because if I sit for a long time, sometimes I get in my head for some reason, and then I think about things that trigger me and that don't serve me," Masino said.
ACAP ArtLinks programs gives members the opportunity to make high-quality art
At ACAP's ArtLinks program, members are taught to create high-quality paintings, ceramics, woodwork and more, many of which are sold at the studio. Half of profits from artwork are given to the artists, or members, who create them.
"If we were to put up childlike art or didn't aspire to have really high expectations for art that was looked at by other people as of some value, I don't think we'd be as appreciated," Chones said. "I think we work really hard to make sure that when we have something that goes out in the window, that it's something that's eye catching, but also that it looks really good and that most people don't even realize that we are a studio for people with disabilities."
As ACAP celebrates its 40th anniversary, Gines hopes the program continues to grow, continues to create a community where members are naturally included.
"We're not there yet, so we still have our work cut out for ourselves," she said. "I think our goals are to continue to serve our members well and to grow ACAP's model of service."
Gines hopes to expand to more locations in the future, creating opportunities for more members to join.
"There's interest, I know, on our board for growing ACAP because what we do is really impressive and people want to be part of it," Gines said.
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141-unit senior-living facility coming to village of Pewaukee
Another senior-living facility is coming to Lake Country.
The latest announcement comes from the village of Pewaukee, where a 141-unit facility called The Westerly will occupy 4.7 acres across from the Meadow Creek Market shopping center near Pewaukee Road and Capitol Drive.
The Village Board approved the project in May. It will include independent living, assisted living, memory care and a specialty care suite. Matter Development and ICAP Development will collaborate on the project. They also have a partnership with Koru Health.
“Seniors in Pewaukee want a supportive community that is closely connected to the comfort and charm of Lake Country living,” said Matter Development CEO Aaron Matter in a news release. “Our philosophy is that resident care isn’t provided just inside our buildings, care comes from the family and the community as well. We believe it’s important for seniors to remain closely linked to the daily lives and routines they’ve grown accustomed to.”
Matter told the Journal Sentinel that units will range from smaller memory care studios to “condo-sized” independent living residences upwards of 1,400 square feet.
In addition to senior living, the development is expected to have various amenities like an aquatic center, a social and dining room called The Comet Club, a tea room, a health and fitness center, rooftop patio and an outdoor memory-care courtyard.
“Given this site’s proximity to Pewaukee’s healthcare resources, shopping, dining and entertainment, we saw a big opportunity here to build a resource for Pewaukee seniors and their families”, said Brian Adamson, managing partner for ICAP Development, in a press release.
The project is expected to begin construction in spring 2023 with estimated completion by summer 2024.
“There is a significant need for senior living in Pewaukee and the surrounding communities," said Andy Lange, president of Koru Health, in a press release.
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How to watch and listen to Wisconsin Badgers Big Ten college football game vs. Illinois on TV, live stream and radio
After getting pummeled by No. 3 Ohio State 52-21 last week, the Wisconsin Badgers return home to host Big Ten West Division rival Illinois on Saturday.
Here's what you should know about the game between the Badgers (2-2, 0-1 Big Ten) and the Fighting Illini (3-1, 0-1 Big Ten) at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1.
What's the TV channel for Wisconsin vs. Illinois?
Big Ten Network, also known as BTN.
What channel is the Big Ten Network?
On Spectrum, it's channel 63. On DirecTV it's 610 and on Dish network it's 439 if you subscribe to the "America's Top 120+" plan.
What's the radio station for Wisconsin vs. Illinois, including the Badger Sports Network?
AM-920 and FM-97.3 in Milwaukee and a state network. Here's more information on the UW football team, including a list of stations in the Badger Sports Network.
Can I livestream the Wisconsin vs. Illinois game?
More:Wisconsin's inexperienced inside linebackers quickly discovered life in the Big Ten is demanding. Can they learn from their miscues?
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Tony Romo will be back in Wisconsin this weekend calling the Patriots-Packers game for CBS on Sunday afternoon. But first, he's visiting his old stomping grounds.
The four-time Pro Bowl quarterback and celebrated analyst will be on hand at his alma mater of Burlington High School, attending the dedication of the school's new synthetic football surface. The field itself at Dalton Stadium has been called Tony Romo Field since 2020. Beloit Memorial will square off with Burlington on its homecoming.
"Tony has had a unique way of making a positive impact for Burlington and beyond," Burlington High School athletics director Eric Plitzuweit said in a news release. "Whether it was through his on-field performance, his professional achievements beyond the field, or his ability to give back to the youth in our community, we are honored to have Tony Romo call Burlington his hometown. Tony Romo Field is a positive step forward for the Burlington community, Burlington High School, and the Burlington Area School District.”
Romo, who played football, basketball and golf at Burlington, graduated in 1998 and played football at Eastern Illinois. He signed with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent and worked his way up to starter, making his first Pro Bowl in 2006 and finishing as high as third in the Associated Press MVP voting in 2014.
More:Tony Romo tops other Wisconsin native for golf title; Aaron Rodgers finishes ninth
The Burlington School District received funding for a new football surface and track through a capital referendum and private donations. The team had to open the season with five road games before finally debuting the surface last week in a loss to Lake Geneva Badger.
Upon his retirement after the 2016 season, Romo was immediately appointed the top CBS football analyst and became an overnight sensation in the role. In 2020, he re-signed with CBS in a deal valued around $17 million per year, making him one of the highest-paid on-air talents in sports media.
He's already been on the call for two Super Bowls: Super Bowl LIII in February 2019 (when the Eagles stunned the Patriots) and Super Bowl LV in February 2021 (when the Buccaneers beat the Chiefs).
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Town of Delafield considering raising Sheriff's Department coverage from two days a week to five
The town of Delafield is in talks with the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department to potentially increase coverage in the area from two days a week under the existing agreement to five days a week for 2023 and 2024.
At a budget workshop meeting Tuesday, the Town Board met with Sheriff Eric Severson and other department representatives to discuss a new contract with additional coverage: a deputy stationed out of the Delafield Town Hall for 40 hours a week and a sheriff's vehicle with department and Delafield decals that would be housed at Town Hall.
If approved, the quoted price for five days of coverage is $194,940. The 2023 budget currently has $198,440 budgeted for this coverage and to cover other miscellaneous operating expenses and overtime consideration. The total cost for two-day coverage in 2021 was $64,389.
"We’ve had great relations with the deputies from the Sheriff’s Department,” said Town Chairman Ron Troy. "We’ve very excited about this. It’s a big move for the town. It’s a big financial commitment, but I think public safety is one of the key responsibilities of a municipality that needs to be provided.”
The town has considered increasing coverage since 2019. Currently, it is contracted to have a dedicated deputy in the area for 14 hours a week (two days) with statutory coverage provided as well, meaning it provides mutual aid to calls in neighboring municipalities when needed. Before 2017, the town had only one day of coverage per week.
More:Staffing cuts at Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department to meet $250,000 budget deficit could mean slower service in some cases
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In 2019, a referendum attempted to cover the cost of increasing coverage but it "failed overwhelmingly," Troy said. Despite the referendum's failure, Troy said he has worked to get increased coverage ever since.
With complaints rising in recent years, especially the last six months, of speeding on Imperial Drive and Maple Avenue and gravel trucks passing stopped school buses on Highway C, Troy worked with town administrator Dan Green to find it in the budget to get the increased coverage in the town.
“I honestly think this is a priority for the town,” Troy said. “One of the major responsibilities of a town is providing public safety, and that’s fire and sheriff patrols. We have to provide better safety for our residents.”
Troy added that COVID funds have helped free up the budget a bit to make room for covering the increased coverage.
“Originally, we thought we’d have to fund it through the reserves, but we’ve run a very tight organization, and COVID funds have allowed us to to be able to buy things that we’d otherwise had to buy with operating cash,” he said. “That freed up a little bit of dollars, so we feel comfortable that we have the money to sign a two-year contract. I don’t know how we’ll pay for that beyond two years because the COVID funds will be gone, but right now, we’re comfortable with two years.”
Severson said a deputy stationed out of Town Hall would primarily work second shift; however, there is flexibility about switching shifts around in case of events or a need is found on other shifts.
The Delafield-specific deputy would work almost entirely in the municipality and work with the town administrator to determine how best to serve the community, whether that's investigating vehicles stopping for school buses or other crimes in the area.
"My pledge to you is that we will give you the best law enforcement product that we can, and I think you’re going to be very happy with it," Severson said. "I think you’re going to see that the quality is going to be a little bit better than what you’re used to, and obviously you’re happy with what you’ve got or you wouldn’t be taking this very large step."
Town Supervisor Edward Kranick brought up the recent announcement that the Sheriff's Department was cutting back on patrols in an effort to prevent going over budget in 2022.
Severson said that while general county coverage may be affected, a contracted community's coverage would not be affected.
"What you are doing is taking a step, and you’re paying for it, but what you’re doing is taking a step to minimize the impact of those countywide pressures on law enforcement to ensure you have a better degree of coverage," Severson said. "It’s not perfect. Again, we get the law enforcement that the community is willing to pay for."
The Town Board took no action was taken Tuesday, but Troy said the board is supportive of the move. The next steps include writing up the contract, which would be up for consideration after the budget is approved at the town's annual meeting Nov. 15. At that meeting, the public will have to motion to approve, reject, modify or change the town's 2023 budget.
If approved, Troy said he will sign the contract. Increased coverage would begin Jan. 1.
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A man was shot outside of the Meijer store in Greenfield and a female is in custody, police say
A man was shot and a female is in custody after a shooting Wednesday outside the Meijer store in Greenfield, police say.
At 10:32 a.m., the Greenfield Police Department received several 911 calls about a shooting at Meijer, 5800 W. Layton Ave., according to a news release from the department.
When police arrived, they found one man with a gunshot wound to the chest and took a female suspect into custody.
An initial investigation by police revealed the shooting took place outside the store.
Two males engaged in an altercation, which led to one physically attacking the other, police said. As the fight continued, a female who was with one of the males shot the other man with a handgun.
Both males involved in the incident were taken to the hospital for treatment. There's no immediate information about their conditions.
It was an isolated incident and police said there is no ongoing threat to public safety.
They said no other information is being released at this time because it's an ongoing investigation.
Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call the Greenfield Police Department Detective Bureau at 414-761-5301.
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Waukesha School Board approves sale of administration building, Randall STEM Elementary building to Carroll University
The Waukesha School Board has accepted an offer to sell two of the district's buildings to Carroll University.
At a special meeting Sept. 27, the board unanimously agreed to sell the Lindholm Administration Building at 222 Maple Ave. and the Randall STEM Elementary School Building at 114 S. Charles St. Details of the sale were discussed in closed session and not shared in open session.
District administration will move to the vacant Blair Elementary School building at 301 Hyde Park Ave., while Randall STEM Elementary students and staff will move to the vacant Whittier Elementary School building at 1103 S. East Ave. for the 2023-24 school year and beyond.
Blair Elementary was closed at the end of the 2018-19 school year and merged with Hawthorne and Lowell elementary schools, while Whittier was closed at the end of the 2021-22 school year and merged with Hadfield Elementary.
Waukesha Schools Superintendent James Sebert said one of the reasons for the sale is that the district's enrollment is declining and will continue to decline at least through 2030 and that the district has too many buildings and needs to meet current and future enrollment trends. He also said Carroll University is looking for space to grow its programs in the downtown Waukesha area.
"They're an incredible institution who would be good stewards of these facilities, just as we have," Sebert said at the meeting.
In a previous news release, Carroll University said the acquisition of the two buildings would allow it "to meet the current anticipated growth" of its academic programs and student services.
Sebert noted that even with past school closures, such as at Blair, Whittier and Pleasant Hill Elementary in 2010, the district still has 29% of its buildings with available space. He said the sale would decrease the available capacity to just under 25% "with certainly more work for us to do in the future as well."
Sebert also said the sale would help the district to address its $3 million to $4 million per year structural budget deficit.
"By selling more buildings and becoming more lean, we eliminate operational expenses as well as deferred maintenance on two buildings, which helps to address the structural deficit and it also allows us to focus on fewer buildings now and into the future," Sebert said.
The Waukesha School District and Carroll University have planned a joint press conference at 3:30 p.m. today at Carroll University to answer questions about the sale.
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It's one of the final scenes of the Netflix series "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story." Neighbor Glenda Cleveland, portrayed by actress Niecy Nash, visits a city office to inquire about a park memorial to be built at the former site of the Oxford Apartments, where Dahmer committed most of his crimes.
The scene closes with Nash standing outside her former home and cuts to a screen that states "no park or memorial to Jeffrey Dahmer's victims was ever built on the site of the Oxford Apartments."
That is true — and it's a topic that's been controversial in the city for the past 30 years.
There was a push for a memorial to Dahmer's victims in the 1990s, but nothing moved forward
There was a conversation in the 1990s about a memorial for the victims, but the plan was nixed out of fear that it would attract people with bad intentions, according to Mayor Cavalier Johnson's spokesperson Jeff Fleming.
Fleming was a WTMJ-TV reporter in 1991 and was one of the reporters who entered Dahmer's apartment. He followed the case from Dahmer's arrest through his trial.
Milwaukee mayor, alderman wary of a physical memorial today
With the popularity of the Netflix series, some are pushing for a physical memorial in Milwaukee to the victims.
Fleming now serves as communications director for the mayor, and his boss has some of the same concerns raised in the '90s.
"It is entirely appropriate to remember the victims of this horrific episode in Milwaukee’s history. They deserve our respect," Johnson said in a statement to the Journal Sentinel. "I am cautious, however, about a physical memorial. That would have an unfortunate potential to attract people who have a morbid fascination with the killer. That is something I would prefer to avoid."
The 49-unit Oxford Apartments was razed in 1992. Located at 924 N. 25th St., the lot still sits unused. The land is privately owned by Ogden Homes, according to the Milwaukee Assessor's Office.
The Marquette Wire in 2012 reported that Ogden was prohibited from developing on the land as part of its agreement to purchase it for $500.
The alderman for the area, Robert Bauman, says a memorial for Dahmer's victims is a "terrible idea," adding, "especially on that site which is private property."
Bauman questions the use of the series to restart a conversation about a memorial in Milwaukee for Dahmer's victims.
"I suspect the families and friends of these victims could all make a case for a memorial," Bauman said.
"I don’t know how a memorial process would start or stop, or what criteria would be used unless everyone would get a public, permanent memorial. I hope the criteria is not incidents which make national news or merit TV shows because that would undervalue all the other victims who also suffered from often horrific violence.
"If there were such a process, I could envision some very angry families and friends whose loved one was denied a memorial," he said. "I could envision distraught families crying out 'you approved a memorial for this person, why not for my daughter.'
"Since 1991, Milwaukee has experienced over 3,000 homicides. Most victims were people of color, many were members of the LGBTQ community and many were children. Each homicide was tragic and senseless."
Milwaukee LGBTQ advocacy group says they support whatever the victims' families want
Dahmer confessed to killing 17 people. They were:
The majority of his victims were people of color and gay men and boys from the Milwaukee area.
A Milwaukee LGBTQ advocacy group in Milwaukee, Diverse & Resilient, said it supports whatever the victims' families want.
"Diverse & Resilient sends its deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims depicted in this horrific historical situation," said one of the organization's spokespersons, Justin Roby. "Each time this situation is elevated, we are forced to relive the trauma of missing our loved ones and wondering where they would be here and now."
The group also pushes back on people wanting to move on from the days of Dahmer's crimes.
Many remember the case as a lesson about racism and homophobia among police and the Milwaukee community at large — which likely helped Dahmer avoid scrutiny as he targeted and killed so many victims.
"It is infuriating to be reminded that Milwaukee, much like the greater society, devalues Black and Brown LGBTQ+ lives," Roby said. "While we are sure previous city leadership would love to wipe this stain from our history, its continued attention gives evidence of a true need for healing.
"To the family and loved ones of Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people, we encourage you to love them fearlessly. To Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people, you deserve safety, love, and respect. Here at D&R we envision a future where you thrive, living healthy, satisfying lives in safe, supportive communities and work every day to achieve that across Wisconsin, especially here in Milwaukee."
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Memorial to Jeffrey Dahmer's victims unlikely to happen in Milwaukee
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MADISON – Skyler Bell led Wisconsin in receptions and receiving yards in the loss to Ohio State.
He enters UW’s game Saturday against visiting Illinois No. 1 on the team in receptions (12) and receiving yards (201) and tied for the team lead in touchdown receptions (two).
The redshirt freshman from the Bronx is far from satisfied.
Bell thought he had two chances to make big plays in the loss to the Buckeyes and failed both times.
“Making tough plays, finishing tough plays,” Bell said when asked how he can do more to help the team the rest of the season. “I had a couple balls thrown to me that I thought I could have made.”
The second of the two plays came in the final seconds of the first half.
Skyler Bell focused on improving from missed chances in Ohio State game
UW trailed, 31-7, and faced fourth and 3 on the Buckeyes’ 41. Bell was one of two wide receivers who ran vertical routes from the right side of the UW formation.
Bell was near the sideline, 5 yards behind a cornerback. The ball from Graham Mertz was slightly underthrown, however, which gave safety Tanner McCallister time to close from the middle of the field. Bell acknowledged he didn’t track the ball well enough in the air and the result was an incompletion rather than a touchdown.
“The ball was coming out before he hit me,” Bell said. “When he hit me it (pushed) it through my hands.
“That is one I wish I could have had back because that could have helped us a lot. Obviously, our goal is to be perfect. You want to have a good game every game.”
Bell and Mertz talked about the play.
“We both know where we could have been better on that play,” Bell said. “That could have helped us and gave us momentum going into halftime.
“That was definitely a big play in the game.”
Mertz added: “He was open. Just got to complete it.”
Bell talked over the play with wide receivers coach Alvis Whitted and believes he should have made the catch and would have had he done a few things differently.
“If I could do that play over,” he said, “I would look a little bit earlier for the ball so I could see it better and slow my speed down. Other than that, go up and try to make a play on it.
“Maybe I should have went up and attacked it or tried to draw a P.I. (pass interference). When I was running, I didn’t track the ball well. I lost it in the air.”
The first missed chance came one series earlier, with UW facing third and 9 from its 43.
Bell got open on an in-breaking route past the first-down marker, but cornerback Jyaire Brown raked down across Bell’s right arm before the ball arrived and the pass was incomplete.
“I didn’t get the call,” Bell said, “but I feel like I could have finished that even without the call.”
Illinois has 'aggressive' defense that has challenged offenses this season
UW faces a critical came against the Illini, who have limited opposing quarterbacks to a completion rate of just 41.6%. Opposing quarterbacks have thrown one touchdown pass and six interceptions.
Cornerback Devon Witherspoon and safety Jartavius Martin have broken up six passes apiece. Each player has one interception.
"They’re aggressive," UW offensive coordinator Bobby Engram said. "They’re going to come up and challenge you. What they’re doing is not complicated. They’re just telling the guys to go out and play tough football and fly around. Good, sound scheme. Good players that compete hard."
Bell knows he’ll likely have to make contested catches against the Illini, catches he didn’t make at Ohio State.
“As receivers, we get stuck on plays that we could have made,” he said. “That was a play I feel I could have made. I am hard on myself about things like that. That is the type of player I am. I want to make every play.
“I’ll beat myself up about it. Not too much. But I hope to make every play I can on Saturday.”
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Skyler Bell seeks perfection, as he and Wisconsin prepare for Illinois
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Cudahy School District announces cancellation of remaining varsity football season
Cudahy High School football canceled the final three games of its regular season, including Friday's homecoming game, according to a district press release.
The release indicated the decision was reached after discussions with head coach Eric Langman over the three days following a 64-0 loss to Whitnall that dropped the team to 0-6.
"Over the last couple of weeks of the varsity football season, we have been suffering more and more injuries to both upper and lower classmen," the release stated. "This has resulted in many of the younger and less experienced players being forced into varsity action sooner than we all had hoped and expected, which is jeopardizing the safety and health of all of the players in our program."
The junior varsity schedule will not be impacted by the cancellation.
Langman declined to comment and deferred to district administration.
Cudahy's next three scheduled opponents were Grafton, Wisconsin Lutheran and Greenfield. As of Wednesday afternoon, only Wisconsin Lutheran had found an alternate opponent for its Week 8 contest on Oct. 7, scheduling Milwaukee Academy of Science.
To replace the homecoming game, the school will hold a charity intrasquad football scrimmage at 7 p.m., with proceeds from $2 tickets going to Project Concern, as well as other festivities.
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The owner of a popular South American food truck plans to open La Cocina Del Sur Empanada Bar in Riverwest
An Ecuador native who owns a popular local food truck is planning to open a restaurant featuring empanadas, arepas and more in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood.
Pedro Tejada, owner of Pedro's South American Food truck, is looking to open La Cocina Del Sur Empanada Bar in the former Riverwest Filling Station, 701 E. Keefe Ave.
The new restaurant is aiming to make its debut between mid-December and early January, pending license approvals.
Tejada is working on the menu. It will feature favorites from his food truck, including empanadas, Colombian-style arepas, tamales and other South American dishes.
Both Tejada's empanadas and arepas — made from scratch — include either beef, pork, chicken or a vegetarian option.
Empanadas offer "endless opportunities," Tejada said. His are inspired by both traditional recipes and what locals enjoy.
The restaurant will also offer rotating seasonal empanadas, as well as gluten-free options.
While Tejada described his own arepa recipe as more traditional, he said his presentation has a unique twist. His food truck's menu describes the arepas as sweet corn cakes with cheese that include slaw, pickled onions, cilantro, aioli and the patron's choice of protein.
Specials will also be offered. "It's important to keep people happy with new things always," Tejada said.
The restaurant's drink menu will feature South American-inspired cocktails, wine and beer.
Food carts to a food truck to a brick-and-mortar business
Tejada, who's from Quito, grew up in the food business. His family owned a French restaurant, where he started helping out at as a kid.
After finishing school, Tejada spent months traveling through South America, according to a previous Journal Sentinel report. Empanadas were a staple everywhere he went since they were budget-friendly and filling, the report said.
After moving to Milwaukee 17 years ago, Tejada said, he continued working in restaurants, from being a chef to a kitchen manager.
"I love food," Tejada said. "I think that it's one of the most important things for humans to be healthy and happy."
In 2015, he decided to start his own business: Pedro’s South American Food, an empanada food cart that would go on to add tamales.
"I felt like Milwaukee needed some more exposure to South American food," Tejada said.
Two years later, Tejada launched a second food cart; this one featured arepas.
"When I was out on the streets serving empanadas with the food cart, people were asking for the arepas," he said. "Or when I was with the arepa cart, people were asking for the empanadas."
With a food truck, he said, he was able to merge both menus, plus add more. Pedro's South American Food truck made its debut in 2020.
Tejada has taken the food truck to events across the Milwaukee area, such as the Milwaukee Night Market, the Skyline Music Series and farmers markets.
"Every time I'm out on the street, people are always asking me if we have a restaurant, a brick-and-mortar," he said.
The Riverwest Filling Station closes after nearly a decade
In a Tuesday Facebook post, The Riverwest Filling Station announced it was permanently closing after nearly a decade.
"I'm very proud of the food, drinks and my space," owner Bryan Atinsky told the Journal Sentinel. "And I'm very grateful to the customers that were loyal to us."
The restaurant's food was made from scratch, with influences spanning the globe, according to a prior Journal Sentinel report.
And you know those growlers you get filled up with your favorite brews? You may not be doing that today had Atinsky not worked with the city to change some rules to make growlers legal, the report said.
Atinsky, who owns the building, said he's happy about the new restaurant planned for it. It's "very interesting" and the food is great, he said.
Tejada liked the idea of opening his restaurant in Riverwest because it's been his home for "a very long time."
The restaurant's space is "pretty much ready to go," he said, but he plans to make some changes to its décor.
The hours for La Cocina Del Sur Empanada Bar are still being determined.
Tejada has also offered catering services for as long as his food carts have been around. He does weddings, parties, corporate lunches and other events.
Tejada plans to continue running his food truck, food carts and catering operation. In the future, he hopes to host catered events out of his restaurant.
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Marquette will play home and road closed-door scrimmages in Shaka Smart's second season as coach
The Marquette men's basketball team is not playing an exhibition game this season.
Instead, the Golden Eagles will play two closed-door scrimmages against NCAA Division I opponents. According to a source, MU will host Loyola (Illinois) at the Al McGuire Center on Oct. 15. Then MU and Missouri will hold a closed-door scrimmage at the University of Chicago on Oct. 29.
In recent seasons, MU has opted for one exhibition game and one closed-door scrimmage. In Shaka Smart's first season as coach, the Golden Eagles had a closed-door scrimmage at Boston College and an exhibition game with Bowie State at Fiserv Forum.
The closed-door scrimmages will allow Smart to see his roster, which includes four newcomers, play against high-caliber competition.
Loyola is entering its second season under head coach Drew Valentine. The Ramblers lost to Ohio State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last season and have to replace their best player in Lucas Williamson.
Missouri hired new coach Dennis Gates away from Cleveland State, and his roster with the Tigers includes just three players from last season. Gates was a graduate assistant at MU under former coach Tom Crean.
The closed-door scrimmages are closed to the public and media, per NCAA rules.
But MU fans will have several chances to see the Golden Eagles play in person before the season opener against Radford on Nov. 7.
The team will have an open scrimmage Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. at the Al McGuire Center. There will be an open practice on Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. at Fiserv Forum. There is also an open practice for MU faculty and staff at 2 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Al McGuire Center.
Contact Ben Steele at (414) 224-2676 or bmsteele@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenSteeleMJS or Instagram at @bensteele_mjs
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The population of gray wolves in Wisconsin was estimated at 972 last winter, a year-over-year decrease of 14%, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
The number of wolf packs was down too, from 292 in 2020-21 to 288 in 2021-22 and the average pack size dropped from 3.8 to 3.2, respectively.
The data, released Wednesday at the Natural Resources Board meeting in Ashland, gives the first look at the state's wolf population since a February 2021 hunting and trapping season killed 218 wolves.
Subsequent litigation in Dane County shelved a planned fall 2021 wolf season and a federal lawsuit resulted in the wolf being placed back under protections of the Endangered Species Act in February 2022.
As a result, the DNR was able to conduct without interruption a full winter of monitoring and data collection for the 2021-22 population estimate, according to Randy Johnson, DNR large carnivore specialist.
The wolf population estimate is derived from a statistical calculation called a pack occupancy model. The DNR converted to the model in 2020; from 1979 to 2019 it used a minimum wolf count.
Wolf population declines expected since Wisconsin held a hunting and trapping season
Data inputs for the model include reports from winter tracking surveys, information from GPS-collared wolves to estimate area occupied by wolf packs, average pack territory size and zone-specific average winter pack sizes.
About 500 surveys across 16,779 miles were completed last winter, according to the DNR.
Johnson thanked the volunteers, tribal members and DNR staff who contributed to the work, which resulted in the third-most miles covered since 2000.
The average wolf pack territory in Wisconsin last winter was 66 square miles, according to the report.
The declines noted in the 2021-22 wolf report can be attributed to the February 2021 hunting and trapping season, Johnson said.
A similar response in the wolf population was observed the only other time the state held wolf hunting and trapping seasons, from 2012 to 2014.
State-licensed hunters and trappers killed 83% more than their allotted quota in the February 2021 season. The season was unprecedented in timing, since it was held during the wolf breeding season and included the take of pregnant females.
As a result, the declines detailed in the 2021-22 winter wolf report were expected.
However, the wolf population remains strong, Johnson said.
"Even in areas where there was concentrated harvest, we still see wolf packs occupying generally the same areas," Johnson said. "Were there local changes? Absolutely could be."
Johnson also said action by U.S. Department of Agriculture trappers in 2021 to remove wolves around farms where livestock had been killed has led to a 40% reduction in depredation this year.
Wisconsin's wolf management plan hasn't been changed in 23 years
The department has yet to update the state's wolf management plan. The current plan was written in 1999 and modified slightly in 2007.
Views on wolf management have historically varied widely among Wisconsin citizens. Results of a social science survey on public attitudes toward wolves conducted by the DNR earlier this year have not been released.
It's also not clear when a draft of the new plan will be released for public review; several previously announced target dates have passed.
But state's wolf population is 'healthy,' and 'biologically secure'
Overall, Johnson gave a positive review of the state's wolf population.
"Despite the observed decline in wolf abundance (over the last year), there are several indicators that the Wisconsin wolf population is healthy and biologically secure in the state, such as the distribution of packs and number of packs," Johnson said.
Johnson said the agency is committed to maintaining a sustainable and healthy wolf population in the future. The work will continue to include extensive monitoring of the population.
Following a federal court ruling on Feb. 10, gray wolves are listed as an endangered species in the lower 48 states (excluding the northern Rocky Mountains region). As such, wolves are federally protected.
Harvest and lethal depredation control are prohibited. It is unlawful to shoot a wolf unless there is an immediate threat to human safety.
A full report on Wisconsin wolf management, including the 2021-22 population estimate, is expected to be posted to the DNR's website in the near future.
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Rory Linnane Elliot Hughes
Throughout the incident, the building was locked and student dismissal was delayed until it was safe to exit, officials said. The release time for the Milwaukee School of Languages is 3:25 p.m., according to its website.
At around 3:30 p.m., Farah Ewing was driving toward West Burleigh Street on North 84th Street with her 10- and 8-year-old children in the car when she saw a silver vehicle driving recklessly ahead of her.
“Swerving isn’t even the right word,” she said. “It was all over, just ping-ponging all over the street. You could tell they just had zero regard for human life.”
She said she had to pull over to stay out of the car’s way. After it passed, she continued on until she stopped at a red light.
In her mirrors, she could see the car coming toward her again. It seemed like the driver considered moving into oncoming traffic for a moment, Ewing said, but instead drove in reverse for a block, turned around and “went flying off” in a southerly direction.
“I thought they would probably lose control,” she said. “It was just ridiculous. It was definitely not a fun experience.”
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Reckless driving delays dismissal at Milwaukee School of Languages
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As the Milwaukee Brewers submitted their lineup card prior to Wednesday night’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals, one big name in particular was absent.
With only eight games left and the team chasing a wild card spot, outfielder Christian Yelich was healthy but not listed.
“No, there’s not a health issue,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “We’re just giving him a day off to try to reset a little bit for the last seven. He’s available to play.”
Yelich will be available off the bench, Counsell said, but a reset with so few games remaining and so much pressure riding on each one?
“I think trying to get the best out of him, just taking a day,” Counsell said. “Just kind of a mental reset and then try to get the best out of him for the next seven and a half.”
Yelich and the Brewers were scheduled to face a lefthander on the mound Wednesday night in Jose Quintana. Throughout the season, those kinds of matchups were targeted as off-days in advance by the Brewers for Yelich, who is tied for the team lead in games played at 146.
That isn’t the case this time, however.
“It wasn’t targeted, no,” Counsell said.
Counsell also indicated the decision was what the team “had to do” to maximize their lineup tonight and over the final push to the season. The primary reason for that: Yelich has been mired in a slump, entering the day 1 for 26 at the plate over his last seven games.
Yelich hasn't homered since hitting a 499-foot blast in Colorado on September 6 and has just eight extra-base hits in his last 25 games, good for a .298 slugging percentage.
As logical as the decision may or may not be at this juncture – and that certainly can and will the merit of debate – the Brewers feeling they need to give a reset day to a player set to make $22 million per year over the next six seasons isn’t optimal for anyone involved.
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Brewers give Christian Yelich 'mental reset' day as season winds down
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Brewers manager Craig Counsell revealed that Adrian Houser suffered a Grade 2 strain of his right groin in his start Tuesday, an injury that for all intents and purposes ends his season.
By any measure 2022 was disappointing for Houser, who was coming off what the Brewers had hoped was a breakout 2021 in which he went 10-6 with a 3.22 earned run average in 28 appearances (26 starts).
This year, he went 6-10 with a 4.73 ERA in 22 appearances (21 starts), with the decrease in appearances caused by a nearly two-month stint on the injured list caused by a flexor injury in his right forearm in early July.
A ground-ball pitcher by trade, Houser's struggles can be traced to his inconsistency in that area. After inducing grounders at a 60.5% clip in 2021, that number sank to 47.5% in 2022 – easily his lowest since becoming a regular member of the staff.
RELATED: Brewers give Christian Yelich 'mental reset' day as season winds down
"The injury certainly set him back," Counsell said. "When Adrian walked off the mound, I was concerned. I think we were fortunate to get him back (late August) and it was good to get him back.
"I thought last night was maybe the best he's looked since he got hurt, coming back a little bit to what we saw last year. But it was a different year for him. He just didn't have the success. The ball wasn't on the ground as much as we've seen in the past.
"And that's something that's really vital to his success."
Then there was the arbitration case he lost in May, which certainly didn't help matters.
"Started off good, then I had a rough patch and then the injury," Houser said. "I felt like we were starting to get back into a good groove here after the rehab for the elbow. Just kind of a tough-luck year for me.
"Wasn’t able to get into the right groove and stay there."
With Houser out, the Brewers will now be forced to replace his spot in the rotation with his next start scheduled for Sunday against the Miami Marlins.
Tuesday was a game of extremes – at least as far as the pitching went.
St. Louis Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas threw the majors’ slowest pitch of the season (by a non-position player) in the fifth inning, then in the eighth closer Ryan Helsley unleashed the fastest pitch.
Rookie Garrett Mitchell was at the plate for the Mikolas offering, a curveball that was clocked at just 60.2 mph. It was part of a nine-pitch at-bat that Mitchell eventually won by doubling to center.
The curveball was just slower than a 60.4 mph curveball thrown by Washington’s Anibal Sánchez earlier in the season.
“I did not know that,” Mitchell said Wednesday. “I got my foot down and knew he had a curveball and was just watching it all the way down to the plate. Good thing it started kind of out, so I didn’t have to swing.
“I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw a pitch that slow.”
Fast-forward to the eighth, when Helsley squared off with Tellez.
His first pitch registered 102.7 – which is ridiculous enough – then followed up with a 104.2-mph fastball that topped the previous fastest pitch of 103.9, which was thrown by Helsley last Friday at San Diego.
Tellez got a barrel on it and hit a 109.6-mph rocket on the ground but right at shortstop Paul DeJong, who was shifted over and recorded the out at first base.
“Just trying to put the barrel on the ball,” Tellez said. “He still has to put it over the plate. Sometimes you get better pitches to handle than others. That’s hard. That’s really hard, obviously – it’s the hardest pitch of the year. But that’s how hard he throws.
“Mentally you gear up for what he’s got in the tank.”
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Want to nominate your employer for Top Workplaces of Southeastern Wisconsin? The deadline has been extended to Nov. 4
The deadline to nominate employers for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Top Workplaces program has been extended to Nov. 4.
Now in its 14th year, the Top Workplace program recognizes and celebrates southeastern Wisconsin's top-rated employers.
Any employer with 50 or more employees in southeastern Wisconsin is eligible to participate. Top Workplaces can include companies, nonprofits or governments.
More than 200 companies have already signed up.
The Top Workplaces for Southeastern Wisconsin will be recognized in a special section of the Journal Sentinel and at an event in spring 2023.
A Top Workplaces designation helps employers stand out in a competitive jobs market and increase employee engagement.
To nominate an organization, visit www.jsonline.com/nominate or call (414) 376-5560.
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"I would probably say I spend too much time online," Barnes, 35, said in a February 2021 interview. "I can be reading too, but I spend a little too much time online.”
But what's he saying on Twitter?
A lot. What we get here is an unvarnished and free-wheeling political candidate touching on a number of interesting and controversial topics over the past decade.
Barnes asked in November 2016 if the presidential election had been "rigged." Months later, the first-term Democrat declared Donald Trump, then president, a "Russian spy." More recently, he dismissed the notion that George Washington was one of the country's top presidents.
"Taking one for the team," Barnes wrote even as Scalise was using crutches and a scooter to get around the Capitol. "I question how people vote against self interest but this is next level. He literally almost died on this hill."
In addition, Barnes, who is vying to be the state's first Black senator, has opined on police and community unrest, two subjects for which he has been criticized during the election.
During the 2014 Ferguson protests, which erupted after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, Barnes acknowledged his struggle to call for peace there. As for police, he tweeted that "not all police" are corrupt or racist.
"BUT, if I gave you a bowl of skittles and told you three were poison..." he tweeted in response in 2016 to a post about the number of people killed by police in the U.S. A day earlier, Trump made the exact same Skittles analogy regarding Syrian refugees.
The two campaigns had different takes on the tMaddy McDaniel, spokeswoman for Barnes, suggested that the public should not make too much of the tweets but should instead see them for what they are — a bunch of old social media posts with little or no context.
“Twitter is not the place to have nuanced policy discussions, and unlike Ron Johnson, Lt. Gov. Barnes has always been clear with Wisconsinites that he will fight to lower costs for working families and ensure everyone has an equal shot at the American Dream," McDaniel said.
McDaniel accused Johnson's team of "cherry-picking" tweets to distract from his record. The Johnson campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, incidentally, were unaware of the tweets by Barnes until asked to comment by the Journal Sentinel last week.
Alec Zimmerman, a spokesman for Johnson, said the tweets give the public an insight into the actual views of the Democratic politician.
"Mandela Barnes' tweets speak for themselves," said Alec Zimmerman, spokesman for Johnson.
"He excuses violent rioters, but compares devoted Christians to terrorists. He bashes the Constitution, police and the Founding Fathers," Zimmerman added, "No amount of ducking the media and cutesy television ads can change the truth that at his core, Mandela Barnes is a dangerous extremist."
Ron Johnson's controversial statements
As is well known, Johnson has made more than his fair share of controversial statements while in office, going back to the 2010 campaign when he claimed climate change was due primarily to sunspots to his recent assertion that Social Security should be part of annual budget talks.
Indeed, I once wrote an entire column on the 10 most controversial things Johnson said just last year. This included his claim that mouthwash would kill coronavirus, his statements downplaying the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and his defense of his work to secure a tax cut that benefited his billionaire campaign backers.
Each of these statements received its own headline.
So there's no real need for Johnson, who is 67, to depend on Twitter to air his views, although he used his official Twitter account to attack Barnes over the Kenosha protests just last month. For the most part, Johnson makes his comments during town halls or in chats with conservative online outlets and even the mainstream media.
Not so for Barnes, who is a cautious campaigner. He is much more free and open on Twitter.
Some conservative groups have found old tweets, including the one in which Barnes calls for Wisconsin to "cut our prison population in half." Perhaps you've seen the commercial.
But there are other controversial claims that have not gotten any attention. So let's visit those and see if we can add some context.
While in his first run for public office in 2012, Barnes chided liberals who move to the middle. "As the right pushes further to the right, progressives moving to the center means compromising all integrity," he wrote.
Now Barnes has been criticized for doing just that by national news outlets as he tries to appeal to independents in the Senate race. Barnes and his campaign dispute that he is pivoting from his liberal past.
At 12:42 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2016, just as it was becoming apparent that Trump was going to defeat Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, Barnes asked a question that would become very familiar four years later.
"The election was, rigged?" he asked.
A joke? Barnes' people suggest this is the case, saying he was making light of Trump's pre-election claim. But there were plenty of Democrats who believed Trump was not legitimately elected.
And what did Barnes think of Trump once he got into office?
"Donald Trump is a Russian spy. Believe me," he tweeted in 2017.
At that time, Trump was frequently using the phrase "believe me" when he made an outrageous claim. Barnes appeared to be riffing on that while making a point that was common in some liberal and media circles.
It's clear that Trump wasn't the only president that Barnes disliked.
On Dec. 10, 2019, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester stated, "No doubt George Washington was one of the top presidents."
A day later, Barnes replied, "Yeah. I mean, if slave owning is your thing, have at it!"
Over the years, Barnes has been highly critical of the Founding Fathers and the "slavery-friendly" U.S. Constitution, a reference to the clause that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person. He has also said that America is rich and powerful because of "forced labor on stolen land."
During the current campaign, however, Barnes, the son of a third-shift auto worker and public school teacher, has been much less critical, saying his is a "Wisconsin story" and that he wants to give every Wisconsinite a "fair shot at the American dream."
So which politician does Barnes like?
Ocasio-Cortez, the lefty Democrat from New York, wrote on July 5, 2018, about the fun she was having at a bodega. Barnes responded, "I've needed this energy for so long. This is the moment she became my president."
He's obviously kidding, but the statement still says a lot. You can bet he wouldn't tweet that today, even though she is endorsing him.
During the campaign, Republicans have tried to tie Barnes to AOC and the rest of the liberal group known as "The Squad." Barnes has rejected that effort, even going so far as saying a staffer actually wrote his official tweet calling U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, "brilliant."
Barnes on Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema
Barnes has made it clear that he's much less fond of two moderate Democrats in the U.S. Senate, lawmakers he would have to serve with if he wins.
Barnes once insinuated Manchin of West Virginia wasn’t really a Democrat and later questioned his courage. "What's the point of fighting for a majority if the spine is missing a vertebrae?" Barnes tweeted in 2016 over a picture of Manchin.
As for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Barnes attacked her in 2021 for literally giving a thumbs-down to adding a $15-per-hour minimum wage proposal to the coronavirus relief package.
"What thumbs down?" Barnes wrote March 5, 2021. "I saw a middle finger."
Barnes has also used Twitter to discuss the 2nd Amendment and gun rights in 2013: "I really could not care less about a 2nd Amendment 'right.' Bear arms all you wish, but you should pay for your mishandling."
Interestingly, Barnes posted this tweet just minutes after George Zimmerman was acquitted of the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. The Sanford, Florida, shooting sparked national outrage and helped fuel the start of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Barnes' statement, however, is reminiscent of his remarks on progressive talker David Pakman's YouTube show in 2013 regarding opponents of gun control.
"You get that argument from everyone: ‘It’s the Constitution. You have the right to bear arms. You’re not going to take my guns,' Barnes said. "They want to clamor to a document that is centuries old and is flawed."
Barnes also used Twitter to make his case about the pandemic.
In 2020, the Milwaukee Democrat, who liked to post pictures of his Anthony Fauci T-shirt, said it was not hyperbole to compare the anti-lockdown protests by conservatives in Wisconsin to the racist and violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In another tweet, he called repealing the mask mandate in 2021 “basically an insurrection against public health.”
That was not his only criticism of political conservatives.
Barnes' campaign did not respond when asked if his views have changed on any of the subjects he tackled on Twitter. Also left unanswered by the campaign is whether it believes he is more liberal on social media than he is on the campaign trail.
Lizzie Litzow, spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said it is clear that Barnes is more of a lefty when on social media. Litzow added that he must have known his tweets would come under scrutiny.
"As an elected official, what you say on social media holds a lot of weight," Litzow said. "But clearly, Barnes doesn't care."
What is clear is this: Barnes and his campaign have not taken down his tweets, as many other political teams would have done. All 18,400 tweets are there for your perusal between now and the general election on Nov. 8.
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'I just hope you guys are there to see it': Linebacker Nick Herbig hints UW will be ready for Illinois after an ugly loss last week
MADISON – Nick Herbig loves to share his thoughts – on the practice field, during games and even with reporters after games and during the week.
When Wisconsin’s junior outside linebacker chooses to ration his words, you probably should pay close attention and find out the reason behind the change.
One of those moments came this week when Herbig was asked how he expects UW to respond to the ugly loss at Ohio State when it hosts Illinois on Saturday.
“I just hope you guys are there on Saturday to see it,” he said. “I’ve got nothing to say about it.”
Herbig rarely is that succinct.
He and his teammates have much to prove, however, after suffering a humbling 52-21 loss to No. 3 Ohio State.
The Badgers (2-2, 0-1 Big Ten) must prove they are better than their uneven play and record suggest. They must prove they are better than they showed against the Buckeyes. They must show they are capable of holding serve at home against an Illinois team that is 0-1 in the Big Ten and 3-1 overall and better overall than last season.
“Illinois doesn’t care,” defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard said. “They’re actually pretty damn excited we got our ass kicked last week…They’re coming in here as a very confident group.”
Will Paul Chryst’s team display confidence this week?
Will the offense, which generated just 113 yards and one scoring drive in the first half at Ohio State, perform more efficiently against an Illinois team that is third in the Big Ten in scoring defense (8.0 per game) and second in total defense (234.5 ypg)?
“I want to see our best ball, hands down,” quarterback Graham Mertz said. “I’m going to push that all week. I want to see a complete game. That is the standard I’m setting and I’ve got to do my job every day in practice to set that.
“It is really holding everybody accountable to do their job and really focusing on the plan and the details of it and executing it.”
Mertz is completing 67.1% of his passes for an average of 197.8 yards per game, with seven touchdowns and three interceptions. However, he completed just 11 of 20 passes for 94 yards and a touchdown in the loss to the Buckeyes. His interception on UW’s fifth offensive play led to Ohio State’s second score and an early 14-0 deficit.
Braelon Allen rushed for 165 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries in the loss, but 75 of the yards came on his touchdown run in the final quarter with UW down, 52-14.
“We’ve got to run the ball hard,” Mertz said. “We’ve got to make plays in the pass game.”
Will the defense, which gave up four touchdowns and 241 yards in the first 16 minutes 27 seconds of the game at Ohio State, fare better against and improved Illinois offense that generates 245.8 passing yards and 209.0 rushing yards per game?
Can Leonhard’s unit cut down on the myriad mental errors and missed tackles?
“We were all over the place,” nose tackle Keeanu Benton said, “trying to make plays that weren’t ours (to make).
“I would just say calm down. Like I said, people were trying to do too much, including myself.”
Every UW player who was on the roster last season should be familiar with the current team’s predicament. UW last season was 0-2 in the Big Ten and 1-3 overall, with losses coming to Penn State, Notre Dame and Michigan.
The Badgers won their next six league games and seven overall, beginning with a victory at Illinois, to get back in the race for the Big Ten West Division title.
“We’re 2-2,” Mertz said. “We’ve got eight more regular-season games. It’s not the end of the world. That’s what we’ve been hitting the guys on. We know what we’ve got to do. It just comes down to executing.”
The question that remains unanswered: Will they on Saturday?
"I want us to show people the team that we are," wide receiver Skyler Bell said. "Because we know that wasn’t us on Saturday. We know we can play better than that. We know we can compete better than that."
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On the surface, that’s a mundane fact.
But it’s been a while since the coaches or players had such banality. Three years, in this instance.
“I think that’s huge for a lot of guys around the league, to give themselves that time that they need to actually recover and give their body a break instead of putting pressure to stay for so long,” Bucks forward Khris Middleton said.
With 16 players who spent some time on the roster last season and 12 with at least four years of experience in the league, the veteran group was able to hit the ground running quite literally.
Budenholzer said there was quality open gym participation in the run-up to the formal start of camp and on Monday the group went a little bit harder and was competing at a higher level than the last few summers.
He noted how the return to a “normal” summer allowed the players to not only recover from the last several seasons but also properly ramp up with five-on-five work.
Budenholzer said that in the last two training camps the early focus was on drill work and building up to that point.
“It’s probably as important to that as just the continuity,” the coach said. “So, you’ve got both of those things we can kind of get to stuff quicker and hopefully that pays off for us.”
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Contributing to that, too, is that Thanasis and Giannis Antetokounmpo and Sandro Mamukelashvili competed for their respective national teams over the summer.
“Obviously it’s a lot,” Giannis Antetokounmpo said of the summer competition. “You get burned out a little bit, just playing a lot of basketball the past few years. One day you have to take a break because not only physically, but mentally just kind of get away from the game, spend some time with your family, do what you love and just like sit on the couch and eat Doritos and be a couch potato. You need that in order for you to be great.
" I know it sounds bad. Obviously it was a great experience representing my country. I had fun.”
Bucks players who ended last season with medical questions, such as Grayson Allen (finger surgery), George Hill (two cortisone shots in his neck) and Brook Lopez (returned from back surgery March 14 to play 24 games) have said they had a healthy and productive offseason as well.
Middleton (left wrist) and Joe Ingles (left anterior cruciate ligament) are the two players who cannot participate on the court as they continue their post-surgical rehabs, but while Ingles has been grinding through his rehab since his surgery Feb. 23, Middleton just had his cast removed.
But it doesn’t mean the offseason wasn’t beneficial for the 31-year-old.
“It’s been huge. It’s been huge,” Middleton told the Journal Sentinel in early August. “Last couple offseasons I feel like I got a couple weeks to a month off but it wasn’t really off. This year I was able to take a real month off where I really; it was extended.
"After the (knee) injury (in the playoffs) I was still rehabbing, running, still working out, still trying to get back, I was still trying to stay ready, but once the season ended I took just a month off.
"I think that was really good for my mind and my body for sure to get myself out of that grind for a couple weeks. And then as I started to get back into it I started to feel better. Then my wrist situation happened then we realized it was torn.
“Overall to this point my legs feel great just giving myself that time, just being able to ease back into top level conditioning.”
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A customer shops at Pete’s Fruit Market in Milwaukee. Children's Wisconsin has a pilot program at its Midtown Clinic in which a physician, or other clinician, can give struggling patients a voucher for food at the grocery store. Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
HEALTH DRIVERS | HOUSING NEEDS | A NATIONAL MODEL
Shelly Greer, diagnosed with diabetes in late 2017 at the age of 38, was struggling to manage the disease when a physician referred her to a new program at Ascension Wisconsin.
“I really needed it at the time,” Greer said.
Her HbA1c, a blood sugar measurement critical for diabetics, was at 10; below 8 is the threshold for diabetes under control.
Ascension Wisconsin started the program — called Under 8 — in 2020, focusing on patients who live in the low-income neighborhoods near its Ascension SE Wisconsin-St. Joseph campus on the city's northside.
The 12-week program provides five prepared healthy meals — designed for people with diabetes — each week from UpStart Kitchen, a restaurant incubator in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. The program also provides grocery bags of food healthy for diabetics, and holds weekly meetings that offer counselling on nutrition, lifestyle and medication adherence.
Over the duration of the program, Greer's HbA1c fell from 10 to 6.3.
The program is an example of how to improve health by going outside the four walls of a clinic and meeting people where they live, said Nancy Leahy, a nurse practitioner with Ascension Wisconsin.
“We do it in a community setting, where people are a little more comfortable than meeting in a hospital or a clinic," she said.
It also is one of hundreds of initiatives — most of them small for now — started by health systems nationwide that move beyond doctor visits in clinical settings and instead address underlying social and economic conditions that affect health, particularly among poor people.
Those conditions — what are known as the social determinants, or drivers, of health — can be more important than access to the best doctors and medicines in influencing a person's overall health. They include food, housing, education, employment, neighborhoods, and the support of family and friends.
Putting more resources toward addressing them not only could improve lives, it could save money.
Adequate and stable housing often is considered the foundation of good health. But access to healthy and appropriate food can be as important, particularly in managing chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart failure. And those conditions are more common among people who have low incomes.
Some initiatives by health systems and, increasingly, health insurers focus on finding new ways to help people with those conditions to eat healthier. Some center on lessening food insecurity — the uncertain access to adequate, quality food. Some do both.
There are hurdles to overcome.
Healthy food can be more expensive, and the amount of money someone on a tight budget spends on housing can limit what's left for food.
Seth Berkowitz, a physician and professor of general medicine and clinical epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fundamentally this gets down to insufficient resources that people need to maintain health, and food insecurity is just one manifestation of that.
Lower-income neighborhoods may be so-called food deserts, where corner convenience stores with limited offerings have taken the place of full-fledged supermarkets. For someone without a car, a trip to a supermarket can become a trek that involves several buses, possibly young children in tow, and then hauling back bags of groceries.
"Fundamentally this gets down to insufficient resources that people need to maintain health, and food insecurity is just one manifestation of that,” said Seth Berkowitz, a physician and professor of general medicine and clinical epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Education and health literacy — understanding what makes up a healthy diet and how to achieve it — also have a role. People who are skeptical of the prevalence of food insecurity note that many poor people are overweight or obese. What's lost is that some, without the knowledge or the ability to get good food, may be getting by on calorie-rich processed foods and snacks.
The cost of food insecurity
The impact of food insecurity on health is not new.
For adults, it is associated with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis, depression and other medical conditions, according to the Food Research & Action Center.
Food insecurity added an estimated $51.8 billion a year to the health care costs for adults, according to a 2019 study done by Berkowitz and his co-authors.
That included an estimated $687 million in additional health care costs in Wisconsin.
The study found that health care costs for adults who were food insecure was $1,073 to $2,595 a year higher than costs for adults who had adequate food.
The study did not find a significant increase in costs for children.
But food insecurity is associated with an array of poor health outcomes for children, from more frequent colds and stomach aches to behavioral health conditions, according to the Food Research & Action Center.
Rowan Van Patten, 19, from Davenport, Iowa, a Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design student, with food received from the Interchange Food Pantry. Van Patten doesn’t receive assistance from family, and struggles to balance the cost of school and meals. He sought assistance at food pantries. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“After multiple risk factors are considered, children who live in households that are food insecure, even at the lowest levels, are likely to be sick more often, recover from illness more slowly, and be hospitalized more frequently,” the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a policy statement titled Promoting Food Security for All Children. “Lack of adequate, healthy food can impair a child’s ability to concentrate and perform well in school and is linked to higher levels of behavioral and emotional problems from preschool through adolescence.”
For adults, much of the increased cost for adults came from more hospital stays and emergency department visits.
Here’s one example: A study done in California found a 27% increase in hospital admissions for people with diabetes who have low incomes in the last week of the month compared with the first week. There was no change for people with higher incomes.
The likely reason is that people with low incomes had exhausted their food benefits and had less access to the foods essential to managing the disease at the end of the month.
The increase overall actually was higher. The study looked at just hospital admissions and did not include increased visits to clinics or emergency departments.
Low-interest loans, vouchers for food
Nationally, initiatives by health systems have included providing financial support, such as low-interest loans for supermarkets to open in a low-income neighborhood. Some are experimenting with providing medically tailored meals to people with chronic diseases.
The initiatives supplement and build on the work done for decades by organizations throughout the country, such as the Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee, to lessen food insecurity and encourage healthy diets.
Chorus Community Health Plans, formerly Children’s Community Health Plan, for example, has a pilot program — Fresh Food Rx — that enables physicians and other clinicians at its Midtown Clinic to give vouchers for Pete’s Fruit Market to people who have been screened for food insecurity.
Juan Gonzalez stocks fruits and vegetables at Pete’s Fruit Market in Milwaukee. Children's Wisconsin has a pilot program at its Midtown Clinic, 5433 W. Fond Du Lac Ave., in which a physician, or other clinician, can give struggling patients vouchers for food at the grocery store. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The grocer offers items such as its popular value baskets that contain a mix of vegetables and fruits, said Sam Cunningham, manager of the store at 2323 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
“Healthy eating means a long-lasting life,” Cunningham said.
Again, there are hurdles.
Children can be picky eaters, said Lisa Zetley, a pediatrician at the Midtown Clinic. Families with low incomes often buy things that won’t spoil. Some people don't know how to cook different vegetables.
Chorus Community Health Plans, an affiliate of Children’s Wisconsin, offers everyone in its health plans free access to the Foodsmart app.
More than 5,400 people in its health plans have signed up for the app. One feature provides access to a registered dietrician, and 3,145 people in the health plans have made use of that feature more than 5,500 times so far.
The app also provides healthy recipes that appeal to children. It then turns the recipes into a shopping list — and shows which supermarkets have the lowest prices for the ingredients.
The idea is to offer personalized, culturally relevant recipes that are affordable and support lasting changes to eating behavior, said Mark Rakowski, president of Chorus Community Health Plans
"This is literally the first solution that resonates with all of our providers as they look to support the patients and families that are food insecure, or who are looking for support to eat healthier," he said.
Cutting or skipping meals
An estimated 33.8 million people — living in more than one in 10 households — were food insecure in 2021, according the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This means they reduced the quality or variety of what they ate because of lack of money or other resources at some point during the year. It doesn’t happen regularly. But it happened on average in seven months of the year.
These figures require some parsing.
They include 8.6 million adults — and 521,000 children — who live in 5.1 million households with very low food security.
This means that one or more people in the household — usually an adult — ate less or went without food at times during the year because they had insufficient money or other resources.
In more than 80% of those households, an adult cut or skipped a meal because of a lack of food in three or more months out of the year.
In Wisconsin, an average of 246,000 households were food insecure and 77,000 had very low food security from 2019 through 2021, according to the USDA.
Without question, food insecurity would be more widespread and severe without federal food programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC; and the National School Lunch Program.
But those programs only go so far: 56% of the households that reported being food insecure did so even though they participated in one or more of those programs, according to the USDA.
Sherrie Tussler, executive director of the Hunger Task Force
Food pantries are things we should be putting out of business.
The number of food pantries in southeastern Wisconsin — more than 100, including ones open only a few hours a week — suggests the extent of food insecurity. They have become an integral part of the country’s safety net.
To advocates, that’s less than ideal.
“Food pantries are things we should be putting out of business,” said Sherrie Tussler, executive director of the Hunger Task Force.
Feeding more than 42 million
The largest and most important of the federal programs is SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The program helps feed more than 42 million Americans — roughly 1 in 8 — each month. Two-thirds of those participating in the program are children, over 65 or people with disabilities.
“SNAP has become the key safety net program for low-income families,” said Choe East, an economist at the University of Colorado-Denver who has studied the program.
Eligibility is based on a complex formula that includes an array of deductions for living expenses. Individuals and families are expected to spend 30% of their income on food after those deductions.
The benefits are available only to U.S. citizens and limited groups of legal immigrants. Undocumented, or illegal, immigrants are not eligible.
Workers on strike and most college students are not eligible. And unemployed adults 18 to 50 without children and who are not disabled are eligible for only three months every three years.
Advocates have long contended that SNAP benefits are too low — Tussler said the benefit is based on a starvation diet created in the 1960s.
On Oct. 1 last year, the federal government increased the benefit by 21%, or an average of $36.24 a month per person, after the USDA re-evaluated the cost of a nutritious, practical diet.
Evidence consistently shows that the benefit was too low to provide for a realistic healthy diet, the USDA said.
Ascension Wisconsin parish nurse Julia Means, right, helps a client at the food pantry at Ebenezer Health Resource Center in Milwaukee Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“It’s an investment in our nation’s health, economy, and security,” Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, said in a news release. “Ensuring low-income families have access to a healthy diet helps prevent disease, supports children in the classroom, reduces health care costs, and more.
Studies support that.
One study found that access to food stamps before birth and in early childhood leads to a significant reduction in the incidence of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes in adulthood.
Studies also have shown that the program improves children’s reading and math skills and increases their chances of graduating from high school.
Critics of the program contend that it could have more incentives to encourage people to buy the right foods. Some studies have noted the amount spent on soda and frozen desserts.
“Americans across the economic spectrum don’t have the best diets,” said Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, a professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University.
In general, people want a healthy diet when they have more resources, she said. But she acknowledged that encouraging people to eat healthier is complicated.
“I wouldn’t want to pretend that there is a simple answer,” said Schanzenbach, a national expert on the SNAP program and co-author of an important study on its long-term benefits.
The goal is not to help people afford more food, but to help them afford healthier food.
The recent increase in SNAP benefits — which was based partly on a diet that includes more fish, and red and orange vegetables — was designed with that in mind.
'You need that extra encouragement'
Many of the initiatives by health systems focus as much on encouraging people to eat healthy as on food insecurity.
Ascension Wisconsin’s Under 8 program, for instance, changed the way Greer eats. She no longer eats fried foods and now eats less meat and more fruit and vegetables. And she learned about healthy alternatives to snacks, which are important in maintaining the right level of blood sugar.
“There were some nuts that I didn’t know we could have,” Greer said.
The weekly educational sessions are held at Ebenezer Ministry & Family Worship Center. The program also has an arrangement with Lyft for people who need transportation.
Shermaria Staples, 14, left, helps her mother, Shelly Greer, make smoothies. Shelley was diagnosed with diabetes in late 2017 and had a HbA1c measurement of 10, which was too high. Ascension's "Under 8" program for diabetes treatment helped drop the number to 6.3. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
So far, 27 people referred by their physicians have participated in the program and their HbA1c levels have dropped by an average of 1.6 points.
“We notice that just small changes in their diet can actually improve their diabetes,” said Leahy, the nurse practitioner with Ascension Wisconsin.
The prepared meals and grocery bags of food, though, may be secondary in the program’s effectiveness.
Being with other people who had diabetes was the best part of the program, Greer said.
“You feel like you are alone in this thing,” she said. “It was so overwhelming.”
The people in the program knew what it was like to have diabetes and encouraged each other. “You could just be yourself and you were amongst friends,” she said.
Greer plans to volunteer to help future groups in the program.
“I know how it feels,” she said. “Sometimes you need that extra encouragement.”
Thousands of dollars saved
The Ascension Wisconsin program is similar but somewhat less structured than one of the most promising interventions that link food and health — what are known as medically tailored meals.
Geisinger Health, a health system in central Pennsylvania, has drawn national attention for its Fresh Food Farmacy program for people with uncontrolled diabetes who were food insecure.
People in the program received enough food to prepare 10 healthy meals for their whole family, plus weekly sessions on managing diabetes. The program also provided transportation to the sessions when needed.
Medical expenses fell between $16,000 and $24,000 for each person in the initial program — though the initial rollout included particularly complex and high-cost patients, according to an article in the Harvard Business Review.
The improvement in their health was equally impressive.
Valentinus Triggs, 49, leaves the Village Church in Milwaukee after receiving donations from the Interchange Food Pantry. Triggs is a regular at the weekly pantry. He once worked in the fast food industry and was employed through a temporary agency for four years. In between looking for a full time job, the pandemic hit and he became unemployed. “When you hit a difficult time - it’s (food pantry) that’s there for you. It came in the nick of time. And I can still share it (his food) with someone else.There is always a need out there,” he said. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Within 12 months, the participant’s HbA1c levels dropped more than two points, from an average of 9.6 before the program to 7.5.
Each one-point drop results in an estimated 20% drop in the chance of death and complications, such as blindness and kidney failure from diabetes, according to the article. It also is estimated to save $8,000 to $12,000 in health care costs.
All this took work, involving a team that included a program coordinator, nurse, primary care physician, registered dietitian, pharmacist, health coach, community health assistant and administrative staff.
Most of the program’s cost — about $2,200 per participant in 2017 — was in staff time, not in the cost of food.
The program suggests the potential improvement in health — and potential cost savings — in treating diabetes by focusing on food and intensive coaching of patients.
Other programs also have demonstrated success in using food to treat disease.
Community Servings in Boston was a pioneer. It started a program 1990 with AIDS activists, faith groups and community organizations through the leadership of the American Jewish Congress to provide home-delivered meals to people with HIV/AIDs.
The program now provides 10 meals and snacks, such as fresh fruit, homemade rolls and apple sauce, throughout Massachusetts to people with certain chronic diseases.
It also contracts with health plans to offer the meals as a benefit to help keep people stay out of the hospital.
A food bag for children is filled at the Interchange Food Pantry at the Village Church in Milwaukee. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The program lowered the health care costs of the participants by an average of 16%, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA.
The savings came from fewer hospital admissions, visits to emergency departments, ambulance transfers and stays in rehabilitation hospitals.
Massachusetts’ Medicaid program now pays for medically tailored meals. North Carolina, California and New York also have programs or pilot programs that do the same.
“It's vital for people's health and well-being,” said Jean Terranova, director of food and health policy at Community Servings.
Community Servings is one of the founding members of the Food is Medicine Coalition that is working to make medically tailored meals available nationwide and lobbying to have Medicare and state Medicaid programs to cover them the same way they cover prescription drugs and other treatments.
Food For Health, a nonprofit organization spun out from the Dohmen Company Foundation in Milwaukee, is a member of the coalition and hopes to make medically tailored meals available throughout Wisconsin.
Building a body of research
Medically tailored meals are the intervention that has been most studied. But researchers still are trying to figure out what works best.
The Medical College of Wisconsin, for instance, is doing studies that look at the most effective ways to encourage people with chronic diseases to maintain a healthy diet, including one in which it is working with the Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee.
The studies, which are funded by the National Institutes of Health, are designed to build on the smaller studies that have been done so far.
“If we provide food as part of medical care, we actually don't know if that will change your health outcome,” said Rebekah J. Walker, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Christopher Burton, owner of T.B. Catering, center, along with staff and family members, sister Shalawn Tillis, left and his cousin Tiffany Jackson, right, prepare to pack up weekend meals at UpStart Kitchen in Milwaukee. T.B. Catering prepared meals for three different locations that included, dinner, lunch and breakfast. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The studies that have been done so far, though, are encouraging.
“A lot of the work that we have suggests where you should go,” Walker said.
Not every initiative will improve health or lower health care costs. And some are likely to fail.
But momentum is building, as physicians, health systems and health insurers increasingly see food as an integral part of health care.
“It comes down to using the right type of intervention in the right circumstances,” Berkowitz said.
Annie Mattea contributed to this report while attending Marquette University and working as a research assistant to O'Brien Fellow Guy Boulton.
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Tosa School Board member fails to persuade board to rescind new sex-ed curriculum
The recently approved sex ed curriculum in Wauwatosa Schools was once again thrust into the spotlight Tuesday after board member Michael Meier made a rare motion to rescind the curriculum just over a month after it was approved, 6-1, by the board.
Meier also accused the board of violating the Wisconsin open meetings law by using survey data that was not public to help inform the board’s decision.
Meier's motion died for lack of a second, however, and no action was taken.
Meier, who cast the only vote against the new curriculum in August, said he made the new motion in response to feedback from parents who did not feel the district's option to opt-out of the curriculum was adequate.
Meier's motion said, in part, "The approval actions of the full board was a result of unlawful, secret advisory process and should be rescinded."
He was referring to a survey designed to gauge public feedback on the curriculum. After the survey was made available, officials learned that it had been shared on forums outside Wauwatosa. This meant that the School Board had to correct the results to be emblematic of just the Wauwatosa respondents.
With no action being taken by the board, the curriculum will continue as scheduled, with training for teachers starting Nov. 8. As for students, sixth- and 10th-graders will start the new curriculum in late November, while other grades will start courses in April and May.
The board denied Meier’s claims and the district’s attorney, Lori Lubinsky, assured the public that the board received all the data that was available. Later in the meeting, some board members suggested Meier was working to polarize the board with the claim.
“I have a really hard time when unidentified board members are being accused of illegal activity,” said board member Jessica Willis. “It's really hard for me to even track and work on policy instruction when there isn’t trust among the board. Quite frankly, I think that issue needs to be resolved.”
What the Wauwatosa School District's approved sex education curriculum entails
The curriculum was created by an internal committee and external committee and involved teachers, health care professionals, caregivers, parents, students and a local clergy member. They used Wisconsin state statutes, Department of Public Instruction standards and National Sex Education standards as a foundation for the new curriculum.
For elementary schools, updates to the curriculum will start as early as kindergarten, including added lessons on defining gender, gender roles, identifying medically proper names of body parts and learning about consent in an everyday context. It will also add picture books that present more diverse backgrounds.
By high school, students will learn about abuse in relationships, safe sex, analyzing information on social media and a more thorough understanding of sexual orientation, gender and other social identities.
The committees strived to create a curriculum that would be acceptable to the whole community. A poll seeking community feedback showed that 64.5% of respondents strongly agreed with the curriculum.
The school district provides parents with both the option to opt-out of the curriculum as a whole or opt-out of specific parts of the curriculum. More details on the grade-by-grade outlook can be found at bit.ly/TosaHumanGrowthandDevelopment.
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A store for horseback riders that sells apparel, horse care products and stable equipment now open in Germantown
For anyone who loves English horseback riding — or would love to learn — a new retail store that sells equestrian products is now open in Germantown.
Dover Saddlery, N96 W19120 County Line Road, opened its first store in 1975 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, according to its website; there are 35 stores nationwide.
The Germantown location is the only outlet in Wisconsin. The next closest one is in Libertyville, Illinois.
Whitney Keeley, director of corporate communications, said Germantown was the prime location for the retail chain's first Wisconsin store because of riding opportunities in the area, such as the Barry Ridge Equestrian Center in Germantown and Hillside Farm in Richfield.
"There are a lot of horses in that area," said Keeley. "We have a rich database to tell us where to have another store."
The chain was founded by Jim and David Powers, former members of the United States Eventing Team for equestrian competition in the 1972 Olympic Games in Germany. Powers wanted to offer riders a saddlery shop with the best and broadest selection of apparel and products. In addition to apparel, the shop offers items for horse care and stable equipment.
The store plans to hire 10 to 15 employees. To inquire about employment, visit www.doversaddlery.com/employment-opportunities.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, visit www.doversaddlery.com.
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The relationship between state Republicans and Milwaukee's new Democratic mayor is looking less rosy in light of two lawsuits filed against the city this week in the lead-up to the Nov. 8 election for governor and U.S. Senate.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson has repeatedly touted his efforts to rebuild the city's relationship with Republicans, who control the state Legislature and whose approval the city needs for steps to address its dire financial straits. His support has come in many forms, including his courting of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Earlier this week Johnson attributed recent public spats with Republicans to the upcoming competitive partisan elections.
But the city has come under fire from Republicans recently over comments Johnson made Sept. 12 about an initiative dubbed "Milwaukee Votes 2022" in which he referenced door-to-door canvassing funded by the "private sector."
Johnson's spokesman, Jeff Fleming, then said the campaign the mayor referenced as conducting the canvassing is a privately funded group, and the city's association was "limited to the mayor voicing support for the work."
Late Wednesday, the Republican Party of Wisconsin and a Milwaukee voter filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court against the city and Johnson over the campaign.
“The Republican Party of Wisconsin is deeply concerned that cities like Milwaukee are working with Democrat operatives and partisan third party groups to get out the vote in a manner designed to tip the scales for Democrats,” Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, said in a statement announcing the suit.
Fleming pushed back, saying in a statement that "absolutely no work has taken place from the Mayor’s office that supported candidates or political parties."
Fleming said he was not aware of any violations of the law, adding that the city would "strongly challenge the allegations" and would prevail.
The lawsuit is the second Republicans have filed against the city this week.
In a suit filed Monday, Republicans used a lawsuit over open records to raise questions about the voting campaign.
The two lawsuits come as Republicans have raised questions about grants Milwaukee and other large cities received from the Center for Tech and Civic Life to help administer the 2020 election. The group is funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Courts have rejected claims that grants were illegal, but Republicans have cried foul that the bulk of the funds went to larger, Democratic-leaning cities like Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee is a baseball town. From the dedicated fandom for the world champion Milwaukee Braves to the way a small-market Milwaukee Brewers team stands among the 10 best attendance draws year after year, the city has often had a big spot in its heart for its representative in the American or National League.
But before (and even after) a major professional team set up shop in the Menomonee Valley, Milwaukee had company baseball leagues and now-defunct fields that were home to high-level play.
We're exploring this rich history as part of What the Wisconsin? — where reporters take on questions about our state, our communities and the people in them.
"What people forget, or never knew, is that in the 1920s and '30s, nearly everyone played baseball," said Bob Buege, author of "Borchert Field: Stories From Milwaukee's Legendary Ballpark" and one of the top baseball historians in Milwaukee.
"They formed neighborhood teams and church teams. Sometimes they wore uniforms, but sometimes they wore the clothes they wore that day at the factory. Mothers and fathers played when they got home from work or after dinner. They played in the vacant lot down the block or in the street. Baseball was truly America’s pastime.
"The municipal recreation department sponsored numerous leagues at all levels of ability — AAA Major, AA Major, Minor League, Minor Group One, Group Two, Junior Group A, ad infinitum. The Antlers beat the North Avenue Civics, the Conklin Pianos beat the Block Buffets. You get the idea."
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At the heart of it all: Borchert Field
At the epicenter of Milwaukee's baseball ecosystem was Athletic Park, built in 1888 and renamed in 1927 for Otto Borchert, the recently deceased owner of the Milwaukee Brewers (the American Association version). Construction of the I-43 freeway wiped the site of Borchert Field off the map in 1963, but the wooden "Borchert's Orchard" at Eighth and Chambers streets welcomed some of history's greatest baseball players through its turnstiles.
Olympic hero and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Thorpe played left field and led the league in stolen bases for the Brewers in 1916 (though he struck out a lot against the curveball).
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig appeared there as barnstormers in 1928, with 8,000 fans turning out to see them despite freezing temperatures. (Ruth hit a game-winning home run.)
Future Hall of Famers to play for Milwaukee included Rube Waddell, Ray Schalk, Ed Walsh, Eddie Mathews and Al Simmons — the latter of whom emerged from Milwaukee's sandlots to become the "Duke of Mitchell Street" and perhaps the finest ballplayer the city has ever produced.
Among the kids trying to get a glimpse of play through the Borchert Field fences was Bob Uecker, the legendary voice of the Brewers who rode a bike eight blocks from his school to catch what was left of that afternoon's contest.
But baseball in Milwaukee wasn't just the Milwaukee Brewers (again, the first version, not the franchise that started in Seattle and brought pro baseball back to Milwaukee in 1970).
Borchert Field also served as home to the Milwaukee Bears in their only season in the Negro National League, in 1922. In 1944, it was home for the Milwaukee Chicks in their lone season with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The two teams were both coached by Hall of Famers — Pete Hill and Max Carey, respectively.
And there were others.
"The Milwaukee Red Sox played in the Wisconsin-Illinois League, which usually had either six or eight teams," Buege said. "This league played in Borchert Field and included former big leaguers like Hippo Vaughn, one of the pitchers who hurled a double no-hitter in 1917 for the Cubs and the Reds. One of the interesting things about that league is that, although the major leagues were strictly segregated and would remain so for decades, the Wisconsin-Illinois league had two Black teams."
The American League was born in what's now a parking lot, and it's not the only bygone landmark
Baseball in Milwaukee wasn't restricted to Borchert Field, either.
The Lloyd Street Grounds, located at 17th and Lloyd streets, stood for less than a decade, but the Brewers played their one season of major-league ball in 1901 at that field before jumping back to the American Association as a minor-league team. A park on Oklahoma Avenue between 17th and 20th streets and the Wright Street Grounds at 11th and Wright streets also served as hotspots. The latter had a porous wooden fence
The American League initially came into existence during a meeting at the Republican Hotel (at what is now King Drive and Kilbourn Avenue), an area that's now a parking lot for the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel building.
Mitchell Park, roughly where the Mitchell Park Domes stand now, offered a sunken field, and people could gather overlooking the field for a free Depression-era activity. Buege said crowds could get up to 10,000 for those games.
There were other names to know, including Kuenn and Uecker
Happy Felsch, a Milwaukee native among the "eight men out" banned from Major League Baseball for their role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal, remained a popular draw in his hometown. In 1933, 15,000 fans came to see his Bucher Brews team in a sandlot triple-A clash against Ziemer Sausage. Stars like Tony Kubek played for teams named after local businesses like Al's Custard.
Bob Uecker, meanwhile, pitched (and eventually caught) for Rohr Jewelers in the County Major League, the top amateur league in the city.
"Usually, at the end of the year, it was Rohr Jewelers against Wisconsin House, which was another good team," Uecker said. "It seems like very year we wound up playing against each other for the championship."
They played in spots that might be more familiar to modern Milwaukeeans: Wick Field at Vliet and 50th streets, Humboldt Park in Bay View, and Simmons Field near Pulaski High School on Oklahoma Avenue and 22nd Street, which eventually got the lights that once belonged at Borchert.
In fact, Wick Field served as the scene for a turning point in Uecker's career.
"I knew scouts were looking at me every once in a while (as a pitcher), so I come down (to County Stadium) and I'm working out with Johnny Cooney, the pitching coach for the Braves at that time," Uecker said. "So I'm throwing for 15-20 minutes and he's standing next to me and says, 'All right let me see your good fastball now.' I said I have been throwing my good fastball.'
"And he said, 'I recommend you get a job.'"
So Uecker went back to the Rohr team, and on one particularly bad day at Wick, began criticizing his catcher, who not-so-politely invited Uecker to try catching himself if he thought he could do better.
"So he took the gear off and I asked the managers, 'Can I do it?'" Uecker said. "So I did it, and I liked it."
Uecker, of course, went on to become a big-league catcher with the Braves, Cardinals and Phillies. During his time with Rohr, he shared a field with Ken Keltner, a former major leaguer for Cleveland. Keltner's claim to fame was making a pair of slick defensive plays on July 17, 1941, to retire Joe DiMaggio and help end his legendary 56-game hitting streak.
"Cutler-Hammer, (Pawling &) Harnischfeger … they all had teams," Uecker said. "And they had guys they were paying or giving jobs to play."
In those days, you also could find a 19-year-old Harvey Kuenn helping his West Allis Highways team to the muni triple-A title in 1950 — three years before he became the American League rookie of the year with the Detroit Tigers in the first of eight all-star seasons (and decades before he managed the Brewers to the World Series).
Once Milwaukee County Stadium opened and the Braves moved in from Boston for the 1953 season, the Milwaukee Brewers were no longer, and Borchert Field lost its place as the beating heart of Milwaukee baseball.
"When the Braves came here from Boston, you're talking about the first season drawing (close to) 2 million people," Uecker said. "New York, Brooklyn, the Giants, they didn't draw 2 million. It was here, in Milwaukee. It was huge."
From 1953 to 1958, the Braves led Major League Baseball in attendance.
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As for slow-pitch softball, Milwaukee experienced a boom after the Braves left Milwaukee in 1965, particularly with the Big Eight Classic league in Milwaukee County.
Crowds of 3,000 to 4,000 people came to Sherman Park to watch the teams in action, including some that were regarded among the best in the nation.
"We’d drive our bikes up and stack picnic tables on top of each other to watch the Big Eight games," said Rick Weiterman, who was a 21-year-old slow-pitch pitcher when his Milwaukee Schlitz team became part of the first live sports broadcast on ESPN in 1979.
The Schlitz defeated a team from Kentucky for the American Professional Slowpitch Softball League championships in a best-of-seven showcase in 1979.
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Froedtert South's emergency department set to close in downtown Kenosha as the health care provider consolidates services
The only emergency room in downtown Kenosha is about to shutdown, despite a meeting Tuesday with City Council members intended to "tap the brakes" on the plan.
The closure is set for Saturday, with a 24/7 urgent care center set to take its place.
People in need of emergency care in the city of 100,000 will now need to travel 8 miles west — a roughly 15-20 minute drive — where they will have access to two emergency departments; Froedtert's Pleasant Prairie Hospital and Aurora Medical Center Kenosha.
Kenosha council member Dave Bogdala met Tuesday with Froedtert South President/CEO Ric Schmidt and Vice President Tom Duncan. The alderman said Wednesday he's in the process of setting up meetings with other council members so hospital administrators can hear more of the city's concerns.
"What we were hoping to get out of this meeting is perhaps to tap the breaks on this a little bit," Bogdala said following his meeting with the hospital officials. "This plan basically came out two weeks (ago). We didn’t have enough time to really plan on how this is going to impact everybody."
Kenosha City Council members last week unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Bogdala opposing the hospital's decision to close the emergency department.
Froedtert South announced its plan to consolidate services Sept. 8. The entire consolidation plan had been in the works for several years.
Schmidt said the decision to consolidate its hospital's emergency department to Pleasant Prairie and turn the Kenosha hospital's emergency department into an urgent care center is based on the data.
Froedtert South's Kenosha emergency department treats about 60 patients per day, a majority of whom are urgent-care or walk-in patients who would continue to be served in Kenosha, according to information provided by the hospital to Wisconsin Public Radio. About five patients per day need emergency services and would be transferred to Pleasant Prairie, the radio report said.
Maintaining an emergency department in downtown Kenosha is key to the city's rebuilding plan for the nearby uptown and downtown neighborhoods in the wake of the civil unrest that followed the 2020 shooting of Kenosha resident Jacob Blake.
Bogdala said new multi-family buildings are in the works that will increase the downtown area's population density in an area with an already high elderly population. He noted when people consider whether to move to an area, they look at the quality of schools and access to services, such as emergency care.
The lack of an emergency department in this part of the state's fourth-largest city "defeats the purposes of what we are trying to do" to rebuild those downtown communities, Bogdala said.
“This is not like a McDonald’s closing down, where you can still go two blocks over, find another McDonald's, and get a Big Mac," Bogdala said. "We are talking about people’s lives here.”
Froedtert South's plan also calls for moving in-patient beds to its Pleasant Prairie hospital and expanding its in-patient mental health beds and rehabilitations services at its Kenosha downtown hospital, according to a Sept. 8 statement provided to the Journal Sentinel by the hospital.
“That is something Kenosha desperately needs," Bogdala said in reference to the boost in mental health beds. "We welcome that into the facility. But not at the expense of an ER.”
Prior to Tuesday's meeting, Bogdala said the experience has highlighted for him one thing about the state of health care services.
“It tells me we have big problems," he said.
More:Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin opens new 24/7 emergency center at Drexel Town Square
More:Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin opens community hospital in Mequon
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Froedtert South plans to close Kenosha hospital emergency department
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MADISON – Newly released text messages revealing politically motivated reasons Natural Resources Board member Frederick Prehn has refused to relinquish his seat has prompted a renewed call for him to step down.
Marcy West, who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, repeated an earlier call for Prehn to step down and stop holding hostage a seat that should be filled by an appointee of Evers, Sandra Dee Naas. Prehn was appointed by former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican.
The comments came at Wednesday's meeting after a slew of text messages from and to Prehn were released as part of a request for summary judgment in a Dane County court case regarding his refusal to release messages.
Frederick Prehn's plan is to get a conservative as chairman
"I'm stepping down because my term has ended as chairman. I can't run more than three years in a row," he said in a January text message. "But still remain as board member and I will effectively guarantee a conservative gets to have the chairmanship."
In another, Prehn said, "Laugh my ass off. There's no way even to put me back on but senators are asking me to stay put because there (sic) not gonna confirm anyone," Prehn said in an April 2021 message to a former DNR employee. "So I might stick around for a while. See what shakes out I'll be like a turd in water up there. Boy is it changing."
West said the text messages "blew her away."
"Respect is a two-way street," she said. "And the texts that were revealed are not funny."
West said Prehn's decision to remain past the expiration of his term wasn't only impacting him.
"Your decision is not yours alone. It has a ripple effect," she said. "I sure hope you will reconsider and recognize the impact that this has on all of us."
"There have only been 60 people that have had the opportunity to serve on this board, and you are blocking a very qualified candidate. Again, it's just alarming and it's hard to deal with every aspect of this board because of it."
Prehn played on his phone in the background as West addressed the board about a number of issues raised during their visit to the northernmost part of the state, stopping to fidget as West directly addressed him.
He was prepared to respond but was cut off by Terry Hilgenberg, a Walker appointee, who said the matter wasn't board business and shouldn't be brought to the table during meetings.
"Don't believe everything you read, Marcy," Prehn then said.
Board chair Greg Kazmierski, a Walker appointee who was the recipient and sender of many of the texts released in the court documents, said that bringing up the issue was outside the scope of the board.
"To bring that kind of thing forward under board matters is not pertinent to the responsibilities of this board," he said.
"I disagree," West said.
"Well, the Supreme Court didn't," Kazmierski countered.
Wisconsin Senate refuses to call a hearing to appoint Gov. Evers appointee
In a 4-3 decision, the state Supreme Court ruled that Prehn, a Wausau dentist and gun store owner, could remain on the board in June because the expiration of a term doesn't create a vacancy on the board that a governor can fill.
Holdovers in any position appointed by the governor can remain until a confirmation hearing is held by the state Senate for a new appointee, the court ruled. The Republican-led Senate has refused to a call hearing for Naas.
In the meantime, Naas has waited on the sidelines, only speaking at meetings during a designated slot of time allowed by DNR Secretary Preston Cole.
Others have been critical of Prehn's decision to stay beyond his term.
Former DNR Secretary George Meyer has said Prehn's actions mark a break with tradition in which members elect to step down at the end of their term if they're not reappointed.
Meyer, who was secretary under Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson, said the staggered terms of board members are made so that there aren't dramatic changes in policy between Republican and Democratic governors.
More: Messages show NRB holdover Prehn sought Scott Walker's advice on refusing to step down
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DNR board member urges Prehn to step down after texts were revealed
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Gas prices were at or above $4 a gallon on Thursday across many areas of Wisconsin, including the Milwaukee metro area.
A check of prices showed wide swings from $3.18 a gallon in Madison to $4.09 a gallon in Abbotsford, according to GasBuddy.com.
The statewide average price was $3.94 a gallon, according to travel organization AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge survey of gas stations in the state.
A week ago, the statewide average price was $3.47. A year ago, the statewide average price was $3.04.
Damage from a fatal refinery fire in Ohio as well as concern about the impact of hurricane season on Gulf of Mexico oil production has contributed to the gas price runup.
Prices are also higher ahead of a meeting next week of the OPEC oil cartel. OPEC members have been discussing a production cut in order to raise global oil prices, Reuters news service reported, citing anonymous sources.
Oil prices have moved higher this week. The price of a barrel of U.S. benchmark crude oil has risen about $5 since Monday.
The per-barrel price of crude oil makes up about two-thirds of the price of a gallon of gasoline.
Where to find the cheapest gas in Wisconsin
In spots across Wisconsin, the price has topped $4 a gallon.
In Wausau, the average price was $4.02 a gallon on Thursday. In Green Bay, the average price was within a penny of $4.
In metro Milwaukee, the average in Ozaukee County was within a half-cent of $4 and Washington County was within 2.5 cents of $4.
Dodge, Manitowoc, Calumet, Wood, Marathon, Green Lake, Marquette, Waupaca and Kewaunee counties among others were all seeing average prices at or above $4 a gallon, according to AAA.
The prices across the state show a wide swing.
According to a GasBuddy.com list of the cheapest gas prices in the state, a station in Madison was at $3.18 a gallon on Thursday while a station in Waukesha was at $3.24 a gallon and two stations in Green Bay were at $3.28 a gallon.
GasBuddy.com compiles a list of the cheapest gas prices by county and metro areas in the state. Those listings can be found here.
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Test scores show how the pandemic has taken a toll for Wisconsin students as officials call for more funding
Wisconsin state test scores released Thursday confirmed significant academic declines and persisting gaps during the pandemic, with some glimmers of progress in the last school year.
On math and language arts tests for grades three through eight, fewer than half of Wisconsin students were deemed proficient in 2022, a drop of about 10% of students deemed proficient in 2019.
State education officials said the numbers showed "strong signs of recovery and progress" compared to the 2021 results, but were still below pre-pandemic standards.
DPI Superintendent Jill Underly recently joined Gov. Tony Evers in sharing a $2 billion plan to boost education funding in the 2023-25 budget, with a focus on literacy, mental health and staff shortages in K-12 schools. That plan hinges on the outcome of the November election.
Tim Michels, challenging Evers for the governor seat, took a different stance Thursday in a news release, saying Evers had "driven Wisconsin schools into a ditch."
Wisconsin test scores show some progress made since 2021
DPI leaders said they saw signs of improvement between 2021 and 2022 but also cautioned against comparisons between those years.
That's because in 2021, participation was much lower in some districts where many students were still in virtual learning. There wasn't a virtual option for the test.
When state officials calculate proficiency rates, students who don't take the test are essentially counted as not proficient, dragging down the rate. Using that calculation method, proficiency rates rose significantly statewide between 2021, with low participation, and 2022, with near-total participation.
But when looking at proficiency rates solely among students who took the tests, the picture is a little different. Rates rose slightly in math from 2021, but fell in language arts.
Milwaukee Public Schools' scores fall further
Where the statewide proficiency rates dropped by 10% of the 2019 rates in math and language arts, Milwaukee's dropped by 38% in math and 24% in language arts.
In total, about 10% of Milwaukee students scored as proficient or higher in math, and about 14% in language arts.
If you consider that about 6% of Milwaukee students didn't take the 2022 test, the proficiency rates for just those students who took the test are slightly higher: about 11% in math and 15% in language arts.
Like the rest of the state, those rates for test-takers are a little better than the 2021 rates in math, and worse in language arts. Fewer than half of MPS students took the test in 2021.
If you count untested students in the total, the rates for 2021 look lower, and the rates for 2022 are higher in comparison for both math and language arts, as well as other subjects tested on the Forward exams for other grades.
Milwaukee Public Schools leaders said in a statement that they saw proficiency increases "on every test, in every subject area compared to spring 2021, although we know we still have work to do."
District leaders said they were dedicated to increasing school attendance and "assuring that teachers have strategies to increase student engagement, provide explicit instruction at grade level, and monitor progress with formative practices."
They emphasized some schools that did better than others, including Bay View Montessori, where students scored better in 2022 than they did in 2019. The school has a smaller population of students considered economically disadvantaged.
In Milwaukee, just 7% of students considered economically disadvantaged tested as proficient in math and 10% in language arts on the Forward exams, compared to 24% of their peers in math and 33% in language arts.
ACT scores also down from pre-pandemic
Statewide, ACT scores in 2022 improved from 2021 but were lower than previous years. Unlike the Forward exams, students were able to take ACT tests in spring 2020 before schools closed in the pandemic.
On the 2022 ACT exams, about 35% of students were proficient or higher in language arts, 27% in math and 28% in science — down from 2020 rates of 37%, 33% and 32%, respectively.
Similar trends were seen on the ACT Aspire, an exam meant to help students prepare for the ACT. Students were not able to take the Aspire in 2020, so numbers are compared to 2019.
On the 2022 Aspire exams, about 36% were proficient or higher in language arts, 33% in math and 29% in science — down from 2019 rates of 40%, 40% and 35%, respectively.
Schools nationwide see pandemic drops
Students have shown unprecedented declines in test scores across the country during the pandemic.
Some of the strongest data come from a federal test administered to 9-year-olds in a representative sampling of U.S. schools. The National Center for Education Statistics has been running the test, which is separate from state tests, since the early '70s.
That assessment in 2022 marked the first ever drop in math scores, and first drop in reading scores since 1990. They dropped by 3% and 2%, respectively, from 2020.
Further, those tests showed that falls were larger for students of color, students from lower-income families and students who had fewer resources for navigating virtual learning.
On survey questions, students who scored higher reported more access to computers or tablets, high-speed internet, a quiet place to work and someone to help them with schoolwork.
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Standardized Forward test scores for Wisconsin, MPS down in pandemic
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Czech Republic Steve King named CEO of Milwaukee host committee for 2024 Republican Convention
Milwaukee's host committee for the 2024 Republican National Convention has brought on a seasoned political hand to serve as chief executive officer.
The spot has gone to Steve King, 81, a longtime stalwart of Wisconsin GOP politics who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
Why did King take the position?
"Because I was asked by Reince Priebus, who has been a longtime friend and compatriot," King told the Journal Sentinel.
Priebus, an ex-White House chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, is the chairman of Milwaukee's host committee.
Priebus announced that King was on board Thursday during an event held by the Milwaukee Business Journal.
Local organizers say they need to raise $65 million for the event and have already secured more than $20 million in commitments.
During the Milwaukee Business Journal event Priebus said other members of the host committee are Tim Sheehy of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, philanthropist Ted Kellner, Republican Party of Wisconsin first vice chairman Gerard Randall, philanthropist Kathryn "Murph" Burke, Visit Milwaukee CEO Peggy Williams-Smith and Tony Povkovich of Uline Corp.
King likened the convention process to making a movie, with the local organizing committee acting as a producer while the RNC directs the event.
He said the organizing committee will "raise the money for the event and put in place all the necessary tools including contracts with a number of different organizations and entities."
King said Milwaukee has a big head start in the process, securing the event two years ahead of time.
King lived in the Janesville area for nearly 50 years and retains strong family ties in the state. He and his wife currently live in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
He said serving as chief executive of the host committee is his way of giving back to the state, as well as Milwaukee.
King was a former state Republican Party chairman in the 1980s. He also has significant convention experience, serving as the sergeant of arms for the 2012 Republican Convention in Tampa and heading the committee on arrangements for the 2016 RNC in Cleveland.
"The last real successful Republican convention was held in a city on a lake in the upper Midwest, that was Cleveland," he said. "My goal is to make sure all the necessary tools are in place so the RNC will put on the best convention this century in the upper Midwest in a city on a lake."
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The Milwaukee Brewers' playoff hopes suddenly don't look so bad; are you thinking about playoff tickets?
The bad news: Even if Milwaukee gets into the playoffs, the Brewers are guaranteed to play a best-of-three series on the road in the opening round. If you want to see them, you'll need them to win that opening round and advance to the National League Division Series, with games in Milwaukee on Oct. 14 and 15.
The good news: If you already bought a ticket to a game this year, you'll get a jump on postseason tickets. Registered users at Brewers.com who bought a ticket for any game during the 2022 season will receive access to NLDS tickets one day earlier than everyone else, at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.
Everyone else can get single-game tickets starting at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7.
The full schedule of postseason presales and single-game ticket opportunities can be found at brewers.com/postseason. Fans also can purchase parking passes online, and all tickets will be delivered through the MLB Ballpark App.
If the games don't happen, fans will get a full refund (including fees) within 10 business days of the scheduled game.
For more information, the Brewers can be reached at (414) 902-4000. Ticket availability for later rounds will be announced at a later date.
Those who place a deposit on a 2023 season-ticket plan will have first rights to purchasing tickets to at least a portion of the scheduled games in the 2022 postseason. More info on that arrangement can be found at brewers.com/seasontickets.
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Milwaukee Brewers announce single-game ticket playoff sales
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Former Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said that while he hadn't officially retired from the NFL, his playing days were definitively over. Matthews last played in the NFL in 2019 with the Los Angeles Rams, his lone season with any team other than the Packers.
With Green Bay, he made six Pro Bowls in 10 seasons, highlighted by a runner-up finish in the Defensive Player of the Year voting in 2010. That season, of course, the Packers won the Super Bowl, with a memorable Matthews forced fumble helping to solidify the win.
“I had a few other offers after for the 2020 season, but we had just moved to L.A., and we had just had our third child, and it was the middle of COVID, so there were a lot of unknowns," Matthews said. "Ultimately, there wasn’t a situation out there that made me want to relocate the family again. I wanted to focus on the next chapter, which is being a dad and being home a lot more.”
Matthews said he hopes to be invited back to Green Bay for a ceremonial official retirement as a member of the Packers. Green Bay made Matthews the 26th overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft, a fruitful first round that also included the selection of B.J. Raji.
More:Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari's California home, the one with the tub from his Instagram bubble bath, sells quickly
Matthews racked up 83½ sacks, becoming the franchise's official all-time sack leader.
Matthews said he'll always consider himself a Packers player and would have liked to finish his career there. Matthews became a free agent after the 2018 season and signed a deal with the Rams for two years.
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Matthews done with football, wishes he could have finished in GB
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94-year-old woman dies after being hit by a car near Brady Street and Prospect Avenue
A 94-year-old woman was hit by a car and died on Milwaukee's east side Thursday.
Milwaukee police say the fatal traffic crash occurred at 3:45 p.m. in the intersection of East Brady Street and North Prospect Avenue.
A 40-year-old man was driving on Brady and turning onto Prospect when he struck the woman, according to police.
"The (woman) did succumb to her injuries at about 7:45pm.," police said in a statement.
The driver stayed on the scene and is cooperating with the investigation, police said.
The incident is 18 days removed from when 32-year-old Arne Bast was killed after being hit by a driver in a Jeep Cherokee on Brady Street near North Franklin Place. The driver that struck Bast left the scene and police have not announced an arrest.
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Rod Wave is bringing his ‘Beautiful Mind’ tour to Fiserv Forum, breaking the Milwaukee record for most hip-hop arena concerts in a year
It’s official: A Milwaukee venue will host the most hip-hop arena tours the city has had in a single year.
Friday morning, Rod Wave announced a 25-date U.S. arena tour from November through December, with a stop at Fiserv Forum Nov. 19.
The Florida native has found a large following with his soulful singing voice and raw hip-hop that frequently finds catharsis from processing trauma. His last two albums — “SoulFly” released last year and “Beautiful Mind,” out last month — both debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.
Tickets go on sale at the box office (1111 N. Phillips Ave.) and through Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. Oct. 7. Prices have yet to be announced. Toosii and Mariah The Scientist will open.
More:Blockbuster concerts are back. But cancellations are rampant a year after concerts returned to Milwaukee venues.
More:Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood and more: 10 top Milwaukee concerts in October
It’s been a banner year for hip-hop tours at the Milwaukee Bucks arena, which were few and far between when the Bradley Center was in operation.
Tyler, The Creator headlined the arena in February, followed by Kendrick Lamar in August. Hip-hop and pop superstar Post Malone played a sold-out Fiserv Forum show this month.
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Aurora Sinai researchers building data on water births. So far, women report feeling more comfortable, and more in control.
For more than four hours, as first-time mother Sarah Hisamoto labored to bring her son, Gavin, into the world, the scene around her was one that would be hard to find in a hospital setting — certainly in southeastern Wisconsin.
In a hospital room at Milwaukee's Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Hisamoto was moving freely in a small inflatable pool.
Up to 10 people surrounded her at any given time: her husband, her mother, her doula, two nurses, one or two midwives and her obstetrician.
They crouched on their knees around the pool, dipping their arms in the water to help Hisamoto maneuver from one position into another or to take readings that told them how she and her baby were doing. They encouraged her to keep pushing as the minutes turned into hours and exhaustion kicked in.
"They couldn't have been much more comfortable than I was," she said. "It was physically a little bit more exerting for the entire team than I anticipated."
As the labor and delivery team brainstormed new positions to try — one was called "Captain Morgan," another involved her squatting while hanging on to her husband for support — they consulted with Hisamoto and family about their options.
Hisamoto was not told what to do, but asked what she wanted. And just before things reached the point at which her doctors would have shifted to a Caesarean birth or used a vacuum delivery to pull the baby out, Gavin slipped out into the water and into the support team's waiting hands.
In the end, Hisamoto, 35, gave birth the way she had wanted: without an epidural or other painkillers.
"I would really like to do it again, and have the opportunity to participate in a water birth for my next child," said Hisamoto, herself a nurse.
Midwives and doctors at the hospital have similar hopes. Right now, Aurora Sinai is the only hospital in southeast Wisconsin where the water birth option is available, and even that is on a trial basis.
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Water birth is known as an effective pain management option, one that also lets mothers move around more freely and naturally while giving birth. They are common in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, where the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists backs them.
But only about 6%-10% of hospitals in the U.S. offer water births, said Emily Malloy, a certified nurse midwife at Aurora Sinai. Here, they are more common in birthing centers and home births.
While the American College of Nurse–Midwives supports having water birth as an option for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists does not. The organization cites a lack of data on the safety of being born in water, and a lack of data from hospital settings in particular. The OB/GYN group says hospital water births should be limited to research settings.
With the help of mothers like Hisamoto, a team of midwives and doctors at Aurora Sinai is hoping to collect that exact data.
In January, the hospital launched a two-year, randomized study to examine how safe they are for mothers and babies, and evaluate patient satisfaction.
Participants must be healthy and not have any complications in their pregnancy. They can enroll between 28 and 34 weeks of pregnancy. At that point, are randomly assigned to have a water birth or traditional "land" birth.
As of last month, the research team, led by Malloy, had 65 women enrolled. The team's goal is to ultimately have at least 80 participants, with 40 participants using water birth and 40 using land birth. Randomized data is considered the "gold-standard" in scientific research, Malloy said.
"Our hope is that we can show safety and then begin offering this more routinely to people," she said.
So far, the team has seen growing interest in the option, as expecting mothers realize that there is a way for them to have a water birth in the safety of the hospital setting.
"I've had patients come to me who have just heard that we were doing a trial and want to participate," many of them very early in their pregnancies, said Ashanti Dean, a certified nurse midwife at Advocate Aurora who is also working on the study. "So there's definitely an interest in the community."
Benefits for mom and baby
For generations, water has been used to soothe laboring mothers.
Even today, at Aurora Sinai and other hospitals, "hydrotherapy" is an option offered to people who are in labor. Mothers can sit in a tub while they labor, but must come out when actually giving birth.
"Some people even refer to it like a liquid epidural, because it gives people such a sense of relief," Malloy said.
UnityPoint Health-Meriter is the only hospital in Madison that offers the option of water births. The hospital does not have midwives on staff, but partners with UW Health and local midwives who can deliver babies there.
Maggie Mehr, a childbirth specialist in Meriter's Family Health Education Department, said it will be very helpful to have more research, especially randomized data, on water births in hospitals.
There can be risks associated with water births, Mehr said. Those include the risk of the baby breathing in water after being born, the risk of newborn bleeding if the umbilical cord breaks, and of possible infection for both the mother and baby.
Also, because it isn't always possible to continuously monitor the mother and baby with medical machinery during a water birth, there can be a risk of undetected health issues. Nurses do usually monitor the baby and mom intermittently.
Many of these risks can be adjusted for, Mehr explained.
For example, in order to keep the cold air in the room from triggering the baby to start breathing, it's important that once the baby is crowning, the mothers hips stay below the water line. That way, until the baby is lifted out of the water, it continues to "breathe" like it did in the womb, by getting oxygen from the umbilical cord.
The breaking of the umbilical cord can also be prevented by only bringing the baby up to the mothers stomach after birth and until the cord is clamped and cut, instead of all the way up to her chest.
Retrospective studies — which pull data on water births that have already happened — have reported birthing moms have less pain and stress. They can move more freely and report feeling more in control. Some even show lower blood pressure and less perineal tearing and trauma, Mehr said.
For babies, water births are "gentle births," Mehr said.
"They're coming from the birth environment that they're used to into an environment that's really similar — warm, wet, floating — and then kind of have more of a gentle introduction to the cold, bright, world that we all exist in," Mehr said.
Water births are usually not an option for people who have pregnancy complications or are at risk of having them.
But acquiring more research on water births and other birth options can help expand the available options for women. That's particularly important for women of color, who tend to experience more complications during pregnancies.
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"We know that especially Black women are more likely to have a primary (Cesarean) section, and other adverse outcomes such as such as hypertensive diseases through pregnancy," Malloy said. "We believe that, just inadvertently, offering more options and especially offering options that are maybe less interventive could prevent that first C-section."
Dr. Natasha Hernandez, an OB/GYN and the medical director of women's health at Aurora Sinai, is one of the doctors working on the study.
Historically, water birth has been seen as something OB/GYN's "keep our hands off of," she said, thinking it is "more in the midwife realm."
"We do things that have a lot of data that shows that there's benefit or safety," Hernandez said. "I think getting more data and more studies (on) some of these...alternative practices, will maybe show that perhaps midwives have had it right all along."
Putting mothers in control
For Beth Connors, 27 of Hartland, her second birth experience was immensely better than her first, and that's not only because the second was a water birth.
She had her first baby at a different hospital, and remembers it as a "hectic" experience. She also did it without pain medication, laboring for a total of 10 hours and pushing for about four.
One of the biggest differences in her experience this time around was that she felt more in control: like she was doing things instead of things being done to her.
"With the first experience, I was in nursing school and I felt like I was prepared and knew all my choices that I needed to make, or that I would potentially have," she said. "Then in the moment, I didn't feel like I could speak up for myself. I didn't know what my options were. Everything just felt like it was standard practice, not necessarily individualized to what I thought was best for myself."
She ended up having extensive tearing because she had to have a vacuum-assisted delivery.
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In the pool at Aurora Sinai, Connors said she felt much more like she was in control, at the center of everything that was going on. The team around her gave her options and let her choose. Her midwife explained what was happening and why.
Connors formerly worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Aurora Sinai and was eager to participate in the water birth study when given the opportunity. Her daughter Avery was born on May 26 in about 45 minutes.
"It was fast and furious," Connors said. "She was ready."
Even for birthing mothers who are having land births, the midwives interviewed emphasized the importance of putting the person who is giving birth in control. It's a mentality that even extends to the language they use: midwives say they "catch" the baby, they don't "deliver" it.
In that sense, even beyond efforts to make water births available to more women, medical experts note that a lot has changed around how women are treated during childbirth.
Much of that has come as a result of the advocacy of midwives — who are certified experts in managing low-risk births — and the availability of better data.
In the early 2000s, when Hernandez was in training, she remembered "all women were laying on their back, legs in the air" when giving birth. Now, some 20 years later, she described a delivery in which the woman tried eight different positions. Often, the best option has been to deliver on all fours, she said.
Doctors even wait a little longer before clamping the umbilical cord today, another practice long championed by midwives before being more broadly accepted.
"I think we've really come a long way," she said.
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Milwaukee hospital launches study into water births as safe option
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Zhenhuan (Reed) Lei
A prominent interpretation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that China has been supportive of the Russians and has not done enough to pressure Vladimir Putin to get back to the negotiation table. A natural conclusion follows: Had China openly pressured Russia, the conflict may have been avoided. Hence, the conflict is the result of China’s irresponsible stance, not the failure of the American foreign policy.
But is it true that China supports Russia in its conflict with Ukraine?
Supporters of that view would quickly point to Putin’s visit to Beijing during the Winter Olympics last February. In a meeting with President Xi Jinping, Putin offered to increase China’s natural gas supply.
The Chinese government’s cozy remarks on the China-Russia relationship further support the notion that China is on board with Russia’s Ukrainian ambitions. Just after the Xi-Putin meeting, and shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, Le Yucheng, then executive vice minister of foreign affairs, claimed there was “no limit” to China-Russia collaboration. China also refused to vote with the United States on the United Nations Security Council resolutions denouncing Russia after the conflict broke out, arguing that doing so would only worsen the situation.
China-Russia interactions have recently intensified. Li Zhanshu, the chairperson of the Chinese legislature and the No. 3 figure in the Chinese Communist Party, said that China “understood and supported Russia on issues that were of great concern to Russia.” Xi met Putin during the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, saying that “China would offer strong support on issues that concern both Russia and China,” though he did not publicly comment on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
All these actions seem to suggest that China sides with Russia.
However, this interpretation ignores the subtlety of China’s response. One of its fundamental concerns in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is affirming the principle of territorial integrity: that no nation has the right to alter the borders of another nation.
You can see evidence of China’s desire to uphold territorial integrity in its refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Likewise, China refused to follow Russia’s lead in recognizing the independence of two eastern Ukraine states that broke away from the nation in a move that many perceived as orchestrated by Russia to help facilitate this year’s full-scale invasion.
China’s policy toward Taiwan and Tibet lies behind its stance on the eastern Ukraine states. If China recognizes their independence, then it wouldn’t be able to argue that Taiwan and Tibet should not seek independence.
This all puts China in a complicated situation. While distancing itself from Russia on the breakaway states in Ukraine, it must also work with Russia to deal with the United States’ ongoing campaign to undermine China. As a result, even Putin had to recognize that China holds a “balanced stance” on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
One very public example of Russia allying itself with China occurred in the Winter Olympics, when the United States urged its allies to refrain from sending officials to the opening ceremony. Putin made a show of quickly accepting the invitation, signaling that Russia was willing to side with China in the U.S.-China competition.
More recently, Beijing urged President Joe Biden to persuade House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel her visit to Taiwan. The fact that Pelosi went ahead with the trip strained the already complicated U.S.-China relationship. As a show of support, Putin sided with China, calling Pelosi’s visit a “planned provocation.”
The fact is, the Chinese government has taken a highly contradictory stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Beijing never officially supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, the Chinese government was also reluctant to work with the United States to sanction Russia, mostly due to worsening U.S.-China relations over the past five years.
Cooperation between the United States and China is a necessary first step in solving some of the overwhelming problems facing both countries. For instance, it is unlikely that we can make any meaningful progress on addressing climate change or the trade imbalances between the United States and China without the two countries working together. The challenge is figuring out how the United States and China can strengthen their policy cooperation while heatedly criticizing each other.
Zhenhuan (Reed) Lei is an assistant professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The NHL is coming to Milwaukee for one night. One coach shares his thoughts on the game and his time in the city.
Ten years ago, Dean Evason made his debut as a head coach at the pro level, beginning a six-season stint behind the Milwaukee Admirals’ bench in the American Hockey League.
Sunday he’ll be back in a city he truly loves when his Minnesota Wild take on the Chicago Blackhawks in a sold-out National Hockey League exhibition game at 6:30 p.m. at Fiserv Forum.
The game will be the NHL’s first in Milwaukee since 1993, when a six-year run of exhibition games at the Bradley Center ended with the Blackhawks playing the Los Angeles Kings. A pregame celebration in the Deer District is set for 3:30 p.m. Sunday, with Blackhawks celebrity appearances, photo opportunities, music and entertainment.
In a quick telephone interview Thursday, Evason shared his thoughts on his approach to a game that is the fourth of seven preseason games, the idea of exhibitions or maybe even regular-season games in non-NHL markets, an Admirals fan favorite who is now with the Wild, and his time in Milwaukee.
What’s the approach to a game midway through the exhibition season? What will people see Sunday night?
We have put together a strong lineup, we feel, with eight veterans in mind – I think we have a few more than eight coming to Milwaukee – but we’re basically right, smack in the middle of our preseason games, so we’re looking for progression.
We’re looking for some systematic stuff, but as important we want to see the players start to separate themselves at that point from basically minor-league players or American League players and who’s going to really battle and have a chance to make our club here in Minnesota.
What are your thoughts about an NHL-level game in a non-hockey building?
I think it’s fantastic. We obviously heard about how quickly the game sold out, and I know firsthand about how great the fans are in Milwaukee, and we’re excited to play in front of the fans again because they are not only boisterous fans but they’re very intelligent obviously in their approach to hockey.
So I think both the Chicago franchise and ours are going to be excited to play a game in that market. I’m looking forward to getting back there.
I know there are business reasons not to, but is it worth exploring neutral site games in the regular season to help grow the game?
I don’t know about the regular season just because you’re going to take games away from fans that have supported your team for so long, and they obviously want to see it as well.
But I do think it’s a good approach for preseason games where I think the NHL can see what the market’s like just as far as the fan experience and how excited they are and how quickly and how many fans they get … like Milwaukee, if it sells out quickly. And they’re looking forward and excited for it.
It’s a good opportunity for the NHL to learn and if things don’t go well for other franchises maybe they’ve got some knowledge on maybe where some teams could go.
Frederick Gaudreau was a fan favorite here who seems to have blossomed again with the change of scenery. That’s coaching genius, right? What happened?
I have a special place for Freddie. And I’ve talked about it there. … He always had the skill. It was a matter of feeling good and comfortable and confident he could play. We saw it right away with the Nashville Predator organization and certainly with us with the Admirals that he could play, not only play in the American Hockey League but play here.
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When he got here … (Wild general manager) Billy Guerin made the move to sign him and we’ve been very happy with his versatility and not only how he’s fit in as a hockey player but maybe even more how he’s fit in as a person and a leader on our hockey team.
What’s your best memory of Milwaukee, on-ice?
It’s hard to describe one situation. The thing that I remember is the people there.
Yeah, sure there were some wonderful hockey moments. But I remember the people there. That starts with Harris Turer and Jon Greenberg at the top. And then just everybody that’s associated with the organization.
It’s run as professionally and as close to a National Hockey League franchise as you can get. And I’ve been in a couple of other franchises and have seen how professional they were and still are and how they treat their players and their staff. It’s first class. It comes from the top, from Harris.
And your best non-hockey memory of Milwaukee that you can share?
It’s the city. When I talk to people about living in Milwaukee for the better part of seven years, everybody’s like, you liked Milwaukee? I’ve said yes, we absolutely loved living there.
People don’t understand how wonderful an area and a wonderful city Milwaukee is. It has fantastic theater, it has fantastic sports, it has fantastic restaurants. It’s got the water, the outdoors. Golf courses. You’re close to Chicago. It’s got everything. I absolutely enjoyed every second of living in the Milwaukee area.
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Even with two key players in contract seasons, the Milwaukee Bucks remain drama-free
Will he stay, or will he go?
What Instagram post did he comment on? What tweet did he like?
One of the most consistent drumbeats in the NBA – offseason or not – is the perpetual discussion surrounding contract statuses and potential player movement. It can be argued those conversations about the future and what-might-be supersede the present and the games counting on the court day in and day out.
The Milwaukee Bucks are no stranger to this, of course. One need only to remember the breathless humdrum surrounding Giannis Antetokounmpo prior to signing his extension in December 2020.
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But this offseason, very little has been made (at least in the broader NBA discussion) of a three-time all-star and an all-defensive team, three-point shooting big man potentially heading into free agency. Khris Middleton has a player option to decide upon and Brook Lopez is in the final season of a four-year deal signed in 2019.
The lack of noise around the pair and their futures makes some sense, of course.
There isn’t a basketball stage of import Middleton hasn’t been on as a professional, but he’s a human metronome. He rarely posts on social media. Lopez has a unique personality on the Bucks but he’s not exactly running to the cameras and isn’t obvious in his use of social channels, if he even is on any.
“Uh, I wasn’t exactly aware this was a contract year,” Lopez said Tuesday. “I didn’t know last year, like, I didn’t know what year, what part of the deal it was or anything like that. That’s not who I am. I’m going to be the same player whatever year it is, regardless of all that stuff.”
Then there is the fact Middleton just turned 31 and is coming off a sprained knee that knocked him out of the playoffs and is currently rehabbing from offseason wrist surgery. Lopez is 34 and is less than a year removed from back surgery.
This is Middleton’s 11th season in the NBA, and Lopez’s 15th. Including this season, they’ve been in Milwaukee for 10 and five years, respectively. Perhaps at these stages, the general populous feels they are predestined to stay in Milwaukee, or perhaps there is a feeling the veterans are once again in “prove it” territory.
If that is the case, proving anything has more to do with making a run at another championship than any other individual accomplishment.
In a sit-down interview in August Middleton said, “One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that winning will take care of it. The way I tackle this is, in the offseason do what I’m supposed to, try to make myself better, be in the best shape that I can going into the season and then after that just focus on winning. That’s the only thing that matters. If you win, everybody wants you. Everybody.
“I mean, I’m not the KD (Kevin Durant), the Giannis, the LeBron (James) where it’s one of the greatest all-time players and no matter what – you can have a bad season – everybody’s going to want you no matter what. I mean, I would like to put myself in that conversation but realistically I know if I win, everything will take care of itself.”
The pair may be understated, but it’s clear the league knows how good they are.
Middleton has made three all-star appearances in the last four years and had a legitimate quarrel with not making it in 2020-21. And if the conference finals MVP had existed the year the Bucks won the title, no doubt he would’ve earned it with his dominant showing against Atlanta. And, he’s still the 19th-highest paid player in the game on average salary with an option for $40 million next season.
He’s not a lightweight.
Of the potential free-agent class next summer the only other players with at least three all-star trips who could be available are Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Kevin Love, Al Horford, Kemba Walker and Russell Westbrook. Only Irving, 30, is younger.
Lopez was a 2019-20 all-defensive team member and has been the anchor of the Bucks’ defense whenever he plays – and last season showed how valuable he was in that regard when he missed 69 games with the back injury. He’s become a 34.4% three-point shooter with the Bucks, and while he’s maybe the fourth or fifth option on offense the last two years he’s shown he’s capable of reviving “Brooklyn Brook” by scoring at least 18 points on 13 different occasions.
While it’s fair to pump the brakes on any extension speculation considering his still-recent back problems, it is hard to imagine there isn’t a place for Lopez in the league should he be healthy.
“It was really good, yeah,” Lopez said, noting he got in workouts in Milwaukee, Orlando and Los Angeles. “I felt healthy, felt great. So it’s been a good offseason.”
Despite his wrist injury, Middleton said his legs feel great after a full offseason also.
And if Middleton says winning will help determine his future – and if Lopez insists he’s not going to worry about his – it only sets the pair (and the team) up for the ultimate success. And at that point, everyone will be talking about them.
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Firefighters respond to two house fires in a week in Cedarburg
Multiple fire departments have responded to two unrelated structure fires on Covered Bridge Road in the town of Cedarburg in less than a week.
"We typically have one large fire ... where there's extensive damage and we have one of those a year — that's a lot out here — and have to have two in a week was very unusual," said Fire Chief Jeff Vahsholtz.
At about 2 p.m. Sept. 26, firefighters responded to a fire at 2401 Covered Bridge Road.
Shortly after the fire started, the structure was engulfed in flames and there was no chance of saving anything, according to the department. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Joy Johnson Booth lived in the farmhouse, which she inherited from her grandfather, with her two dogs. One of the dogs, Roxy, is still missing. If you see the dog, call the Cedarburg Police Department at 262-375-7620.
Booth was at work at the time of the fire and is now staying with her mother. The home was insured, but Booth said she does not know the cost estimate of the property damage. The farmhouse has been in their family for about 70 years, she said.
"You're so upset because you lost everything you had. But then later, you're like, 'I just want my dog back,'" said Booth.
Seeking to help the family, a friend created a GoFundMe page to at bit.ly/cedarburgfire.
Firefighters returned twice to the home to put additional more water on the structure, said Vahsholtz. No firefighters were injured during the incident.
That fire took place just days after a fire on Sept. 22. Firefighters responded to a chimney fire that had spread to the house at about 8:54 p.m., according to the fire department.
The homeowners had discovered the fire and attempted to extinguish the flames, but were unsuccessful. They were able to safely leave the home with their dog, said Vahsholtz. They were displaced by the fire and stayed with neighbors, he added.
The rear of the structure sustained serious damage along with a room on the second floor.
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West Allis' newest bakery, The Bread Pedalers, is having its grand opening this weekend
West Allis' newest bakery and café will hold its grand opening Saturday, Oct. 1.
The Bread Pedalers, 1436 S. 92nd St., also will be open to the public a day earlier, on Friday, Sept. 30, for a soft opening.
Hours both days will be from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The bakery, run by professional cycling sisters Sam and Skylar Schneider, previously announced they'd be opening at the end of September, but the exact schedule was dependent on final permit approvals.
Friday's soft opening is for "anyone who wants to come, as long as they promise to be extra patient with us," the Schneiders said in an email update.
This week, West Allis Mayor Dan Devine posted on Facebook about the opening, including photos of the bakery's interior as well as images of the colorful mural painted by artist Will Bryant on the outside wall.
On Friday, the bakery will serve coffee, tea and an assortment of bakery items on a first come, first served basis.
A group bike ride departing from The Bread Pedalers is planned for 11 a.m. Friday, led by the sisters' friends from the Breakfast Club in Austin, Texas.
Saturday's grand opening will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Those hours, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., will be the norm, at least on a temporary basis, from Oct. 1 through Oct. 11, as well as a temporary menu that will change slightly every day, the Schneiders said.
"We will be closed on Wednesday, Oct. 12 to re-set and then launch our more permanent hours going forward from there, as well as a menu where you can rely on certain staples and specials."
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Milwaukee's Christmas tree will be in the Deer District outside Fiserv Forum instead of near City Hall this year
The City of Milwaukee's official Christmas tree will be on display in the Deer District adjacent to Fiserv Forum this holiday season.
For most of the past decade, the city's Christmas tree has been on Market Street next to City Hall. Before that, it was in Red Arrow Park, across from City Hall.
Milwaukee's tradition of having an official city tree is the second-longest in the country, after New York's; it dates back to 1913.
This year's tree-lighting ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 18.
In announcing the city Christmas tree's new digs, the Milwaukee Bucks said the tree would be part of its fourth year of turning the Deer District into the "Cheer District" for the holidays.
Also planned for the plaza, according to the Bucks, are a Jack Daniel's barrel tree; a Letters to Santa mailbox courtesy WLDB-FM (93.3), which not so coincidentally has been the first Milwaukee radio station to switch to all Christmas music every year since 2016; a Milwaukee Maker's Market Dec. 9-11; and more.
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One holiday event that won't be happening in the Deer District in 2022: The Chicago-based Christkindlmarkt confirmed earlier this year that it would not be returning to the plaza outside Fiserv Forum, where it had camped in 2018-'19.
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Bus riders don't have to wear masks as Milwaukee County shifts to 'low' COVID-19 community risk level
Bus passengers and operators will not be required to wear masks in Milwaukee County, effective Friday. The change also extends to Courthouse Complex employees, contractors and volunteers.
This comes after the CDC lowered the county’s COVID-19 community risk level to “low” on Sept. 29.
The county, however, will continue masking requirements in higher-risk locations, such as the Milwaukee County Jail, House of Correction, Juvenile Detention Center, Behavioral Health clinical settings and in public spaces or when interacting with members of the public within the Marcia Coggs Center.
Masking is still required at other countywide facilities if an employee, contractor or volunteer has been exposed to COVID-19 within the past 10 days and is eligible to return to in-person work.
More:Wisconsin averaging fewer than 1,000 COVID cases a day for the first time since April
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Masks no longer required on Milwaukee County buses, Courthouse Complex
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Alliant Energy announces plan for its first utility-scale battery installations at solar farms in Wood, Grant counties
Alliant Energy on Friday announced plans to add its first utility-scale battery storage systems to solar energy farms in Wood and Grant counties.
The lithium iron phosphate batteries would provide a combined 175 megawatts of storage, enough to power 180,000 homes for four hours.
That means a reserve power supply would be available during times of high use or when other generating facilities are offline. On a daily basis, the batteries also will allow the company to manage power distribution by storing energy during the night, a time of low energy use, and releasing it during the day when there's greater demand, Alliant spokesperson Tony Palese said.
He said it's "trying to be smarter about when we can generate the most cost effective energy and deliver that energy."
Palese said Alliant accelerated its plan for building battery storage following passage earlier this year of the federal Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation provides new tax credits for battery storage facilities that Alliant intends to use to help finance the installations.
“Alliant Energy is well-positioned to accelerate the development of this energy storage capacity in Wisconsin," David de Leon, president of Alliant Energy’s Wisconsin energy company, said in a statement. "For customers, this means greater reliability and long-term affordability as we transition toward a cleaner energy future.”
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Wood County solar project recently wrapped up
These would be utility's first large-scale battery installations. Alliant has been running a pilot battery program with units of less than 5 megawatts at three locations in western and central Wisconsin.
The announcement comes just days after Alliant completed construction of the 150 megawatt Wood County Solar Project in the town of Saratoga. The 1,200-acre solar array can generate enough electricity to power 40,000 homes.
Work recently got underway on the Grant County solar project on a 1,400-acre parcel in the town of Potosi. The 200-megawatt installation is expected to be completed in late 2023.
Alliant Energy intends to build more utility-scale solar farms in Wisconsin
The Wood and Grant county projects are part of the company's plan to build a dozen utility-scale solar farms in Wisconsin as it pursues a goal of eliminating coal-powered generation within four years and becoming a net-zero carbon dioxide producer by 2050.
Alliant's coal powered Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan is expected to shut down in 2025 and its Columbia Energy Center in Portage is scheduled to close in 2026. Both of those timelines were pushed back this year amid concerns about maintaining an adequate power supply.
The company's plan to add battery storage in Grant and Wood counties was submitted to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin on Friday. Approval is expected to take up to a year.
Palese said the Wood County battery installation is expected to be completed in late 2024 and the Grant County project would go online the following year.
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A new health clinic will create jobs, offers promise for the uninsured in Racine
RACINE - The city of Racine will save $2 million on its new health center project because its construction will meet provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that are aimed at reducing the community's carbon footprint.
The Racine Community Health Center will serve Racine’s uninsured community and provide union jobs. It will be built in the Lincoln-King neighborhood, next to Julian Thomas Elementary School.
“The city of Racine is deeply committed to meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Accord,” Mayor Cory Mason said. “We have said that we will do that work and reduce our carbon footprint 50% by 2030 and that is a closer date than people realize.”
The city hopes to make the center its first "net-zero" building in the community. That means it intends for the center to be built a way that allows it to generate as much energy -- through such means as solar and wind -- as it consumes each year, resulting in zero emissions.
The cost of the project will total about $60 million.
The Inflation Reduction Act will give the city a 40% reimbursement if it invests in underserved and economically challenged neighborhoods.
Racine will receive a 50% reimbursement if it brings jobs to the community by using apprenticeships. The city has partnered with the Southeastern Wisconsin Building & Construction Trades Council to help meet that requirement.
When the health center is built, the community will have access to medical, dental and behavior health.
"We know that those are real deficiencies that exist, particularly in communities that are underinsured such as the Latino community, Mason said.
The city has raised more than half of the funds needed to start the project and hopes to start breaking ground early in 2023.
"We don't have to choose between clean energy and affordable energy. We can and we deserve to have both and this project will deliver exactly that." said Francisco Sayu, director of emerging technology of Renew Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization that promotes renewable energy in Wisconsin.
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For its season opener, Milwaukee Symphony goes big with Strauss' enormous 'Alpine Symphony'
Elaine Schmidt
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra opened its 2022-'23 season Friday evening with a program that pulled out all the proverbial stops.
The orchestra, under the baton of music director Ken-David Masur, spanned two centuries of orchestral music, opening with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’s “Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah!” (2021). The program’s first half continued with Felix Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major, featuring twin sisters Christina and Michelle Naughton, who grew up in Madison.
The program’s second half was filled to bursting by Richard Strauss’s “Eine Alpensinfonie" ("An Alpine Symphony").
Marsalis’s “Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah,” for brass and percussion, has one foot in the classical world and the other in the jazz, resulting in precision and refinement wedded to relaxed, foot-tapping music. Masur and the players gave a polished, rousing, utterly engaging performance.
MORE:Recovering from a stroke, Milwaukee Symphony's Mark Niehaus encourages people to do 'simple things' to reduce risk
The Naughton sisters, seated at neatly nested grand pianos, each played with a fluid, masterful technique, and gave deeply musical, expressive performances. But it was their completely like-minded interpretation that made one’s jaw drop.
Any concerto is a musical conversation between the soloist and orchestra, but the concerto for two pianos allowed the audience to hear a musical conversation between the sisters. One would finish the other’s musical phrases, or echo the other’s phrasing perfectly, sounding at times like a single player.
The sisters returned with an elegant, fluid encore of “Le Jardin Féerique” ("The Fairy Garden"), from Maurice Ravel’s “Ma Mère l’Oye” ("Mother Goose Suite"), for piano four hands (two players at one piano).
The evening ended with 85 orchestral musicians on the stage, an electronic organ in the wings, and a hand-cranked wind machine in the chorus loft for Strauss’s enormous tone poem “Eine Alpensinfonie.”
As is common today, the MSO pared down Strauss’s original roster of 125 players to 85, largely to fit the orchestra on the stage.
Played without pause, the piece depicts a mountain hike Strauss took in his early teens. It opens with a shimmering sunrise, moving to pastoral scenes and a roaring storm (cue the wind machine), before fading to sunset — all depicted by brilliant orchestrations.
The MSO gave a brisk, focused performance filled with colorful string playing, plaintive oboe solos, ringing horn solos and horn section passages, and much more.
The music was beautifully balanced, with the exception of some off-stage brass passages that were largely lost to the onstage sounds. From exquisitely delicate passages to the unbridled roar of the storm, the tone poem was delivered with polish, control, and tremendous musical momentum. It received a shouting, cheering ovation.
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra repeats this program at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave. Visit mso.org or call (414) 291-7605.
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Joseph Hautman's tundra swans artwork has won the 2022 Federal Duck Stamp contest. This is his sixth win.
It's a "sixpeat" for Joseph Hautman of Plymouth, Minnesota.
Hautman won the 2022 Federal Duck Stamp contest with his painting of tundra swans flying over a wetland. The art will be featured on the 2023-24 Federal Duck Stamp.
It's the sixth time Hautman has won the coveted wildlife art competition, a feat equaled only by his brother, Jim Hautman of Chaska, Minnesota.
And together with work by another brother, Robert Hautman of Delano, Minnesota, who has won three times, it further cemented the family's legacy in the field of waterfowl art.
Joseph Hautman's swan painting was selected Sept. 24 by a panel of judges in the annual contest run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The competition included 187 entries.
The judging was originally scheduled to be held in Bismarck, North Dakota, but due to coronavirus restrictions was shifted to USFWS headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.
The proceedings were livestreamed.
More:New surveys highlight broad public support for Recovering America's Wildlife Act
Frank Mittelstadt of Beaver Dam placed second with his acrylic painting of tundra swans and Robert Hautman took third with his acrylic painting of an American wigeon.
The Federal Duck Stamp was established in 1934 to raise funds for the fledgling national wildlife refuge system and help preserve wetlands.
All waterfowl hunters age 16 and older are required to purchase and carry the stamp when hunting. Although hunters buy most of the stamps, some bird watchers, outdoor enthusiasts and philatelists also purchase them.
Since 1934 stamp sales have raised about $1.1 billion and conserved about 6 million acres of habitat for birds and other wildlife, according to the USFWS.
Benefits of the program extend to the general citizenry as properties purchased or protected by stamp revenues are open to the public for recreation.
The USFWS touts the stamp program as an opportunity for all Americans to be "active conservationists." High quality wetlands provide habitat for myriad species, including threatened and endangered plants and animals, and also provide clean water, aid in flood control and reduce the effects of soil erosion and sedimentation. Additionally, they enhance outdoor recreation opportunities which can provide an economic incentive to local communities, according to USFWS.
Holders of a current Federal Duck Stamp receive free admission to any national wildlife refuge that charges an entry fee.
The stamp sells for $25 and raises approximately $40 million each year, according to the USFWS.
In late September the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, chaired by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, approved the allocation of $105 million in grants through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act and funds from the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. The fund is made up partly of Federal Duck Stamp dollars, to support the acquisition of lands from willing sellers for the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Martha Williams, USFWS director, said in a statement the duck stamp contest was one of her "very favorite events of the year."
“I am always impressed with the caliber of the art submitted, and each and every entry reminds us of the beauty of the natural world the Duck Stamp is designed to protect," Williams said. "I encourage everyone to buy a Duck Stamp as it makes a real impact in conserving wetlands habitats for waterfowl and many other wildlife species.”
Participants in the stamp contest can choose to create art featuring one of five waterfowl species. For the 2022 contest, the tundra (whistling) swan, mottled duck, American green-winged teal, American wigeon and Barrow’s goldeneye were eligible species.
On the 187 entries this year, 54 made it to the final round of judging.
The 2022 judges were: Sean Murtha, artist; Richard Houk, philatelist; Marshall Johnson, conservation partner; Paul Schmidt, conservation partner; and Christopher Nicolai, waterfowl biologist and conservation partner.
To view a gallery of all contest entries, visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Flicker page.
Federal Duck Stamps may be purchased at most post offices, many national wildlife refuges, sporting goods stores and other retailers or online.
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Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo shared Friday in an interview that he hears some of the criticism from ex-players through teammates and family but said it doesn't keep him up at night. It just makes him want to work harder.
Criticism from ex-players was just one of the topics discussed on the Sirius XM NBA Radio program "The Starting Lineup." Giannis also provided a little insight into what his family thought of his Disney movie, "Rise," and discussed how he'd like to "disappear" in retirement, expressing his disdain for his popularity he's earned over the last nine seasons in the NBA.
Giannis shared with the show's hosts — NBA writer Frank Isola and former Boston Celtic Brian Scalabrine — that he tries to avoid most social chatter, but he ends up finding out in the locker room or because his longtime partner, Mariah Riddlesprigger, or mother, Veronica Antetokounmpo, will tell him about it.
"People talk in the locker room. My significant other might come to me and tell me did you hear what this guy said about you. Or my mother, she's on Facebook all day. ... She knows everything. You know, she's my number one fan, or stalker I'd say. She's my mom," Giannis joked.
Last season, Giannis was the topic of conversation on NBA talk shows after former player Charles Oakley said that Giannis would be coming off the bench in the '80s or '90s. A couple of days after Oakley's podcast appearance, NBA legend Isiah Thomas blasted Oakley and said Giannis would dominate in the '80s and '90s.
More recently, former NBA player Gilbert Arenas made headlines when he said Giannis wasn't even close to being the best player in the league.
"He doesn't understand basketball yet," Arenas said. "He plays the sport, he won a championship, cool. He doesn't really understand how to be great, how to be better, how to train his body."
Isola and Scalabrine asked Giannis to respond on Friday and of course the two-time MVP took the high road.
"Does it bother me? I'm not going to lie, it makes me want to work harder," Giannis said. "Do I go back home and think about it and I can't sleep? Not necessarily.
"But at the end of the day, hey, I don't know, when I am 45 years old, 50 years old, I might be, you know, a little bit bitter, too. I might be seeing, you know, this 20-year-old making, signing a three-year 900 million. ... Maybe, I don't know, but I don't think so.
Giannis says he'd like to 'disappear' in retirement, asks 'where the hell is Tim Duncan?'
The topic of Giannis in his 40s and 50s came up again in the interview while he addressed his popularity.
The show's hosts asked how his Europe experience was this summer playing for the Greek national team, to which he said he definitely notices his popularity but said he "doesn't like it."
"When I retire from this game I want to disappear. I want to go somewhere that they will not know me. I went to Sweden two years ago and nobody knew me."
Giannis, being the young millennial that he is, made a social media post in the streets of Sweden yelling that nobody knew who he was. "Nobody bothered me, it was fun."
Giannis went on to note how taxing it must be for ultra-famous former NBA players Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, saying "they've retired, but people still, like, know them and follow them ... I don't know if I can do that."
"I want to be like Tim Duncan, where the hell is Tim Duncan? I don't know where Tim Duncan is. I want to play the game and then forget about me."
Giannis says his Disney movie 'Rise' was good but watered down
Giannis' popularity grew exponentially, especially among younger children when Disney released a movie — "Rise" — chronicling his childhood.
He said his real-life experience was much tougher than the Disney film and that his mom was not a fan of the original script.
"They're doing their job, I call it dramatized, fabricate. ... My mom told them from day one, we don't want that. We want our story. ... The true story, it's not kid friendly," Giannis said.
"(Life) was definitely a lot harder. And, there was things we couldn't say. It's very hard to put in a two-hour movie, your whole life. So, we decided together to put as much as we can, things that people can get inspired from. See a little bit a glimpse of our story, and I think they did an unbelievable job."
Giannis said it took multiple Zoom calls, "hours and hours" of conversation to convince his mom to approve the script. "The final piece, it was good. My mom was happy, that's what I care about. My brothers loved it. I think my dad would be extremely proud of the movie."
Giannis added he "cannot wait" for a movie to be released that is "more dark," because that would be more accurate.
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MADISON – Nick Herbig wasn’t happy Saturday afternoon. Far from it.
“I’m pissed off,” he said.
For the second straight week, Wisconsin's junior outside linebacker and his teammates were on the short end of a lopsided score, this time falling to Illinois, 34-10, in front of a crowd of 73,502 at Camp Randall Stadium.
The loss, UW’s third in the last four games, came as the Badgers defense allowed four straight scoring drives to start the second half when Illinois took control of the game. Two covered 70 yards or longer.
This wasn’t the response the Badgers hoped for after being exposed by Ohio State to the tune of 539 yards of total offense on Sept. 24. This time, however, the final score masked a sometimes solid effort by a unit that held Illinois to just 304 yards of offense, about 150 less than its average entering play.
That said, UW gave up seven plays of 15 yards or longer, including two completions of 20-plus yards during a 75-yard touchdown drive to open the second half as well as a 49-yard touchdown run by Chase Brown later in the third quarter that all but sealed the win.
More:Wisconsin fails to respond and the Illini embarrass the Badgers as Bret Bielema returns to Camp Randall Stadium
They were also hit with four pass interference calls.
On a day when the offense struggled mightily, the Badgers’ defense could not save the day.
“I think we just need to play better football,” Herbig said.
The unit will probably have to, in order for Wisconsin to turn around its season. The Badgers offense is struggling running, throwing and blocking, so for the time being, it appears that the defense is the best bet to lead the charge.
What will it take? Herbig, one of the team’s captains, offered his thoughts. Nose tackle Keeanu Benton, the other defensive captain, didn't come to the postgame interview.
“We’ve just got to play assignment football,” Herbig said. “Everyone do their job and we’ll be all right.”
Three times the defense was put in a tough spot after turnovers by the offense or special teams. A Graham Mertz interception by Kendall Smith was returned 19 yards to the UW 16 in the first quarter. Mertz’s second interception, which came in the second quarter, allowed Illinois to take over at the Wisconsin 47. Both of those takeaways led to touchdowns in the first half.
Isaac Guerendo fumbled a kickoff early in the second half that gave Illinois possession at the Badgers 16. This time the defense held Illinois to a field goal, which gave Illinois a 24-10 lead.
Then there were the penalties. Three of the pass interference calls on Wisconsin extended or aided drives that resulted in 17 Illinois points.
Afterward, UW coach Paul Chryst said he wanted to take a closer look at those calls as there often appeared to be physical play by the defensive and offensive players.
Herbig didn’t accept any excuses.
“We’re used to that,” he said when asked if it was difficult to maintain focus and prevent opponents from scoring after calls went against the team. “That’s Wisconsin football. It’s us against the world. It’s been that way. It’s going to continue to be that way, so it doesn’t faze me at all.”
He said he believes in his coaches and teammates and “loves going to war every Saturday with my team.”
“Obviously as a captain you’re assigned to be a leader on this team, and when things don’t go your way you kind of feel you failed, but I’m going to continue to keep doing what I do,” he said. “I’m going to come out and I promise I’m going to swing every single play. I promise my team is going to swing every single play.
“We don’t look at the scoreboard. We don’t listen to people behind us that are sitting in the bleachers. We’re just going to go out there and we’re going to swing.”
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UW officials announced Sunday that Chryst has been removed five games into his eighth season as the Badgers' head coach.
“After a heartfelt and authentic conversation with Coach Chryst about what is in the long-term best interest of our football program, I have concluded that now is the time for a change in leadership,” UW athletic director Chris McIntosh said. “Paul is a man of integrity who loves his players. I have great respect and admiration for Paul and the legacy of him and his family at the University of Wisconsin.
"I think...we've just got to play better."
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Paul Chryst has been fired as Wisconsin Badgers head football coach
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Perhaps the miraculous will happen over the next three days. Maybe, just maybe, the Milwaukee Brewers, who have sleep walked through much of the past four months of the 2022 Major League Baseball season, will awake from their dormancy and sweep their upcoming series with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Perhaps, if the baseball gods so much as decide to smile upon Milwaukee, the Houston Astros will do the same and take all three games against the Philadelphia Phillies.
BOX SCORE:Marlins 4, Brewers 3 (12 innings)
Milwaukee entered Sunday’s series finale with the Miami Marlins with its season on the brink. Its response was uninspiring, lifeless.
Pablo López, a pitcher with a 5.48 earned-run average over his last 13 starts, shut them out over seven two-hit innings. The offense rallied twice against the Marlins before turning back into a shell and squandering multiple opportunities to win the game.
Then again, to lose in this fashion was fitting. The Brewers were presented with every opportunity over the second half of the season to grab hold of the reins and play their way into the postseason. Heck, the Phillies practically even invited them to do as much.
Instead, the 4-3 loss in 12 innings to the Marlins on Sunday at American Family Field all but put the final punctuation mark on the Brewers season.
With the loss, the Brewers moved to 2 games behind the Phillies, who won in Washington. Now, a solitary Milwaukee loss or Philadelphia win over the next three days will end it for good.
It’s a fate that the Brewers earned.
But, in another microcosm of their season, the Brewers were couldn't get over the top. It was as if any time a chance to capitalize presented itself, the team went flat. The sputtering ran amok.
Brewers-Marlins Saturday recap:Devin Williams melts down in ninth as Brewers suffer tough loss to Marlins and fall a full game behind Phillies with four games left
Garrett Mitchell profile:Garrett Mitchell's talent is front and center. His work behind the scenes isn't, but it just helped save the Brewers season.
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Brewers playoff hopes all but dashed after deflating loss to Marlins
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Jim Leonhard will be formally introduced as the interim head football coach of the Wisconsin Badgers later this week. Leonhard is replacing Paul Chryst, who was fired Sunday.
Here's what you should know about Leonhard, currently the team's defensive coordinator.
How old is Jim Leonhard?
He will be 40 on Oct. 27.
Has Leonhard held other coaching jobs prior to Wisconsin?
Leonhard joined the defensive staff at Wisconsin in 2016 as defensive backs coach. He became the defensive coordinator in 2017 after Dave Aranda left UW for the same job at LSU.
In his first season as defensive coordinator, Leonhard was a finalist for the Broyles Award which goes to the top assistant coach in college football.
In 2019, Leonhard’s Badgers defense posted four shutouts and broke the school record for sacks, finishing with 51.
Leonhard was a top candidate to replace Dom Capers as Packers defensive coordinator in the winter of 2021, but he remained at Wisconsin.
From 2017-21, the Badgers finished in the top five nationally in total defense under Leonhard's direction.
Did Leonhard also play at Wisconsin and what were his stats?
Yes. In his sophomore season in 2002, Leonhard, then a walk-on 5-8 safety, led the nation with 11 interceptions (matching a Big Ten record). He finished tied for the most interceptions at Wisconsin with 21 in 39 games, fourth most in NCAA history. He was also a three-time, first-team All-American.
How many teams did Leonhard play for in the NFL?
Despite being undrafted in 2005, Leonhard played for six different teams over 10 seasons in the NFL. He played for the Bills twice, Ravens, Jets, Broncos, Saints and Browns.
Leonhard had his best NFL season with the New York Jets
His best season was with the New York Jets in 2009. He started all 16 games and finished with 66 tackles, one interception, one forced fumble and six passes defended. In 2010, Leonhard played 13 games for the Jets before breaking his fibula. The Jets reached the AFC championship game that season.
He had four of his 14 career interceptions in his return to Buffalo in 2013.
Where did Jim Leonard attend high school?
He was a four-year starter and two-time all-state selection as a safety at Flambeau High School in Tony, Wisconsin. Leonhard also played quarterback.
Who is Leonhard's wife, family?
Leonhard and his wife Kate have three sons.
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First Stage adapts animated TV star 'Arthur' into a world premiere musical
The animated series "Arthur" ended its 25-season run on public television in February (though reruns are still airing).
But Milwaukee fans are luckier than most people. They can enjoy a new "Arthur" story.
First Stage presents the world premiere of "Arthur and Friends Make a Musical!" from Oct. 7 through Nov. 6 at the Marcus Performing Arts Center. Written and composed by John Maclay and Brett Ryback, the new musical was developed not only with "Arthur" creator Marc Brown's permission, but with Brown's active support.
"What I like most of all is seeing Arthur and his friends working together to make something wonderful happen," Brown said in an email response to questions.
Calling their musical "beautifully crafted," Brown gave this endorsement: "When I read a script and lyrics and they make me laugh out loud, that’s a very, very good sign."
Brown has been "an incredible resource, because there's no amount of research in the world that is going to get you to know what he knows," Maclay said.
Brown published his first book in the series, "Arthur's Nose," in 1976. Dozens have followed.
Maclay said the seed of First Stage's new musical comes from Brown's book "Arthur Writes a Story" (1996); Maclay and Ryback turned Arthur's struggle with confidence and the creative process into part of a class project to create and stage a musical. It's a show for anyone who sweats at the prospect of public speaking or performing.
If you're unfamiliar with Arthur, he's a normal anthropomorphic aardvark boy in humble Elwood City. While occasional episodes have addressed big life or social issues, most stories focus on the normal slings and arrows of growing up, going to school and working things out with family members and friends.
"I think Arthur is sort of a glue among his friends," Ryback said. The composer described Arthur as "a supporting character thrust in a leading character position." Ryback believes that situation drives much of the emotional conflict in the Arthur universe, particularly in this new show, as Arthur deals with the pressure of having to write a song and perform it, when he would rather just hand out programs. Meanwhile, he watches his friends — Buster, The Brain, Francine and Muffy — seemingly sail through the creative challenge.
"A big part of what helps Arthur get through is just having him understand that he is enough," Ryback said.
Now, you might not think that kids in First Stage who love to perform, and who auditioned to be in this show, would connect with Arthur's stage fright and writer's block. But Ryback, this production's music director, has been in rehearsal with cast members.
"Arthur's primary immersive emotional journey, which is dealing with his anxiety, was really … personal to all of the children," he said. "That reflected something that they all felt."
Ryback said the one real difference between composing songs for children and for adults is that kids tend to have a smaller best vocal range, a challenge he embraces as a tunesmith who's big on hook and melody. He and Maclay never approach children's theater as dumbing, watering or talking down. We honor the size of their emotions, the size of their conflicts and the size of their wants and dreams, he said.
The "Arthur" animated TV series had some powerful musical moments, including a remarkable 1999 episode featuring both cellist Yo-Yo Ma and jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman. (Arthur imagines these two giants of different genres would fight, but it turns out they love making music together.)
TV episodes began with a theme song performed by Ziggy Marley. In homage, Ryback said he's worked a reggae beat into his opening number.
First Stage performs "Arthur and Friends Make a Musical!" Oct. 7 through Nov. 6 at MPAC's Todd Wehr Theater, 929 N. Water St. First Stage recommends this show for people 5 years and older. Visit firststage.org or call (414) 267-2961.
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Four branches of the Milwaukee Public Library — two each on the city's north and south sides — would face cuts to hours and programming, and the King Library would temporarily close, under a budget proposal now before the Common Council for consideration.
Library officials have not decided which of the 12 branches would lose programming and see a drop in hours. The budget, the first proposed under new Mayor Cavalier Johnson, is to get a vote by the council in early November.
Council members could decide to restore the cuts, or reduce them, by making other adjustments.
In one scenario proposed as a possibility by the library director last week, the Bay View and Zablocki library branches on the south side and the Atkinson and Capitol branches on the north side would see cuts in hours and services.
But Milwaukee Public Library Director Joan Johnson stressed that library officials have not made a final decision and invited other suggestions. The final decision will be made at a future meeting of the Milwaukee Public Library Board of Trustees. The board meets almost every month; its next meeting is 4 p.m. Oct. 25.
The reductions were proposed as a way to help rein in municipal costs that — without major cuts — were projected to outstrip revenues next year.
Library officials had asked the city budget office for $27.7 million next year, enough to keep the libraries running normally, Johnson said. But in the end, they were allotted about $25.8 million in the mayor's proposed budget, or about $1.9 million less.
"This is the biggest cut I have ever seen since I started working here in 2006," Johnson said at a meeting last week of the library's board of trustees.
4 libraries would see reduced services, hours; 33 positions will be eliminated
Because of the cost-cutting, the library will eliminate 33 positions, Johnson said, most of which will simply not be filled when employees leave or retire.
Under the proposal, downsized branches would be open five days of the week instead of six, would limit use of computers and community rooms, and would no longer offer programming, according to a summary of the budget proposal.
They would still offer circulation services, such a checking out books and picking up book holds.
It is unclear which five days of the week the downsized libraries would remain open. The budget proposal says those libraries would eliminate Saturday hours, but some have suggested instead cutting hours on Mondays.
A librarian would be added to three branches, one each on the north side, south side and in the central part of the city, to help provide more outreach to the areas affected by reduced library services.
King Library would close until new building opens
The proposed closure of the King Library branch would be temporary, Budget Director Nik Kovac told the council's Finance Committee last week. He said the closure reflects the construction expected to begin next year of the new King branch building.
However, while in the past the city has created "temporary libraries" as close as possible to a library under construction, that won't be possible with the King branch because of the city's fiscal constraints, he said.
That proposal was not popular with Ald. Milele Coggs, who represents the area where the library is located, or with residents, who expressed their frustration at a town hall meeting last week.
"It is imperative that we invest in our libraries now more than ever," said Coggs, who also serves on the library's board of trustees, in a statement in which she pledged to try to reverse at least some of the cuts.
Other branches, Central library wouldn't change hours
The remaining seven branch libraries would continue to be open Monday through Saturday at their current hours.
The downtown Central library's days and hours of operations would also be unchanged. It's open seven days per week from October through April, and Monday-Saturday at other times of the year.
Libraries had just begun adding back services, hours after pandemic
The proposed cuts come just as the library is fully emerging from the pandemic. Only in June did the library restore hours to all 13 locations and reopen all meeting rooms and public spaces.
During much of the pandemic, the library scaled back hours, put in-person indoor programming on hold and closed off parts of the libraries to the public. To compensate, the library expanded virtual programming, offered curbside pickup for library materials and lent Wi-Fi hotspots and Chromebooks to library users for at-home use.
Cuts are unlikely at the Good Hope and Mitchell Street branch locations, library officials indicated at last week's board meeting, because of the money recently poured into those buildings. Along with the Washington Park Library, they are the largest locations in the library system.
They each also have a maker space, which are collaborative work spaces with specialized equipment, such as 3D printers and laser cutters. The maker spaces are designed to help library users build skills critical to certain industries, such as engineering and design.
No cuts were planned at the Center Street, East or Washington Park library branches because of the expected closure of the nearby King Library, Johnson said.
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Milwaukee libraries could see hours, staff cut under city budget
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A month and a half after state and local leaders fast-tracked key approvals for a new youth prison in Milwaukee, state officials say the location is "not a done deal" and point to opportunities for nearby residents to weigh in over the coming months.
Some residents have said they initially felt blindsided by plans to locate the youth prison near their north side neighborhoods and like their concerns had been sidelined, a situation that state officials hoped to ameliorate through informational meetings with area residents and businesses.
State elected and corrections officials held a public meeting with residents last week and have pointed to future city meetings as opportunities to make their voices heard.
It is unclear how much sway the residents and their concerns will have. Just a few days after Gov. Tony Evers unveiled plans to put the new youth prison at 7930 W. Clinton Ave., the Common Council held a special meeting during its August recess to give an initial green light to the project.
City officials still must approve a zoning change before the project may move forward.
"It's not a done deal because there's a lot of work to be done," said state Department of Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr.
The new facility will be one of the replacements for Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls, the state's long-troubled youth prison north of Wausau that state leaders have been working to close since 2018. It was then that legislation detailing a plan for its closure and the construction of new facilities was adopted.
In front of a crowd of roughly 150 people at last week's meeting, Carr defended plans to put the new youth prison on Milwaukee's north side, and tried to ease safety and economic concerns voiced by neighboring residents.
Supporters of the facility extolled the benefits it could have on Milwaukee County youth and their families, who currently have to travel more than 200 miles to Wisconsin's rural north to visit young people at Lincoln Hills.
Residents opposed to the facility near their homes thought officials should have consulted them before picking the site.
"We knew how hard it is to locate a facility in anyone's community. Most people say, 'Not in my backyard,' " Carr said. "We try to do things in the best, most inclusive way possible."
Opponents outnumbered supporters at meeting
At least 74 people at last week's meeting, which was hosted by state Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, were in opposition to the youth prison being located near them, according to numbers provided by Michelle Bryant, Taylor's chief of staff. The meeting was held at the Abundant Faith Church of Integrity, which borders the Clinton site.
"Everything on the north side is going downhill," said Carolyn Allen, who read off a list of businesses, including Northtown Cinema and the Northridge Mall, that had closed in the last 20 years or so. "We have enough problems."
Tresha Lovell pointed to the same "decline" and said she didn't believe a youth prison would help to "turn this area around."
State lawmakers promised in 2018 to close Lincoln Hills and replace it with smaller, regional facilities around the state. The new facilities have been delayed for years, in part due to underfunding and earlier disputes over where to locate them.
When a bipartisan group of lawmakers passed $42 million in funding for a Milwaukee County facility earlier this year, the question became where the youth prison would be located.
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Supporters of the new facility who were at last week's meeting included members of Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing, or EXPO, and the Felmers Chaney Advocacy Board, a group of private citizens who worked with corrections officials to identify the Clinton site.
Dante Cottingham, who was invited by the meeting organizers to speak, was confined at Lincoln Hills as a young teenager in the 1990s. He went on to spend more than 20 years in prison for a later homicide conviction. It could have been different, he said, if the workers at Lincoln Hills had been able to connect with him and redirect his path.
"They didn't have people there that looked like me," said Cottingham, who now works with EXPO and is a peer specialist. "The people that were there, they didn't understand me."
Corrections officials hope that by having the facility in Milwaukee, they will be able to hire workers and recruit volunteers who can easily relate to the youth at Lincoln Hills, most of whom are Black and from Milwaukee County.
Davina Jones also has a personal connection to the issue. Her nephew was held at Lincoln Hills for three years, and to visit, she had to take a four-hour bus ride to see him for two hours. She supports the new facility because it would mean families could support their children during their rehabilitation.
"I keep hearing, 'Not my backyard, not my backyard.' This facility is going to be in somebody’s backyard," she said. "This is bigger than each individual person here."
Officials say visitors will be vetted, releases will be minimal and done securely
Residents at the meeting expressed concerns the facility would make their neighborhoods less safe, bring more crime to the area and become a draw for lawbreakers. Opponents pointed to increases in crime in the area, and wondered whether other neighborhoods, say on the south side, were considered.
Beverly Wilson was not necessarily opposed to the facility but had concerns. She was worried about senior citizens like herself who are often the targets of robbery and assaults.
"The questions that I have are, are we sure this is going to be a secure facility?" she said. "We don't want anyone hanging around that could possibly cause us harm."
Carr, the corrections secretary, said he takes public safety very seriously and pointed out that some prisons across the state, including the maximum-security prison Waupun Correctional Institution, are right next to houses and residential areas.
"We make extremely good neighbors," he said.
The 32-bed youth facility would be secured, and would be staffed with over 70 correctional officers, said Lance Horozewski, assistant administrator of the DOC Division of Juvenile Corrections.
Visitation is done on a scheduled basis, and visitors go through a vetting process, he said.
"Not everyone can come and visit you," Horozewski said.
Given the facility's small size, releases would not occur often, likely only once or twice per month, he said. When released, young people would either be picked up by their family members or would be taken in a secure way to their next destination, whether that be their home, a group home or another correctional facility, he said.
"We're not going to give somebody a bus ticket and then kick them out the door and let them wander around," Carr said.
The facility will not look like a typical prison, Carr said. Officials hope to make the facility feel more welcoming and more conducive to the schooling, counseling and other services that will take place there.
The issue will go before the City Plan Commission and the Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee, and then before the Common Council for a vote on a zoning change. No public hearing has been scheduled yet on the issue before the Plan Commission.
Reporters Tom Daykin and Alison Dirr, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff, contributed to this report.
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Milwaukee residents blindsided by plans for youth prison air concerns
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MADISON – This was the definition of bittersweet.
Sunday evening Jim Leonhard was handed a golden opportunity when he was named the interim coach of the University of Wisconsin football program. But in order to get the job, the man who gave him his start in the business had to be fired.
The gratitude and respect the 39-year-old has for Paul Chryst runs deep. It was Chryst who gave Leonhard his first coaching job and then a year later made him defensive coordinator despite his lack of experience.
And it was Chryst, who even after he was relieved of his duties, continued to support his protégé, something Leonhard said the former coach did when he was allowed to meet with the team one final time Sunday evening.
“He has a ton of confidence in me,” Leonhard said during a press conference Sunday night at Camp Randall Stadium. “He made that clear when he hired me and he made that clear today in his message.”
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Leonhard takes over a team that is 2-3 overall with an 0-2 mark in the Big Ten. UW has lost three of its last four contests with the average margin of defeat 27.5 points against the Big Ten.
Leonhard said the best way to honor Chryst is to meet the expectations that he set for the team this season.
Part of the initial challenge of helping the team reach those marks will be to help the players deal with the emotion of losing their coach. Co-captain Nick Herbig and running back Braelon Allen were among those who issued emotional tweets about the change.
“The majority of these players, a huge determining factor in them coming to Wisconsin is Coach Chryst, so they’re very shaken with the news,” Leonhard said. “We understand that our five-game resume is not what we wanted.
"We have not been playing up to our capabilities and even before this news there were some hard conversations that were had today between coaches, players, among the staff on how do we get it corrected.”
Leonhard’s rise to the interim head coaching role started 21 years ago when he arrived on campus as a walk-on from Flambeau. When he was done, he was three-time All-American who would go on to play 10 seasons in the NFL despite being an undrafted player.
At Wisconsin, his defenses have ranked in the top five of scoring and total defense five times in the five-plus seasons he has served as defensive coordinator. He turned down several opportunities to leave UW over the years. Last year, the Green Bay Packers approached him about its defensive coordinator job.
“I feel like I can take this opportunity and help this place grow and that is why I came back a number of years ago,” he said. “That is why I haven’t left and that is the mission I want to continue forward with our guys.”
Leonard’s arrival on campus came two years after UW Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh wrapped up his All-American career with the Badgers.
“I don’t know if I can’t say anything about Jim that hasn’t already been well documented throughout the years,” McIntosh said. “Obviously the fit Jim brings to this program, his competitiveness, his work ethic. Those are all gimmies. Clearly his ability to lead and his ability to teach. We’re fortunate to have Jimmy on staff (and) that we’re in a position that we can trust this level of responsibility an leadership to someone like Jimmy.”
Getting Wisconsin football back to its winning ways is Job 1 for Leonhard, but to make that happen there are some staff decisions he’ll have to make. Will he continue to coordinate the defense and if he does, will he call plays on gameday?
Handling the coordinator and head coach roles together isn’t impossible. Before taking on a CEO role this season, Chryst was the offensive coordinator.
If Leonhard does pass off any of his coordinator duties, Bobby April, who is the second-longest tenured defensive coach and serves as the team’s run-game coordinator, could be called upon to help. Inside linebackers coach Mark D’Onofrio, who is in his first season at UW, was a defensive coordinator at Temple, Miami and Houston.
Nothing has been settled yet.
“We’re working through a lot of possible situations,” Leonhard said. “Obviously I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure the defensive plan is exactly where it needs to be for this week whether I’m calling it or handing off the responsibilities on game day. We’re not there yet.”
McIntosh said he plans to have a national search for a coach before making a permanent hire, but Leonhard has plenty of time to prove he is the right person for the job.
Wisconsin is about to hit the meat of its West Division schedule in the Big Ten. The Badgers are 0-1 in division games and have seven games remaining in the regular season.
“It’s a very emotional day for myself. With that being said, (it’s a) dream for myself coming out of that nightmare and I want to respect (Chryst) and his family in all ways,” Leonhard said.
“This place means a ton to myself and it means so much to everyone who is committed to being here with the athletic department, the players, the faculty and the coaching staff. We want more, we want better and that’s my goal, to help get us in that direction in a unique time.”
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A midcentury home with panoramic views overlooking Lake Michigan is listed for sale for $2.15 million in Fox Point.
Designed by renowned architect Russell Barr Williamson, the home, at 6810 N. Barnett Lane, features more than 5,000 square feet with an updated open floor plan, according to First Weber Realtors.
Built in 1959, the home features walls of windows providing stunning views of Lake Michigan. Included in the home are five bedrooms, four full bathrooms and one half bathroom. The primary suite on the first floor was redesigned in 2012 with custom tilework and a professional closet system.
Taxes for the home were $44,473 in 2021. The homeowners are selling due to relocation after originally purchasing it in 2017, said Lauren Siegel of First Weber Relators.
"This is a one-of-a-kind Russell Barr Williamson," Siegel said. "It's truly a piece of artwork."
A kitchen renovation in 2004 included the removal of some walls to enhance the lake views and the addition of custom cabinetry.
All full bathrooms were also completely remodeled, including new flooring, vanities and showers in 2012.
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On the exterior of the home are stonework and pecky cypress, a rot-resistant wood, that was stripped down to new condition and restained.
Williamson started his career with Frank Lloyd Wright. He spent the first two decades of his career designing homes along Lake Drive in Whitefish Bay. By the 1950s, he had turned to a midcentury modern design.
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Fox Point home listed at $2.15 million features stunning lake views
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Reba McEntire isn't done with Wisconsin.
After playing the Resch Center in Green Bay earlier this year as part of her postponed "Reba: Live in Concert" tour, the country legend has added 14 shows in 2023, and Milwaukee is one of the stops.
She'll be at Fiserv Forum March 17, with Terri Clark and the Issacs opening.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the box office (1111 N. Phillips Ave.) and fiservforum.com. Prices have yet to be announced. Members of Reba McEntire's official fan club and Citi cardmembers can access presales beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
McEntire has amassed so many hits it's unlikely she can get to all of them; she recently scored her 60th Top 10 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart. Currently, she's a regular on the third season of "Big Sky" on ABC, and is releasing "Reba: The Ultimate Christmas Collection" this month.
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Reba McEntire concert coming to Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum
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Long before famed anthem singer Jim Cornelison hit the first note of “The Star-Spangled Banner” from the Fiserv Forum ice, it was abundantly clear Milwaukee had opened its arms, heart and wallet to the National Hockey League.
Tickets to Sunday’s preseason game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild went on sale Aug. 5 and were gone within minutes. Fans who gathered in the Deer District outside the arena for the city’s first taste of major league hockey in nearly 30 years got the party rolling early.
Two hours before the game, people in Blackhawks gear were lined up 75 deep at the Bucks Pro Shop trailer to buy more Blackhawks gear. Wild fans walked proudly among them. The Avalanche, Bruins, Canucks, Capitals, Ducks, Golden Knights, Maple Leafs and Predators were all represented, as were a handful of college, minor-league, high school and youth teams.
“We shouldn’t have been surprised,” Jaime Faulkner, the Blackhawks president of business operations, said of the interest in the game. “One of the reasons we chose to come here is because we knew we had a great fan base, a great hockey fan base here and a great Blackhawks fan base in Milwaukee. We shouldn’t have been surprised, but we were instantly thrilled when it sold out the way it did.”
What’s still a little surprising was where the tickets were sold. More than 80% of orders came from buyers with Wisconsin ZIP codes and just 7% from Illinois, she said.
“Obviously a lot of Blackhawks fans live in Wisconsin,” said Joyann McChesney, who came to the game with her husband Tim. Transplanted from Minnesota, where they were North Stars and Wild season ticketholders, the McChesneys live in Delafield now. They got their tickets through Tim’s work.
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“It’s probably people from Chicago who live here (who bought tickets). I bet it’s transplants. The people we talked to on the elevator, they live here but they were Chicago fans … and they still let us on the elevator.”
She was joking, of course, and they didn’t have to hide their shirts to leave after the Wild scored a 3-0 victory over the rebuilding Blackhawks. Connor Dewar had a goal and an assist, and veteran goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 12 shots.
A Chicago experience in Milwaukee
Out-of-market fans got a solid exhibition version of the United Center experience, with Cornelison’s rousing anthem accompanied by the crowd’s roar, plenty of “Let’s go, ’Hawks” chants and Chicago hosts handling the in-game entertainment during stoppages.
The host Milwaukee Bucks put their stamp on the night with Deer District entertainment and DJ Shawna and mascot Bango working up the crowd.
The Blackhawks did offer some Wisconsin-specific touches too, with images of state sports legends Bob Uecker, J.J. Watt and Don Majkowski making appearances on the scoreboard screen and spectators having the opportunity to cheer the Green Bay Packers and jeer Illinois drivers.
“Everything here was great,” said Wild forward Frederick Gaudreau, who became a favorite of Milwaukee Admirals fans over parts of five seasons in the American Hockey League. “That’s where it all started in the U.S. when I became a pro. I’ve said it before, but I have a big place in my heart for this town, the Admirals, so it’s fun to come back and see them.”
The game had a handful of other Wisconsin connections mostly on the Wild side. The team is owned by Racine native Craig Leopold and coached by Dean Evason, who spent six seasons behind the Admirals bench. Blackhawks forward Colin Blackwell met his fiancée while playing with the Admirals and spends his offseason in Wisconsin.
More hockey for Fiserv Forum?
Although ice wasn’t a primary feature of Fiserv construction before it opened in 2018, hockey was always in the plans.
Last winter, the building hosted the four-team Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off college showcase, in which Wisconsin beat Providence for the title. The initial contract calls for two more years, with the next tournament set for Dec. 28-29.
“For us, we built Fiserv to be extremely flexible, knowing we wanted the dimensions and an ice floor for an NHL rink, an NCAA rink, we wanted to do ice shows,” Peter Feigin, president of the Bucks and Fiserv Forum, said a night earlier. “The ability for it to come to fruition is great.
“So, we’ve done college hockey, Division I college hockey before, and I think now it’s just improve the product. Now that you have it, how can we expand it? And for us, there’s another little market on the event side of more high school and college hockey once we have the ice down. We think this all should be a catalyst for growth.”
Feigin and Faulkner both cautioned hockey fans, though, not to get ahead of themselves.
Sunday night was a single preseason game that could lead to more like it and more hockey, in general. But nothing more.
“I do not think there’s a plan in the Bucks’, Fiserv’s or the NHL’s future in Milwaukee expansion,” Feigin said. “This is an unbelievable leap forward and it’s great and we’re leveraging it in such a great way. But this is not step one to get an NHL team.”
Said Faulkner: “I don’t think it would happen, quite honestly. I don’t think that those plans are on the horizon, but I’m not the league.”
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The notion of an annual exhibition – or even one every few years – sounded like a good idea to the McChesneys and other fans who spoke as they waited for the building to open.
“Absolutely,” said Carly Wallace, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and lives in Big Bend. “We hope they do this every year, and we hope the Hawks play here every year.”
She was wearing a No. 88 Patrick Kane jersey she’s owned for 14 years – half her life – and her husband, Chris, was wearing Jonathan Toews’ No. 19. They picked up their tickets in the secondary market but didn’t overpay, she said.
“We still make our way down to Chicago to see games,” Carly Wallace said. “We’ve traveled abroad to see the ’Hawks play. So we’re hardcore.”
And then there was Bob Modlinski, wearing a No. 9 Filip Forsberg Nashville Predators jersey, shorts and sandals watching the Green Bay Packers game outside the Mecca Sports Bar and Grill, waiting with three friends. They were able to get tickets in the front row of the upper deck when they went on sale.
If there are more exhibition NHL games at Fiserv Forum, Modlinski would plan to continue to attend them. He’d just prefer to see a different team.
“First and foremost I do love hockey and I despise the Blackhawks and love the Nashville Predators,” said Modlinski, who lives in the Bay View neighborhood. “I really would like more people to know that the Nashville Predators really are Milwaukee’s team.”
The Milwaukee Admirals are the Predators’ American Hockey League affiliate.
“There’s many big names that get called up and play for the Predators in the NHL and played in Milwaukee here,” Modlinski said. “It’s just like seeing these guys in our backyard.”
Count Admirals owner Harris Turer among those in attendance. His first goal was to watch the game as a fan, his second to catch up with Wild head coach Dean Evason and forward Frederick Gaudreau, both friends from their time in Milwaukee.
Turer said he was happy to have the NHL in town, if only for one night, as well as the college showcase over the holidays. The events are complementary to the Admirals, he said, more than competition for the sport fan’s dollar.
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“Just in general anytime hockey happens and gets attention, that’s good for us,” said Turer, whose team plays at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena a block south of Fiserv.
“People are paying attention to the game. We’re the hockey team in town, so if there’s an event here, even though we’re not playing, anytime hockey is played in the community it brings attention and that’s positive.”
Milwaukee's NHL past and future
Turer made the Arena the Admirals’ home even before the Bradley Center closed and has never second-guessed that move but did like what he saw happening with hockey at the new building.
“Would I, down the road, ever like to talk to Peter Feigin and the Bucks about us ever playing a game at the Fiserv? Sure,” Turer said. “That would be something I’d like to explore down the road. But us playing there on an everyday basis? We belong at the Arena.”
Sunday’s game was the 12th NHL game in Milwaukee, and the first since 1999, when Nashville and St. Louis played to a 2-2 tie at the Bradley Center.
Fiserv replaced the Bradley Center, which was built with hockey in mind with seed money from then-Admirals owners Jane and Lloyd Pettit, who hoped to lure an NHL franchise. The Pettits backed out, though, when presented with a $50 million expansion fee for a team that wouldn’t be competitive for years to come. Included was a payment to the Blackhawks because of the proximity of the new franchise to Chicago.
The Bradley Center opened in October 1988 – with a Blackhawks-Oilers exhibition game – and continued operation through July 2018.
Four years later, big-time hockey came to Fiserv and by all accounts succeeded in a big way, leaving a couple of questions. Was Sunday just a flash of interest generated by pent-up demand? Or was it an indication Milwaukee has an appetite for annual visits by the NHL?
“It’s a great question,” Faulkner said. “We will have to work with the Bucks to see if this is something we can do again. But given what I’m seeing out here already and how fans started showing up … I got here at 1 o’clock, the fans were already showing up. They were sitting in the bars and people walking around in jerseys. There were a lot of people that couldn’t get tickets to the event.
“I know we have a lot more fans up here than helped us bring it to the arena, so I think we could bring fans out again if we bring the Blackhawks back here.”
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New bar, restaurant La Pina plans to take over Triskele's space on Milwaukee's south side
A new restaurant and bar named La Pina is looking to take over Triskele's space at 1801 S. Third St.
The new concept, owned by Patrick Todd, is planning to make 80% of its sales off alcohol and 20% food, according to a tavern license application filed with the city of Milwaukee.
Triskele's put itself up for sale earlier this year, asking $295,000 to sell its turnkey restaurant operation. According to the license application, Todd will pay $245,000 for the business.
The 1,500-square-foot space at West Maple and South Third Streets has capacity for 72 customers and is looking to open Nov. 1.
In the application, Todd noted that DJs and live music could come to La Pina. Other details were not immediately available.
Co-owners JoLinda Klopp and Lynn Winter opened Triskele's in 2008. It has been serving curbside pickup and delivery by third-party apps recently, according to its website.
Winter confirmed that Triskele's was in the process of selling but did not want to comment further as the sale had not closed yet.
Todd did not return requests for an interview.
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New Milwaukee bar La Pina plans to open near Milwaukee Walker's Point
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There's not much you can count on in this world, but there's at least one constant: the Harlem Globetrotters playing in Milwaukee on New Year's Eve.
As they have for nearly every year over the past half-century (well, except 2020 — thanks, COVID), the Globetrotters will take the court at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum at 1 and 6 p.m. Dec. 31, the venue announced Monday.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Oct. 17. Prices weren't immediately available.
In their 96th year, the Globetrotters are a national treasure. Last week, NBC launched a series celebrating the team, its traditions and its impact called "Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward." It airs on Saturdays at 10 a.m., locally on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
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Residents voiced strong opposition to the Hartland-Lakeside School Board president nominating his son for the Hartland Library Board at the Village Board meeting Sept. 26.
About 25 residents packed Village Hall to share their concerns about School Board President Tom Harter nominating his son, Joseph Harter, to a Library Board position that was thought to have been filled by Michele Plank, a Hartland-Lakeside kindergarten teacher who has held the position since 2011.
There are seven seats on the Library Board. Most are picked by the village board and the county, but one is picked by the school board president and must be approved by the village board. Despite Plank serving in the role for more than a decade, her initial three-year term was never reappointed, which appears to have been an oversight.
"I thought that because it said superintendent and superintendent’s designee, the superintendent sends someone to sit on the Library Board, and it’s always worked," said Village President Jeffrey Pfannerstill. "In looking into some of the other things in the library, was when I found out all of a sudden that you need three-year terms, and I realized it’s all under honest mistakes, but we weren’t doing it right and to make it official, it needs to go through the board."
Having learned this, Tom Harter brought his son's name forward at the School Board meeting Sept. 19. Consequently, members of the community began sending emails to their trustees and the village president to ask them to decline the nomination.
After more than an hourlong discussion, the nomination was denied and the issue sent back to the School Board. But residents still have concerns.
Why residents were against the nomination
The main issues brought forward from residents were concerns about nepotism, lack of qualifications and the replacement of Plank on the board after 11 years of service.
The current term for the role Plank might not technically have but has been serving is April 2023. She'd have to be reappointed then.
"This seems to me to be the definition of nepotism," Courtney Marshalek, a Hartland resident, told the board. "Appointing an unqualified son to a position that has dozens of more qualified candidates. Who is best served by this nomination: Hartland, or the Harter family?"
Others questioned Joseph Harter's background and whether he has time for the role.
Tom Harter said his son is a third-year medical student, had previously served on the Arrowhead principal’s cabinet to interview prospective replacements, was on a pre-med honors society executive board at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has visited the contiguous 48 states and has done some international travel.
"I think he is eminently qualified ... and I would appreciate your support very much," Tom Harter said.
However, residents were not totally sold.
"When I had heard Tom had nominated his son, I was upset. I was disgusted," said Pat Nelson, who served on the Hartland-Lakeside School Board for four years. "I thought it was shameful. Unfortunately, I was not surprised. It seemed like the kind of thing Tom would do.
"I think we have a lot of qualified people in the district who would be great in this position ... I think Tom just nominated his son and that is nepotism.”
After Pfannerstill explained the legality questions that illuminated the possible vacancy, the board discussed the topic briefly, stating that they would like to see another candidate put forward and have these discussions at the school board level.
"I’m not real happy with some of this that’s come up," said Trustee Ann Wallschlager. "I was surprised when it all came through. There were no papers on anything, so I’m not comfortable with it. I will say that, and from what I know of the library and the board, they’ve done a great job and it’s fabulous ... I think with all of the resources we have and the whole community that I think there would be someone more qualified and better for this position."
Pfannerstill echoed those comments.
"It sounds like the school needs to figure it out," Pfannerstill said. "I don’t think that this is the battlefield for this fight. I really don’t."
In the end, the board voted, 5-1, to deny the nomination, with Pfannerstill casting the lone no vote, clarifying after that he did so "only because I think it should go back. I think the board should be more informed, and they should be able to know what is going on."
The decision now goes back to the School Board to pick another name to bring to the village board.
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A 3-year effort to force the former Northridge Mall's demolition, paving the way for that site's eventual redevelopment, is back on track.
A three-year effort to force the former Northridge Mall's demolition, paving the way for that site's eventual redevelopment, is back on track.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William Sosnay on Monday granted the City of Milwaukee's request to enforce a raze order issued in 2019 against the dilapidated shopping mall.
Sosnay also agreed to a city request for sanctions totaling $109,000 against property owner U.S. Black Spruce Enterprises Inc. for failing to secure Northridge.
It isn't clear when the former mall on Milwaukee's far northwest side would be razed.
That work could cost the city millions of dollars if Black Spruce walks away from the property, with the city obtaining it through foreclosure.
Black Spruce representatives declined to answer questions, including whether it might appeal Sosnay's decision.
"The evidence in the record is overwhelming," Sosnay said.
Arson, trespassing problems
The judge ruled after hearing testimony from city officials, include Fire Chief Aaron Lipski, about Northridge's state of disrepair as well as its lack of barriers to trespassers entering the building.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William Pocan in 2020 dismissed the Black Spruce's lawsuit challenging the city raze order.
The company failed to keep Northridge in compliance with building codes, and evidence shows the deteriorating 900,000-square-foot mall has "significant safety and environmental hazards," Pocan wrote in his decision.
The ruling also cited the company's lack of solid redevelopment plans for Northridge, and called its proposal "more of a vision at this point."
Even under that more limited scope, the estimated repairs cost still meets the state's standard for a raze order, Sosnay said Monday.
Black Spruce attorney Christopher Kloth, in his questioning of Bolger, tried to show that the city's costs estimates were too high.
Owner claims plans are underway
Also, Li Yang, Black Spruce executive director, testified her company was finalizing plans to secure Northridge.
That would be done in part by installing outdoor cameras that could be used to monitor Northridge's entrances 24 hours a day, Yang said.
Yang, who lives in Vancouver, Canada, said Northridge is Black Spruce's only U.S. property.
She said Black Spruce's shareholders, who live in China, own hotels and other properties in China and Southeast Asia.
Black Spruce says it wants to create a trade mart for Chinese companies to sell clothing, toys, furniture and other items to U.S. retailers.
Yang said $8 million has been spent at the property on maintenance, repairs, design, legal fees, local contractors and property tax payments.
However, Yang also said the company stopped making property tax payments in 2019 after the raze order was issued.
Sosnay's ruling included a requirement that Black Spruce pay $109,000 to the city —most of that from a $2,000 daily fine dating to Aug. 19 for not properly securing the mall.
That amount also includes around $17,000 for police and fire personnel costs from responding to service calls.
Sosnay said that fine will continue to grow by $2,000 daily until Northridge is secured. He cited the danger to both first responders and the public.
"This is something that should not go any further," Sosnay said.
"I will use all the resources I have to get you to do what the court has ordered," he said.
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Eric Toney, Wisconsin's Republican candidate for attorney general, said he wouldn't rule out using Department of Justice resources to prosecute abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.
During an interview on WKOW 27 Sunday, Toney said he would look at each case individually but reiterated he would defend abortion laws passed by the GOP-run state Legislature.
Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit in June arguing a 1985 law allowing abortions up to the point of a fetus' viability supersedes Wisconsin's 1849 criminal abortion ban.
The 1849 ban, which originated 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.
"I've sat across from survivors of sexual assault that have gone through that trauma, and I understand it doesn't go away after a month, or a year; it can last with them forever," Toney, the district attorney in Fond du Lac County, said during an appearance WKOW 27's Capital City Sunday show.
"We need to make sure we are supporting them, that they have those resources available to them, and we take things on a case-by-case basis. We don't pre-judge things and say, 'We're gonna always do this or always do that."
The Toney campaign did not immediately respond to a request Monday for additional comment.
With five weeks to go before the Nov. 8 general election abortion is a key issue for Democrats, while Republicans have made crime their main focus.
The most recent Marquette University Law School Poll showed 28% of Republicans and 62% of independents opposed the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Overall, 60% of poll respondents opposed the decision.
In the same poll, 79% of Republicans said they believe Wisconsin should allow a woman to obtain a legal abortion if she became pregnant as the result of rape or incest.
Incumbent Kaul also appeared on WKOW's Capitol City show where he said even if the state's 1849 criminal abortion ban is upheld, he would not use DOJ resources to investigate or prosecute abortions.
"We've got limited resources at DOJ," said Kaul, repeating a statement he made after the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v. Wade. "We investigate and prosecute the most serious crimes in the state of Wisconsin, and to shift those resources to going after doctors, nurses, or even somebody who drove a family member to a clinic to obtain an abortion? That would be a huge misuse of DOJ resources."
In response to Toney's appearance, Kaul campaign spokesman Joe Oslund called Toney's stance extreme.
“Eric Toney continues to double down on his promise to divert critical DOJ resources away from public safety to instead investigate doctors and nurses for abortions, even in cases of rape or incest," Oslund said. "Eric Toney harbors an extreme vision of Wisconsin in which women, including survivors of sexual assault, are denied reproductive freedom."
Kaul previously criticized Toneyfor his stance on devoting DOJ personnel to enforcing the 1849 law.
"I will enforce the law as passed by our legislature. If they pass additional exceptions, I will defend them as the Attorney General," he said earlier. "Whether it agrees with my personal pro-life beliefs or not, because I'm going to enforce the rule of law."
Last week, Gov. Tony Evers asked lawmakers to call a special session to take up a constitutional amendment allowing a statewide referendum on abortion. Republicans immediately rejected it.
Toney receives endorsements from pro-life groups
Toney was endorsed by Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America Friday, which has called for a national abortion ban. President Marjorie Dannenfelser said she believes that rape exceptions are “abominable.”
Toney has been endorsed by Wisconsin Right to Life, but not Pro-Life Wisconsin. Pro-Life Wisconsin is not endorsing in the governor's race or the attorney general's race.
In the primary election, Pro-Life Wisconsin endorsed Karen Mueller for attorney general and Timothy Ramthun for governor, despite Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels donating money to the organization.
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Tony Evers says he'll boost funding by $105 million to bolster public safety
MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers is proposing a $105 million plan aimed at boosting funding for public safety efforts in local municipalities as he enters the last month of a reelection race focused on crime.
The Democratic incumbent on Monday released details of a two-year state budget plan he would propose if he returns to the governor's office in 2023, calling for an 8% increase to a funding stream local government officials could use to pay for essential services, amounting to a boost of $91.4 million.
Evers also said he would propose an additional $10 million in funding for public safety costs that would be distributed using a formula relying on a community's population, and $3.5 million in federal funds largely to pay for State Patrol officers' overtime costs.
"Time and again, I’ve worked to increase funding for shared revenue to help local governments fund important services, including our local police officers, firefighters, and EMS providers, and time and again, the Republicans in the Legislature have refused,” Evers said in a statement.
“For the last decade, Republicans have forced communities and local partners to do more with less as costs for public services have gone up while state aid has been cut or held flat."
Shared revenue funding has been held flat since 2012 and has dropped by 18% since 2001, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Groups representing local government officials praised the proposal.
“At a time of rising inflation and increased demand for services, local governments require additional state resources in order to maintain infrastructure, public safety investments, and human and social services. Public safety in particular has become increasingly difficult to support though current revenues, though specific needs vary across the state," The Wisconsin Counties Association, the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, and the Wisconsin Towns Association said in a joint statement.
"With insufficient funding for fire protection, EMS, and law enforcement services, every corner of the state is in need of assistance."
Tim Michels, Evers' Republican challenger, has said he would work with lawmakers to increase funding to municipalities to increase the number of sworn officers in police departments. In August, Michels said he would prioritize public safety.
"I understand the top line, which in government's case is tax revenue. I certainly understand the middle line, which is all cost. We need to look at all of the lines, top line, middle line and the bottom line. But I'll tell you what, if there are more monies available for local communities, at the very top of the list will be the safety of people, the safety of families and the safety of property," Michels said during a press conference on Aug. 23.
Evers' proposal comes two weeks after Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson blamed the stagnant state funding levels for proposals he is making to cut police, firefighters and libraries in order to stabilize the city's finances.
Under Johnson's proposal, the police force would drop by 17 officers to 1,640, even as spending on police would increase by more than $20 million.
On Monday, Johnson said Evers’ proposal is “absolutely great” for Milwaukee.
“We need more resources at the city,” he said. “Now, does it do the trick? Does it close the gap? No, but it is absolutely, absolutely a step in the right direction, and we need to continue to explore this avenue for the sake of the city, for the sake of the county, for the sake of other local governments across the state.”
He said the cuts he has proposed to fire and police in the 2023 budget show the city’s need for more funding for those two public services.
Rep. Mark Born, Republican co-chairman of the Legislature's budget-writing committee, said to focus on public safety, Evers should dedicate more funding specifically for crime instead of boosting funding local officials may use for any purpose.
"This is another disingenuous election year stunt to convince voters that law enforcement is a priority for Governor Evers," Born said.
Alison Dirr of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed this report.
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The Bucks were scheduled to leave Milwaukee following practice Monday on a 16-hour plane trip to Abu Dhabi, and they will play the Hawks at 11 a.m. (Central) Thursday and Saturday. They are scheduled to return home after that game.
At least one practice will be open, and the team will be involved in various outreach and public relations events. NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Bucks president Peter Feigin have addressed concerns over the league and team’s presence in the country, as the United States Department of State has noted has “significant human rights issues” and has criminalized the LGBTQ+ community.
Bucks see platform to promote equality for women, LGBTQ+
“For us we stand firmly with the league and Adam, the NBA (but) we have made no secrets and we’ve kind of taken the leading stance — as I think the Atlanta Hawks have — on supporting and advancing rights,” Feigin told the Journal Sentinel shortly after the games were announced. “Whether they be women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and unwavering for our values which are equality and respect and freedom of expression. So we take those with us everywhere we go.
"I think that’s kind of our value proposition is this gives us a platform where we certainly remain the NBA/Milwaukee Bucks and we will always have a commitment to supporting and advancing rights and values of equality and respect.”
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As for the trip itself, the preseason scheduling is a departure for the Bucks since Giannis Antetokounmpo began his rise to superstardom. The team was part of the first regular-season game to tip off in Paris (2020) and played in London (2015), but the organization preferred to not go through another trip for games that counted this season.
Though this trip is long, Bucks co-owner Jamie Dinan said the entire ownership group is headed over, along with some sponsors, and head coach Mike Budenholzer said he was surprised to hear near-unanimous support from his staff and players on the trip.
Bringing basketball to the Middle East
“I think it’s a huge opportunity for the organization to be the first NBA games played in the Middle East,” Bucks co-owner Wes Edens said. “I have a lot friends in the region, have done a lot of business over there over the years. I can tell you the excitement that the region has about us and the Hawks going in there is tremendous.
“I think it’s a great opportunity for our players to see a side of the world they naturally wouldn’t see otherwise. Of all the different activities we’ve had as an organization, I think without question this is the thing that the organization has been most excited about. So it’s going to be cool.
"It’s a long ways to go, right? A 16-hour flight from here. Different side of the world. There’s obviously lots going on geo-politically in the world and it makes (us) a lot more sensitive to that. For us, it’s great chance for us to show the brand of the Bucks and the NBA and we feel blessed to be picked to it and we’re really excited about it.”
Added Antetokounmpo: “I’m very excited. First of all, I’m excited always for our global game, just going to different parts of the world and playing for fans that love the game. There are so many people that love the game outside the U.S. Just being able to showcase our talent and what we do and just sharing the excitement of the NBA with them is always a great feeling.
“I’m excited to go and take my family with me. I’ve never been before. I’m excited to explore the city. I’m excited to play the games with my teammates.”
As Antetokounmpo noted, the Bucks are having family accompany players as well, and second-year player Sandro Mamukelashvili said members of his family still in Georgia are planning to make the trip to see him play. And for a veteran team with 16 players on the 20-person training camp roster having been on the team a year ago, it’s a different way to build team chemistry.
“I think it’s good, the more time we spend together in the preseason, as a coach it’s trying to create some bonds and some togetherness and things like that,” Budenholzer said. “Doing trips like this help. Just learning and growing and experiencing another culture and learning about the world, I think all those things, although they don’t feel like basketball, we do feel like they go into us becoming a closer, more together team.”
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Milwaukee Bucks take preseason trip to Abu Dhabi vs. Atlanta Hawks
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The Milwaukee Brewers have to turn the page after a disastrous weekend series to keep their frail postseason hopes alive.
To do so, it will have to do so with a pieced-together bullpen.
"Just how we’re approaching it today, we have a bunch of question marks,” manager Craig Counsell said before Monday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at American Family Field.
His team's mission is simple, yet difficult at the same time: Sweep the final three-game series, and hope that the Philadelphia Phillies are swept at the same time by the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. That would allow the Brewers to clinch the third and final wild-card spot in the National League.
The good news was big-game Brandon Woodruff took the mound for the opener, and he'd thrown at least six innings in five straight and six of his last seven starts coming in.
“All the guys went out and threw early as they do every single day," Counsell continued. "All those guys who have question marks, we’ll check in on all of them and see what we’ve got.”
Those question marks arose because of the nature of Sunday’s deflating loss to the Miami Marlins. The Brewers had to run through their bullpen arms and came up short anyway, dropping their elimination number to one.
It could have been worse if Freddy Peralta hadn’t given the Brewers more than what they expected in a starting role. Peralta went four innings, allowing two hits, striking out four and allowing no runs.
“What Freddy gave us yesterday, and with the way the game went we didn’t talk about it, he gave us two innings of relief on Thursday and gave us four innings yesterday,” Counsell said. “Frankly, I was expecting a couple innings yesterday and the fact that he got us four in the end, he gave us a chance to win the game.”
Milwaukee was encouraged by the outing from Peralta, which came on the heels of him allowing a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning on Thursday.
“He pitched beautifully yesterday,” Counsell said. “He’s throwing the ball really, really well. He’s right back where you’d expect him to be and where we think he can be.”
Aaron Ashby, who started Saturday and pitched into the fifth inning, was unavailable Monday but could be an option out of the bullpen Tuesday if that game still matters for the Brewers' playoff hopes.
Not an easy road
The Brewers already experienced an out-of-the-race team with nothing to lose in the Marlins and came out on the wrong end of that four-game series, with their lone victory coming against the likely NL Cy Young Award winner in Sandy Alcantara.
Next up are the Diamondbacks, who will finish in fourth place in the NL West but are going to throw their two best starting pitchers – right-handers Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly – at the Brewers on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
Both were tough on Milwaukee the last time the teams played at Chase Field to start the month.
Gallen (12-3, 2.46 ERA in 30 starts), who will be countered by Eric Lauer, limited the Brewers to two hits and a walk over seven shutout innings on Sept. 4. He was in the midst of a 44⅓-inning scoreless streak that went down as the seventh-longest in major-league history.
Kelly (13-8, 3.43 ERA in 32 starts), who faces Burnes, threw seven shutout innings while striking out seven on Sept. 1.
The Brewers lost both those games and finished 1-3 in the teams' four-game series.
"Gallen has had a very similar year to Corbin and Woody," Counsell said. "He’s one of the better pitchers in the league this year. He’ll definitely be a challenge. Merrill Kelly pitched a really good game against us earlier this year and has had a really nice year."
Topa injured, Cousins recalled
Right-hander Justin Topa was placed on the injured list Monday with a left ankle contusion, with right-hander Jake Cousins being recalled from Class AAA Nashville to take his place in the bullpen.
Topa pitched two-thirds of an inning Sunday, allowing two hits and two earned runs.
Cousins, who had been optioned on Sept. 23, will be in his third stint with the Brewers this season and is 2-1 with a 3.18 ERA in 11 appearances and 18 strikeouts in 11⅓ innings.
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What is one thing Giannis Antetokounmpo is definitely bringing to Abu Dhabi with him?
If you guessed Oreos, that's so last year. The Milwaukee Bucks star's new thing: Skittles.
Antetokounmpo shared a video on Twitter Monday from the plane, proclaiming his love for the multicolored, fruit-flavored candies.
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"Can't go nowhere without Skittles," he said in the video.
The Bucks were scheduled to leave Milwaukee following practice Monday on a 16-hour plane trip to Abu Dhabi, according to a previous Journal Sentinel report. The Bucks play the Atlanta Hawks at 11 a.m. (Central) Thursday and Saturday in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
During last Saturday's preseason game against the Memphis Grizzlies, Antetokounmpo — who wasn't playing in the game — was snacking on Skittles and popcorn.
"I love Skittles," Antetokounmpo said in Monday's video. "Everybody was talking about like I'm addicted to Skittles."
After a brief moment of panic when he couldn't locate them in his bag, he pulled out a pouch of Wild Berry ones.
"Last year was Oreos," he said in the video. "This year, it's Skittles, baby."
ICYM the Oreo saga of 2021: Antetokounmpo had found out that you could dunk an Oreo cookie in milk.
While he was very familiar with Oreos — they were "the first thing" he ate when he came to the league. This way of eating them? A revelation.
During a commercial video shoot, a kid had asked Antetokounmpo if he ever dunked Oreos in milk before, Antetokounmpo explained after the Bucks beat the Detroit Pistons, 114-93, on Nov. 24, 2021.
"I realized from now on, that’s an every-night snack for me," Antetokounmpo said at that time. "It’s amazing."
Now, it's Skittles' time to shine. He gave his purple pouch of 'em a smooch before placing it back into his bag.
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Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo brings Skittles to Abu Dhabi
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There was an unusual bustle at the Milwaukee Bucks’ Sports Science Center on Monday afternoon, as team staffers changed into comfortable clothing, wheeled out luggage and pushed carts filled with cases of water and pre-packaged fresh fruit across the street to the bus depot at Fiserv Forum.
Originally drafted by the United Nations and accepted by the countries in April, the truce has been extended twice, Reuters reported.
The Journal Sentinel reached out to the NBA on Monday regarding the safety of the Bucks, Hawks and their traveling parties already in Abu Dhabi and en route to the UAE.
In the summary explaining the warning, the Department of State wrote, “Rebel groups operating in Yemen have stated an intent to attack neighboring countries, including the UAE, using missiles and drones. Recent missile and drone attacks targeted populated areas and civilian infrastructure.”
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Bucks head to Abu Dhabi as United Arab Emirates-Yemen truce expires
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Waukesha's historic Moor Mud Baths resort will be demolished by the end of the year under a new settlement
WAUKESHA - The city's last intact Springs Era resort hotel will share the fate of other tourist-oriented sites from Waukesha's early history.
Waukesha County's acceptance of a lawsuit settlement with the city of Waukesha means that the Moor Mud Baths/Grandview Health Resort property at 500 Riverview Drive, on the county's central government campus, will be demolished by the end of the year.
The settlement ends a two-decade battle to preserve the site by the city's Landmarks Commission and the nonprofit Waukesha Preservation Alliance.
The 20-3 vote Tuesday, Sept. 27 by the Waukesha County Board followed a similar 8-6 vote by the Waukesha Common Council on Aug. 16, finalizing the agreement.
Here's what the agreement entails
Under that agreement, the county promised to commemorate the former resort with markers at the site, a historic display inside the county's Health and Human Services building, and a special website. The county will continue to keep the adjoining Moor Downs golf course open for 10 years and preserve both the spring house and clubhouse on the grounds.
Essentially, aldermen agreed to withdraw the council's previous ruling in 2020 that upheld the Waukesha Landmark Commission's 2019 decision, which had prevented the county from demolishing the Moor Mud Baths building on the county's campus under an exception in the city's landmarks ordinance.
Like the city's discussions in July and August, much of the debate focused on the settlement occurred in closed session, with a final decision announced afterward in open session. As such, most of the back-and-forth discussion about the settlement is unknown.
However, certain details have emerged from sources outside city government.
The Waukesha Preservation Alliance, in a posting on its Facebook page following the county vote, noted that the original draft of the settlement did not include the springhouse near the former mud baths hotel building.
Waukesha Preservation Alliance President Mary Emery, who has led the fight to preserve the historic resort building for years, expressed sadness in the fate of the mud baths building.
"This is a sad day for Waukesha," she said after the city's vote in August.
The building is the last remaining resort of Waukesha's Springs Era
The history of the hotel resort has been well documented. It operated during the later years of the Springs Era, a time when people from all over come to Waukesha primarily for the perceived health benefits of its groundwater.
In the early 1970s, the county, whose growing government campus lay adjacent to the old hotel and golf course, acquired the property, eventually repurposing it to house its Health and Human Services Department.
In 2013, after the county moved the department into a new facility, the former resort property became obsolete, at least from the county's perspective. That led to plans to demolish the building, which county officials maintained had fallen into disrepair and was no longer internally significant, from a history perspective.
However, such plans were thwarted by the city of Waukesha, whose landmarks panel had earlier placed a historical designation on the site intended to preserve it. That, in turn, led to legal and political tussles between the city and county.
In October 2019, the Waukesha Landmarks Commission, which in 2016 refused to remove the historic designation, nixed the necessary "certificate of appropriateness" that would have allowed the structure's demolition by the county.
Ultimately, after the city turned down an appeal by the county to grant an exception allowing the historical landmark to be demolished, the matter went before the courts. Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Lloyd Carter ruled in the city's favor, saying the city acted in accordance with its ordinances and procedures in conducting the appeal.
Demolition will happen in December 2022
All that remains now is the demolition, albeit eight years later than initially planned by the county.
County officials confirmed money had previously been set aside for the work, allowing the demolition process to proceed.
"We will not know the final cost of the demolition project, which is scheduled to take place in December, until the final bids on the demolition work have been reviewed and accepted," Kristin Bendlin, special programs coordinator and an interim informational source for the county executive's office, said Friday.
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Waukesha County OK plans to demolish historic, disputed Moor Mud Baths
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Stefanie Primm's brother, Jeremy Gilomen, has autism. Growing up, Primm's family often relied on programs for people with disabilities to keep her brother engaged during the day. The staff in those programs taught life skills to people with disabilities and hosted activities like field trips, movie nights or craft or game sessions.
While the program staff were kind and attentive and the programs were meant to be fun, the planned activities were usually generalized without much attention given to what each individual was interested in.
As Primm describes it, "a lot of folks with disabilities live in this service land where you get shuffled from one thing to the next."
"Oftentimes, for a family, if their child isn't in an activity, that limits the caregiver's ability to work, and we've known a lot of families who had to leave their jobs when their kids left school," said Primm. "Having those services is very essential, but we also have to recognize that being in places that are just focused on disabilities isn't living a complete life."
Building connections among families with disabilities
In 2007, Primm, some of her family members and other families of people with disabilities got together to talk about what they needed. That's when LOV Inc. was born. In many ways, Primm said the organization was first a support group for families who were trying to find a path forward and brainstorm about how service organizations could work for them.
"My family was very isolated from other folks, and my brother was very isolated as a young adult," said Primm. "Forming connections was really powerful for me and for my family and others who founded the organization. It was an opportunity to share experiences and to build some power and take collective action together."
The organization, which is based in Madison, now offers a number of services to families and people with disabilities — like workshops that provide resources so young adults with disabilities can live on their own, themed social events and peer social groups.
Primm said LOV Inc. is unique in that projects and programs are co-designed by people with disabilities and their families — and then adjusted when necessary. In that vein, she remembers that a year into the organization's life, conversations were happening around the possibility of revamping social events.
They had already been trending away from the "shuffle from activity to activity" model by doing social activities that allowed people to really get to know each other, to have friends rather than just go on an outing once a month. But something was still missing.
"Folks were saying, 'I wish I could find someone who's interested in computers or writing like I am, and that person doesn't have to be someone with a disability,'" said Primm. "They were clear that part of having a complete, full life is having friends who share interests, regardless of whether they have disabilities or not."
More:Islands of Brilliance finds 'their way into' worlds of students with autism by embracing the things they're passionate about
Building bridges based on interests
That's how the idea for the Bridge Builder Project came about, and Primm's brother was one of the first to try out the new program. She explained that Gilomen had always loved computers and knew of a computer club he wanted to join, but that he didn't feel comfortable approaching the group by himself.
"His social experiences in high school had been pretty rotten as he was misunderstood and bullied," said Primm. "He was nervous to go to a place with people he didn't know, but it didn't make sense for me, as his sister and as someone who doesn't care about computers, to go with him. That would be even weirder."
The families with LOV Inc. talked about the situation and got funding together to hire a person whose job it was to help "build bridges" for people like Gilomen.
"They went with my brother to the computer club the first couple times to make sure he was safe and comfortable," said Primm. "He's still in that computer club to that day. He's on the board of directors and helps with organizing the meetings. It's one of the important pillars of his social life."
Another early adopter of the Bridge Builder project told staff at LOV Inc. he was interested in woodworking. So a bridge builder introduced him to a local woodworker he knew. 13 years later, the pair build Little Free Libraries together and even reached out to each other virtually to keep their friendship going during the pandemic when they couldn't get together in person.
"He has a cognitive disability, and the way he shows people his love is by building things for them, a toolbox for his dad, so many things for his mom," said Primm. "Having that years-long friendship with a fellow woodworker gives him the opportunity to explore his passions and not just live the most basic life. That's something that opens up the world."
Expanding the program
Within the past year, the Bridge Builder project officially expanded from Madison to the greater Milwaukee area. Zach Lillo — Milwaukee's bridge builder — said there are five staff at the moment, each of whom work with 13 to 14 members.
Lillo said his first step as a bridge builder is typically to meet with a new client a few times — to get to know them, to build trust and to find out what interests they have. Then the bridge builder will research groups in the community for the client to join, and will make the initial contact with the group.
"The next phase is designed with the member in mind," said Lillo. "For some members, I never have to go to the meetings with them; they just need an introduction to the group. The usual range is I go with the member a few times and then slowly transition out. Then maybe just a few times, I'll check in with the group leader to see how my member did when I wasn't there. It's a slow fadeout."
Lillo has been working with one of his clients, Philip Temme, for the past three or four years; Temme is involved in a writing group and book club that Lillo helped find for him.
"Before Bridge Builder, it was harder for me to find groups because it can be overwhelming being a new person and everything," said Temme. "And the way Zach attended the groups made me feel more comfortable because no one else in the group had to know we were together, but I knew he was there for me."
Building inclusive environments
Primm said most groups approached by Bridge Builder are welcoming and that their main concern is to ensure the client shares their same interests.
"For my brother, the big question the group had was does he understand how to talk about computers," said Primm. "And the answer was, yes, he's been looking his whole life for a group of people who wants to talk about computers as much as he does."
Primm said the Bridge Builder project isn't just helpful for LOV Inc's clients. When people with disabilities are welcomed into spaces that are meant for the whole community, people without disabilities learn how to be more inclusive. And both groups learn how to adjust their behavior so they can meet each other in the middle as they socialize.
"Most folks recognize the community is better when there's a fully diverse group, and disability inclusion is a big part of that," said Primm. "Yes, we may have to slow down sometimes for folks, but that's good for all of us."
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MADISON – A program aimed at destroying "forever chemicals" in the soil at the Dane County airport is showing promising results after its first nine months.
Since deploying microbes to breakdown PFAS in the soil at the Dane County Regional Airport, there has been a 97% reduction in the amount of the toxic compounds month over month in a well installed to measure the compounds in nearby groundwater.
“We’re encouraged by the early results of the program and looking forward to expanding it and continuing our dedication to this effort,” airport director Kim Jones said in a release. “Airports across the United States are all seeking solutions to combat this issue, and DCRA is proud to be on the leading edge of this innovative and promising technology."
The results could indicate a way forward for other contaminated sites in Wisconsin and across the world looking for solution to remove PFAS at their source.
“This test is just the start of what could possibly be a widespread solution to remediating PFOA and PFOS at sites nationwide. We are very optimistic about these initial results, and look forward to what future tests prove to accomplish,” Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp, adjutant general of Wisconsin and head of the Wisconsin National Guard, said in a release.
The Dane County airport is one of only a handful of sites in the world testing new technology that utilizes naturally occurring microbes from the soil to consume PFAS, breaking down the bonds in the compounds until all that remains are non-harmful substances.
More:Public water systems statewide will be required to test for toxic 'forever chemicals.' Here are the dates set for your community
More:EPA reveals new recommendations for 'forever chemicals' in drinking water far lower than the new Wisconsin standards
The airport and the 115th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard, which operates Truax Field in the same area, are working with Fixed Earth, a Canadian-based company that specializes in the utilization of microbes to address contamination, as well as the Verona-based ORIN Technologies.
How are microbes being used to eat PFAS?
The microbes were harvested from the ground at the airport and bred in a lab. The idea came from a similar technique used on oil spills, in which microbes are also used to consume the contaminants in the environment.
The microbes are injected into the ground in areas where PFAS have been concentrated through the use of charcoal, allowing them to eat through the compounds and break them down into non-harmful waste.
The PFAS at the airport have become an increasingly large issue for the area since their discovery in 2019.
More:'We just want to be OK': Residents of a small island near La Crosse battle massive 'forever chemical' contamination
More:DNR restarts process to set groundwater regulations for toxic 'forever chemicals' in Wisconsin
The contamination is likely linked to the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam, which has been recommended for use by the Federal Aviation Administration for years. As a part of yearly requirements, the airport and the Air National Guard were required to test the foam, discharging it on the ground and washing it away.
The foam is recommended for use at airports because it is so successful in putting out hot fires — like those that occur when there is gasoline or jet fuel involved.
Over time, the PFAS from the foam migrated through the soil and into the water in the area, including Starkweather Creek, which now faces one of the worst contaminations in the city. The chemicals have also worked themselves into many of the other water bodies in Madison, including Lakes Monona, Waubesa and Kegonsa, as well as a portion of the Yahara River.
More:Here's where testing has located 'forever chemicals' in fish caught in Wisconsin waters
What are PFAS and how are they used?
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Microbes show success consuming PFAS in soil at Dane County airport
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