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None other than the Rev. Al Sharpton has come to Milwaukee. Well, at least his voice is here. Sharpton’s syndicated radio show recently began broadcasting from noon to 3 p.m. weekdays on WMCS-AM (1290). That’s probably welcome news for some in town; for others, not so much. For some Milwaukeeans, Sharpton is part of the unholy trinity — along with Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson — of outspoken black men who never let white America forget its sad racial past. To others, it’s a welcome relief to have a nationally syndicated African-American radio program with a political focus during daytime...

Why do you live in Milwaukee? Posted: July 7, 2008 Whatever the reason, clinging to hometown roots, taking up a new job, or shedding a house in the suburb for a condo in the city, Milwaukee continues to sustain its population numbers early in the 21st century. What's your reason for living here? Submit Your Comment

(Frustration rises, officials caught off-guard as thousands turn out for flood assistance) The chaos that erupted outside Milwaukee County's main welfare office Monday over disaster-related food aid had more to do with a weak economy and crushing poverty in parts of this community than the devastating floods that swept through the state earlier this month, local government and food relief officials said. About 3,000 people turned out for the assistance beginning at 3 a.m. Monday, creating a line that stretched several blocks around the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center at 1220 W. Vliet St. At least one woman said...

Order restored among crowd seeking food vouchers By GREG J. BOROWSKI and ANNYSA JOHNSONgborowski@journalsentinel.com Posted: June 23, 2008 Milwaukee police said they have restored order this morning but will remain outside of the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center after a crowd awaiting free food vouchers - which never were to be distributed - became unruly this morning.Police Department spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Vliet St., between N. 12th and N. 13th streets, is blocked, and barricades have been installed so people are able to line up around the block of the building at 1220 W. Vliet St."That line is...

(Undercover agent paid $900 bribe, he testifies) In a stark piece of evidence, jurors saw a video recording Wednesday of former Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee taking what an undercover federal agent said was $900 in cash in connection with the transfer of a liquor license. As the exchange is made, agent Dan Rabu is heard asking McGee to “remember” him when the matter comes before the Common Council. McGee’s response: “I got you.” Meanwhile, in an audio recording of an earlier meeting with Rabu, McGee declared, “I am the gatekeeper” when it comes to licensing matters in his north side...

Parent wants apology from school district He spends $4,000 fighting citation By JANICE KAYSER jkayser@cninow.com Posted: June 5, 2008 The Wauwatosa father said he took a photo of a reading wall in a Wilson School classroom Feb. 19 to help a parent in his wife's online support group for parents of autistic children. The photo, however, led to an interrogation of another parent, conspiracy accusations and, eight hours later, a disorderly conduct arrest of the puzzled father. "I just cannot believe this happened," Dave Gallenberger said. Gallenberger and his wife, Arlene, and Dana and Barbara Nicholson told a reporter last...

A mother's love can go only so far. It's time some young people in Milwaukee started to realize that. Lisa is a hardworking African-American mother who wanted only the best for her 16-year-old son. Consequently, she gave him whatever he wanted, including the latest high-tech toys. "You look in his room, he's got cable TV, DVR, DVD, PlayStation...everything," Lisa told me. Living on the north side of Milwaukee, Lisa knew her son was surrounded by temptation, including friends who constantly tried to talk him into doing things outside the law. Consequently, she kept in regular phone contact with him even...

A host for a Milwaukee-based radio talk show, Crosstalk America, says she will be leading a protest against the city's local newspaper, the Journal Sentinel for publishing on Good Friday an advertisement for an explicit sex show being highlighted as part of "The Res-erection" tour. The advertisement is for "Puppetry of the P----," which is to appear next month at the city's Miramar theater. The ad features two men, partly in silhouette, who appear to be nude, and whose privates are covered by "The Res-erection Tour!" slogan. "As a long time reader of the Journal Sentinel and a national Christian...

A reader who witnessed yesterday's anti-war protest sent us several photos of the incident so we thought we'd share a couple of them with you. Milwaukee police arrested four people during the late afternoon march, according to Officer Bobby Lindsey, a department spokesman. At least two of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, Lindsey said. The photos show that a number of paper boxes and trash cans were dumped in the street during the afternoon rush hour at N. Water St. and E. Wisconsin Ave. The march later moved south toward the Historic Third Ward. It was unclear whether the...

Story Created: Mar 19, 2008 Story Updated: Mar 19, 2008 People driving by the Army Recruiting Station on Milwaukee's east side are finding it boarded up with a vandal's message on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War. Vandals put graffiti saying "War Is Offensive" and broke windows at the facility on the 3100 block of North Oakland Avenue, near the UWM campus. Officials there later boarded up the windows. A man who works in the area said he saw anti-war slogans written on the windows also. This is not the first time the place has been vandalized. Last year,...

Attracted by tax incentives that went into effect Jan. 1, Universal Pictures has committed to shooting portions of its upcoming Johnny Depp film "Public Enemies" in Wisconsin, Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday. The movie is likely to include scenes filmed at locations in Milwaukee, Baraboo, Oshkosh, Madison and Columbus, Wis., said Scott Robbe, executive director for Film Wisconsin and a leader behind the development of the tax incentive program. "Milwaukee will play prominently in the film," Robbe said, adding that Depp will come to the city for the shoot. The movie company reached agreement Tuesday with the Wisconsin Department of...

In a surge of gun violence on Milwaukee's north side early Saturday, 11 people were shot in what police said were three unrelated situations. All are expected to live. The gunmen remained at large late Saturday. In a fourth shooting, two groups of people fired on each other's houses, authorities said. Fire Department medics and doctors at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa hustled to treat the injured, as all the shootings spanned less than two hours, beginning at 1:10 a.m. Common Council President Willie L. Hines Jr. during a news conference Saturday afternoon vowed to work with police to "get the...

Old Milwaukee Light by: Jeremy Hempel, February 04, 2008 A new report has come out comparing Milwaukee public highschool students and students enrolled in the Milwaukee Parent’s Choice Program. The Milwaukee Parent’s Choice Program or MPCP is a system of private schools available to low-income families (<$35,000) living in Milwaukee. About one in four high school students who live in the region are in the MPCP program boasting over 18,000 students. There are a total of 122 private schools that parents can choose from for their children to attend. Jay Greene, PhD, has conducted a study on the class of...

(1,000 sites in county set for sale already in 2008) After a record year for foreclosures, a stunning 1,000 Milwaukee County properties already have been scheduled for sheriff's sales in the first nine weeks of 2008, with a record 200 put up for sale in just one day earlier this month, records show. With home mortgage foreclosures becoming a drag on the national economy, local officials now say they are worried that the high tide of foreclosure sales - more than 2,800 properties were scheduled for sheriff's sales in 2007, a 60% increase over the previous year - could easily...

One out of three school-age children in Milwaukee, WI lived with a family in poverty in 2005, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Wednesday. Milwaukee ranked sixth highest overall among the nation's 70 largest school districts; only Cleveland, New Orleans, Detroit, Fresno, Calif., and St. Louis had higher percentages of children living with families in poverty.Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said creating jobs, resolving school-funding issues, getting more fathers involved in raising their children and getting kids to stay in school are key elements in reversing poverty's grip on the city. "I literally go into classrooms and say, 'I'm Tom...

A handful of teenage boys have terrorized the workers at the Clark gas station on 60th and West Fond du Lac for the past two weeks. We've went through hell. It's just ridiculous," said owner Mandi Brar. She says since December 11th, seven or eight teens have come in almost every day. With guns drawn, they demand food, gas, drinks, whatever they can get their hands on. "December 11th, 12th, 14th, and 15th they came four times in a day," said Brar.

She was suffocated in robbery, police say Anne Gordon spent her last moments on the floor of her townhouse, praying to God for the man who was wrapping her face in duct tape during a robbery, according to a criminal complaint. The man, who officials say was 30-year-old Eric Henry, considered Gordon to be his grandmother. Henry was charged Tuesday with Gordon's death, the Milwaukee County district attorney's office said. Family members said Henry, of Brown Deer, is the stepson of Gordon's son Paul. Gordon, a 75-year-old pastor, died from asphyxiation because of the duct tape placed over her airways,...

WAUWATOSA - There are problems at a Denny’s restaurant in Wauwatosa. TODAY’S TMJ4 has video showing people punching each other in the dining room. We're talking about the Denny’s location on North Avenue right by Highway 45. Police are called their constantly, nearly every other night according to police reports. That's too much for some Wauwatosa leaders. One melee broke out at 2:00 a.m. Saturday as people were trying to eat at Denny’s. Punches flew. People rushed from their tables to see what was going on. Chris Gilbert was there. “A little wrestling and then it got broken up and...

A man convicted of voting twice in the November 2006 election has been sentenced to a year in the Milwaukee County House of Correction. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William W. Brash III sentenced Michael Zore, 45, of Wauwatosa, on charges that he voted in Wauwatosa and another Milwaukee suburb, West Allis, under an old address a few hours later. After a computer caught the double vote, Zore was charged with voting twice and providing false information to poll workers. Zore had contended that the double voting was the result of a stress-induced memory lapse. He told Brash in court Friday...

MILWAUKEE - Three white former police officers were sentenced to long prison terms Thursday for the off-duty beating of a biracial man, an attack that outraged the city and sent protesters into the streets. A judge sentenced Jon Bartlett to 17 years and four months. Daniel Masarik was sentenced to 15 years and eight months, and Andrew Spengler received the same sentence. Each of the three also was sentenced to three years supervision and ordered to pay $16,365 in restitution. Bartlett, 36, Masarik, 27, and Spengler, 28, were convicted with another former officer for taking part in the beating of...

Asked about security at his nightclub, Craig Berry says, "It's easier to get into most airports than Club Escape." Berry, a co-owner of the club at 6263 N. Teutonia Ave., said security at his place included ID checks and regular body searches for weapons and contraband. There are 32 security guards on duty at peak hours, including eight with handguns. Even all that wasn't enough to avoid disaster. Last weekend, a shooting battle outside the club between misbehaving customers and security guards was like a scene out of the Wild West, with more than 20 rounds of ammunition fired. When...

It has become acceptable at times to refer to Milwaukee as being two separate and distinct cities. One white, one black. It is a nod to the segregated nature of our community, both in demographics but also in terms of politics, economic prosperity and social concerns. Last week's shootout on the near south side demonstrated the fallacy of that particular scenario; it doesn't go far enough. It turns out Milwaukee is actually at least three different cities: white, black and Hispanic. This means we're not exactly a melting pot yet. The shootings of five people last week, including two police...

MILWAUKEE Between 55 and 60 workers at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have volunteered to take buyouts as the paper looks to cut costs. The cuts represent between 5.5 percent and 6 percent of the newspaper's total employees. Sara L. Wilkins, a spokeswoman for Journal Sentinel Inc., said the company was still talking with the affected employees and could not say how many newsroom jobs would be lost. The publisher of the state's largest newspaper had expected 35 to 50 people to accept the buyouts when the program was announced in early October. It had warned that if too few employees...

MILWAUKEE -- A 32-year-old woman who tried to stop four men from beating her boyfriend early Monday morning was run over twice by a car, Milwaukee police said. Police said a 35-year-old man was inside Indio's Tavern on South Cesar Chavez when four men began beating him with pool cues and beer bottles. The attack spilled into the parking lot where the woman tried to intervene, according to police. As the four drove off, they struck her with their car and then did a U-turn and ran over her a second time, police said. Officers who arrived on the scene...

Immigrant workers' rights is a moral issue that spiritual leaders must confront head-on, with no soft-pedaling to the self-interests of business, government or anyone else, a high-profile Chicago pastor told would-be founders of a new local movement to shelter undocumented workers. "We didn't go to the lunch counters and tell businesses that it was in their best interest to desegregate," the Rev. Walter Coleman said at a recent organizing session, invoking the moral authority of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, when a broad coalition of blacks and their allies, led by communities of faith, won equal legal footing...

Police urged not to check legal status Activists want immigration standing off-limits in stops; some chiefs agree By SCOTT WILLIAMSswilliams@journalsentinel.com Posted: Oct. 7, 2007 Christine Neumann-Ortiz had heard enough stories about immigrants facing deportation after traffic stops or random encounters with police, so the immigrant rights leader went right to the source of concern.Neumann-Ortiz is asking local police departments for new policies to prevent officers from questioning people about their immigration status during unrelated investigations.Some departments are going along. A policy Milwaukee police officials adopted recently prohibits officers from asking immigration questions or alerting federal authorities to suspected illegal immigrants,...

(Race-neutral program questioned as disparity found in Milwaukee) African-American businesses are lagging in the competition for City of Milwaukee contracts, a reality that should lead to consideration of a return to race-specific contracting at City Hall, a report commissioned by the city concludes. The city's current race-neutral program is meeting its goal to help small and economically disadvantaged businesses get city work. But African-American contractors are underused by the city program compared with their numbers in the market, Mason Tillman Associates Ltd., an Oakland, Calif.-based consulting firm, says in a report. That suggests a disparity that, if confirmed by further...

The Republican Party of Wisconsin HQ in West Allis was invaded by supporters of John Kerry yesterday. This release was issued by the WI-GOP: (MILWAUKEE) – More than 50 demonstrators supporting Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry stormed a Republican campaign office in West Allis at mid-day today, trespassing, creating a disturbance through the use of a bullhorn in the office and then refusing to leave when asked. The Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW) condemned the action by Kerry supporters, and asked the Kerry campaign and the Democrat Party of Wisconsin to do the same. “Do John Kerry...

Journal Communications August Revenue Slips on Publishing, Broadcasting Softness MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Journal Communications Inc. said Wednesday its August revenue from continuing operations dropped 7.5 percent on continued weakness in its publishing and broadcasting segments. Advertising sales for the period ended Aug. 26 fell 8.6 percent to $31.8 million from $34.8 million. Revenue at the publishing segment, which includes daily newspaper and community newspapers and shoppers, dipped 6.9 percent to $20.4 million from $21.9 million in the prior year. Ad revenue for the division slid 9 percent to $15.2 million. Advertising revenue at the company's flagship Milwaukee Journal Sentinel declined...

Journal Communications July Revenue Slips on Declines in Publishing, Broadcasting MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Journal Communications Inc. said Monday its July revenue slid 6.7 percent on declines in both its publishing and broadcasting segments. Advertising sales for the period ended July 29 dropped 8 percent to $29 million from $31.5 million. Revenue at the publishing segment, which includes daily newspaper and community newspapers and shoppers, slid 7.6 percent to $19 million from $20.6 million a year ago. Ad revenue for the division fell 10.6 percent to $14 million. Advertising revenue at the company's flagship Milwaukee Journal Sentinel declined 8.8 percent to...

Science Daily — An analysis of Milwaukee County pharmacies shows that about half don't provide prescription labels and instructions in languages other than English, and almost two-thirds are unable to communicate to patients who don't speak English. The study, included in the upcoming edition of Pediatrics, is unusual in that its lead author is a Medical College of Wisconsin 4th-year medical student. Michael Bradshaw worked with statistician Sandra Tomany-Korman under the direction of Glenn Flores, M. D., professor of pediatrics. "Language barriers can have major adverse consequences in health care, but little is known about whether pharmacies provide adequate care...

Earlier this week, numerous feminist blogs were proclaiming the April Griffin custody case to be the new "Woman victimized by sexist family courts" outrage (aka "Custody-visitation scandal case"). Past ones have included Genia Shockome, Sadia Loeliger, Bridget Marks, and others[http://www.glennsacks.com/shockome_syndrome.htm]. According to the feminist website MotherWarrior, which is leading the charge for Griffin, she "has been in the Milwaukee County Jail since May 14th, 2007 because she refuses to give up custody of her nine month old son. Mr. Sebuliba [her ex] was trying to obtain full parental custody of their infant son. "Griffin, representing herself, asked Judge Goulee how...

MILWAUKEE - Pat Kasthurirangaian said he doesn't know the people who pulled him from his car and brutally beat him. He doesn't know why they did it. He has some serious injuries after a senseless beating that took place as people left Tuesday's Juneteenth celebration. Kasthurirangaian spoke exclusively to TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Michael George. "They broke my nose, they busted my lip in many places and I have a fractured eye socket," Kasthurirangaian said. ...

Federal authorities say a Milwaukee police officer is an illegal immigrant who took the name of a dead cousin as a teenager. Immigration agents arrested Jose Morales, 24, on Wednesday. They would not say how they caught on to him. Michelle Jacobs of the U.S. Attorney’s office says a decision on charges will be made today (Thursday), and he could appear in federal court before the day is through. Morales became a police aide five years ago. He’s been a patrol officer since late 2004. Morales is on a paid suspension at the moment. Police spokeswoman Anne Schwartz said a...

A 31-year-old convenience store clerk suffered a minor gunshot wound late Friday when three masked men entered the business and one fired off a shot from a 30-30 lever-action rifle (think Chuck Connors in "The Rifleman"), Milwaukee Police said today. The clerk a the Locust Quick Mart, 1432 W. Locust St., was grazed around 10 p.m., and was treated and released from a local hospital, according to Capt. Gregory Habeck. The suspects were described as three African-American men, ages 17 to 18. Their motives were unclear, according to Habeck. The trio hadn't demanded money and left as soon as the...

FOX 6, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Brewers and the National Prostate Cancer Coalition are joining together to host the Drive Against Prostate Cancer free screening event. Screening will be conducted by the Medical College of Wisconsin physicians and other experts from Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, in a 39ft. rolling doctor’s office offering the gold standard in screening. This RV has been custom-designed to provide healthcare to men in a friendly environment. Men will be examined on a first-come, first-serve basis. Both Digital Rectal Exams (DRE) and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests will...

Introducing...the Swedish Bikini Team Published: 16th April 2007 16:03 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7014/ They might be as Swedish as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but they have been flying the blue and yellow colours for more than fifteen years. This week's Introducing... gets up close and personal with the Swedish Bikini Team - Who are they and why are they famous? The Swedish Bikini Team stepped out of the sea and into the limelight in 1991. Once accurately described as 'vixens of beerdom', the swimwear Swedes quickly skedaddled off the scene and were last spotted dancing to rock music in a...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee still loves beer. But arts, culture, museums and festivals are on tap, too. That's the image Milwaukee officials are trying to promote in an effort to attract more tourists. "In a sense we have it all," said Dave Fantle, spokesman for Visit Milwaukee, which markets the area. "We have it all in a neat package. It's a matter of getting our arms around that package and promoting it and letting the world know about all the attributes that are here in Milwaukee." New projects in Milwaukee in recent years have included the Midwest Airlines convention center; the...

Every once in a while, a politician comes up with an idea that is so dumb he actually performs a public service. That was the case last fall when Republican state Rep. Frank Lasee from Green Bay proposed arming teachers with deadly weapons to put a stop to kids acting up in school once and for all. The widespread outrage provoked by that idea finally sent a message that even the NRA-owned politicians of Wisconsin can go too far in advocating the proliferation of firearms to solve every social problem. Now Ald. Robert Donovan of Milwaukee has done the same...

If you can imagine a typical baseball crowd leaving Miller Park and never returning, then you can grasp the decline in Milwaukee County's population during the early years of the 21st century. Between 2000 and 2006, Milwaukee County lost 25,067 residents, according to new estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. ...

MILWAUKEE - A group of Iraq War protesters vandalized the windows at the Army recruitment center on Oakland Avenue near the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee campus on Monday night. Milwaukee police had six people in custody and were questioning several more potential suspects. Witnesses say they saw anywhere from 20 to 40 people dressed in black flee from the scene. A Web site posting on Monday said that the act was a protest against the U.S. involvement in Iraq, in connection with Tuesday's fourth anniversary of the war. Torches made from chair legs, fireworks, and black flags were strewn in...

Some predict violent protest may be sign of things to come One day after 21 people were arrested during a demonstration that vandalized a U.S. Army recruiting office on Milwaukee's east side, Wisconsin peace activist groups on Tuesday said some protesters might increasingly turn to destruction as their frustrations mount. Violent Protest Photo/Rick WoodIt's the third time in about two years that Doug Mack, a glass installer for T&L Glass, has had to replace broken glass at the Army recruiting office on Oakland Ave. Mack replaced the glass Tuesday. Related Coverage Editorial: Protest just plain juvenile Monday night's violence was...

Pallottine priest Fr. Greg Serwa is Stripes the Clown. And Stripes the Clown provides the cover-story for the Milwaukee Catholic Herald's special Vocations Supplement. "It's interesting being a clown because people don't know who you are necessarily," said Fr. Serwa, who continues to clown at parish festivals. "The same can be said in some ways for priests. You wear a uniform and people identify with that uniform. It can keep people away or invite people in. As a priest, you're always dealing with things that are important to people's lives. You have to be real gentle with people. The...

At MLB Auctions, you can purchase a visit from the Milwaukee Brewers' Racing Sausages for your significant other. The sausages will visit the intended between 1-2 p.m. on Valentine's Day at their home or work. Bids are limited to a 45-mile radius of Milwaukee, which includes Racine County (and given that sales tax we continue to pay, it'd better). The starting bid is $650, and no bids have been placed. The package includes four club level tickets to the game of your choice during the April 18-22 homestand at Miller Park.

MILWAUKEE -- A chaotic scene Tuesday night at Bradley Tech High School could have dire consequences for some students.Fighting filled the court and then spilled out into the streets around the school.The melee broke out in the bleachers at the end of the game when witnesses said several fans from each school started getting into it. Police officers were trying to get to an 18-year-old woman who fell and may have had a seizure in the bleachers.Blocked by the rapidly spreading fighting, and people trying to get away from it, police called in a citywide assist -- a call for...

A Muslim "retailer" in WI insults one of our troops. When faced with public scrutiny and criticism as a result of his own actions, the Muslim is defiant, unapologetic, and untruthful - and lobs a few threats at his critics. Who is this guy - and what is he about?? It's a question worth asking - we'd be stupid not to. The MSM is surely not going to do it! Far too often, Americans would much rather be kept in the dark than risk offending a Muslim by asking about his background, his affiliations, his allegiances, and his intent. I,...

The mother of a boy convicted Friday in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl on Labor Day told a judge the girl was also to blame and that her son was the victim of "little flipper girls" who think it's cool to have sex with multiple partners. That prompted Milwaukee County Children's Court Judge Mary Triggiano to abruptly interrupt her. "What he did was rape that girl," Triggiano said, calling the deflection of responsibility to the girl appalling. "He got caught. He didn't take responsibility until something pegged him

<p>MILWAUKEE - An explosion and three-alarm fire have been reported at the Falk Corporation, 3001 W. Canal Street in the Menomonee Valley. Smoke is heavy and crews are on the scene. Authorities are reporting several buildings on fire.</p> <p>Reports are that one building collapsed and another is in danger. Large chunks of one roof are falling off. The explosion could reportedly be felt for miles. Twenty to thirty people may have been injured. Falk Corporation is a global manufacturing company headquartered in Milwaukee. The comapny was founded in the 1840's.</p>

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