Reinventing the Library
Tight budgets, technology and community propel libraries forward
In the age of Google, iPhones and Kindle, are brick-and-mortar libraries necessary? Absolutely. Now more than ever. In fact, libraries are enjoying a surge in attendance, despite the pervasiveness of instant-gratification multimedia options. Nationally, library use is up; according to a 2008 survey conducted by the American Library Association (ALA), 76% of Americans...
Issue of the Week: The True Impact of Waukesha’s Water Request
Plus Hero and Jerk of the Week
Will Lake Michigan water allow Waukesha to develop at the expense of minority residents of Milwaukee and low-income workers? That’s likely, according to a new report by the ACLU of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Sustainable Story Hill and the...
Advocates for Student Achievement Agrees to $5,000 Campaign Finance Fine
Group founded by conservative MPS board member Bruce Thompson gets caught
Remember Advocates for Student Achievement (ASA), the conservative-backed “reform” group that recruited and trained candidates for the 2009 MPS board elections? It took almost a year, but the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office charged Advocates for Student Achievement PAC and ASA-MKE Inc. with seven violations in a civil complaint made public...
- The New McCarthyism
- Three Businesses Team Up To Break New Ground in Milwaukee Landscapes
- Fallout from UW-Milwaukee Protest
- New Day Care Background Check Law May Not Be Constitutional
- The Politics of Earthquakes
- Can Day Care Providers Get a Fair Shake?
- Scott Walker Sends 76 More People to the Unemployment Line
- Zazi Case Vindicates Justice
- BREAKING: State Supreme Court to Hear Paid Sick Days Case
- Why I Don’t Think Tommy Will Run
- BREAKING: MPS “Reform” Group, Advocates for Student Achievement, Agrees to Pay $5,000 Fine
- NOW: Silent Vigil at UWM
- Response from DCF on Child Care License Revocations
- Wisconsin’s Air Is the Dirtiest in the Country Today
- Want Medical Marijuana? The Clock Is Ticking.
- Last Chance to Push for Transit and Parks Funding
- Feingold and Kohl on the Public Option via Reconciliation: Maybe
- BREAKING: UWM Responds to Protest and Arrests
