A&E Feature

Bar Leagues in Milwaukee

More than just sports

Milwaukee plays host to an enormous bar league culture that offers its participants an opportunity to play games, make friends and unwind in the clubhouse, which, in this case, is a bar. Leagues operate year-round, and offer a range of activities to suit your personal taste, from old-school bar games such as darts and billiards to sports like volleyball and Irish hurling, from drinking games such...


News Features

Administrative Law Judge Clears Day Care Provider Latasha Jackson of Fraud

The woman behind the headlines should not have lost her license, judge says

Early last year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel launched the “Cashing In On Kids” series detailing alleged fraud in the Wisconsin...

News Features

Ezekiel Gillespie: Milwaukee’s Champion of African-American Voting Rights

Honoring Wisconsin’s black history

Wisconsin was among the first states to grant its African-American residents the right to vote, thanks to the protest vote of a former slave who became a well-respected Milwaukee resident. Just after the Civil War, Ezekiel Gillespie, born into slavery in the South in 1818 as the son of a slave owner, successfully sued the state to affirm the right of Wisconsin’s black citizens to vote. Gillespie had been turned away from the...


Expresso

Issue of the Week: Reining in CCAP

We generally like the state’s online Consolidated Court Automation Programs (otherwise known as CCAP) for providing information about individuals’ court histories. But there’s a downside to such openness: People who...

News Features

Seeking Social Visionaries

Know someone who’s changing the world? Or maybe changing their neighborhood, school or community? Then the Shepherd wants to hear from you. We’re taking nominations for the Shepherd Express Social Visionary for 2010, a new way for us to honor an outstanding member of our city...

 
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