Cover Story

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...


Expresso

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...

News

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...


 
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