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WEB4 days ago · Milwaukee Independent. Sep 9, 2024. 2024 Best Local News Website + 71 awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism from the MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB. Articles.
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WEBSep 7, 2024 · A powerful real estate trade group has agreed to do away with policies that for decades helped set agent commissions, moving to resolve lawsuits that claim the rules have forced people to pay artificially inflated costs to sell their homes.
Inauguration of Cavalier Johnson as city's 45th Mayor opens a new ...
WEBApr 14, 2022 · When City Clerk Jim Owczarski finished administering the Oath of Office at the April 13 inauguration ceremony, Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson officially became the first new Mayor of Milwaukee in almost two decades.
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WEBThe Milwaukee Independent is an award-winning and advertising-free daily news magazine that advocates for inclusive social understanding in Milwaukee by publishing positive news content that covers a wide range of topics as a catalyst for community development. With a heavy emphasis on photojournalism and analytical reporting to fulfill this ...
Amazon delivery workers declared employees after Wisconsin …
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The Wisconsin Supreme Court on late March let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online retail giant contended. The court, in a unanimous decision, said the appeal was “improvidently ...
A Blueprint for Peace: Putting Milwaukee’s record year for …
WEBMar 5, 2021 · The year 2020, a year where we faced a deadly pandemic, saw the city reach a grim record surpassing 1991 as the deadliest year in the city’s history with a record 193 homicides.
From Servant to Sellout: Why the racial stereotype of "Uncle Tom ...
WEBJul 25, 2021 · Published nearly 170 years ago, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe had a profound impact on American slavery. But Uncle Tom is not a relic from the 19th century, this complex figure still has a hold over Black politics.
How Milwaukee’s German-Americans faced down fascism eighty …
WEBMar 17, 2017 · During the Depression-ravaged days of the 1930s, Wisconsin’s German-Americans faced a vicious campaign of harassment. One Milwaukee businessman received an anonymous postcard with a picture of an exploding cannon on the front, and on the reverse was written: “When you ask for ads again look this over carefully.”.
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WEBRegina Lawless hit a professional high at 40, becoming the first director of diversity and inclusion for Instagram. But after her husband died suddenly in 2021, she pondered whether she had...
Interview with Tom Barrett: U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg …
WEBJul 25, 2023 · Return to Ukraine: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that recorded news from areas across Ukraine, including Milwaukee's sister city of Irpin, from June to July of 2023. It was the second time in the span of a year that the award-winning Wisconsin news organization traveled to the country during the war.