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After nearly 15 years helping patients discharged from Milwaukee County's Mental Health Complex cope with life in the community, occupational therapist Kari Held faces an uncertain future and coping issues of her own.
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Recent headlines suggest the hype over President Barack Obama's $787 billion plan to stimulate a slumping economy may have been overblown. That's not surprising to me. Isn't hype always overblown? In local news, a Journal Sentinel review found a government stimulus job report that claimed more than 10,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin was filled with errors that included double counting and...
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Life without soccer for Sergio Villagran would be miserable. Luckily for Sergio, he gets an equal dose of writing and soccer through a national program that made its way to Milwaukee five years ago and has expanded since.
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The only way President Barack Obama could have been any more indirect about his message on Wednesday in a speech at a middle school in Madison was by giving it in another state. He never mentioned Milwaukee, he barely mentioned Wisconsin. It might seem hard to be boring when you're talking about giving away billions of dollars to places that shake up their education systems, but Obama succeeded, so...
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It's the stories that draw U.S. Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Chad Ullenberg, the stories told by veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. "I love these guys. They went through so much," Ullenberg said Saturday as he prepared to hop into a Humvee to drive a pair of Korean War vets in the 46th annual Milwaukee Veterans Day Parade. Hundreds of veterans from across the region gathered in...
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Milwaukee aldermen Friday scaled back some of the cuts that Mayor Tom Barrett sought in police and firefighter staffing, but a veto override battle could still lie ahead on the issue.
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Privatizing the Milwaukee Water Works could cost water customers at least $17 million more each year than the city would bring in from a long-term lease, says a study by privatization opponents. But that study assumes that the state would approve a rate increase of more than 50% above today's prices.
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Five soldiers from Wisconsin, all with backgrounds in medical or social work, were among the 50 people killed or injured by an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood, a connection that's leading officials at the Army base to explore whether the shooter was scheduled to deploy with a Madison-based unit. The man identified as the shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan. Madison's...
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State Sen. Lena Taylor testified Friday in a secret John Doe proceeding at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, under a promise of immunity from a prosecutor examining suspected criminal violations. The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, declined to say what was being investigated in the John Doe. Landgraf handles public corruption cases for the Milwaukee District Attorney's Office....
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Summer may be over, but not all farmers markets disappear when the mercury dives and the snow flies. A new Saturday morning winter farmers market called the Milwaukee County Winter Farmers' Market debuts this weekend in the lobby of the Tommy Thompson Youth Center at State Fair Park (Gate 5 at 640 S. 84th St.). Some 20 local vendors will offer everything from farm-fresh eggs and apples to farmstead...
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Bowling For Soup and MC Lars start a US tour next week. November 11, 2009 Des Moines, Iowa The House of Bricks November 12, 2009 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Nutty's North November 13, 2009 Madison, Wisconsin Orpheum Theatre November 14, 2009 St. Paul, Minnesota Station 4 November 15, 2009 East Lansing, Michigan Small Planet November 17, 2009 Cleveland, Ohio House of Blues November 18, 2009 Pittsburgh,...
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A second Wisconsin resident died in the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, according to a family member. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine was killed in the shootings, according to a person answering Seager's phone who said he was a relative. The family member declined to answer other questions and referred all other questions to public affairs officials with the military. Family members of Amy Krueger of...
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A Wisconsin Army Reserve specialist was eye-to-eye with the soldier who shot and injured soldiers at Fort Hood and was lucky to escape with a bullet wound in his leg, his father said Friday. Dave Moxon said his son, Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon, of Lodi, has a bullet lodged in his leg above his knee. The specialist was sitting in the front of a processing room at the Texas military base Thursday when...
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The 46th annual Milwaukee Veterans Day Parade will kick off Saturday about 10:45 a.m. downtown. The parade, which will last for a little more than an hour, will start at N. 4th St. and W. Kilbourn Ave. and then will head east to Plankinton Ave., south to Wells St., and Wells all the way to Prospect Ave. At Prospect, the parade will head south to the Mason Street Bridge, past the War Memorial and into...
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Former Milwaukee Ald. Mary Anne McNulty, a tireless advocate for the poor during a life in politics and community organizing, died this morning at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee. McNulty was 61. She was recently hospitalized following a cancer diagnosis, according to Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Tom Donegan, a close friend. McNulty, a Chicago native, represented the near south side on the...
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