Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
ODDITIES AND TRADITION
Ablack-and-white poster promoting the Roy Rogers Show for “Kids 8 to 80.” An asphalt chunk of the Milwaukee Mile racetrack, put down after 62 years of harness racing on dirt. A Blatz beer ad suggesting if nursing mothers drink “the STAR Milwaukee...
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Oracle site includes land sold by past exec
Mequon resident George Roberts was among dozens of people who sold properties that now comprise the site of a hyperscale data center complex under construction in rural Port Washington. But Roberts alone has a unique connection to Oracle Corp., the...
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Air Wisconsin top ICE flyer
In recent months, Air Wisconsin has become one of the most widely used carriers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, responsible for nearly half of all domestic ICE flights in June, according to a plane-tracking group called ICE Flight...
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Is South Shore Beach any cleaner?
On a late July afternoon, with temperatures pushing 90 degrees, about 100 beachgoers spread across the sand and water at Bay View’s South Shore Beach, undeterred by Lake Michigan’s brisk, mid-60s water. ● Parents lingered at the waterline, kids darted...
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Milwaukee businesses rely on local data center
Massive, windowless rectangular buildings that hold rows of computer servers and demand huge cooling systems. That image is what typically comes to mind for data centers, easily the most talked-about developments in the country these days. Often...
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ONE AFTER ANOTHER
Many Wisconsinites barely had time to catch their breath after last summer’s record-shattering 1,000year flood before 2026 hit with a new kind of whiplash – a year when nearly every month has brought a different unprecedented extreme. From...
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Detention
Elvira Benitez-Suarez was napping in her passenger seat when she heard a noise and woke up. What she saw on the GPS alarmed her. “What are we doing in Canada?” she asked her husband, Ricardo, who was driving. They were way off course. Instead of...
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BUILDING RESILIENCE
0 .1% chance of a historic storm. 14.55 inches of rainfall. $208.8 million in damages. These numbers have become shorthand for people still displaced and families still rebuilding as we hit the one-year mark since we realized the scale of our flood...
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Sources: Years of concerns on Barnes’ behavior
Democratic Party of Wisconsin officials in 2025 hired an outside law firm to review allegations of inappropriate behavior involving young adult women against one of the party’s stars, Mandela Barnes. The party launched the probe after an anonymous...
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‘Horrific’ 911 calls from attack released
Troubling audio of 911 calls reveals Milwaukee emergency service dispatchers apparently failed to act on clear signs of an attack on a 99-yearold woman. On one call, the 911 dispatcher is patched into a live feed from inside the woman’s house and can...
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Selig
It’s hard to believe, but it has been 12 seasons since Allan H. “Bud” Selig stepped down as Major League Baseball’s commissioner. A lot has happened – and changed – in that time and the game is seemingly in a great place with its popularity and TV...
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Menasha still reeling from tornado damage
There was a clear view into the neighbor’s house across the alley as Albert Vaneyck started up his chainsaw on the morning of Tuesday, July 28. A fridge with magnets still visible on the front, a bedspring in the heart of the upstairs bedroom, bright...
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At Milwaukee Milkmen games, families have fun
Let’s say, with the cost of living now so high, your idea of a night out means sitting in your backyard. One Saturday not long ago, you’re at a repair shop with a flat tire, and another customer is also in the waiting room. And he happens to be wearing...
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Mahjong is having its moment in Milwaukee
Gina Kotz-Drove is hooked on mahjong – so much that she has twice made the 90-minute trip from her home in Cary, Illinois, to Milwaukee to play with the MKE Mahjong Social Group. Kotz-Drove is far from alone. Local players say the game is exploding in...
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76 DAYS THAT CHANGED GREEN BAY FOREVER
All you need to know, including key offseason dates.
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Tension grows as officials identify man in shooting
Madison officials named Corey Ruiz as the man a police officer shot and killed July 22. That identification came during a tense press conference that was disrupted by protesters July 23. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway was the first official to publicly...
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Madison police fatally shoot man with knife
A Madison police officer shot and killed a man armed with a knife July 22, with video showing one officer shooting him as multiple officers attempted to arrest him on a city street. The shooting occurred after authorities converged on and attempted to...
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Lincoln Ave. teachers lost years of supplies in fire
In the days following a fire that destroyed Lincoln Avenue School, bilingual teacher Angelie-Marie Soto began wondering how she might replace the years of books, supplies and decorations she had bought for her classroom. But Soto said the hardest...
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METAL bootcamp tackles trade worker shortage
MADISON - The road to reshoring Wisconsin’s casting and forging workforce started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this month in a workshop where temperatures rose higher than the nearly hundred-degree heat wave outside. ● Two Ph.D. students in...
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Pharmacy helping people to manage mental illness
Sitting at a table at her cousin’s house, Shaniah Stewart picked out two stickers for her son and herself. “He’ll probably want a boy one,” she said of her 4-year-old son. For herself, she picked one that read, “You are capable of amazing...
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Blast from the not-so-distant past
In the lone room on the top floor of Holton Hall — really more a tucked-away attic than a floor — time has reversed several decades. Clunky computers whir. Boxes of floppy discs sit on shelves. Images on curved screens flicker and a rainforest...
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A search for COMMON GROUND
A 250-acre vacant industrial site has divided the Wisconsin city, where residents pushed back on a proposed data center and are still searching for a path forward.
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World Cup is boon to bars, food trucks
Lines of hundreds of people extended up Sixth Street on July 5, wrapping around the roundabout that connects Walker’s Point to downtown Milwaukee. Donning green, red and white, these fans were there for one of the most thrilling matches of the World...
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HAZY SKIES
A gray haze settled over much of Wisconsin on July 16 as Canadian wildfire smoke worsened air quality across the state. • The statewide air quality alert that went into effect July 14 was extended until noon July 17. Wisconsin Department of Natural...
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Oscar Mayer site to become fusion hub
MADISON - A massive nuclear fusion research center is coming to Madison’s former Oscar Mayer plant, a key step in Wisconsin’s efforts to become a high tech energy hub. With financial backing from state and local governments, Madison-based Realta...
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Oconomowoc man finds peace on Pacific
On his 53rd day in the Pacific Ocean, Johnny Martinez woke up and cried. For the first time in almost two months, as the morning clouds broke to reveal Maui’s jagged coast, he saw land. For days, Martinez and the rest of his four-man crew — Greg...
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Federal judge voids $1.7B Trump settlement with IRS
A federal judge voided a settlement reached by President Donald Trump and his two oldest sons with the IRS that gave the family and its company sweeping tax protections and could have benefited people who attacked Capitol police on Jan. 6, 2021. In a...
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Death doulas give support, peace, meaning at the end
Gil-Marie Janssen knows people think that talking about death brings it closer to you. “So if I talk about death, I’m going to die?” she asked. “If I talk about sex, I’m going to get pregnant? Is that the way it works?” Working through these beliefs...
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REBOOTING RIVER TOWN
On an idyllic evening at the Trempealeau Hotel, the Mississippi River is as much a draw as the musical act that graces its outdoor stage. • If concert-goers gathered on the hotel lawn are lucky – and they often are – they'll get to see a sorbet sky...
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Doctor gets surprise $57K medical bill
When Dr. Lindsay Schmidt went in for her heart surgery at Froedtert Medical College this spring, she believed her insurance would cover the cost. • Then, she received a text notification for a $57,000 bill. • She later learned that her insurance...
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Videos show shift in Milwaukee ICE tactics
On a quiet residential street on Milwaukee’s near south side on June 27, immigration agents surrounded 31year-old Estenderly Marte Polanco while she was sitting in her car. They smashed the driver and passenger windows, pointed a Taser briefly at the...
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Teacher’s aide returns after ICE forced her out
After hours on a plane and more time at immigration checkpoints, Yessenia Ruano emerged from the secure zone of Chicago O’Hare airport and broke into a smile. After a year in El Salvador, Ruano, a former Milwaukee teacher’s aide who captured the...
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Trash, harassment, blood in MATC student housing
Milwaukee Area Technical College student Raaven Nash thought Westown Green would be a good place to live. MATC declared the apartment building its “preferred student housing” on posters outside the building and promoted it on the school’s website. But...
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UWM creates dorm village for interns
While college dorms across the country sit empty over the summer, with vacant rooms and quiet hallways, Cambridge Commons still teems. ● Scooters line up outside the building. ● Young people shuffle through the front doors, and scanners beep as...
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Developer recreates 1990s east side in video game
Rich Altenbach will never forget the first time he visited Milwaukee’s east side. Oh, how different it was. How captivating. A whole new world, equipped with a bustling nightlife, a cool cast of characters and a fresh perspective on life. It was 1990,...
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Soaring NATIONAL SYMBOL
Big, powerful and beautiful, they would have drawn the attention of the first humans to set foot in the area we now call the United States. ● They attained spiritual significance as Native American cultures developed over the following millennia. ● As...
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SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
The 56 steps, cut from pink granite, ascend to a neoclassical temple that seems plucked from ancient Greece and deposited on a Kentucky hilltop. One for each year of President Abraham Lincoln’s life. If the first eight steps, rising amid the site’s...
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Milwaukee builds pollution ‘bathtub’
As Summerfest crowds surge toward the lakefront, a far less flashy but highly consequential lakeshore project is quietly wrapping up: construction of a $122 million storage facility for toxic waste. Underneath the Hoan Bridge, just south of the...
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Wisconsin to Thailand
BANGKOK – Behind a bartop framed by Green Bay Packers signs, Matthew Fischer pushes back on the idea his dive in the middle of Thailand’s capital city is a “Wisconsin bar.” A Wisconsin flag hangs just inside the entrance to Fatty’s Bar & Diner, and...
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ICE arrests 39 people as outcry expands
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Mariah Antetokounmpo showed up for Milwaukee
S hometime between starting an apparel brand all about spreading positivity and becoming a mom times four, Mariah Antetokounmpo turned into a matriarch of Milwaukee. Giving back has always just been a part of who Mariah is, she told the Journal...
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A forever feeling
On Oct. 19, 2018, I stood on the footbridge that feeds fans into the plaza area behind then-Miller Park’s centerfield wall, looking back at the stadium that had gone weirdly quiet in the moments after the Milwaukee Brewers had won Game 6 of the...
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New report finds school segregation persists
Tennessee schools are the most racially segregated in the South and the sixth-most segregated in the nation, a new report reveals. The national report released June 22 by Brown’s Promise and the Segregation Tracking Project shows the varying degrees...
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Rep. Steil proposes strict bill on voter ID
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Bryan Steil introduced a federal voter identification legislation that, if passed, would limit the forms of ID that can be used in federal elections and be stricter than Wisconsin’s voter ID law that was recently...
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More than 160 killed in Venezuelan earthquakes
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodrı́guez said an initial fund of $200 million would be created using resources from the International Monetary Fund dedicated to rebuilding infrastructure, after back-to-back major earthquakes struck the country’s...
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Leader
The story of Milwaukee’s Leader Paper Products, which marks its 125th anniversary this year, is its continuity across five generations of family ownership – while making big changes to help it thrive. Amid decades of technological breakthroughs such as...
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Giannis’ departure, like Abdul-Jabbar’s, could bring years of pain
No matter the egos involved, the belief in one’s own exceptional individualism, or the insistence that “this time will be different,” history does indeed repeat itself. It’s why, were the swath of concrete outside Fiserv Forum meant for monuments, the...
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Siblings revive a piece of Mohican history
The hours are long and sometimes frustrating. • Lon Allen and his sister Chrystal Wedde continue trying to restore a historic home to its former grandeur on the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Reservation in northeast Wisconsin. • They’re heartened when...
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Gay softball league hits 50-season milestone
Mark Hare had never touched a softball before joining Milwaukee’s Saturday Softball League nearly 20 years ago. “I walked in, said ‘I don’t know how to play,’” Hare said. “They said, ‘We don’t care, welcome to the team, have a beer.’” Now, the league...
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STAR SEARCH
Milwaukee has the No. 10 pick in the NBA draft. Does a star await?
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Keeping a promise
More than 73 years after his Air Force plane crashed into an Alaskan mountain, a Wisconsin airman’s remains came home. ● Airman Second Class Daniel McMann was the 51st of 52 people aboard a cargo plane that crashed Nov. 22, 1952, to be brought to their...
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Healing with horses
Along time ago, in the days before the legal drinking age in the United States was 21, Isaac Steele spent time at a nightclub called Payback. There was loud music, bright lights, dancing. Cold drinks that seemed to flow perpetually. Steele would look...
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A second calling
ELKHART LAKE – The most interesting person at Road America for this IndyCar weekend, or really for any racing weekend here, probably isn’t one of the obvious suspects. He’s never won the Indianapolis 500 or quickstepped on “Dancing with the Stars” or...
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DIET, EXERCISE AND LOTS OF LOVE
Sarah Levin has zero interest in getting mic’d up on this celebratory afternoon. She calls it “monkey business.” Something she is “too old” for. ● Poppycock. This is a woman who, when only 100 years old, underwent hip surgery — and came out the other...
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Rodriguez leads field for governor in Dem straw poll
MADISON - Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez received the most votes in a straw poll of Wisconsin Democrats at the party’s state convention this weekend − a shot in the arm to Rodriguez’s campaign that has trailed the field’s two frontrunners in statewide...
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DHS, State Dept. delays hit seasonal businesses
Salute Mexican Lounge in Egg Harbor has been forced to shut its doors on Mondays and Tuesdays due to staff shortage. The general manager at Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik in Sister Bay has been working 100 hours a week, cooking and prepping...
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THE GREAT SUMMERFEST DEBATE
Just looking at the numbers, what Summerfest in Milwaukee offers is staggering. Six hundred acts. Nine days. Thirteen official stages. Plus 15 ways to get in for free. And the lineup for its biggest stage, the American Family Insurance Amphitheater,...
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Waterways
Thunder rumbled over a packed meeting room at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s headquarters Thursday evening while an hours-long water drop alert aptly underscored what’s at stake for Lake Michigan and local waterways. About 100 people...
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‘Food collective’ gives meals, community
The 27-gallon plastic bins filled up quickly with a bounty of fresh produce, meat and dairy. Salmon fillets, with $26 price tags, went into the bins. Heads of cabbage, Chobani yogurt drinks, Planters peanut packets, boxes of pasta – into the bins,...
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If you want Ferney’s pizza, get in that long line early
Church bells bonged 12 times at Our Lady of Divine Providence in Riverwest. It was noon, and across the street at Clarke Foods, 832 E. Clarke St., a makeshift pizza shop in the back of the store had already drawn a line 20 deep in its first seconds of...
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Israel, Iran halt retaliatory attacks
Israel and Iran said they would halt strikes on each other for now but warned of forceful responses to any future aggression – ending, at least temporarily, an exchange of missile attacks over the weekend that put a fragile ceasefire and diplomatic...
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Hidden TREASURE
Just east of the Capital City Trail crossing at the Yahara River, a nondescript warehouse rises on Madison’s east side. Its blank exterior offers no hint of what’s inside, and even the interior is not set up for glass cases and museum spotlights. • But...
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MCTS announces ‘modest surplus’
A year after a surprise $10.9 million budget hole, the Milwaukee County Transit System is on the mend. So says the county, at least. At a press conference on June 4, County Executive David Crowley and MCTS President and CEO Steve Fuentes announced...
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Leader feels uncertain with refugee resettlement gutted
Adecade ago, Sheila Badwan was working in health care administration when a friend connected her with a few local Syrian refugee families that needed help. • Seeing the Milwaukee home where one family of 13 had been placed, she was horrified. • Badwan...
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NEGOTIATORS REACH POSSIBLE IRAN DEAL
Negotiators for the United States and Iran have reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and extend the 60-day ceasefire while discussions continue over Tehran’s nuclear program, according to an American official. President Donald Trump has yet...
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SILENT SHOP TALK
They call it “mill talk.” • At least, that’s what Menominee tribal members who don’t work in the tribe’s sawmill call it. • It’s a kind of sign language that mill workers at Menominee Tribal Enterprises use to communicate when heavy, loud machinery is...
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Free mobile dental clinic is ‘life-changing’
The clinic where Francesca Malensek and Vanessa Zuniga bent over their young patient looked like any other dentist’s office: laid-back chairs, a TV for distraction and photos of smiling children on the walls. But it isn’t like any other clinic. The...
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