Like the familiar smell of Milorganite wafting from Jones Island, Milwaukee’s media cycle kind of stinks. That’s why we bring you the week’s unduly overlooked
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Milwaukee tells Public Service Commission: “The bill is too damn high.”
At Milwaukee hearings, community advocates decry rate hikes, urge PSC to implement cap on consumers’ annual energy payments.
Milwaukee News Roundup: June 16, 2023
A prix fixe menu of suffering for Milwaukee workers
Bucks Coaching Search Ends. Will It Start Again Soon?
Do the Bucks have it in them to be patient as the team reshuffles its very old roster under a first-time head coach?
Milwaukee News Roundup for June 9, 2023
An embarrassing display of “bipartisan comity” over a revenue deal that hamstring’s Milwaukee’s independence, a win for unionized workers at a Milwaukee coffee shop, a carceral “solution” for overdose deaths that will only make the problem worse, and Milwaukee’s favorite reactionary dunderhead sheriff mulls a Senate run.
Colectivo Coffee Workers Sign the Largest Collective-Bargaining Agreement in U.S. Coffee Retail Sector
Last week, workers at Colectivo Coffee voted to ratify a contract that amounts to the largest collective-bargaining agreement anywhere in the United States’ coffee industry.
Milwaukee News Roundup: June 2, 2023
Like navigating our city’s ever-shrinking public transit system, keeping up with Milwaukee’s media cycle can be an unreasonably arduous journey. Most working class people don’t
Why We’re Launching The Milwaukee Leader (Again)
The ruling class may think they own the world, but we have only loaned it to them, and it’s time for us to take it back.
The Time for Public Ownership Of Public Utilities Is Now!
We Energies has maintained a monopoly on Milwaukee energy for generations in their endless quest for shareholder profits.
When the Working Class Made the News
At its peak, the Milwaukee Leader was the most widely circulated English-language socialist daily in the United States, and was ultimately the longest-lasting socialist paper in the country. Building that reputation meant standing up to power, even at the peril of imprisonment and government censorship.