By Bridget Fogarty Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Did we miss anything? Send an email with the subject “summer camps” in the subject field to info@milwaukeenns.org. Whether moving operations online or […]
Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and we can Again
By Jesse Jackson We live in a time of bitter divisions. Today, even the wearing of masks has become a partisan question. Yet, as this Memorial Day weekend reminds us, this country has united before to meet external threats. The calamity that has been wrought by the coronavirus is the result of an external attack […]
Checking in: How are Educators Doing as We Confront the Coronavirus?
By Claudia Delgadillo Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. So, how are you doing? This week, we are checking in with educators and school staff to learn how they are managing during […]
UWM Helping Fight Against COVID-19 on Several Fronts
By Laura L. Otto UWM faculty members, staff and students are assisting efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic however possible, whether it’s providing personal protective equipment, offering expertise to health departments or pushing forward with relevant research. UWM recently collected more than 30,000 gloves and over 1,000 other protective items, including hundreds of masks, […]
What’s it Like to Test Positive for the Coronavirus? We Talk to Three Residents to Find Out
By Sam Woods Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the timeline and circumstances of Ms. Walton’s diagnosis and self-quarantine. Rebecca Quesada did everything […]
How the Alzheimer’s Association Responded to COVID-19
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz In 2016, Karen Squiers began noticing that her husband, Larry, was having trouble remembering. Three years later, in July 2019, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and early onset Alzheimer’s. Since then, their lives began to take on a new definition of normal. Every week, Squiers would write a schedule on the […]
Checking In: How Are You Doing As We Confront The Coronavirus?
By Claudia Delgadillo Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. So, how are you doing? We continue to check in with our neighbors as we all live with the challenges of COVID-19. “The […]
Medical College of Wisconsin Holds Town Hall on COVID-19
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Almost every day it seems that there’s a change regarding COVID-19 or coronavirus. With so much information being given, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) recognized that the influx of information wasn’t necessarily helping people, so it decided to do something about it. Earlier this week, MCW […]
When America Gets a Cold, Black America Catches the Flu
By LaKeshia Myers Whenever tragedy strikes in the United States, people of color worry just a tad bit more than white Americans. Why? Because disasters and tragedies have the nasty habit of being layered atop institutional policies that traditionally have kept many minority groups behind the eight ball. For black Americans, a crisis can be […]
Hospice and Palliative Care Take Preventive Measures to Battle the Coronavirus
By Hayley Crandall Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care have been working to protect not only patients but workers as well during the accelerating pandemic through extensive training and adhering to Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines, according to Tony Kudner, vice president, communications and public affairs. According to Kudner, staff with Seasons Hospice & Palliative […]