Milwaukee Expungement and Pardon Legal Advice Clinic Helps Hundreds
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Itâs normal to not recognize your past self after years of growth. Itâs also common to feel stuck in your situation. This is what many people with criminal backgrounds endureâa yearning to move forward beyond their past while it continues to stick with them.Â
âItâs that stuck feeling that I think is something that, systematically, is curative,â says Megan Morrisey, the clinical coordinator of the Milwaukee Justice Centerâs Mobile Legal Clinic and an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School. âWe can lift those labeling burdens off of people so that they re free to achieve.âÂ
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By Bill Kaplan - May 3rd, 2021 02:22 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Robin Vos
Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker
Robin Vos has led the Assembly since 2013, and is the outgoing president of the National Conference of State Legislators. He is at the apex of power, but at a crossroad. Does Vos want to continue to play to part of Wisconsin, the small minority of voters (25% according to a Marquette Law School poll) who oppose the expansion of Medicaid, or leave a broader legacy?
Healthcare used to be a bipartisan issue in Wisconsin. In 1966, GOP Governor
Warren Knowles implemented Medicaid. It was later expanded by GOP Governor
Wisconsin Examiner
‘For so long we’d been beating our head against the wall at the state level’
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While ending cannabis prohibition remains a key ambition of many Badger State residents, their toolbox of strategies may need to change. Advocates like Eric Marsch, of Southeastern Wisconsin NORML, a pro-cannabis organization, are beginning to re-focus their efforts away from the state level.
“For so long we’d been beating our head against the wall at the state level,” Marsch told
Wisconsin Examiner. “I think that trying to refocus on the local level gives us more momentum, gives us more victories, helps get more people active. And so, I think we’ll be able to channel that into some statewide victories next year in 2022. I think things are looking pretty good in terms of building up support on the local level.”
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A major increase in out-of-state companies buying Milwaukee properties has some worried how it could affect the people who live in those neighborhoods.
About 6,000 properties, or 14% of Milwaukee’s rental homes, are owned by out-of-state landlords, according to Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education. In 2015, that number was 4,600 and in 2000, it was 1,500.
In a recent article from the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, longtime investigative reporter Cary Spivak dives into why investors from across the country are buying up properties in Milwaukee.
“These companies have figured out it’s more profitable to go into a city and purchase in volume, many single-family homes or duplex’s, they want to have enough properties to make it worth their while,” he explains.