With each project in her ever-winding career, Milwaukee mural artist Tia Richardson learns something new about herself.
She believes the everyday people involved in her works grow, too from articulating what they want a mural to symbolize to helping paint it. It s therapeutic; it s relaxing. It brings people together; there’s sense of unity, Richardson said. Those are all the things that I want for our community. And that s what happens when we do that work.
Richardson saw the power of community art in her years helping students paint murals in schools. Now a full-time community artist, she often involves people of all ages in projects across the region.
Supervisor Ryan Clancy pushes Right to Counsel program to serve 14,000 households. By Graham Kilmer - May 21st, 2021 10:12 am //end headline wrapper ?>Milwaukee County Courthouse. Photo by Jeramey Jannene
Milwaukee County could have a program providing free legal counsel to residents facing eviction by July.
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Ryan Clancy told Urban Milwaukee he has drafted a resolution that would allocate funding to a county “Right to Counsel” program for residents facing eviction and foreclosure. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates the program would provide help more than 14,000 households in Milwaukee,
During the 2021 budget process, Clancy sponsored an amendment that requested the county DHHS to analyze potential ways for the county to establish a “Right to Counsel” program. The amendment specified the program would only be for residents in the 53206 ZIP code, which has the most evictions in the county and children
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Anguish filled courtroom 501 in the Milwaukee County Courthouse on Friday afternoon as the woman responsible for the reckless driving death of a south side couple was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Borowski sentenced Alicia Ojeda, 34, to 15 years in prison and 10 years of probation for each of the two reckless homicide charges in which she pleaded guilty. She will serve each sentence concurrently.
On Oct. 17, Ojeda was driving North on South 27th Street at about 100 mph when she struck a car that was turning left on Edgerton Avenue. The crash instantly killed Luis and Teresa Contreras, a well-known couple in Milwaukee s Latino immigrant community.