'They Wanted to Pressure Me to Stop Asking Questions'
Shepherd Express |
October 29, 2007
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During a time when most of the country’s prominent alternative weekly newspapers have been consolidated and streamlined by corporations, the Shepherd Express has beat the odds, remaining locally owned. The paper has emerged from its unlikely beginning as a satirical...
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Farm Aid’s Changing Crusadenew
The benefit concert celebrates its 25th anniversary in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
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The Problem With Independent Hip-Hopnew
I’m reluctant to admit it, but I don’t listen to much independent or alternative hip-hop these days, or at least not nearly as much as I did in college, when Rhymesayers, Def Jux and Stones Throw records were as much a part of my diet as ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese.
Shepherd Express |
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Hayward Williams' Songs From a Long Winternew
Milwaukee’s harsh winters take a well-documented toll on us physically, numbing our limbs, wearing out our backs and testing our immune systems. They can be just as rough on us psychologically. Singer-songwriter Hayward Williams’ latest album was born of this annual seclusion.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
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Tags: Cotton Bell, Hayward Williams
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The Death of a Local Newspapernew
The 1995 merger of the liberal afternoon Milwaukee Journal with the morning Milwaukee Sentinel was painful for journalism, but the latest drastic turn by Journal Communications could be worse.
Shepherd Express |
Joel McNally |
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Right-Wing ALEC Playbook Is Crippling Wisconsin’s Economynew
Small-government proposals are killing jobs, not creating them.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
02-21-2013 |
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Tags: ALEC Organization
New Day Care Background Check Law May Not Be Constitutionalnew
Legislators and the state Department of Children and Families may have gotten positive headlines when creating a law that allows the state to permanently revoke child care provider licenses based on a wide range of offenses.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
03-12-2010 |
Children & Families
One Man's 'Life After Hate': A Former White Supremacist Works for Peacenew
Back in 1988, Arno Michaels even helped to organize Skinfest in Doctors Park, which attracted skinheads from all over the country, featured swastika flags and led to a drunken rampage throughout Milwaukee, during which the racist skinheads beat up anyone in their way.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
02-12-2010 |
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Questions Surround Wisconsin Pro-Life Organization's Rhetoricnew
Wisconsin Right to Life's ads against proposed abortion services at a Madison clinic are seen by some as reckless and inflammatory.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
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Policy Issues
