Transition Milwaukee
By Daniel Gray
For some, the future is bleak. Imagine, if you will, a nightmarish apocalypse of oil shocks and climate change that leave everyday Americans groping around alone, cold in the dark, cranking induction flashlights to illuminate cars that won't run... »Read more
Winter Blast in Bay View
By Michael Timm
Hundreds of people descended on the South Shore Park Pavilion Sunday, Feb. 21 to partake in the Winter Blast, an afternoon of family-friendly entertainment, music, social intercourse-and chili. The Bay View Neighborhood Association put on the eighth annual event... »Read more
Too small to fail?
By Sheila Julson & Michael Timm
Cudahy tavern owner Dusty Graf was a trendsetter in the 1980s and didn’t even realize it. Graf said she became frustrated when a commercial bank bought out the local savings and loan where she had her mortgage for many years. Shortly after the corporate... »Read more


Diving the deep wrecks
By Michael Timm
During the winter months, Bay View resident Jitka Hanakova works as a business analyst. But from April to October, she takes scuba divers to some of the deepest, least accessible shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Hanakova started diving in 2000... »Read more
Land Rush!
By Anna Passante
In the mid-1830s many pioneer settlers arrived in what is today Bay View, staking claims in the future Town of Lake/Bay View area. Land surveys were not completed until 1836, however, so these early Yankee settlers had no legal right to settle the land. »Read more
Students dive into aquatic science at Lake Sturgeon Bowl
By Jennifer Yauck
Skiers have the Olympics. Football players have the Super Bowl. And Wisconsin high school students with a passion for the Great Lakes and oceans? They have the Lake Sturgeon Bowl. »Read more


 Marina Dimitrijevic
 District 4 County Supervisor
 Success on progressive initiatives

 Terry Falk
 8th District School Board Director
 A disastrous school budget

 Chris Larson
 District 14 County Supervisor
 Toward regional synthesis, not partitioned bureaucracies

 Jeff Plale
 7th District State Senator
 Help the census

 Jon Richards
 19th District State Representative
 Cracking down on predatory payday loan lenders

 Chris Sinicki
 20th District State Representative
 Geographically balancing veterans’ representation

 Tony Zielinski
 14th District Milwaukee Alderman
 Providing city loans for energy efficiency improvements



Lake Huron sinkholes harbor unexpected life forms
By Jennifer Yauck
Compared to the dark depths of the ocean or the frigid ends of the earth, Lake Huron hardly seems like an extreme environment. But sinkholes discovered at the lake's bottom have conditions just as harsh-and harbor life forms just as unusual-as those of deep-sea hydrothermal vents or Antarctica's permanently frozen lakes. »Read more


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