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Retired labor union official, newspaper editor/reporter, and community worker. Also community activist.

Month: June 2017

  • We Can Make Wisconsin Progressive, Again … IF

    Rather than being content to sit back and cry in their beer over the 2016 election losses, some 200 or more activists gathered in Stevens Point on a cool summer weekend to see if they could fashion a way to restore Wisconsin to its former place as a beacon of progressivism. For the most part,…

  • Wisconsin Becoming Kansas II

    Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker appears to be a clone of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback.  Both are are leading their states in a downward slide of economic devastation, where schools find it more difficult to educate, the roads become havens of potholes and health care dries up for those with few resources. Brownback has been leading…

  • Celebration of Life of Ann Germanson

    Family and friends will celebrate the life of Ann E. Germanson, who died April 22, 2017 after a short but difficult struggle with melanoma cancer. Ann E. Germanson – Feb. 11, 1930 – April 22, 2017 Sunday, June 11 Beulah Brinton House, 2590 S. Superior St., Milwaukee Reception and visiting from 2 p.m. to 5…