This week at the 4th Street Forum: This week, the 4th Street Forum focuses on the challenges many students face in our school system. Children cannot check their home lives at the door when they come to school, and oftentimes have difficulties finding the support they need in the classroom. These distractions, from a young age [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: What will be the savior of our ailing economy? If you listen to political speeches an exciting and cutting edge Green Economy has been the answer, time after time. Green-collar jobs, eco-friendly business, environmentally-responsible industry. But what does the rhetoric really mean? How will funding work and who [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: A special Tuesday edition of the Forum addresses a society’s responsibility to teach parents how to raise their children. To start the piece, a few forum-goers discuss the importance of parents followed by suggestions on how society should help from MPS Parent and Volunteer Amalia Schoone, Council for the [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: Some of Milwaukee’s loudest voices in education discuss how to get MPS back on track with special attention given to finances. This piece starts with students airing out a few grievances followed by some ideas from Mayor Tom Barrett, Barbara Horton,Executive Director of the Darrell Hines Academy, and William [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: The discussion was jam-packed with ideas. In this piece, we hear some audience members briefly share their opinions, followed by some potential solutions from Michael D’Amato (former alderman, currently Wisconsin Director of SEED Foundation), Jeanette Mitchell (Executive Director of the Leadership Center at Cardinal Stritch), and Rita Tenorio (Principal [...]
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Milwaukee’s Historic Turner Hall, home of the weekly 4th Street Forum.
This week at the 4th Street Forum: Jack Norman (Institute for Wisconsin’s Future), Steve Baas (Metropolitan Milwaukee Association for Commerce), and Deborah Blanks (Social Development Commission) debate the merits of raising taxes.
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Next week at the 4th Street Forum: “Hope for Urban Education” with guest panelists [...]
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On Thursday, January 22, 2009, 88Nine Producer Adam Carr attended the weekly 4th Street Forum at Historic Turner Hall and spoke to 4th Street attendees. This week’s topic: President Obama has big challenges and optimistic plans; what will his goals mean for Wisconsin?
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Panelists Ruth Conniff, political editor at The Progressive (Madison), and Associate Professor of [...]
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