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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sophie Carson |Gina Castro |Vanessa Swales
Lea este artículo en español aquí. The effects of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown have become some of the biggest news stories in Milwaukee and nationwide. Each story — from the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, to the detention of a man wrongly accused of threatening to assassinate Trump, to the Milwaukee teacher's aide fighting her deportation — reveals a new angle of the highly complex immigration system and shows how federal immigration officers are operating in today's climate.
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2 weeks ago | 
jsonline.com | Mary Spicuzza |Gina Castro |Vanessa Swales |David Clarey
Federal agents arrested an immigrant on Milwaukee's south side on June 10, sparking fears from residents and local officials of a wider immigration crackdown. A family member said law enforcement officers who appeared to be immigration agents entered a four-unit apartment building on South 22nd Street at about 7 a.m. and arrested his brother-in-law, Mario Torres.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
After announcing it had reached its fundraising goal, the Walker's Point Youth & Family Center has learned the city of Milwaukee's one-time $100,000 grant will not be matched by an anonymous donor. That means the youth shelter still has another $77,446 to raise before the end of this month, said Erik J. Koepnick, the shelter's director of fund development, in an email Thursday. If it does not, the shelter faces closure.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
In an apartment building with more than 160 units, is it legal for a landlord to split the water bill evenly, even if some units use more water than others? That's the question a reader recently posed to Public Investigator. It turns out that Wisconsin law doesn't give landlords much guidance as to how they should divide utility bills in buildings with shared meters.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
The Walker's Point Youth & Family Center will survive another year. The Milwaukee Common Council unanimously voted to award the shelter $100,000 in community development block grants Tuesday morning, catapulting the shelter beyond the $200,000 it needed to keep its doors open. "I was very heartened to have so many colleagues join me in advocating for this," said Ald. JoCasta Zamarripa, who co-sponsored the proposal, at the council meeting.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Gina Castro
Illegal lockouts are on the rise in Milwaukee County, according to Brittany Schoenick, an attorney with Legal Action. Landlords and property owners sometimes opt for illegal lockouts, also called self-help evictions, to save cash and time. However, it's illegal in Wisconsin. In order to remove tenants from properties, Wisconsin law requires property owners to file for an eviction in court. Still, landlords often hold the upper hand in this situation, Schoenick said.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
It took two hours for Greenfield police to evict Joseph Zeugner from the home he lived in for nine years. It didn't matter that the house flippers who purchased the property didn't go through the court's eviction process. It didn't matter that police officers didn't have the power to carry out evictions at all. Zeugner, a 47-year-old landscaper, became homeless that July. He had no car. No place to go. Just a backpack and his dog, Biggie Paws.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Gina Castro
Gina Lee Castro, Milwaukee Journal SentinelSeptember 30, 2024 at 6:04 AM·4 min readRats are likely Milwaukeeans least favorite neighbor. It's tricky to know exactly how many rats are scurrying around Milwaukee, said Lorie Gallup, residential code enforcement manager for the Department of Neighborhood Services. "They're everywhere," Gallup said. For every single rat you see, there are likely 10 other rats nearby, .
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
This week, the Social Development Commission blamed its IT firm once again for slowing down its reopening plans. But the firm, Waukesha-based Caspian Technologies says it had no choice but to suspend the nonprofit's account in May because it owes $220,000, said Justin Mertz, the firm's attorney, in an interview with the Journal Sentinel. SDC, which abruptly closed in April after not making payroll, has not made a payment to Caspian since December 2023.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
After abruptly closing its doors and laying off its entire staff nearly five months ago, the Social Development Commission is talking about making a comeback. But according to SDC attorney William Sulton, the anti-poverty agency's plans for reopening are being slowed by its bank and IT firm. According to Sulton, SDC has been unable to access its bank account or its computer systems since spring, shortly after the agency shuttered its doors.
