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The Resilience and Innovation of the Parking Industry
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Attracting And Retaining Top Talent In Challenging Times
The “Great Resignation” has prompted many companies to take a closer look at their policies and practices, weighing whether change is needed to ensure team members are fulfilled and productive. What worked in the past may not work anymore because the pandemic altered the societal landscape and shifted the needs of employees. As a result, it’s more important than ever to remain flexible and open minded when it comes to company best practices.
Maryland Communities United sets agenda for 2021
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BCPS and ransomware ‘catastrophe’
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Chagall's Angelic Dream Comes True (Published 1999)
By John Schmid, International Herald Tribune Aug. 28, 1999 Marc Chagall's stained-glass angels, shining silently in clerestory light, have waited 20 years in St. Stephan's church here for their sea of blue glass to be finished. Next year the artist's last monumental work will finally be crowned with the delivery of six lead-filigreed windows to St. Stephan's, a war-ravaged and now rebuilt 14th-century Roman Catholic church.
COVID and Flu: Baltimore Coalition Urges Vaccination
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CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Buy Photo Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
CDC trauma report: Spend now to help kids or pay later in hospital and prison costs
Preschoolers Marissa Wilkes, far right, and Noel Carteno work on counting activities with teacher, Visaria Wang at El Hogar del Niño, a child care center on South Loomis Street in Chicago. El Hogar del Niño is the site of multiple studies that found that sending text messages to parents resulted in higher attendance and as well as parents reading more to their preschool-aged children. High-quality child care is seen as a solution to childhood trauma.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a 'public health crisis' linked to myriad social problems, CDC study reports
Tia Richardson coaches volunteers on how to paint details of the "Sherman Park Rising" mural, a reaction to a disturbance in the summer of 2016 in the neighborhood. The City of Milwaukee Arts Board named Richardson one of its 2018 Artists of the Year. (Photo: Devi Shastri) If American children grew up in homes without abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, drugs or domestic partner violence, instances of depression in the general population would fall 44%.
The State of Baltimore Schools
By John Schmid, Special to the AFRO Sen. Cory V. McCray (D45) hosted a meeting, Nov. 5, of parents, educators and politicians for a discussion about the state of schools in Baltimore.
Abolishing 'normal' and 'abnormal': How the long-marginalized autism community is becoming a bellwether of social change
Buy Photo Kelly Krause (left) and Sandy Krause are part of a broad-based civil rights movement that strives to abolish the labels of “normal” and “abnormal.” (Photo: Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) The newest public health clinic in Milwaukee may also be the city's most overdue. The Next Step clinic will screen kids as young as 2 for signs they were born with autism.
To hire and heal at the same time: Wisconsin employers pilot new trauma-responsive job programs
Buy Photo Bill Harrigan (right) is a pioneer in workplace training in Milwaukee. He’s shown in August talking with (from left) Taran James, Elijah Tucker-Carter and Johnnie Rose. Harrigan's company is called Harrigan Solutions. Most of his hires are ex-offenders coming out of prison.
To hire and heal at the same time: Wisconsin employers pilot new trauma-responsive job programs
Bill Harrigan (right) is a pioneer in workplace training in Milwaukee. He’s shown in August talking with (from left) Taran James, Elijah Tucker-Carter and Johnnie Rose. Harrigan's company is called Harrigan Solutions. Most of his hires are ex-offenders coming out of prison.
Milwaukee County wants to retool how it treats people suffering an acute mental health crisis. There isn't a consensus.
Buy Photo John H. Schneider, chief medical officer of the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, stands in front of the county's Psychiatric Crisis Center, an acute care emergency department that is slated to close in two years. (Photo: Michael Sears, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) For nearly half a century, Milwaukee County has operated one of the nation's few dedicated psychiatric crisis emergency centers.
Milwaukee County wants to retool the way it helps people suffering from a mental health crisis. Consensus is lacking.
Milwaukee County operates one of the nation’s few dedicated psychiatric crisis emergency centers – a seemingly essential service in one of the nation’s poorest cities – but it’s slated to close in two years and the county is still figuring out how to replace it. (Photo: John Schmid/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) For nearly half a century, Milwaukee County has operated one of the nation's few dedicated psychiatric crisis stabilization centers.
This veteran sports psychologist has worked with the NFL. Now he's speaking up about racism
Veteran psychologist Ramel Kweku Akyirefi Smith has worked in locker rooms across the National Football League, including with the Green Bay Packers. In his hometown, he has been a team psychologist for the Milwaukee Bucks. Many of the athletes he's counseled are African American men who are idolized for their grace, speed and strength. But after years of clinical work, Smith has learned that these outwardly confident men often hide their own psychological wounds.
Seven tips to keep a job and stay competitive with robots in a brave new age of automation
John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 6:00 a.m. CT April 29, 2019 Want to stay employed as a new age of automation hits your company? Most experts say invest in two-year technical degrees, four-year college degrees and retraining programs tailored for a data-driven age. (Photo: PJ66431470 / iStock) The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and a new generation of robots mean millions of workers will see their jobs change or vanish.
One in four Wisconsin jobs at high risk in a new age of robotic workers and hyper-automation
Buy Photo Nalby Varoqua (center), an engineer with Sharp Robotics Business Development, demonstrates a security robot. Sharp is a division of Foxconn Technology Group, one of Asia’s most aggressive adopters of robots and automation. The robot was demonstrated in July 2017 at the Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee. (Photo: Michael Sears, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) When it comes to replacing humans with robots, few companies are as enthusiastic as Foxconn Technology Group.
One in four Wisconsin jobs at high risk in a new age of robotic workers and hyper-automation
Nalby Varoqua (center), an engineer with Sharp Robotics Business Development, demonstrates a security robot. Sharp is a division of Foxconn Technology Group, one of Asia’s most aggressive adopters of robots and automation. The robot was demonstrated in July 2017 at the Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee. (Photo: Michael Sears, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) When it comes to replacing humans with robots, few companies are as enthusiastic as Foxconn Technology Group.
Seven tips to keep a job and stay competitive with robots in a brave new age of automation
John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 6:00 a.m. CT April 29, 2019 Want to stay employed as a new age of automation hits your company? Most experts say invest in two-year technical degrees, four-year college degrees and retraining programs tailored for a data-driven age. (Photo: PJ66431470 / iStock) The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and a new generation of robots mean millions of workers will see their jobs change or vanish.
SAO Secures “Justice Over Convictions”
By John Schmid, Special to the AFRO Marilyn J. Mosby’s State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) announced a victory in “justice over convictions,” last week. Maryland General Assembly House Bill 874, “Criminal Procedure – Post Conviction Review – State’s Motion to Vacate,” has left debate on both the Maryland Senate and House floors and passed unanimously in the Senate (with one absentee) and by a wide margin in the House (110 yes, 26 no). Office of The State’s Attorney For Baltimore City.
Only one in five Milwaukee families has access to licensed child care for their pre-K kids
Buy Photo A child makes her way through a play tube in the COA family resource center in this 2016 photo. A new study finds that just one in five Milwaukee families has access to licensed childcare. (Photo: Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Milwaukee has so few child care centers that only one in five pre-kindergarten kids last year lived in a neighborhood within reasonable proximity to a licensed facility — and that's by a conservative count.
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
By John Schmid, Special to the AFRO “We talk about people who owned land, but we often ignored those who worked the land,” Monica M. White, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison told her audience, Saturday. White was at Red Emma’s bookstore to promote her scholarship “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement.” Monica M.
As suicides rise in Wisconsin and across the U.S., our 'wounded healers' are more important than ever
Editor's note: If you or someone you know is dealing with suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255 or text "Hopeline" to the National Crisis Text Line at 741-741. From China to Europe, from India to South America, average suicide rates around the world have fallen 33 percent since 1990. Not in the United States.
Foxconn might not build even small LCD plant in Wisconsin, experts say
Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Back in 2017, there was no ambiguity over what Foxconn Technology Group would build in Wisconsin. It was spelled out in a 29-page contract signed by then-Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn's top executives.
Wisconsin's high-subsidy Foxconn project seen as 'pawn' in U.S.-China trade war
Drone video of the Foxconn Technology Group $10 billion manufacturing and research complex in Mount Pleasant on Monday, October 22, 2018. Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel According to President Donald Trump, his recent conversation with the chief executive of Foxconn Technology Group was meant to persuade the world's biggest manufacturer of made-in-China consumer electronics to keep its promise to build a mega-manufacturing complex in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin gave Foxconn a rich subsidy package. Did we overpay? Some experts say we did.
Buy Photo In November 2017, then-Gov. Scott Walker (left), Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou, and then-U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan applauded an agreement for the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer to build a massive manufacturing campus in Wisconsin. In the past week, uncertainties emerged over the feasibility of the project, which relies on $4 billion in state and local subsidies.
Marquette announces new inner-city mental health clinic as winner of Lovell's grant contest
The Next Door Foundation, an innovative neighborhood center in the heart of one of Milwaukee’s most severely de-industrialized communities, will become the site of a mental health clinic tailored to the needs of a high-poverty, high-trauma community.
Milwaukee's violence prevention director joins the effort to tackle trauma epidemic
Reggie Moore, head of the Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention, addresses a meeting of the SWIM coalition of trauma-responsive social workers. Keara Clacko, Marquette University Reggie Moore, director of the Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention, installed lights in his office that spell LIVE. "It's a reminder to myself and others that living is a struggle worth fighting for," he says.
Reggie Moore addresses SWIM meeting
Reggie Moore, head of the Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention, addresses a meeting of the SWIM coalition of trauma-responsive social workers.
Why does economic resurgence not reach everyone? Data increasingly points to trauma
In the heart of Racine's manufacturing district lies the Old Gold Medal Camp Furniture Mfg company, a 1900's era manufacturer.
Wisconsin and metro Milwaukee expect strong hiring amid robust U.S. growth, Manpower poll finds
File(Photo: Mike Groll, Associated Press) Amid the strongest national job-creation climate in 12 years, Wisconsin employers expect "strong” hiring prospects in the coming quarter, while their counterparts in the four-county Milwaukee metro area are "optimistic,” according to the latest survey of employer confidence by ManpowerGroup Inc. Manpower's quarterly index of employer sentiment, released Tuesday, is the latest staffing gauge to signal optimism.
Etching the Notes of a New European Identity
VIENNA— First in a series of articles about the Jan. 1 introduction of euro banknotes and coins. Robert Kalina, an engraver at the Austrian National Bank, had one of the trickiest tasks in Europe's conversion to a single currency. Winner of a 1996 competition, the Viennese graphic artist designed the banknotes that will fill the pockets of 302 million Europeans starting Jan. 1. For his central motif, Mr. Kalina chose a bridge — not Pont Neuf in Paris or Venice's Bridge of Sighs.
T. Michael Bolger, visionary leader who led Medical College to world-class status, dies.
T. Michael Bolger (far left) at his 1990 inauguration as president of the Medical College of Wisconsin, an institution that he grew into a world-class medical care and research institution. Bolger hold the post until 2010.(Photo: Journal Sentinel files) In a city well known for a civic inferiority complex, T. Michael Bolger would have none of it. Decades ago, Bolger saw the opportunity to build a world-class complex of medical research and healthcare facilities.
As officials meet to discuss violence and trauma, shootout takes place outside
Even as trauma-responsive social workers, agencies and activists met on Milwaukee’s West Side this week to strategize on how to treat psychological trauma and violence, a hail of gunfire erupted in the street outside(Photo: John Schmid) On Monday morning, a standing-room crowd of social workers, therapists, clinics, university researchers and criminal justice officials crammed into the basement of a church on Milwaukee’s West Side.
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