Tom Jenz

Solomon Juneau in Juneau Park overlooking Lake Michigan When I was a boy in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, I often heard my mother telling friends and family members about her father and five uncles. All six had been lawyers, and one, Paul Husting, had been a Democrat U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. The mother of these six lawyers, Mary Husting, had been the daughter of Solomon Juneau, the founder of Milwaukee, which was named Juneautown in the early going. Naturally, Solomon Juneau stories and folklore have been passed down our family tree.

If you live in the Milwaukee area, you have probably heard the term BID (Business Improvement District). A BID is a defined area within a city where local businesses and property owners work together to improve their environment. In Milwaukee, there are a total of 30 BIDs.

Not long ago, I read this in the Milwaukee news: “A man was shot and killed and another person injured at Sherman Park. This represents one of 94 homicides so far in 2024.”

Lawyer, municipal judge for 22 years, lecturer, foodie, restaurant critic and historian.

His work is in permanent collections at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Wisconsin Art and, currently, at Var Gallery.

For most of his early career, Reginald Baylor’s art portfolio consisted of large-scale acrylic on canvas paintings. Not long ago, when I visited his Milwaukee studio, he showed me a painting of his aging parents watering the lawn of a beautiful Midwest-style home. The painting is rendered in blocks of bright cartoon colors. The style is original.

HACM manages over 5,000 subsidized and affordable housing units in 22 properties and 371 scattered site homes. The Federal Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) data shows that HACM residents are about 90 percent people of color. Many are senior citizens who have disabilities, some have intellectual or developmental disabilities, and some are veterans. These are vulnerable people, some facing challenges caring for themselves. How does HACM go about helping its tenants? According to some public housing residents, not very well. According to HACM, pretty well, given the intricate web of government agencies and nonprofits it has to deal with.

The Milwaukee Area Labor Council is one of nearly 500 state and local labor councils of the AFL-CIO.

The Milwaukee native has created artworks in diverse media and has been exhibited around the world.

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