Edgar Mendez
Edgar Mendez is a Milwaukee-based freelance reporter and a senior staff writer for the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. His writing has been published by the Associated Press, Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media.
Civic Engagement
3 Cities That Became Better Places for Young Black Men
Ten years after the launch of My Brother’s Keeper, these “model communities” have become proving grounds for the collaboration-based formula’s success.
Cities + Towns
As Climate Money Pours In, Some Urban Freeways May Disappear
The Inflation Reduction Act could usher in a new era of freeway removal in cities like Milwaukee, which transformed its urban core by tearing down a highway 20 years ago.