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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
These Milwaukee attractions are free for dads on Father's Day 2025
Father's Day is just a few weeks away, and Milwaukee-area attractions and restaurants are getting ready for the holiday. Looking for the perfect spot to celebrate your dad? From free zoo admission to brunch, here's what Milwaukee has to offer this Father's Day: If your business has a special Father's Day offer this year, please email cgleeson@ so we can include it in this list. Father's Day 2025 is on June 15. More: Fiction, baseball and fishing: Books to give as Father's Day gifts These four destinations around Milwaukee are offering deals on Father's Day: All fathers will receive free admission to Discovery World for Father's Day. Tickets must be purchased in person to receive the discount. You can get the motorcycle-loving father figure in your life free admission to the Harley Davidson Museum on June 15. All fathers will receive free admission to the Milwaukee County Zoo on June 15. Parking and regular attraction fees still apply. Visitors can receive one free adult ticket per group on Father's Day. To reserve your free ticket, call 414-278-2728. Here are eight restaurant deals you can get around Milwaukee on Father's Day: Dave & Buster's is hosting its second annual "Dad Games" on Father's Day. Compete with your family for a chance to win free game play for a year. If you're one of the first 100 families to sign up, your dad can also get a free hat. You can find the location closest to you on its website. The Barlotta's supper club location will offer several Father's Day specials, including a $45 bourbon flight, a Chilean sea bass and 24-ounce porterhouse. All father figures can get a free Lowlands Brewing Collaborative bier or pop-mosa at any of its locations. There will also be special brunches for the holiday from June 14 to 15 at the following restaurants: Buckatabon Tavern & Supper Club, at 7700 Harwood Ave. Café Hollander (has locations in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Brookfield, Mequon and Madison) Centraal Grand Café and Tappery, at 2306 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. Café Benelux, at 346 N. Broadway Motor Bar and Restaurant, connected to the Harley-Davidson Museum, is offering one of the following free beverages to fathers who purchase an appetizer or entrée: MOTOR Old Fashioned Stone Delicious IPA Harley-Davidson Road King non-alcoholic pilsner Fountain soda Dads can get a free 12-ounce drip coffee from Stone Creek locations on Father's Day. Not feeling a coffee? You can also get the price of a 12-ounce drip coffee off of your total of another beverage. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Father's Day 2025: See Milwaukee area events, deals, discounts
Forbes
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
JD Vance Says Trump Immigration Policies About Numbers, Not Rights
JD Vance speaks during a fundraising event at Discovery World on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee, ... More Wisconsin. Vance has confirmed achieving a high level of deportations is the driving force behind the Trump administration's immigration policy. (Photo by) Vice President JD Vance has confirmed the driving force behind the Trump administration's immigration policy is achieving a high level of deportations. Concerns about due process or economic impacts are of secondary importance if they hinder progress toward that goal. The Trump administration has not focused enforcement on individuals with criminal convictions but cast a far broader net in pursuing deportations. On social media, Vice President JD Vance stated that Trump officials view deporting large numbers of individuals as its top immigration priority without regard to due process. 'To say the administration must observe 'due process' is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors,' said Vance on on April 16, 2025. 'To put it in concrete terms, imposing the death penalty on an American citizen requires more legal process than deporting an illegal alien to their country of origin. When the media and the far left obsess over an MS-13 gang member and demand that he be returned to the United States for a *third* deportation hearing, what they're really saying is they want the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently.' A key passage discusses the tradeoff between achieving an administration goal of deporting millions of people vs. addressing concerns about due process. 'Here's a useful test: ask the people weeping over the lack of due process what precisely they propose for dealing with Biden's millions and millions of illegals,' wrote Vance. 'And with reasonable resource and administrative judge constraints, does their solution allow us to deport at least a few million people per year? If the answer is no, they've given their game away.' Vance wrote that people asking for more due process 'don't want border security.' He said, 'They don't want us to deport the people who've come into our country illegally. They want to accomplish through fake legal process what they failed to accomplish politically: The ratification of Biden's illegal migrant invasion.' While Vance discussed deporting gang members on social media, the Trump administration has not focused deportation on dangerous criminals. About one week after Donald Trump started his second term, government officials made clear that generating large numbers of deportations took priority over targeting criminals. On January 26, 2025, Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti of the Washington Post reported, 'U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been directed by Trump officials to aggressively ramp up the number of people they arrest, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, because the president has been disappointed with the results of his mass deportation campaign so far, according to four people with knowledge of the briefings.' White House officials told ICE field offices to arrest at least 75 people daily. (At the state level, arrest quotas have been discouraged because they can lead to questionable police tactics.) An earlier article predicted an emphasis on numbers: 'A top priority for U.S. officials involved in the Trump administration's deportation efforts will likely be to generate large numbers. Analysts expect efforts at targeting criminals or convicting a business owner in a workplace raid will be secondary to the bureaucratic goal of driving up deportation numbers.' (Stuart Anderson, Forbes, January 20, 2025) The Trump administration has not updated its removals page, nor has it reported on the percentage of deportations that involve people with criminal convictions. In past administrations, limited resources led Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus on people with criminal convictions. In FY 2024, ICE reported, 'Over 81,312 (71.7%) of the 113,431 arrests were of noncitizens with criminal convictions or pending charges.' Even during its first weekend, when the Trump administration wanted to highlight bad actors, only 52% of the 1,179 ICE arrests were considered 'criminal arrests,' according to government data obtained by NBC News. Since then, the drive for numbers escalated, and the percentage of criminals arrested likely trended lower. 'About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No U.S. Criminal Record,' headlined a Bloomberg article about a government flight to the Central American country. 'The reality is that of 238 migrants—mostly Venezuelan—that officials accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang and expelled to the Central American country in mid-March, just a small fraction had ever been charged with serious crimes in the U.S,' according to Bloomberg. CBS News reported that the Trump administration intends to send immigrants without criminal convictions to a U.S. prison in Cuba. 'A government memo obtained by CBS News shows the Trump administration created broad rules outlining which migrants can be held at Guantanamo Bay, allowing officials to send non-criminal detainees there despite a vow to hold 'the worst' offenders at the naval base.' In remarks reported in April, 'The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages,' according to the Arizona Mirror. 'We need to get better at treating this like a business,' Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process 'like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.' Prisoners in Tecoluca, El Salvador at a high-security prison on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Presidency ... More of El Salvador/Anadolu via Getty Images) The Trump administration has cut corners and limited due process in a rush to achieve its goal of deporting at least one million immigrants in 2025. 'As the Trump administration aggressively pushes to deport more immigrants during the president's first year back in office, one aspirational number keeps coming up in private conversations, according to four current and former federal officials with direct knowledge of the plans: 1 million,' reported the Washington Post. Trump officials have adopted policies that make more sense when viewed from their perspective in light of their goal to reach one million deportations. These include limiting due process to speed deportations and expanding the pool of potential deportees by ensnaring people in the country lawfully. That may explain the administration's eagerness to deport international students with minor infractions and to end deportation protections for people with humanitarian parole and Temporary Protected Status. The administration may have stretched the law by asserting it could deport individuals without due process by declaring members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua subject to the Alien Enemies Act. Administration officials wanted to use the Alien Enemies Act to facilitate quicker deportations. Many attorneys question whether a gang member qualifies as an 'alien enemy' since the law requires a 'declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government.' A second issue relates to sending individuals to a Salvadoran prison, potentially for life, paid by U.S. taxpayers, based on the judgment of American government officials that the men are members of Tren de Aragua. The Trump administration did not provide hearings to allow the individuals to refute they were gang members or challenge the constitutionality of the president invoking the Alien Enemies Act. It appears ICE officers claimed people were gang members based largely on tattoos or other evidence that attorneys may have rebutted. Several relatives have asserted their son, sibling or spouse are not gang members. The news program 60 Minutes highlighted the case of Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador's brutal Terrorism Confinement Center because of his tattoos. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said the Trump administration will not bring back to the United States Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran sent to El Salvador in what the Trump administration concedes was an administrative error. 'The Trump administration has accused Garcia of being a MS-13 gang member, a charge he denies,' reported BALTV News. 'Garcia has never been convicted or charged with a crime and in 2019, a judge in Maryland granted him a 'withholding of removal' status.' He is married to a U.S. citizen. In effect, the Supreme Court asked a district court to work with the Trump administration on returning Garcia. However, Trump officials have said a court cannot tell a president how to conduct foreign policy, even though the U.S. government is paying the president of El Salvador to house individuals deported from America. The implications of the case have raised concerns across the ideological spectrum. The Wall Street Journal editorial page cited a concurrence to the Fourth Circuit decision by Reagan appointee Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who believes District Judge Paula Xinis's order to the Trump administration did not violate the president's control over foreign policy. 'The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done,' wrote Judge Wilkinson. 'It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.'
Associated Press
16-04-2025
- Science
- Associated Press
Chemours Supports STEM Education With "STEAM Machine"
Chemours' commitment to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for all extends to even the littlest learners. Now, children in several communities surrounding Chemours' Washington Works site in West Virginia have access to powerful STEM learning experiences in their schools and neighborhoods, thanks to a new 'STEAM Machine' learning mobile unit. Launched by Discovery World on Market, the Chemours-supported STEAM Machine will help overcome the two most significant barriers to STEM learning in the surrounding communities: cost and time. The mobile STEM learning center is in addition to the over 70 guided and self-guided in-house field trips at the Discovery World on Market that will run from April through May alone. The STEAM Machine's ability to extend Discovery World's reach and inspire even more children to develop a love for STEM and problem-solving early in their education is invaluable. Chemours helped to fund and outfit the STEAM Machine with mobile STEM technology, so it can travel to communities and schools across the Mid-Ohio Valley and the State of West Virginia, with the aim of spreading the love for STEM and providing youth with opportunities for hands-on learning experiences. The inaugural event for the STEAM Machine will take place in Bridgeport, West Virginia reaching well beyond Discovery World's original established reach. The STEAM Machine is already making waves in the local community, with bookings for five major events: Kids to Work Day at Chemours, YMCA Healthy Kids Day, Mid-Ohio Valley Multicultural Festival, and two First Fridays in Marietta, Ohio. These events are anticipated to draw substantial crowds and foster a deeper interest in STEM among young learners. Moreover, Discovery World has shown remarkable success, with total attendance reaching over 48,000 guests in 2024. Chemours Washington Works' support of the initiative is part of a multi-year STEM education grant for the Discovery World on Market, the Mid-Ohio Valley's only children's museum. Since 2023, the Chemours grant has provided hundreds of museum admission passes for underserved children and their families and helped to fund and execute Science Saturdays. These and many other events have introduced STEM concepts to kids and visitors of all ages in a fun, engaging, and hands-on manner. Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from Chemours
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Discovery World's Girls & STEM inspires girls to pursue science
The Brief Discovery World in Milwaukee hosted Girls & STEM on Saturday. The female-focused day is designed to inspire girls and ignite success. Data from M.I.T. shows women make up roughly 28% of the STEM workforce. MILWAUKEE - Today they're girls, but in the future they could be rocket scientists, mechanical engineers – even TV meteorologists. On Sunday, Discovery World hosted a female-focused day designed to ignite success. What they're saying A love for math meant the annual Girls & STEM event at Discovery World was the perfect place for Victoria Manger. SIGN UP TODAY: Get daily headlines, breaking news emails from FOX6 News "Honestly, I've really been enjoying geometry this year," she said. "There's so many different ways we can teach girls, and girls can learn STEM, other than reading a book," said Meghan Langmyer with Discovery World. "When you're hands-on with something, it's almost like an alternative learning method." Langmyer helped organize the day packed with coding activities, robotics and more. There were even big bubbles to explain surface tension. "I hope, if anything, they become curious, and they become confident in their curiosity, so they want to discover more," Langmyer added. What they're saying Face-to-face exposure is clearly influential. "I love having a role model to look up to," said Manger. "It's like, 'Oh, I can take this right here, and I can probably get to where you are today.'" FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android Despite progress and growing interest over the last decade, women remain underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields. Data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows women make up roughly 28% of the STEM workforce. "I can walk up and down the street and see construction equipment and parts that my valves and things that I've made are on," said Kim Wollenberg. "It's really cool to see how what I do and what I make applies in the real world." Wollenberg is an engineer who works on big mechanical projects. She's simplified her work for young minds. "We teach them specifically about hydraulics, also parts and assembly, and we get them excited," Wollenberg added. Girls were the focus of the educational day, but there was a lesson for everyone. "Boys can learn a little bit of everything. They can learn their mom has power. They can learn the engineering field is fun, and it's for everyone," said Langmyer. The Source FOX6 News went to the Girls & STEM event at Discovery World and talked to some of the organizers and attendees. Data was also provided by M.I.T.
