Sanctions on administrator miss the real issues
I was in the class of ’99 at Wausau East, and I’ve seen white kids bullying other white kids, white kids bullying Hmong kids, Hmong kids bullying white kids, and Hmong kids bullying other Hmong kids. This problem is very real, especially now that kids …
Hmong community reacts to Karger suspension
WAUSAU (WAOW) – Members of the Hmong community say they were shocked by the decision to suspend County Administrator Brad Karger. Karger was suspended for 30 days without pay for attending a rally in support of convicted murderer Dylan Yang. Tee Vang and …
Eau Claire woman, hospitals share insight on chicken diet in Hmong community
Eau Claire (WQOW) – A tradition commonly practiced in the Hmong community is boiling on the front burner for some local hospitals. News 18 explains the chicken diet and explains why Hmong mothers practice this post pregnancy tradition and how local health …
Groundbreaking ceremony for Hmong Christian Church held Sunday
Eau Claire (WQOW)– Dirt was flying Sunday as Hmong Christian Church held a ground breaking ceremony for a new expansion! Church leaders announced the $400,000 project back in January, because with the increasing number of families attending the church …
A Nation Engaged: Milwaukee Hmong Community’s Hopes for a Better Life Post 2016 Elections
We’ve been talking to Milwaukee voters this week about what a better life looks like to them, and how the 2016 elections could help move the country toward those ends. It’s part of NPR’s series, “A Nation Engaged” and today we talk with …
A Nation Engaged: Milwaukee’s Hmong Community Weighs In on Hopes for a Better Life Post 2016 Vote
We’ve been talking to Milwaukee voters this week about what a better life means to them, and what they hope to get out of the 2016 elections. It’s part of NPR’s series, “A Nation Engaged.” On Wednesday, we heard from tribal members living in …
A Nation Engaged: Milwaukee’s Hmong Community Hopes Next Elected Officials Can Promise Better Life
Credit Marti Mikkelson We’ve been talking to Milwaukee voters this week about what a better life means to them, and what they hope to get out of the 2016 elections. It’s part of NPR’s series, “A Nation Engaged.” On Wednesday, we heard from tribal …
Wausau Hmong Memorial Still Coming
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) — A long-awaited memorial commemorating Hmong veterans and their efforts during the wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia will have to wait a little longer. Retired Marathon County Administrator Mort McBain is one of many working on the …
Challenger: ‘Paul Ryan to Blame for Importing TB to Wisconsin,’ After 40 Percent Increase in 2015
Between 2005 and 2014, the number of active TB cases reported in Wisconsin among foreign-born residents from the Hmong community (from Laos through Thailand) was 69. The number of active TB cases among foreign-born residents from Burma was 12. Breitbart …
Journey Mental Health Center to expand, move to Madison’s West Side
which offers mental health support for Hmong elders. It served 12,210 patients last year, up from 8,585 in 2012. The agency will move its Downtown Madison headquarters to the West Side in early August, when it will change its name to Journey Health …
Migrants Bring Multi-Drug Resistant TB to Wisconsin
Twelve of these cases were from the Hmong people in Laos (though Case 2 in the 2014 article was categorized as “drug resistant,” not formally MDR-TB, it was probably included among these 12, as well as Case 2’s “close household contact”), four …
APL report highlights status of Hmong in the Badger State
The population of Hmong in Wisconsin is still growing, but more slowly than in the 1990s—and, as of 2010, most Hmong living in Wisconsin were born in the United States. While the 1990s saw a significant reduction in poverty among Hmong, they made fewer …
MPR news correspondent Doualy Xaykaothao, on the Hmong-American experience
MPR News correspondent Doualy Xaykaothao recently visited Wausau, Wisconsin to see what life is like there for Hmong immigrants and their children, decades after the Hmong fought for the U.S. in Laos and arrived as refugees in Wisconsin. It was a return …
Attorney seeks appeal of decisions by Social Security judge accused of ‘sexy’ comments
Pleuss often notes race in the hand-written case notes Wisconsin Watchdog has obtained. The attorney who voiced concerns about Pleuss’ rulings said he has seen Hmong claimants treated especially bad by the administrative law judge. “I found him …
New Sentencing Date, Attorney for Dylan Yang, Teen Convicted of Homicide
The sentencing date for 16-year-old Hmong American Dylan Yang has been rescheduled from July 12 to Sept. 6, and the teen has a new defense attorney. Tried as an adult in Marathon County Court in Wisconsin, Yang was found guilty of first-degree reckless …
Hmong veteran’s memorial dedication postponed
WAUSAU – The unveiling of a local Hmong Vietnam War Veteran’s Memorial is being postponed for a second time as its organizers grapple with the thorny question of whose names should be etched on the monument’s base. The memorial is intended to honor …
Wausau students buy custodian prosthetic arm
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Chong Lee remembers the explosion that took his arm. It’s 1968 and a group of Hmong children chase each other in the shade of the Laotian jungles that are their backyard. Their laughter, echoing through the village, is cut short by …
Business Journal recognizes two Clarke Square neighbors as Milwaukee women of influence
Her-Xiong is the founder and Executive Director of the Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA), a nonprofit organization founded in 2004. HAPA is a college preparatory K4-12 th grade charter school that provides students with rigorous academics, character …
