As part of our COVID Earners series focusing on how people of color who own small businesses in the Milwaukee area have survived in the COVID-19 economy, WUWM s Angelina Mosher Salazar talks to Joan Mari Luciano Vargas about how she transformed the crisis into opportunity. Listen • 3:01
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One of the long solar arrays at the new solar energy farm at Milwaukee s Mitchell Airport.
A small solar energy farm built on an old city of Milwaukee landfill near General Mitchell Airport is now producing about two megawatts of electricity enough for about 500 homes. It s a cooperative project between the Milwaukee, WE Energies and the Wisconsin Air National Guard 128th Refueling Wing. The Guard s base is just north of the 7,200 solar panels.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said it s the largest solar project in city history, and part of his all of the above solar strategy. All of the above this means I continue to support a robust and competitive market for rooftop solar energy, as well as large-scale renewable energy projects through collaboration with our local utility We Energies,” he said.
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martha: a fox news weather alert for you, floods and stormy weather forcing dozens of flights to be canceled at milwaukee s general mitchell airport, according to these, the airport is going to be closed until at least this afternoon. we re watching this weather pattern and will let you know if there are any developments in that area. rick: also, city officials in tempe, arizona releasing surveillance video of that rubber dam that broke on tuesday night. look at this. at first, everything looks normal, and then, all of the sudden, a flash of explosion as the dam collapses, the bursting dam sending almost a billion gallons of water into the salt river in under less than a day. all that remained was a shallow pool of water along the bottom. officials say it s going to take months to fix the dam and to refill that lake. martha: well, new threats