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Steve Jagler, executive editor of BizTimes, took advantage of the nice weather to enjoy a couple rounds of golf. Well, enjoy as much as possible:
It’s not a surprise the golf courses, like the parks, are subpar from where they were just a number of years ago. Scott Walker has repeatedly cut workers and funding [...] One of the many things that came out of the County Board meeting today was the fact that due to higher than expected parking and landing fee revenues, the County Board was able to transfer enough money to restore the airport workers that were laid off in another one of Scott Walker’s political stunts. Supervisors John [...] As horrific as last week’s flood was, taking a human life, costing dozens of m Picture credit: Adam Schroepfer, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel families their homes, and racking up nearly $40 million dollars and counting in damage, remember, as unbelievable as it may seem, that it could have been worse. Imagine how bad things would have [...] County Supervisor Johnny Thomas issues a scathing press release calling out Scott Walker to move on the economic development positions he wanted to re-create after abolishing it two years ago. Here is the release in its entirety: Milwaukee County Supervisor Johnny L. Thomas released the following statement calling on County Executive Scott Walker to fill a [...] Beyond a doubt, the Milwaukee County Parks are the greatest legacy that Milwaukee’s early 20th century creators and administrators left for us. This was shown to me yet again at last night’s Chill on the Hill concert in Bay View. The free concert series features local bands, and brings people together from from area [...] Last month, Jason Haas alerted us to the fact that the County Board was going to try to ram through an ill-conceived and illegal motion to extend a lease to the War Memorial Park, so that they could literally pave it over and put up a parking lot. Fortunately, there were not enough votes to suspend [...] On Thursday, June 24, 2010, part of the facade on the O’Donnell Park parking structure suddenly fell off, killing a fifteen year boy and injuring two other people. Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the victims and their families as they try to cope with their injuries and loss. Within hours of this tragic [...] How’d you like a company to come in and use some questionable maneuvers to take over your front yard and make it into a parking lot? That’s what the company that operates the lakefront war memorial wants to do with a chunk of Milwaukee County’s lakefront park land. Our friends at The Park People of [...] As predicted, Scott Walker is planning on running his gubernatorial campaign Scott Walker hard at work on the budget on the backs of Milwaukee County citizens. JSOnline is giving a sneak preview of the 2011 recommended budgets which Walker’s departmental heads came up with based on the expectations that Walker gave them to follow. Needless to say, the [...] Milwaukee County Parks Director Sue Black was characterized in the Journal Sentinel as having “carefully tiptoed around the issue of parks funding” when speaking to “members of a county long-range planning group.” From what’s provided, we can see that Ms. Black said having dedicated funding “is definitely intriguing.” According to the story, Black also stated an [...] |
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