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During Thursday’s meeting of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, one of the items on their agenda was whether to privatize the transportation of inmates. The County Board chose to do so, authorizing Sheriff David Clarke to contract with G4S Wackenhut. The County Board chose to do so despite the poor history of Wackenhut in providing [...] Today was the first of Scott Walker’s non-listening sessions. There were about 50-60 people there. At least a third of them were Walker’s staffers. The other large majority were senior citizens. The rest of the crowd consisted of social advocates, union members as well as Supervisors Larson, West and Borkowski. To my surprise, for the first [...] Here we go again. Lisa Kaiser of the Shepherd Express had a column in last week’s issue regarding a study to possibly privatize the zoo. It’s sounds like a typical stunt by Scott Walker. First though, a snippet from the article shows that the zoo is in trouble due to Walker’s budgeting stunts: But the county’s ongoing budget [...] In an article appearing in the Third Coast Digest, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker was allowed to try to defend his record as county executive. The article is chock full of inaccuracies, such as when Walker tries to tell us that the transit system is doing just fine. While not the subject of this post, I [...] If you or a loved one had to go to the hospital, for whatever reason, you would expect to receive a certain level of care. You would expect the equipment to be sterile, the floors and the linen clean, and a certain amount of professionalism from the people taking care of you. And while you would [...] The Journal Sentinel reports the latest news from the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors’ work on the proposed county budget. So far, the board has rejected “outsourcing of housekeeping and security jobs,” as well as “mainframe computer technician jobs and 25 airport firefighter jobs.” The board also voted to “to restore 20 of 39 parks worker [...] There was once a fear that the beloved showcase of Milwaukee’s culture and history known as the Milwaukee Public Museum would need to go into bankruptcy and sell a portion of its collections, all due to an experiment in privatization gone horribly wrong. But the worst case scenario did not happen. As the Journal [...] |
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