Category: Infrastructure

ok…stolen from social media…but I am not old enough to remember a phone exactly like this one: but it does make me realize that the phone companies moved the cost of much of their infrastructure to your bank account instead of theirs… and I do remember when you could only…

just some food for thought.

W-a-a-a-a-a-y back in the day, I attended a Catholic parochial elementary school. We had seven teachers for eight classes…the choir director came in to teach music…but we had no art teacher…we had no library. But at that time Milwaukee channel 10, WMVS, (owned and operated by the Milwaukee Vocational School…

Or American Standard for that matter. While the president mucks around the nation at his rallies complaining about low flow toilets, other bathroom fixtures, and dishwashers being ineffective because of water flow…why aren’t our major fixture manufacturers and appliance manufacturers up in his face about defaming their products? I mean…

Yes, Foxconn is actually building some type of manufacturing facility in Racine County in Wisconsin. But they don’t seem to fully appreciate the building safety laws that we’ve all come to expect. What do I mean? Sprinkler systems in buildings. Something that we all take for granted in modern buildings….

Delaying maintenance on Milwaukee County infrastructure has been a key strategy out of the County Executive office under both Scott Walker and Chris Abele. And we’ve seen the continued round and round (no pun intended) about the lack of support for the crumbling Mitchel Park Conservatory…aka The Domes. They may…

Here’s another article on the implementation of electric scooter use in Milwaukee. Some interesting stuff…some fluff…but the last thing I thought we’d have to worry about is an invasion of privacy when using them: While Xie ( Candice Xie, the CEO of VeoRide) recognizes it is pretty easy to bypass some safety steps on scooter apps,…

Man oh man, you can almost hear the sphincters snap shut when Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos heard that state budget transportation dollars might be available for the Milwaukee Street Car (aka the Hop). You know the street car? The one the state legislatively prohibits…

This may seem bit a field for Blogging Blue…but Governor Evers signed a bill allowing local governments to permit and regulate the scooters in their areas. This is the result of the scooter controversy in Milwaukee last summer when Bird scooters started operating in the city unannounced. Naturally a number…

Regular readers know that I have written any number of similar posts over the years…often as former Governor Scott Walker and the GOP legislative leadership struggled with funding Wisconsin’s transportation needs (i.e. highways). And the problem hasn’t gone away but the players have changed. In his 2019 – 2021 budget…