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Is Supervisor Peggy Romo West using text messaging to avoid transparency?

On Wednesday I wrote about Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy Romo West’s use of text messaging to fire her Legislative Aide. At the time I noted that Sup. West was playing “hard to get” when it came to answering very specific questions I had regarding the frequency of her use of text messages to conduct County [...]

Let’s play the Peggy West guessing game!

On April 25, 2012 Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy Romo West terminated the employment of her Legislative Aide (LA). While Romo West’s termination of her now-former LA isn’t necessarily newsworthy, what’s curious about the termination is how Supervisor Romo West chose to terminate her Legislative Aide’s employment.

So how exactly did Supervisor Romo West fire her [...]

Recall Memo: June 5: Student Voting: YES YOU CAN!

On of our readers asked about student voting on an earlier Recall Memo: June 5th about student voting. I should have looked into this earlier because I know a great many college students are on their way home already following the end of their school year.

Well, here are the facts directly from the Government [...]

Recall Memo: June 5: Absentee ballots

After a brief kerfuffle at the Government Accountability Board, it was determined that absentee ballots for the June 5th Recall elections should be mailed on Friday May 18th. SO, if you usually vote absentee or requested an absentee ballot for the recall, if you didn’t get yours with the Saturday mail, watch for it tomorrow!! [...]

New Video – You’re Fired about Scott Walker by rapper Jasiri X

New video from Progressive Rapper Jasiri X – You’re Fired Scott Walker! [...]

Imperial Walker Voids Local Control

Unbelievable… Small government conservative my ass.

Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Thursday a measure that voids Milwaukee’s paid sick leave ordinance that was passed by voters in a referendum and upheld recently by the state Court of Appeals.

Walker, in Milwaukee on Thursday for the annual Governor’s Prayer Breakfast at the Italian Community Center, [...]

Declining City of Milwaukee property values mean shrunken tax revenues

Most Milwaukee property owners received their property assessments with yesterday’s mail. And most of them will see decreases in their assessed valuations (me included). Over all the valuations dropped 8.9% or with residential declines of nearly $2.3 billion. From the April 27, 2012, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Citywide, assessed residential values fell nearly $2.3 billion, [...]

MKE Journal Sentinel has moment of glasnost in recall coverage

I apologize to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political writers, Mr. Joel Stein and Mr. Patrick Marley, for being so tardy in making this post. I have been critical of them for ignoring two of the candidates in the Democratic primary for governor in a number of their posts (my post one and two). But on April [...]

Ald. Bob Donovan ousted as chair of Milwaukee’s Public Safety Committee

Ouch….that’s gonna leave a mark! Outspoken Milwaukee Ald. Bob Donovan was ousted Wednesday from the Common Council’s Public Safety Committee, losing the chairmanship that he had used as a highly visible platform.

Reshuffling committee assignments for the council’s 2012-’16 term, council President Willie Hines Jr. named Ald. Terry Witkowski, a former police safety director, to [...]

Reprsentative Chris Taylor Endorses Kathleen Falk

Freshman Rep. Christine Taylor Endorses Kathleen Falk;

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Is Supervisor Peggy Romo West using text messaging to avoid transparency?

Let’s play the Peggy West guessing game!

Recall Memo: June 5: Student Voting: YES YOU CAN!

Recall Memo: June 5: Absentee ballots

New Video – You’re Fired about Scott Walker by rapper Jasiri X

Declining City of Milwaukee property values mean shrunken tax revenues

MKE Journal Sentinel has moment of glasnost in recall coverage

Ald. Bob Donovan ousted as chair of Milwaukee’s Public Safety Committee

Reprsentative Chris Taylor Endorses Kathleen Falk

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