Posted by
Zach W on March 19, 2010, at 7:18 am
I smell a few recalls coming:
A proposal to cut pensions of elected Milwaukee County officials to match the same trim approved for other county workers was defeated Thursday by the County Board on a 7-7 vote.
The measure came up only after a substitute calling for a study of the county joining the state pension system [...]
Posted by
Zach W on February 27, 2010, at 10:18 pm
Scott Walker the gubernatorial candidate says, “I’m going to create 250,000 new jobs in Wisconsin,‘ while Scott Walker the Milwaukee County Executive says, “See ya…wouldn’t wanna be ya!” to the 76 Milwaukee County employees he handed pink slips to on Friday.
I guess this means Scott Walker will now have to create 250,076 jobs.
Posted by
Zach W on February 19, 2010, at 6:37 am
There’s a question being asked of Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker that he seems imply unable (more likely unwilling) to answer. The question is simple:
“How would you have plugged budget deficits without Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding?”
It’s a fair question, considering Walker used $130 million in stimulus funds to plug a hole in Milwaukee [...]
Posted by
Zach W on February 14, 2010, at 7:29 am
As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting, Milwaukee County could lose somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 million in federal and state aid for its Mental Health Complex over several reported cases of patients who were sexually assaulted by other patients. According to the report, Milwaukee County was directed in January to make numerous [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on February 5, 2010, at 11:45 am
Milwaukee ranked #1 on Forbes ranking of “America’s Drunkest Cities”, using a 5 point metric of state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism.
Posted by
Zach W on February 3, 2010, at 6:02 am
For those folks here in Milwaukee who think County Executive Scott Walker’s philosophy of “killing off” county government one department at a time in order to keep taxes as low as humanly possible is a great idea, read what happened when that
happened in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
This tax-averse city is about to learn what it [...]
Posted by
Zach W on January 14, 2010, at 5:41 am
In order to close a $5 million hole in his department’s budget, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke announced yesterday he plans release 120 inmates from the County Jail and reduce freeway patrols, two ideas which will no doubt enrage “law and order” conservatives all across southeastern Wisconsin. After all, neither idea bodes well for [...]
Posted by
Zach W on December 25, 2009, at 4:45 am
During Milwaukee County’s 2010 budget process, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker used his veto pen to shape the county’s budget as he saw fit, and in doing so, Walker imposed eight unpaid furlough days on sheriff’s deputies and corrections officers. When asked about the furloughs for deputies and corrections officers, Walker said he didn’t mean [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on December 18, 2009, at 6:31 pm
Scott Walker won’t even touch domestic partner benefits for County employees claiming the costs will doom the county. His County Board seems to be quaking in their boots on this issue too. Meanwhile elsewhere in the country we have the Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC) Commissioners voting to move forward with domestic partner [...]
Posted by
Zach W on December 18, 2009, at 7:19 am
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