Tag: Chris Abele

from my email inbox this morning: I am excited to share the news with you that I am running for re-election as Milwaukee County Executive. Milwaukee County is a great place to live, and we have made a lot of progress addressing the challenges I inherited almost nine years ago,…

From our email in box today…a missive from Milwaukee County Board Chairman, Theodore Lipscomb: You are invited to attend a town hall meeting to learn more about the solutions we are proposing to avoid a funding crisis in Milwaukee County. For too long, Milwaukee County has been forced to delay necessary…

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele is reintroducing his push for a $60 wheel tax and metered parking at the lakefront to expand county revenues. I may have more on that later. But one of the reasons he wants to expand county revenues is to pay for the opioid epidemic. User…

It’s been 15 or so years since the original Milwaukee County pensions scandal drove County Executive Tom Ament from office and introduced the ambitious Scott Walker as his replacement…the man who was going to clean it all up. Well Mr. Walker has gone on to polluting bigger ponds and Milwaukee…

This is sure to be popular. A $60 vehicle registration fee, or wheel tax, is needed beginning in 2017 to help pay for Milwaukee County’s bus transit system and costs of repairing county highways and parkways, County Executive Chris Abele said Thursday. The new fee would be a dedicated source…

Following the Sherman Park riots on August 13th and 14th, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke decided to close Milwaukee County park, Sherman Park, at 6 PM each day. The normal time for county parks to close is 10 PM. In the short term this made some sense but in the…

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele has endorsed State Senator Lena Taylor for reelection. “I’m proud to endorse Senator Lena Taylor’s reelection on August 9. Lena has the track record of getting things done that we need in the State Capitol. Whether…

Many of our local readers are probably aware of the history behind the state-mandated Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program – or OSPP. Essentially the state has required the county executive to take over 3 underperforming Milwaukee Public Schools per year and hand them over to private operators. The county executive…

Here’s a photo of Chris Larson, who’s challenging incumbent Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, doing something I’ve heard Abele hasn’t really brought himself to do much of….taking questions from citizens of Milwaukee County.

Over the past ten days or so I received a number of unusual campaign style literature pieces. They prominently feature Milwaukee 14th District Alderman Tony Zielinski although they aren’t actually election related pieces. I live in the 14th so it makes sense that I received them. But they obviously were…