During a visit to a business in Milwaukee, Governor Walker unveiled a plan to revitalize a strategic portion of Milwaukee’s inner city. The main focus of the program will be the defunct 30th street industrial corridor. Ironically that has been home to the Spanish train builder, Talgo, which the governor essentially put out of business [...]
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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 [...] Several weeks ago there was an article on the website of The Hispanic Conservative about candidate for County Supervisor Penny Sikora and the endorsement he received from County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic. Some of the points were touched on in a No Quarter piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by their staff writer Daniel Bice. At [...] More than a few months ago I promised profiles on the candidates for the aldermanic seat from the Milwaukee 14th district. Some family issues kept me from the initial timely follow up I proposed and after that there was a fair amount of procrastination on my part. So I owe both Mr. Jan Pierce and [...] Just a few Milwaukee-centric election-related tidbits that caught my eye as I was catching up on the news… Former Milwaukee Public School board member Jennifer Morales has filed to run for 8th District aldermanic seat now held by Bob Donovan. While acknowledging her challenge to an entrenched incumbent like Bob Donovan would make for a [...] Last week Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan, never one to shy away from some publicity, released his ten-point plan for fixing all that ails the City of Milwaukee. While Ald. Donovan’s “plan” was long on rhetoric attacking the leadership of others (but curiously, not his own), his plan was was equally as short of any substantive [...] Proving once again that the most dangerous place on the planet is the space between Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan and a TV camera or a microphone, Donovan called Monday for a referendum on a proposed modern streetcar line downtown. Speaking at Milwaukee’s City Hall, Donovan said response to the project from his constituents had been [...] |
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