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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Last week I posted a short blog about Bay View attorney Jan Pierce challenging Alderman Tony Zielinski for the seat. Little did I know that this little blog which I expected only a handful of people to care about would garner the most interest and attention of anything I’ve posted. Yes it doesn’t look [...]

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I started working on this blog about a week ago and then set it aside when Tim John posted that he was attending Drinking Liberally. I thought I’d talk to him a bit and add any new information before posting. Well he showed up but I got distracted by other conversations. Well after reading Continue Reading

The City of Milwaukee announced yesterday that American Micro Detection Systems, or AMDS, has chosen Milwaukee for its manufacturing and support operations:
The company is looking to move in to a facility at the Reed Street yards or the tannery in the Walker’s Point neighborhood.
The California-based company builds equipment that detects [...]

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Via Sprawled Out comes news that a shuttered Menard’s store on North 76th Street in Milwaukee will be converted to an indoor mountain bike park:
Trek Bicycle Corp. didn’t just give Ray Petro a little boost to ensure he would be able to open a Ray’s Indoor MTB Park for riders in [...]

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