Tag: clean water

AGAIN? Nobody had an issue for almost 30 years before the fat man couldn’t get ‘wet’. The Trump Administration wants to change the definition of a showerhead to let more water flow, addressing a pet peeve of the president who complains he isn’t getting wet enough. So showerheads — you…

After recent announcements out of Milwaukee County government and the Mayor of Milwaukee’s office complaining that Milwaukee sends more money to Madison than is sent back…we get this: Republican legislative leaders are raising concerns about a plan in Democratic Gov. Tony Evers budget that calls for borrowing $40 million to replace lead pipes…

For those of our readers who live outside of Wisconsin, you probably aren’t aware of the issues in Kewaunee County. But clean water in a state known for its water and dairy farming in the state that proudly declares itself as America’s Dairyland has been butting heads for the last…

Unfortunately it’s the United States of America. Here when I thought they said they wanted to take the country back, I thought like the Eisenhower years and Leave It To Beaver nostalgia…little did I know they meant the early industrial era of unrestrained air and water pollution, unsafe food, and…

Sometimes I am not so sure there isn’t a weekend editor or two at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel who enjoys a bit of irony and edits the news to grand effect! And the front page of the Saturday June 2nd edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel LOCAL section is the…

I should have posted this during the peak of the mining discussions…but it’s still relevant as the mining bill went back to committee and will eventually make another appearance.

Apparently Republicans in the State Assembly aren’t big fans of clean municipal drinking water, as evidenced by their support for Assembly Bill 23, which will prohibit the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from requiring municipal water systems to provide continuous disinfection of the water they provide to citizens (emphasis mine):…