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 County is still suffering with […]
Whither MKE County: Time For A Dedicated Park District
By now all of you have read at least one article about the perceived risk of having the county executive sell Milwaukee County park land without input from the county board or the general public. The recent changes in state law that allow the county executive to sell non-park land without notice and without competitive […]
Doesn’t Sanfelippo Understand How Democracy Works?
State Representative Joe Sanfelippo recently had an op-ed piece published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explaining his authoring of a bill to limit the issuance of township and county IDs. There are probably a lot of things to talk about related to the purported issuance of such IDs but I am not going to […]
County Supervisor Pat Jursik has announced that she will not run for re-election in 2016. Here’s the whole story from JSOnline:
Milwaukee County Supervisor Patricia Jursik will not seek re-election in April to a third full term on the County Board.
Jursik has represented the 8th District communities of St. Francis, Cudahy and South […]
Over at The Political Environment, James Rowen has a great piece noting the County Board’s decision to spend even more taxpayer money on the Estabrook Park dam, which many residents believe should be torn down.
That sound of water running surrounding the Milwaukee County Board’s decision preserving the broken obstruction known as the […]
In case you missed the news today, as rumored previously, County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic has accepted the position of state director of the Wisconsin Working Families Party. The new party is affiliated with national Working Families Party and will support progressive candidates in non-partisan elections as well as progressive Democratic candidates.
In an interview […]
JSOnline says that County Board Chair Marina Dimitrijevic is stepping down from the board chair effective Thursday July 30th:
Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic is stepping down from the post she has held since April 2012.
On Friday, Dimitrijevic notified supervisors of a scheduled July 30 election for a new board chair […]
The Hypocrisy Of The County Board About O’Donnell Park
I maybe could have resurrected my Whither Milwaukee County for this…and it does have one future installment coming…but not yet:
It was announced in several venues today (including Facebook postings by County Board Chair Marina Dimitrijevic) that the Milwaukee Art Museum will make an offer to purchase O’Donnell Park from the county.
Just a […]
While many have rightfully been talking about the awful provision in the state budget that would essentially do away with Wisconsin’s open records laws, there’s another provision within the budget that should be very disturbing for anyone who lives in Milwaukee County and values checks and balances in government.
The Milwaukee County Ethics Board has found probable cause that Supervisor John Weishan violated the county ethics code by using tax dollars to send a mailing to voters in a state Assembly district where he later ran unsuccessfully for office.
A closed-door hearing on the matter had been scheduled […]
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