Alderman Zielinski Goes All GoFundMe on Police and Fire Positions:

It’s starting to feel like Alderman Tony Zielinski is running for mayor (disclosure: I live in Alderman Zielinski’s aldermanic district). Today’s press release: Alderman Tony Zielinski is taking action to save police and firefighter positions after Mayor Tom Barrett’s announced 2018 proposed City Budget would lead to steep cuts to…

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MKE Common Council Joint Statement On Chief Flynn and Fire and Police Commission

Yesterday, in Milwaukee Common Council Needs to Make Up Its Mind, I promised to reprint their joint letter on the tempest in a tea cup around Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn and the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission…plus the mayor and city attorney. Well here it is with my comments…

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Milwaukee Common Council Needs to Make Up Its Mind

Over the past two weeks the Milwaukee Common Council has take two different positions in relation to the civilian Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission…the body that hires the Police and Fire Chiefs. First they wanted to usurp the commisision’s control over the police chief my requesting the state to change…

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Outrageous Taxation Suggestion on a Saturday Night!

Last Sunday, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton wrote an op-ed piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel touting Milwaukee as a great place to do business and the emphasizing the fact that it is the economic engine that drives the state of Wisconsin. Most of…

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State Representative Jonathan Brostoff Arrested In Sherman Park

For many of you from Milwaukee this is now old news already…but for those of you outside of Milwaukee…well you may have seen it too since it made the national news. But here are the particulars in a nutshell. Mourners continue to congregate in the area in Sherman Park where…

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Where Was Governor Walker On Sunday?

Actually Governor Scott Walker was in Glendale (a Milwaukee suburb just north of the city) on Sunday attending a Support The Blue Day rally. I don’t have an issue with that. But considering the events in Milwaukee Saturday night and his proximity to Sherman Park what he didn’t do is…

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Rep Brandtjen Plays the Fear and Loathing Card

Representative Janel Brandtjen (R – Menomonee Falls) represents Wisconsin’s 22nd Assembly district which includes portions of Washington, Waukesha and Milwaukee counties…including a portion of the City of Milwaukee. Despite that it seems she only became aware of urban crime earlier this month when a police chase ended in Washington County…

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Bob Donovan vs Robert Donovan?

I didn’t see the ballots for Milwaukee Aldermanic District #8…but did mayoral candidate Bob Donovan run as Robert Donovan to keep his seat in the 8th? I have seen it reported that way on two different local media sites…how odd.

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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…

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Bob Donovan Wants More Milwaukee Police

Or then again, apparently he doesn’t. In case you don’t know Mr. Donovan, he is a Milwaukee alderman who is running for mayor of Milwaukee against incumbent Tom Barrett. As Bruce Murphy at Urban Milwaukee pointed out today, Mr. Donovan likes to play do what I say…not what I do:…

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