Category: Local Politics

from my email inbox this morning: I am excited to share the news with you that I am running for re-election as Milwaukee County Executive. Milwaukee County is a great place to live, and we have made a lot of progress addressing the challenges I inherited almost nine years ago,…

A while ago I wrote about my admiration of a threatened grove of trees outside the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. I held that grove as something of a sacred space in downtown Milwaukee. Well, we can refer to those trees in the past tense now. Crews on Saturday…

Oh please.. This is wrong on so many levels I can’t believe it made it to print. County Supervisor Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, who requested a study about the feasibility of growing hemp at the Domes, encouraged using one of the Domes to grow hemp “clones” in order to help save the…

With the current state laws around property tax freezes…school districts must get permission to exceed those limits by putting referendums (referenda?) on their local ballots. And they are some of the taxing authorities that love these low turnout odd year elections…because they can rouse supporters to vote…hopefully…and get the referendum…

Local school boards should be the perfect demonstration of grass roots politics. Local people who are concerned about children…who are concerned about education…who are in tune with the local community. But then shit like this happens: This school election cycle has been one of the more costly to date, with…

I am not going to weigh in on tearing down the Domes in this blog…or whether to move the Milwaukee Public Museum out of downtown…I have opinions but that is not what I am going to rant about in this post. The MPM and Mitchell Park Domes org put together…

It doesn’t surprise too many people in Milwaukee that this last combination of snow and cold and snow and snow has caused interruptions to the business of running the City of Milwaukee and environs. And that city and county and other local municipal road crews have been working overtime to…

After being snubbed by the GOP membership of the Wisconsin legislature, the Milwaukee native and former NFL Quarterback will be honored as part of Black History Month by the Milwaukee Common Council: Colin Kaepernick will be honored by the City of Milwaukee after Republican lawmakers in Madison rejected efforts to recognize him…

Early in January I questioned the use of Twitter by the president. He constantly uses @realDonaldTrump to expound on culture, society, and the media…all things related to the executive branch of the federal government…international relations…his campaign in 2020…and too often a stream of consciousness without any semblance of rationale thought….

After registering his candidacy for re-election, Ozaukee County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Voiland announced that he won’t seek a second term. Apparently the judge had some conflicts with his peers in the courthouse and the press as well. I am not aware of any issues with his courtroom…but his extracurricular…