Saturday Open Thread: AB 85 vs. OUR Milwaukee County
You’ve all had plenty of time to digest the media coverage and dozens of op ed pieces in favor of and against Representative Joe Sanfelippo’s Assembly Bill 85 to reform Milwaukee County Government…and...
View ArticlePublic hearing will allow Milwaukee County residents an opportunity to speak...
Intergovernmental Relations Committee to Hold Public Hearing on Local Reform Measures 4 p.m. Monday, April 22, 2013 Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th St., Room 203 R Public hearing will allow...
View ArticleAlderman Bob Donovan Said $11.55 An Hour Not The Kind Of Jobs We Want In...
Just a quick hit for a Sunday morning…in an article in this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rick Romell reviews the reasons that BuySeasons didn’t bring it’s 450 permanent (300 of them full time)...
View ArticleState lawmakers to host public hearing on changes to local control in...
From the email from the Milwaukee Democratic Legislative Caucus; State lawmakers to host public hearing on changes to local control in Milwaukee County MADISON – Local residents are invited to share...
View ArticleWEDC Pay Ain’t Enough To Keep Talent But Proposed Supervisor Pay Is No Problem!
Last week Zach wrote about Governor Walker’s prominent policy initiative, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and their inability to retain qualified staff…particularly a Chief Financial...
View ArticleWhither Manitowoc County: Board Passes Resolution in Support of Milwaukee...
Quite frankly I am surprised that it has taken this long for other county boards to take notice and then take action: MANITOWOC, Wis. —The Manitowoc County supervisors have passed a resolution...
View ArticleWhither Milwaukee County: Why Hasn’t Scott Walker Signed THE Bill?
I would have thought that Governor Walker signing Representative Joe Sanfelippo’s Assembly Bill 85 to neuter the Milwaukee County Board was a slam dunk. Or is the governor really too busy jet setting...
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It’s A Done Deal: Scott Walker Signs Bill to Gut Milwaukee County Board
Governor Scott Walker found his way to Milwaukee today and signed Assembly Bill 85 to gut the power and authority of Milwaukee County’s Board of Directors: Gov. Scott Walker said Friday Milwaukee...
View ArticleCounty Board set to remove county’s Corporate Counsel for first time ever
The turmoil surrounding the Milwaukee County Board is neverending… In a surprise move, Corporation Counsel Kimberly Walker has been notified that at least 12 of the 18 County Board members are planning...
View ArticleAbele Appointed Corporation Counsel To Be Removed By Board
Earlier today Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ‘watchdog columnist’ Daniel Bice reported that the Milwaukee County Board is prepared to remove County Executive Chris Abele’s appointed County Corporation...
View ArticleWhither MKE County: Sheldon Lubar Will Show You Whither You Mindless Plotters
Mr Sheldon Lubar, Milwaukee business icon and one of the Machiavellian triumvirate behind the gutting of Milwaukee County elective government apparently is in a snit about the County Board’s firing of...
View ArticleExcuses,Excuses…
It was a day of expected disappointment and unexpected behavior. I attended today’s Milwaukee County Board meeting…which was so graciously hosted by MATC’s downtown campus in a packed room of people...
View ArticleAbele Rejects Hotel Wage Provision
Developers would like to include an extended stay hotel as part of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee’s Innovation Campus at the county grounds in Wauwatosa. The campus is being developed by an...
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Milwaukee’s New Desolation Row
I’ve been sitting on the pictures in this post since last October and have been mentally composing what I wanted to say about them and the area depicted. But I just never got around to writing the...
View ArticleChris Abele: It’s Time To Start Acting Like A Leader
Yesterday The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s JSOnline website published two more articles that outline the dysfunction that continues to plague Milwaukee County government. Now I am not holding the...
View ArticleMiscalculations In County Budget Now Total $3 Million
So under legislation passed by his new cronies in Madison, County Executive Chris Abele got a hot shot County Controller who gets to check out the budget…and of course County Executive Abele has his...
View ArticleHey, I Think We Found Another Miscalculation In The County Budget!
In an article posted to JSOnline this evening, writer Steve Schultze of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel outlines the staff cuts and budget cuts for the County Board that County Executive Chris Abele has...
View ArticleWhither MKE County: The April Fool’s Referendum
It’s amazing that the last nail in the coffin of the Milwaukee County Board as we know it is a bogus referendum that is just a week away. Except for two very minor articles in the Milwaukee Journal...
View ArticleDissimulation on County Board Referendum Right Down To The Wire
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is taking the lies and obfuscations about the Act 14 required referendum on Milwaukee County Board pay and benefits right down to the wire. In a front page article in...
View ArticleWhither MKE County: Downsizing Physical Plant!
County Supervisor Pat Jursik is preparing a resolution to reduce the number of buildings that Milwaukee County holds at their City Campus facility and start the move to dispose of other underutilized...
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