When five 3rd District aldermanic candidates gathered at Gordon Park Pavilion on a bitterly cold night last month, about 75 residents turned out to hear their positions on important city and neighborhood issues. Predictably, the most controversial questions centered around development, parking, and homeowner-student relations in the UWM area.
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Posted inBusiness Briefs
November 2003
Professional Turd Herders – Institute for Innovative Concepts – Tramont Corporation workers join UE
Posted inEditorials
Riverwest, Crime, and Once upon a Time
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
Our police department won’t tell us a damn thing. All media requests must be cleared by the chief’s office; the “community liaison” has a job description that seems to be, as far as I can tell, not telling anybody anything. It seems the only way to get good information about crime or crime trends in our neighborhood is to witness it directly or belong to RNAmail, the Riverwest e-mail network with more than 300 members, who keep each other up to date on crime in the area, among many other, more positive things.
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Mayoral Candidates on Freeway Expansion
Nine mayoral candidates were asked “As mayor, would you support or oppose SEWRPC’s proposed $6.5 billion freeway expansion and reconstruction project, and what action would you take based on your position?” Seven replied….
Posted inCommentary & Opinion
A Puppet of the School Board?
by Jennifer Morales, 5th District Director, Milwaukee Board of School Directors
Imagine you are running for Mayor of Milwaukee and a state legislator sympathetic to your campaign points out that with one piece of legislation she could multiply the clout you would have: double the size of your budget, bring thousands more employees under your control, and shape the destinies of thousands of children.
If that piece of legislation resulted in the disenfranchisement of every voter in the city, would you do it anyway to win? Tom Barrett would.
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