Walker tries to stymie anti-freeway expansion initiatives of city residents – State budget cuts kill Riverwest plan to clean contaminated soil at Garden Park – Greening Milwaukee FREE CD-ROM to be released soon – County drives W-2 food stamp case workers onto the streets – Aldermanic Council to be reduced – Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods coalition aims to influence downtown development – SAGE receives $2,500 grant
Milwaukee County
Posted inNeighborhood News
SEWRPC’s Freeway Expansion Plan: Impact on Milwaukee Neighborhoods
The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) has proposed redesigning the freeway system and adding new lanes to 127 miles of the region’s freeways. In Milwaukee County, more lanes would be added to I-894, I-45, I-43, and I-94. The plan would cost $6.25 billion, or $17.2 million per month — not including interest on any borrowing — for 30 years. No funding source has been identified. SEWRPC says finding a way to pay for its plans is not its responsibility.
Posted inEditorials
If You Pave It, They Will Come
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
If you haven’t heard much about the proposed freeway expansion for Milwaukee County and surrounding environs, I’m not surprised. Local media has done an abysmal job of covering this issue.
Posted inUncategorized
Polish Town
Excerpt from Chapter 2 of Riverwest: A Community History
by Tom Tolan
Part 2 of 6 in a series.
It is 4:30 a.m. on what will be a warm Friday in early autumn, 1920. Fourteen-year-old Clem Doberneck is one of the first in the neighborhood to rise. He eats breakfast with his father, who must catch an early streetcar to his job at the Miller Brewery, and by 5 a.m. is out of his family’s Booth Street house, beginning his morning rounds. From Locust Street to Reservoir Avenue, between Richards Street and the river, he walks from streetlight to streetlight, turning off the gas. Gradually, the sky becomes lighter….
Posted inFurther Down Stream
February 2003
Local union dispute – COA receives anti-drug grant – Murgia named influential LGBT Latina – Colon to run for mayor – Help local food pantries – Winter parking rules enforced – Register bikes online for free – District 5 crime reduction meeting report – Ald. Johnson-Odom sponsors ordinance requiring local businesses to acquire annual licenses or one-time permits from the city to host “shows or exhibitions.” – WWMLKJD? Feingold and Norquist support affirmative action but blast war, suburban sprawl at YMCA breakfast.
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