Sixteen years in the making, and my college degree is done!
I am now a college graduate who is eligible for a wider variety of unsatisfying and ultimately soul-crushing jobs!
Life is good. [...] edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
Sixteen years in the making, and my college degree is done!
I am now a college graduate who is eligible for a wider variety of unsatisfying and ultimately soul-crushing jobs!
Life is good. [...] 
…Which explains the low content feed from this blog. [...] 
Yimmys Yayo, by way of Daring Fireball, presents a a real khorosho costume for a malchick, in a post appropraitely titled Halloween Droog… [...] 
The City of Milwaukee’s Department of City Development is seeking bids to provide snow removal services at the Century City Site (formerly Tower Automotive) for the 2009-2010 season.
Bid information can be found on their websites:
http://www.mkedcd.org/30thstreet
http://www.mkedcd.org/rfp [...] 
Congratulations to Sachin Chheda, who was elected as chair of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County.
Thanks also to Tyrone Daniels for his candidacy, and to Martha Love for her many years of service. [...] 
Both seek to get out of Dodge before the house burns down. [...] 
It’s Bay View. Not “Bayview.”
It’s Riverwest. Not “River West.”
*sigh* [...] 
To borrow a page from Kinky Friedman, why the hell not? [...] 
When did Liz Cheney appear from nowhere to serve as her father’s spokesperson? [...] Gotta give the guy credit. With one fell swoop of his veto pen, the county executive has at once catered to the wishes of his hard-line conservative base and out-done fellow Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Nemann by trying to strike away the domestic partner benefits law (correction: authorization to conduct [...]
The web site for Tom Barrett’s gubernatorial race is up. It’s got just enough content for the moment.
Find it over at barrett4wisconsin.com. [...] 
Not that we didn’t expect this. I just hope his hand holds up! [...] The Journal Sentinel reports the latest news from the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors’ work on the proposed county budget. So far, the board has rejected “outsourcing of housekeeping and security jobs,” as well as “mainframe computer technician jobs and 25 airport firefighter jobs.”
The board also voted to “to [...]
Historic? Maybe, but without the Senate passing something, it’s not much.
Of course it is more than any Congress or presidential administration in recent history has accomplished.
What’s it say? What’s it allow or create? What’s it undo or disallow? I have no idea! But it’s almost historic! [...] 
My heart goes out to everyone who was affected by the shootings at Fort Hood today. [...] 
Old news at this point, but never too late for this blog. Here’s my post from Milwaukee County First about the county budget hearing that took place on Monday. [...] Last night was the first time I had attended a public hearing on the Milwaukee County budget. While driving in to Washington Park, I was struck by the sheer number of cars parked along the street and in the parking lots. It was evident that a lot of people had [...]
Woah.
Hi Tom, how’s it going? [...] 
This may be scarier than any perceived or actual split in American political enviornment. Link.
Remember how it used to be, when there were only a few nations that had nuclear weapons? Of course that was also before suicide bombing was commanplace. [...] 
Oh yeah. They’re doomed. [...] Rather than allow the beloved Koscuizko Community Center and Pelican Cove Pool to be closed at will by the county executive, the people of Milwaukee’s near west side have taken it upon themselvse to save their community’s resources. Here’s the text from their event’s Facebook page:
Please Join us for [...]
To think, what if American car maker company engineers put themselves to similar efforts over here?
Musical stairs in a Swedish subway station. [...] 
Congratulations, Mr. President!
And this was utterly predictable — tout Ă fait prĂ©visible. [...] According to the Journal Sentinel, the County Board was able to devote $500,000 for the construction of a “30-unit housing development for low-income residents with mental illness.”
The money for this came from a $2 million trust fund that the county had created for the purpose of aiding the county’s [...]
Here is the press release [PDF, 144 KB] from Milwaukee County Supervisors Marina Dimitrijevic, 4th District, Johnny L. Thomas, 18th District, John F. Weishan, Jr., 16th District, and Chris Larson, 14th District. According to the release, “The Supervisors developed the plan as an alternative to County Executive Scott Walker’s [...]
CBS 58 WDJT-TV has coverage of both the Milwaukee County First press conference, as well as the earlier press conference at which several county supervisors unveiled a plan to enhance existing pools and at the same time they create new revenue streams for the County.
WUWM 89.7-FM had [...]
Being “scozzafavaed” has been added to the Urban Dictionary. 
It’s good to be married. 