edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
The Milwaukee County Board will hold a vote today to either authorize or kill a study to look into the possibility of providing benefits for domestic partners of Milwaukee County employees.
True to form, my County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin decided to flip flop on the issue and voted against recommending to [...]
Last Friday, WISN-TV reported on the consequences of Scott Walker’s poorly thought out and wrong-minded plan to privatize all of the County’s housekeeping staff. It was embarrassing to see Milwaukee County Courthouse looking so dirty and disgusting with piles of trash and clogged toilets.
Earlier this week, they went back [...]
DOWNTOWN DANCE CLUB WILL BE OPEN FOR HOLIDAY SEASONScore a victory for Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, whose decision to veto a measure that would lay the groundwork for granting domestic partnership benefits to county employees was sustained on a 5-2 vote by members of the Milwaukee County Board’s Personnel Committee.
However, instead of taking the position that [...]
My latest column for milwaukeemoms.com is now available: Combat the “Winter Break Blues” in your Milwaukee County Parks
Sometimes over winter break, it can be hard for parents to find fun activities for their kids. I the latest column, I point out some of the options for fun winter activities [...]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has posted an article which highlights one of the biggest problems with Milwaukee County government - blatant discrimination.
The article gives two examples. The first is the act of the newly shaken up Personnel Committee, which was recently [...]
Image courtesy WISN
If you’ve been to the Milwaukee County Courthouse lately, you know that calling it a mess would be an understatement. At every turn there’s trash strewn on the floors, bathrooms that appear to be in dire need of some serious sanitizing, and [...]
Scott Walker wants everyone to “Believe in Wisconsin Again.”
Really, he does.
In fact, Scott Walker believes in Wisconsin so much that after eliminating 90 county housekeeping jobs right before Thanksgiving, he outsourced cleaning services for the Milwaukee County Courthouse to Mid-American Cleaning Contractors, a company based out of Columbus, [...]
The contract for recently privatized cleaning operations within several Milwaukee County departments has been awarded to “Mid-American Cleaning Contractors” by County Executive Scott Walker.
“Mid-American Cleaning Contractors” is based in Columbus Ohio, not in Milwaukee County or Wisconsin for that matter. If this sounds familiar, it is. Last [...]
In advance of upcoming contract talks with Milwaukee County’s employee unions, Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway shook up the membership of the board’s Personnel Committee yesterday, removing Supervisors Paul Cesarz, John Weishan, Marina Dimitrijevic, and Johnny Thomas. Replacing them on the personnel committee will be Supervisors Joseph Rice, [...]
One of the hot topics that the state legislature is trying to tackle before they go on Christmas break is the issue of drunk driving. It is an important issue and a major problem in society today.
Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee County had [...]
