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Tosa Wants UWM Research Center...But No Rail Connection To High-Tech Madison, Twin Cities

August 31, 2010 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen)
Wauwatosa is at war with itself.

The loser will be...Wauwatosa, where the city is wobbly on development and innovation.

On the one hand, its city leaders are probably going to lend millions of taxpayer dollars to get the new, sprawlified UWM Engineering School and private sector Innovation Center built on County Grounds property within the city boundaries.

But now its Mayor belatedly says "no" to a high-speed rail connection to leading high-tech business cities with bigger graduate campuses, like Madison, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Fear of talk radio and obeisance to Republican candidates and their anti-rail 'philosophy' is trumping common sense and economic growth in Wauwatosa.

OK, fine. Like Oconomowoc, Tosa can take itself off the high-speed rail line and forego business development at and near the high-speed rail station.

And also consign residents to longer freeway commutes as I-94, from Jefferson County to Miller Park, with the Zoo Interchange in between, gets scheduled for decades of construction.

One Flood Victim's Thoughtful Analysis Of The Issues, And The Facts

August 27, 2010 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen)
An impressively objective review of the MMSD, from someone whose basement was flooded in the recent historic rainfall.

And a helluva takedown of any thought that Chicago is a model for Milwaukee or the MMSD to follow.

Asian Carp Lawsuit In Court; The City Of Chicago, Industries And Businesses Object

August 24, 2010 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen)
Litigants trying to force changes to the Chicago shipping canal aimed at blocking the march towards the Great Lakes of the Asian carp are now opposed by a coalition of business, commercial and municipal interests.

Here is the coalition's latest release.

Walker -- Still Making It Up As He Goes Along

August 23, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

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Original Author: 
Steve Hanson

Scott Walker's latest ad is perhaps his strangest piece of work yet.  Taking totally unrelated clips of Obama and mixing them in with his own set of "facts" he tries to make it appear that he is somehow debating with Obama over the high-speed trail link between Milwaukee and Chicago.  I'm not sure why trains are currently the whipping boy of the Republican party, but I'll let WISC's investigative report on this ad speak for itself. 

Chicago Being Dragged Towards 20th-Century Sewerage Disinfection

August 20, 2010 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen)
Chicago may soon be required to stop treating the Chicago River as a toilet by initiating water treatments routine elsewhere.
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