2016 Milwaukee County Parks Traveling Beer Gardens Schedule

Here is the schedule for the Milwaukee County Parks Traveling Beer Gardens! Here it is in PDF format. Holler Park is in the 14th district, which I represent. The permanent Humboldt Park Beer Garden and South Shore Park Terrace, and Estabrook Park Beer Garden, will all be reopening, dates TBD.

County Board to hold public hearing on Mitchell Park Domes [updated]

The (mostly?) temporary  closure of the Mitchell Park Domes due to safety concerns is old news by now. This is a direct result of the deferred maintenance that has plagued the Milwaukee County Parks System for far too many years now — and I argue deferred maintenance is a direct cause of the tragedy at O’Donnell Park

Bird’s eye view of the recommended 2014 Milwaukee County budget process

The Milwaukee County Board is analyzing and modifying the Milwaukee County Executive’s Proposed 2014 Budget. Milwaukee County’s budget is approximately $1.3 Billion. This may seem like a large amount, and it is. From this sum, Milwaukee County pays for services ranging from Sheriff’s department, to the Courts system to the Gold Medal Award Winning County

Milwaukee County 2012 budget hearings, Day 7 (10/24/2011)

The amount of activity on the county board appears to increase in direct proportion to the proximity of any meeting, and even more so as budget passage nears. Things are really picking up now, and we have about two weeks before our final budget-passing marathon meeting. Here’s what the finance committee looked at today: Milwaukee

Budget season awaits

I took a moment to see how the upcoming county budget season would shape out. I’d known for a while that the new budget will come from County Executive Chris Abele’s office on September 29. And the budget process would end in early November. That was correct, November 7th will be our truly, epically long

Revival

So, it’s been a while. How ya been? I’ve been madly busy with my job as a county supervisor. Generally speaking, it’s been some of the most fulfilling work I’ve had the pleasure of doing. A large part of my job is helping people get things done. Naturally most of that falls on the county level, but

How dire is the County’s future? Very much so, says forthcoming report

I find no joy in the possibility of the Milwaukee County government being forced to declare bankruptcy. That’s the prediction of a “super-secret report” by the Greater Milwaukee Committee that somehow was not so secret that an executive summary got into Dan Bice’s hands. It’s a testament to the effects of the old school politicking that

Longacre and other great local music at “Chill on the Hill” free concerts in Milwaukee

I’ve felt that the bands in this year’s roster for the Chill on the Hill concert in Bay View have been shining examples of Milwaukee’s better stuff. Two of these bands, Longacre and Conrad Plymouth, played at tonight’s Chill on the Hill concert in Bay View. Longacre describes itself as creating “a musical blend, shadows

Tragedy at O’Donnell Park parking garage

I will quote Milwaukee County First’s reaction to this event: Disaster struck Milwaukee this afternoon as a large section of concrete fell off the side of the parking structure at O’Donnell park. The concrete struck three people, injuring two and killing a fifteen year old boy. The Milwaukee Business Journal is reporting that OSHA is

South Shore Farmers Market 2010 season begins tomorrow

Many people in and around Milwaukee eagerly await the kick off of the South Shore Farmers Market. The good news is that it starts tomorrow at South Shore Park. It runs from 8:00am to 12:00pm. Former Bay View resident John Manke is so excited about it that he practically invokes Smoove B: “We will have