My Cito (the black lab in the front) came up from Kentucky. I was told at the time that the Wisconsin Humane Society gets a lot of dogs from the South because Wisconsinites adopt and Southerners just don’t.

My office is barely inside the security zone. The boundries are on the north and east sides of the parking lot. I suspect that I am going to be coming down with a heck of a cold that will keep me home for the duration of the RNC.

With most motorcycles, you can bump start them and the vast majority of the wiring on the bike is exposed to everybody and everything. I can see them falling into a similar space as the voiture sans permis.

Last year, the talking heads were predicting a 76% chance of recession. Someone seems to be really eager for some relevance.

Well, that’s no good. 🤨

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3_kUaYFJA

Colectivo is good but I wouldn’t sleep on Stone Creek from Milwaukee. They retooled their cafes a decade ago to be less like Starbucks or Caribou and more of a geekier experience. Their selection is pretty baller, their educational programs are neat (https://www.stonecreekcoffee.com/public-classes/), and their devotion to sustainability is admirable, IMHO.

$6.3 million feels like a lot. Did they even build anything there?

Hopefully someone like Hawthorne Coffee Roasters, Colectivo, Stone Creek Coffee, or Anodyne will find value in the space. It would suck if it was turned into something other than a coffee shop.

I would love to see The Hop have a stop there but it is having trouble getting as far as the convention center. There are light rail systems that are on the street part of the time and on rail lines part of the time. I wonder if it would be possible to do something like that with The Hop to extend its reach?

I remember the first snow of the year being in late October / early November over the past few years. I just mowed my lawn again, yesterday. That feels very weird.

I used to work for a UW-system university and we always took the open meetings laws super seriously. It was to the point where you had to read a script when a meeting goes into closed session to cover your ass.

Somebody new bought Midtown Center and a new tenant is moving into the space that the city normally leases for the voting site. It sounds like they lease it for a month when an election approaches and then let it go again but a normal business is willing to grab it for longer. My voting site in Glendale keeps moving (a university, a high school, a bar, a library, etc). A disused retail space is probably pretty conveint but I’m sure there is a church basement somewhere if they can’t work something out with Midtown Center.

The Milwaukee Clipper (the boat that the Lake Express replaced) primarily went between Milwaukee and Muskegon but they did seasonal routes all over Lake Michigan. Folks complain about the cost of running high-speed passenger rail from Milwaukee to Green Bay but what if there was another ferry route going from Chicago to Milwaukee and onward to Green Bay? I would use it.

This was supposed to be dealt with back in May. Even if the continuing resolution gets through the Senate, I’m guessing that we are going to be back here a month from now but with no house speaker (after Lauren Boebert and company force him out of the speakership for being “too liberal”).

“If voters want change, they should go to the polls” doesn’t work anymore. I don’t know if it is the Democrats’ spinelessness or the fact that the GOP is doing everything that they can to gerrymander and rig elections, or when that fails, just try to overthrow the damn government. We really need a plan B, though.

That looks amazing.

I’ve never been to the original but I’ve driven past it often. I have high hopes for the new one.

Over the past 2 years, Republican-controlled states have been quitting the Electronic Registration Information Center like it’s going out of style. Conspiracy theorists insist that it is some sort of liberal front for controlling elections. In reality, it is just a way of making sure that someone isn’t registered to vote in two states at the same time. I’m just glad that Evers is there to veto the bill.

Theaters like The Oriental, The Downer, The Times, and The Avalon are damn treasures. Unlike Marcus and AMC theaters (with their dozen screens and acres of parking), the indie theaters were built at a neighborhood scale. I really like being able to walk or bike to a theater on a Sunday afternoon. In recent memory, we’ve lost The Downer, The Fox Bay, and the Rosebud. The Rivoli Theatre up in Cedarburg has stayed open by leaning on a committed group of volunteers and community fundraising. Last year, the folks who own The Fox Bay tried to get $773,000 from the Downtown Incentive Grant program to help pay for the renovation and reopening of it. This summer the Fox Bay Theater opened its doors for a short high school film festival. I’m hoping that non-profit community groups (like Milwaukee Film) and community involvement can save as many of these places as possible.