"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.

I thought that he had passed, a while ago. 99 years is a good run.

Spay and neuter, folks!

That looks amazing.

... or walk?

Fewer CO2 emissions is a good goal if you are going to buy a car. Keeping it as long as possible is a better goal.

By the time it goes from concept to release, I’m guessing that it will be ~2028. Hopefully Ford will give the Maverick an EV drivetrain by then.

Gah!

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.

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.

Going to Pius in the 90s, all of the windows were open after it started getting warm outside (since k12 schools don't seem to ever have AC). I could remember the constant sound practice over at the Milwaukee Mile. It would be neat to bring that back.

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

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.

There is a better argument to get folks to switch from twitter/faceboook to mastodon or instagram to pixelfed because the software is more flushed out. Kbin and Lemmy are still a little alpha. I'm a little afraid that if you get a normie to give the community a try, they will get frustrated.

More housing is always better than less housing. Something tells me that these are going to be "Luxury Apartments" though (priced at something like $2500/mo) and folks who are downsizing will willingly pay it because only 25 total condo units have been built in Milwaukee since 2011. We need more housing to drive down costs but we need more housing in more categories (market-rate apartments, luxury apartments, and especially condos).

If it keeps the buses running, the sewers working, and the parks open, I am all for it. I share @muffinrobotofdoom's concern, though. I also think that sales taxes disproportionately favor the wealthy. In an environment where the state legislature is actively trying to bankrupt the city, you have to work with what you can get.

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.

I backed the Kickstarter for them to open that place and then never went there. It's been on my to-do list for years.

I have a single-family home in Glendale and I think that I would like to switch to a condo at some point just so I have less of a reason to be around all of the time. I like to travel and with winters in Wisconsin getting colder and my desire to be cold decreasing with each polar vortex, I figured that renting a place in Mexico for 2-3mo every year might be nice. It's harder to do that when you have to maintain a SFH while you are away.

The county has a hell of a lot of "deferred maintenance" that has piled up since 2002. $31.6M won't even put a dent in it but hopefully, they can deal with the worst of it.

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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.

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.