Couple quick pieces of good news:
- Milwaukee County Government is finally, finally, going to start utilizing this Internet thing. The City of Milwaukee does a wonderful job with having live webcasts of meetings, documents in electronic form, etc. It helps to make Government more transparent and is a move long overdue. Kudos to Supervisor Dimitrijevic for spearheading this effort.
- Awards for Milwaukee County Parks were once a frequent thing, but not so much in the last decade. So it’s good when then they get some positive attention. The American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration has Milwaukee County Parks as one of the top four contenders for the 2009 National Gold Medal for Excellence in the Park and Recreation Management Program. Basically, an award for the best managed park program in the nation. Doing a lot with a little gets attention.
- It’s good to see Milwaukee Police Chief getting some national attention for his stand against the wild west mentality of everyone slinging a gun around Milwaukee. People who don’t live in big cities just can’t understand why the idea of “open carry” is a bad thing. I’ve been listening to the people the media is interviewing in favor of “open carry” and am just amazed when they talk about the need for “protection”, and hence a loaded handgun, when they’re weeding the garden in their front yard. In Pewaukee. During the day. If you don’t feel safe enough to not wear a handgun for “protection” where you choose to live – especially in the suburbs – then you’ve got bigger issues.
Happy post-Earth Day!
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
Gee, no credit for Scott Walker for the County good news? Stunning (sarcasm)
And perhaps the Chicken Little mentality about how bad the parks are bit overplayer, don’t you think so?
Good news from the county? How could that be when the modern Attila runs the show.
That would be because he has nothing to do with running the parks, unless I follow that phrase with “into the ground”.
Can’t have it both ways, either he is running the parks and doing an excellent job or he is not running the parks and the parks doing fine with the funding they are receiving.
I live in a big city, Lansing, MI. (Well, sort of big, over 100,000 population) And the state capitol as well. I and many others openly carry our pistols all around town. No problems, no shoot outs, no arrests by Lansing or State PD. And we even have concealed carry permits too.
I guess maybe cheese heads can’t keep their cool? ;)