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A Note From The Executive Director

My favorite line in one of my all-time favorite movies "The Magnificent Seven", the evil Mexican bandit, Calvera (Eli Wallach), who had been robbing peasants in the little village asks gun-for-hire Chris (Yul Bryner), "If God did not want them...

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 | 111 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Tower Automotive: OK. We Own it. What now?

Tower Automotive: OK. We Own it. What now? The City of Milwaukee announced that it had agreed in principle with the owners of the former Tower Automotive/A.O. Smith site to purchase the remaining 84 of 148 acres for redevelopment. Both sides have...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009 | 534 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

What Happened to All Those Community Groups?

“Go over, next to the door and stand there. Between the door and that window. Just stand there.” In those days, I did mostly what I was told to do, and didn’t ask a lot of questions. It’s not that there were no answers, but often the answers...

Wednesday, 12 August 2009 | 642 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Moraine Versus Mongolia

Monday night, Labor Day 2009, HBO carried a documentary on the final days before the closing of the Moraine, Ohio GM Plant. It was heart wrenching. How do you sit there and watch people’s lives, as they have come to know it, end? Average, middle...

Thursday, 10 September 2009 | 532 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Lowe's Leaves Midtown and Other Bad News

Lowe's decision to leave Midtown Center was a body slam to the City of Milwaukee. If you’ve ever watched pro wrestling, body slams happen all the time, and sometimes the slamee wins. But for the moment, its not good news.

Wednesday, 07 October 2009 | 680 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

What the Chancellor Said

Last Thursday October 22nd, the Corridor Corporation, one of our sister agencies in the 30th St. Industrial Corridor, held a breakfast fund raiser at DRS. UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago gave the keynote address after which a panel of "reactors" got...

Monday, 02 November 2009 | 581 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Rich Oulahan

By Howard Snyder   When I heard that Mary Ann McNulty had died last week, it made me think about all of the community organizer  characters I know who have died over the past few years. ACE Backus, Ted Seaver, Tom Jackson (TJ), Nick Topping,...

Monday, 16 November 2009 | 429 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Not Too Hopeful About Jobs

The term "jobless recovery" slips off the tongue so easily now, to be thought of as a permanent condition. That is, it is to be expected that with each severe recession, jobs lost, for the most part, will not return to the American economy....

Monday, 25 January 2010 | 308 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Hell Freezes Over!

What is it that Spanish capitalists understand about Milwaukee that Metro Milwaukee capitalists don't understand about Milwaukee? A good deal, I guess (get the double entendre?). Well, hell finally froze on Tuesday when Governor Doyle and Mayor...

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 | 389 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more

Why I Love/Don't Love Phoenix

As my mother always said, “What’s not to love?” She was usually talking about me, of course. But today, I’ m talking about Phoenix. Well, there is a lot to love. It’s a great town filled with really nice people. The weather in the...

Thursday, 25 March 2010 | 308 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | Read more