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?
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.
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.
I don't have a say in the matter since I don't live in Milwaukee but I like what he's done so far. I look forward to 20 more years of him in office.
The beauty of the fediverse is that you are using lemmy, I'm using kbin, and the two interoperate. :)
Every time I walk past that structure, I wonder why the performing arts center hasn't rebuilt it, yet. I guess if it is owned by the city, that would explain it.
The current museum is more than twice the size of the new building, which kind of bummed me out a little. It sounds like the new structure will be more efficient, though. The bulk of the collections at the current museum are used for research and are not on display but all those collections are now going to be visible from the exhibit floors so that the visitors can see them. I'm excited to see what's happening, next.
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.
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.
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.
Well, that's no good. 🤨