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.

@quortez I can

I’m hoping that finishing the lakefront line allows them to start building momentum for a third line. (Maybe from the intermodal station to the convention center or MATC?)

It’s pretty good.

August 2023 ridership was down from July 2023 (65,749) and June 2023 (50,293), but up from August 2022 (40,319). July 2023 ridership was that darn streetcar’s highest ridership since September 2019.

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.