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Out Of Service: Milwaukee Budget Cuts Hit Bus Lines: keep the residents from working, please!

Link to: Out Of Service: Milwaukee Budget Cuts Hit Bus Lines — And Keep Residents From Jobs.

Milwaukee bus heading west on Wisconsin Avenue

Interesting piece on cutbacks/fail of public transit in Milwaukee. This, on top of the failure of the new governor to see the future and accept federal money for a high speed rail link through the great state of Wisconsin.

When you cut back public transport – and assuming you’d still like the population to be working, to be paying those taxes you don’t have to if you’re a corporation or a rich person – what you’re really saying is that you’d like to require everyone to own a car.

That, or to live within walking or crawling distance of their employment, or to only work at companies fortunate enough to be on the bus lines that remain. And this is from the party of individual rights and freedoms? It seems contradictory to me. Taking away transit options actually makes people less free. So you’re against requiring folks to buy health insurance, but you’re all for making them own cars?

This, to me, is just another tactic from the right, following their usual playbook of “you’re on your own, buddy, get yourself a bike, take a cab, but don’t you ever rely on your nanny county government to provide a bus for you” (which, by the way, you help pay for with your taxes and your fares).

I never needed to own a car in Milwaukee when I lived there. The bus went everywhere. Not anymore.

(By the way, I used to work at that large building in the background when I was in college, when it was still First Wisconsin National Bank [long gone].)

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Madison in my Heart

Union Terrace, my favorite Madison spot. Lake Mendota in BG

I’ve been thinking about Madison a lot in the last few days. If you live under a rock or something, this is the reason why.

The photo on my left is the Union Terrace, where I’ve spent many hours. I probably would have done better on my studies at UW had I not spent so much time there, but the memories are delicious.

When I visit Wisconsin in the summertime, I always make a trip to the University to look around and hang out and have some Glory Days:

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Pointless, but fun, memories of youth. This Madison Memorial Union, however, was also the place where I learned a great deal about unions themselves. As I recall, the Union employees had/have a very strong union, and there were always fliers and whatnot lying around which explained their positions on things and their current negotiations. In fact, as I recall, the concept of “union” permeated the place.

As such, it was one of the primo places for college students to work, as there was decent pay and benefits, even if you were part-time. I remember still, how rare this was. I know I applied for various service-type jobs there but never got hired. Continue reading

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Mary appears in Wisconsin, but you won’t be taking a train there

Link to: Church affirms Virgin Mary apparition in Wisconsin – latimes.com.

Mary

I’m happy to report that Mary sightings from eons ago have stood the test of time and the Vatican, and that now the appearances of Mary near Champion (not far from Green Bay) have the same church weight as those in Lourdes and Fatima.

Honestly, I grew up in Wisconsin and lived there for nearly 20 years and never once heard of Mary’s landing at Champion. Not that this means it didn’t happen – but, well, you know I’m skeptical – especially since the recipient of the sightings was blind in one eye.
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But OK, you can believe this if you want and you can make your pilgrimage. But you won’t be taking the train there, because the good Republicans who’ve taken over the great state of Wisconsin have torpedoed the future – the building of a fully-paid-for segment of a high speed rail network that would go through Wisconsin.

Fair enough, this particular train wouldn’t go anywhere near Green Bay or Champion. But if you, say, were a car-less pilgrim from points east or west, you could get a hell of a lot (pardon me, Mary) closer before you had to rent a car or take a bus. There’s not many air options into Champion, I fear.

Perhaps now that she’s been made legit, this Champion Mary can work her influence on the poor soul of Governor-elect Scott Walker – who’s already lost thousands of jobs for Wisconsinites and he’s not even in office yet. Perhaps there’s a future in building a Mary Highway from Milwaukee or Madison to Champion, though I don’t believe you’ll be able to get stimulus funds for it.

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