Meet the new route, same as the old route
Well, not quite the same; the newest proposal for running choo-choos between Milwaukee and Kenosha has a few changes designed to screw Joe Taxpayer: It will no longer be a Metra train. That means those...
View Article“Financing” the local portion of the commuter choo-choo
The “geniuses” behind the KRM white elephant, er, commuter rail have a real wiener of an idea to finance this albatross: a 0.05% sales tax in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha Counties to provide $8...
View ArticleWalker on transit – the expanded version
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker previously made his feelings on City of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s desire for streetcars known via Owen and Charlie. Now, it’s my turn to get the (expanded)...
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Here come the trains and taxes
(H/T – Charlie Sykes, who properly invokes the BOHICA acronym) Greg Bump at WisPolitics stayed up late so I wouldn’t have to, and he documented the extent of the screwing of the taxpayers regarding...
View ArticleNML wants to soak you so it doesn’t have to pay
(H/T – Patrick McIlheran via Dad29) Edward Zore, CEO of Northwestern Mutual Life, had perhaps the dumbest letter ever published in yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Let’s start by fisking said...
View ArticleRTA madness expanded, explained – and revised
Revisions/extensions (4:55 pm 6/12/2009) – I’ve moved this post (originally published 4:28 pm 6/11/2009) to the top. The summary from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau is in (pages 38-42), and things get...
View ArticleRTA Madness – Senate edition
The Senate passed their own version of Daughter-of-Necrobudget on a virtual-party-line vote (Jim Sullivan, the target of a recall, was allowed to vote no along with every Republican). Others will cover...
View ArticleThe penultimate budget is in the pipeline
Revisions and extensions part 13 (7:09 pm 6/26/2009) – Since the DemoBudget has passed the Assembly 51-46, and we’re now at the final act of the biennial sign-and-hack from Gov. Jim Doyle, I’ll be...
View ArticleThursday Hot Read – Patrick McIlheran’s “The Great Train Robbery”
Not only did I “borrow” the concept from Charlie Sykes, but today I also am “borrowing” the source material. While Charlie focused on the killing of Badger Coach (as 71,000 of the 120,000 who take...
View ArticlePresenting the Sgt. Schultz administration, rail edition
The MacIver Institute is looking into the sudden disappearance of Oconomowoc from the list of the Milwaukee-Madison car-speed rail line stops after the locals started questioning the train. They filed...
View ArticleLobbyist HO Train derailed
The Wisconsin State Journal carried an Associated Press dispatch saying that, a week after committing Wisconsin to spend all $810 million of Porkulus money to create a train to make lobbyists think...
View ArticleStripping away the histrionics – off the rails edition
When one looks past the latest whining from those deeply saddened by the death of the Lobbyist HO Train that was going to run from Milwaukee to Madison, the bottom line becomes far less than what they...
View ArticleNumber of the day – well under 400
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that would be the total number of people who decided to take the train to Chicago from Milwaukee on Sunday. The record-setting number was a bit over triple...
View Article$100,000 per commuting beneficiary is still too much
I’m disappointed to learn that Scott Walker has applied for at least $150 million in Porkulus funds for the Hiawatha Milwaukee-to-Madison line to turn that into a “bit faster than car speed” line....
View Article“Financing” the local portion of the commuter choo-choo
The “geniuses” behind the KRM white elephant, er, commuter rail have a real wiener of an idea to finance this albatross: a 0.05% sales tax in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha Counties to provide $8...
View ArticleWalker on transit – the expanded version
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker previously made his feelings on City of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s desire for streetcars known via Owen and Charlie. Now, it’s my turn to get the (expanded)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here come the trains and taxes
(H/T – Charlie Sykes, who properly invokes the BOHICA acronym) Greg Bump at WisPolitics stayed up late so I wouldn’t have to, and he documented the extent of the screwing of the taxpayers regarding...
View ArticleNML wants to soak you so it doesn’t have to pay
(H/T – Patrick McIlheran via Dad29) Edward Zore, CEO of Northwestern Mutual Life, had perhaps the dumbest letter ever published in yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Let’s start by fisking said...
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