Tom Barrett to get choo-choo trains
Michael Horne at Milwaukeeworld.com is reporting Congress settled the dispute between Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and City of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett over $91.5 million in federal...
View ArticleFind out who is going to pay for Tom Barrett’s sweet ride
The following is a letter from Brett Healy of the MacIver Institute regarding the proposed Milwaukee Streetcar Project. Healy explains how you can help find out if WE Energy customers from around the...
View ArticleClang clang clang rode the trolley – on tires
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett desires a “modern” streetcar that will cost millions to lay down the track and millions more to move the utility infrastructure underneath. But Milwaukee already has a...
View ArticleA streetcar undesired
The MacIver Institute is out with a study showing that the supposed economic benefits of a mega-million streetcar system in downtown Milwaukee are just there to be found. “Downtown landowners and...
View ArticleA Streetcar Named Disaster
Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin has launched a new website, “A Streetcar Named Disaster.” The website and the reasons behind it are the subject of this week’s column for the MacIver Institute....
View ArticleStreetcar undesired
The MacIver Institute has the report on making Milwaukee pay the utility infrastructure relocation costs for the proposed streetcar system that is already served by a bus line. MacIver News Service |...
View ArticleStreetcar to nowhere now going less places
When you can’t even get the Obama Administration to throw money away, it’s time to reconsider the whole project. The Department of Transportation rejected Milwaukee’s plan to expand the operation of...
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Given the great streetcar debate in Milwaukee right now, I think John Podhoretz asks an important, and even timely, question: What if the earliest symptom of Ebola is an irrational desire to take forms...
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