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Bruce Murphy
Flowers are Not Optional
NEM Flowers 16 & 17 - Curated by Gianluca Ricoveri
NEM FLOWERS 16
FEATURED WORKS BY: Alexis Rotella, Lydia Cassatt, Kat Leeds Meininger, Fleur Schim, Anndrea Lewis, Marian Seid Rubin, Julia Badakhshan, Hilary Packard.
NEM Flowers 17
FEATURED WORKS BY: Janis Brandenburg Lee, Bob Natalini, Bruce Murphy, Mim Keophumihae, Lee Atwell, Jane Schultz, Rosalie Heller, Peter Wilkin.
Well We Aren't There Yet: LGBTQ candidates:
Well We Aren’t There Yet: LGBTQ candidates:
About a month ago I wondered out loud when we would be able stop saying the first (*) to get elected (*) or the first (*) be become (*)…but I knew at the time that we were a long way from there.
So today’s article by Bruce Murphy at Urban Milwaukee wasn’t too much of a surprise…and I am talking about the Milwaukee Circuit Court campaign of Brett Blomme.
Mr. Murphy is just clearly…
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I Know I Promised, BUT: Theo Lipscomb Is Back In The News!
I Know I Promised, BUT: Theo Lipscomb Is Back In The News!
I thought I was done with the County Executive Race until the April general election. And I know I promised that I wasn’t going to post anything more about signatures or nomination papers…unless…there was some big new news. And…unfortunately, there is!
Today Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reportedthat County Board Chairman Theo Lipscomb used some of the same contracted…
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Walker Sued Over Elections, His Excuse?
Walker Sued Over Elections, His Excuse?
I have to call out bullshit on this one. Two Republican members of the state legislature in Madison resigned their seats in December to take positions in the Walker administration. The governor has not called for special electionsto fill those vacant seats, because it would be too expensive and a burden on the municipalities involved…and he’s being sued for his troubles. Well this is where the…
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Bruce Murphy: When journalists (don’t) attack
Bruce Murphy: When journalists (don’t) attack
STRING THEORY: When the tables were turned on Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, Wisconsin progressives like blogger Bruce Murphy discovered they actually like cops.
Milwaukee blogger Bruce Murphy’s recent piece in The Progressive magazine is a classic of an emerging genre: journalists who advocate limits on speech. In “Dark Money’s Front Man,”Murphy defends rogue Milwaukee County…
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Republican-proposed civil service changes: a "solution" in need of a problem
Republican-proposed civil service changes: a “solution” in need of a problem
Image courtesy One Wisconsin Now
In yet another case of Wisconsin’s Republicans proposing a “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist, Republican State Sen. Roger Roth and State Rep. Jim Steineke (pictured, left) have proposed drastic changes to Wisconsin’s civil service laws, which were implemented 110 years ago as a way of removing political partisanship and cronyism from state government.
Rep…
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Why a fancy new entertainment district around the Milwaukee Bucks' taxpayer-funded stadium may fail
Why a fancy new entertainment district around the Milwaukee Bucks’ taxpayer-funded stadium may fail
Earlier this week I highlighted comedian John Oliver’s takedown of the racket that is publicly financed sports stadiums, and yesterday Bruce Murphy of Urban Milwaukee outlined why a fancy entertainment district around the new Bucks arena may end up failing.
The bad news is that all of this development is likely to be cookie-cutter creations based on what generates profits in other cities. If these…
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