Passing the sales tax was a hugely important measure to avoid deeper cuts to County services. We needed to pass it to live to fight another day.
It is becoming increasingly clear that that "other day" is already here.
@IsaacRowlett Feel like it’s way too low. Easy for people to write it off as typical gov talk of needing more. But I think most people are blissfully unaware of the impending cliff local govs are facing
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not solving anything.”
After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
Paying Craig Counsell $40M to leave Milwaukee for Chicago so that he could guide Chicago to consecutive seasons finishing behind Milwaukee in the NL Central, then arrive back in Milwaukee for the postseason and lose there, too, is a really tough look.
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.