Jeramey Jannene
@jeramey
President and co-founder of @urbanmilwaukee.com. Covering City Hall and all things city of Milwaukee. jeramey@urbanmilwaukee.com
With the 28,000 absentee votes still outstanding, Crowley won the City of Milwaukee in-person votes by 291 over Hong. 58,000 in-person ballots cast. Nail biter with city absentees still outstanding
This stretch of North Avenue west of 6th Street shouldn’t be two lanes eastbound. To the east it’s a two-lane street in a busy commercial corridor, but the narrowing leads to consistent vehicle racing and creates clearly dangerous conditions for pedestrians and motorists.
The simple pleasure of watching the chaos and order of thousands of ants.
I went for a run (9.5 sweaty miles) and, while doing so, a tipster noticed Piker came to canvass my house and check out our little free library.
Sometimes you’re going out for a run and you run into Hasan Piker firing up Francesca Hong canvassers. Other times you dodge reckless drivers. Never a dull moment in Milwaukee.
Marty Brooks and attorney Stephen Kravit are about to publicly make Brooks case to keep his job as head of the Wisconsin Center District
(Porting over my thread from the other site) Sidewalk architect #018: Curb extensions built near common drop off/pick up spots without protected bike lanes will create a safety risk for cyclists because drivers will block the bike lane. Milwaukee has at least two of these spots.
Waiting for VP JD Vance to speak on “protecting taxpayer dollars” in Milwaukee. Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden and Tony Wied in crowd.
Smell over. The corpse flower at the Mitchell Park Domes is done blooming and is a… corpse
I took my bike ride to work past all of the Giannis Antetokounmpo murals. I don’t know what happens to them next, but the civic pride they inspired was palpable.
Hadn’t seen this at Summerfest before: a storage box for stuff you can’t or don’t want to bring in. At 200 N Harbor Drive entrance
If you are missing streetcar rails from your street, a scrapper got them.
It would be hard to overstate how loud Banana Ball is at American Family Field.
Running out of space for delivery drivers to illegally park downtown. Milwaukee could fund a lot of transportation improvements if city got serious about citing these abusers for the hazards they create.
Dramatically misleading information going around about "data center" proposed for former Walmart at Midtown Center It is a data center, but at 19k sq ft, it is same size as planned library, half size of community center and only 10% of building It is not like $$$ rural campuses
MCTS invested in off-bus fare payment as part of Connect 1 bus rapid transit project (off bus payment yields faster boarding), but it can undone by a single bus in front of it boarding slowly. Riders stuck staring at their bus that can’t get to the platform
Sometimes you’re biking home on a Friday night, and then, bam, there is a cruise ship heading out #milwaukeeisawesometellyourfriends
Here she comes. Viking Polaris cruise ship, the largest on the Great Lakes, is due in Milwaukee at about 11 a.m.
Donald Trump ramps up misleading and dangerous rhetoric about how ballots are counted in advance of the 2026 midterms.
I'll miss Dan Bice. He was a rare triple threat: he hustled, was a great writer and had a mind as sharp as a tack. Amidst all the well-deserved praise, I would also like to offer this 2001 Milwaukee Magazine cover. 1/3
Impressively full house for a 1 pm screening of Seized, the story of how a city and police department decided to wrongfully raid a newspaper in Marion, Kansas. Subject Eric Meyer in attendance at @mkefilm.bsky.social
Deep Tunnel is back in normal operation in Milwaukee. It is now safe to resume doing laundry without knowing you’re pushing sewage into Lake Michigan.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District expecting lots of rain in Milwaukee. Issues the if it’s yellow let it mellow alert (AKA delay laundry) in an attempt to reduce or eliminate possible sewer overflow.
Common Ground Southeastern Wisconsin and City Attorney Evan Goyke announce campaign and lawsuit against alleged slumlord David Tomblin, an out-of-state real investor, and his firm Highgrove Holdings. Highgrove owns dozens of Milwaukee homes Details to follow at @urbanmilwaukee.com
Endlessly fascinated by what Walgreens chooses what to lock up. Do people really steal garbage bags, but only in large quantities?