This reflects a theme in Milwaukee politics. Urban “champions” in this city have too often thought that the answer to the city’s problems is to get someone else to foot the bill or to coerce others to participate in their preferred solutions. It is to fight expressways that allow people to move freely between the city and the suburbs. It is to trap municipal workers within the city through residency requirements. It was once the desire to impose metropolitan busing on students and is now hostility to the ability of low income families to choose their children’s schools. It is to “expand” the state base so that the city retains local control but avoids local responsibility.
Via Here are some more reflections on Brown @ Shark and Shepherd.