Episode 001
Guests Bruce Murphy and Alderman Nik Kovac join Jeramey Jannene to talk city issues.
Urban Milwaukee
Thanks for checking out the first episode of Urban Milwaukee’s new podcast City Beat. We’re producing the podcast in partnership with Riverwest Radio. The show first runs live at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday’s on 104.1 FM.
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The first episode features host Jeramey Jannene discussing the top articles posted on Urban Milwaukee in the past week, as well as interviewing editor Bruce Murphy about the legality of the Foxconn deal. Jannene also talks with Alderman Nik Kovac about the recently passed city budget and what residents can expect in upcoming budgets.
We end the show with a Pedestrian Observation, this week about the potential of sneckdowns to guide better street design.
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Articles Discussed
City Beat
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Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic
Sep 26th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
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MilWALKee Walks
Aug 29th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
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Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Aug 22nd, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
In addition to the health crises that Alderman Kovac called out: Lead, Sexually Transmitted Disease and Infant Mortality there are always the endemic crises of Alcohol and Tobacco related deaths. Alcohol and Tobacco retail outlets are ubiquitous.
Nik could have include the opioid epidemic in the list too.
The Milwaukee City-County Heroin, Opioid and Cocaine Task Force released their final report at their meeting on November 30. Thanks to the leadership of Alderman Murphy and the diligent efforts of the Task Force members, many lives will be saved as a result of their efforts.
Here is a link to the video of the November 30 meeting http://milwaukee.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1808
All of the documents submitted to and by the Task Force are stored with these two Common Council Files:
2018 CC File no 171812 https://milwaukee.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3489406&GUID=843F651F-D3FA-4E84-ACB6-94A9A830ABB3&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=171812
2017 CC File no 161554 https://milwaukee.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2965576&GUID=0563F682-215F-46EF-B751-663D43F417EC&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=161554