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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 3d

In Wisconsin at least, assessment law maintains apartments as a type of commercial property. Condos are residential though.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 3d

Watched the sunrise over Lake Michigan with 5,000 of my closest friends.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 4d

A deal that died three times and took five years to get done. Five Points Lots, now named for LaMarr Franklin, is open.

Urban Milwaukee @urbanmilwaukee.com · 5d

Friday Photos: LaMarr Franklin Lofts Open, With A Waiting List (Members only) by @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com

Friday Photos: LaMarr Franklin Lofts Open, With A Waiting List

High demand for affordable housing in Harambee.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 5d

Once a week or so. Union Pacific calls it the Marsh Job. I run into it every few months. bsky.app/profile/jera...

Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · May 26

Yes. It feeds this rail line

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 5d

In my head: “That’s an unusual bell sound behind me”

Engine starts whirring

Me: “Well that’s no semi”

Never a dull day biking to work

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 6d

ICE is planning a dramatic expansion in Milwaukee, a downtown office to go with its new northwest side field facility. (Members-only at @urbanmilwaukee.com ). urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/10/02/i...

ICE Seeks Downtown Milwaukee Office To Go With New Field Facility

Nationwide leasing push comes after One Big Beautiful Bill provided agency with billions.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 6d

I'm on @620wtmj.bsky.social starting at 11:15 talking all things Milwaukee. Tune in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkdT...

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 7d

Final Milwaukee Night Market of 2025 tonight. See you on Wisconsin Avenue!

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 8d

Wheelchair users will likely use paratransit shuttles, which are more costly on a per-ride basis (for government) and often perceived as a less desirable service (by those who can use fixed-route buses). A lose-lose.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 8d

This is bad.

Not because any of these routes were essential to the system, but because it portends a dramatic shrinking of the system that will eventually make individual routes less valuable, reduce ridership and trigger future cuts.

It is the start of a death spiral.

Urban Milwaukee @urbanmilwaukee.com · 8d

Transportation: 6 Bus Routes That Could Disappear in 2026

MCTS planning route cuts and modifications as it faces large annual operating deficits.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 8d

New corporate HQ tenant can’t save building from foreclosure urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/30/h...

Honey Creek Corporate Center Building Sold at Sheriff’s Auction

New corporate headquarters couldn't save building from foreclosure.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 13d

I had several conversations with him after our birthday, thankfully, but the moral of the story is: when you're thinking about a friend, send them that text message, don't wait.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 13d

One of my enduring memories of my birthday last year is failing to text Jonathan Brostoff (a fellow 9-25er) back with a joke about an issue we both cared about. Then he was tragically gone a little over a month later.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 13d

Without photographic evidence otherwise, I think we'll just have to assume I did.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 13d

MPD drops the hammer. License revocation requested for downtown Milwaukee nightclub connected to several shootings. urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/25/p...

Police Ask Council To Close Downtown Nightclub

Formal revocation filing triggers high-stakes hearing.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 15d

Here we go. Johnson is delivering his 2026 budget proposal to the council now.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 16d

Mayor Cavalier Johnson will kick off the Milwaukee 2026 budget process tomorrow.

He needs to close a $100 million hole and is proposing to do so with property and wheel tax increases, boosting fees and a variety of other tweaks.

Details: urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/22/m...

Mayor’s 2026 Budget Includes New Library, Hikes Property, Wheel Taxes

City contending with $100 million structural deficit.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 17d

My daughter has been in 4K for two full weeks.

Tonight she asked “how do you retire?” and “why is the weekend only two days?”

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 17d

One of those “politically motivated and baseless” cases where the subject accepts a $50,000 bribe on camera www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 17d

Felt like a subtly busy news week, @urbanmilwaukee.com’s top 10 most popular articles list confirms it was. urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/21/m...

The Week’s Greatest Hits

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18d

Still incredible which one of these guys is viewed by the state as reacting inappropriately.

Kimmel tweet

Instead of the angry finger- pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to
senseless gun violence.

Musk "The left is the party of murder" tweet.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 20d

Neutral has its statement about what is happening, a tax warrant from the state raises a different level of alarm.

urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/18/w...

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 20d

Work has halted at The Edison. CD Smith has removed its crew from the site. Article to follow at @urbanmilwaukee.com

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 20d

I'm on @620wtmj talking all things Milwaukee for most of the next hour. Tune in or watch online.

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Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 21d

So much cocaine is flowing into the US that prices are falling as demand surges.

Plus: Fed agents focused instead on immigration + cartels getting into timeshare fraud www.wsj.com/world/americ...

America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico’s New Drug King Cashes In

The Trump administration’s war on fentanyl created an opening for ‘El Señor Mencho’ to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by the ton.

www.wsj.com

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