Please come to the County Grounds Coalition potluck social — and performance by local singer-songwriter and master guitarist Willy Porter — 6-9pm Friday, Dec. 1, at the Wauwatosa Lion's Club, 7336 St. James St. (one block north of State).

This month's Drinking Liberally Wauwatosa features a special guest: Tom Palzewicz, who's running to defeat GOP stalwart Jim Sensenbrenner in the 5th Congressional District.

he Wauwatosa Plan Commission will take up the Milwaukee County Economic Development Department’s rezoning application at its 7pm meeting this Monday, Nov. 13, at City Hall.

But that application does not reflect the letter, “intent or spirit” of the County Board’s original request of Wauwatosa to rezone the Sanctuary Woods and surrounding areas as “Parkland.” And 13 county supervisors, a majority of the County Board, have written the Plan Commission to tell them just that.

[From our friends at Indivisible]

House Republicans just released the text of the #TrumpTaxScam... and it’s a DISASTER-of-a-giveaway-to-fat-cat-Republican-donors (surprise, surprise). It adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit -- which will force deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security down the road -- all to give huge tax cuts to the wealthy, corporations, and to Donald Trump himself. 

We successfully fought off "repeal and replace" bills attacking Obamacare. We need to fight just as hard to defeat this reverse Robin Hood bill.

Besides a massive giveaway to the sinfully rich, the "tax reform" bill being proposed by the GOP-controlled Congress is a trojan horse set to destroy vital safety net programs, including Medicare.

It's time to fight.

You are invited to join Tosa Together and Indivisible Tosa for an opportunity to Stand Against Hate. We will line the streets at the intersection of Mayfair Road and North Avenue. 

Milwaukee County Economic Development Director James Tarantino has asked the Plan Commission to take his Grounds Northeast Quadrant rezoning application off its Monday, Oct. 9, agenda <https://wauwatosacitywi.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=2213>.

Perhaps it was the letter signed by 13 supervisors — a majority of the County Board — urging the Plan Commission to reject Mr. Tarantino's rezoning application, or the ruckus we've raised online and by word-of-mouth — or more probably a combination of all the above — but in any event, we can't let down our guard. It will be back — and so must we.

Watch this space.

They're at it again: The Senate Republicans are making a last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare, with the Graham-Cassidy bill.

They are hoping we're too tired, or simply not paying attention, and want to slip under our radar.

We can't let that happen.

5:45 - 7:30 p.m.
Washington Park Library
2121 N. Sherman Blvd. Milwaukee

Come learn from community leaders! Shauntay Nelson from Wisconsin Voices, Sachin Chheda of the Fair Elections Project, and former state senators Tim Cullen (D-Janesville) and Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) will speak.

Learn what you need to know about unfair voting maps, why the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the most important case of the decade against Wisconsin’s unfair voting maps, and what we can do to get fair voting maps!

RSVP: http://www.citizenactionwi.org/fair_maps_town_hall9-12-17

Dear Friends and Neighbors,