Sunday, June 12, 2022
Saturday, June 4, 2022
United States: Guns & Gun-Related Deaths
30 years of mass shootings by country: between 1983 to 2013, 119 mass shootings took place around the world—66% were in the U.S.
Mass shootings: US the worst in the world by far
There’s a new global ranking of gun deaths. Here’s where the U.S. stands
America's gun culture - in charts
On gun violence, the United States is an outlier
On gun violence, the United States is an outlier
Companies Keep Hiring
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 390,000 in May, above the 328,000 Dow Jones estimate.
The unemployment rate held at 3.6%, while a more encompassing jobless rate edged higher to 7.1%.
Average hourly earnings rose slightly less than expected but were still up 5.2% from a year ago.
Leisure and hospitality led gains, followed by professional and business services then warehousing and transportation. [source]
Fox News thinks all of this is bad. The delusion continues. Being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian continues.
Monday, May 30, 2022
Holiday Reading
Spineless, Selfish, Murderous Cowards: Republicans & The NRA
The NRA Convention Begins Today. You Can’t Bring Your Gun.Ted Cruz Stops Interview Rather Than Answer Why America Has So Many Mass ShootingsNationwide Protests Demanding Gun Control Planned By Youth-Led MovementMichael Moore Tells MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, “It’s Time To Repeal The Second Amendment”Why Steve Kerr's comments on Uvalde should stop you in your tracksThe Onion Calls Out Inaction Over Mass Shootings With Classic ResponseLatest Elementary School Massacre Not Enough For GOP To Reconsider Gun ControlGun map: Ownership by state
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Vote Democrat
If you were on the fence, if you were thinking of voting Republican, if you were thinking of not voting at all, here is a glaring example of why the majority of Americans should vote Democrat.
Wisconsin Abortion Rights Could Be Set Back Nearly 200 Years
Fall Primary - Tuesday, August 9
General Election - Tuesday, November 8
Republicans only care about power and cronyism. And, this latest Supreme Court leak shows they definitely do not give a shit about women.
Upcoming Elections:
General Election - Tuesday, November 8
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Midweek Reading
The strongest case for urban density isn’t aesthetics, it’s mathThe Lasting Legacy Of RedliningWant to make money? Become a mathematician. Seriously.“The Richest People on the Planet are Criminals”Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020Choice School Must Pay Property TaxesThe Lie About the Supreme Court Everyone Pretends to BelieveBrewers Cost Taxpayers $1.56 BillionMilwaukee deemed 'climate haven' for resistance against climate disasters
Friday, April 1, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Weekend Reading
How did Wisconsin get the largest telescope in the world?Mount Pleasant Pays For Foxconn Water ShortfallBari Weiss and Bill Maher said it’s time to live with COVID. A local doctor fact-checked them.What to know about the battle over Wisconsin health care workers now playing out in courtThe Fed's War on Inflation Is Really an Attack on Workers
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Highway to Hell
The highway cabal is alive and well in 2022. The highway growth machine is an antiquated giant that keeps chewing up transportation budgets while doing nothing to alleviate the congestion. The media is more than happy to continually produce content detailing how wonderful each new highway project will be. For example, I-94 project about progress, connection. Sadly, the results are never as promised.
Milwaukee has made major highway investments in the Plainfield Curve, the Marquette Interchange and the Zoo Interchange, among others, over the past few decades. All these resources and money have done nothing to alleviate traffic congestion or make commutes any smoother for drivers. In fact, it has made things much worse. The roads, and routes, are more complicated and congested than ever. Travel times have increased, not decreased.
The political power of the highway cabal is evidenced by the fact that induced demand is a well-known result of highway expansion, yet we keep expanding highways. As Benjamin Schneider states, "When traffic-clogged highways are expanded, new drivers quickly materialize to fill them." Or, as Adam Mann out it, "Building bigger roads actually makes traffic worse."
As the report The Congestion Con details:
In an expensive effort to curb congestion in urban regions, we have overwhelmingly prioritized one strategy: we have spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars widening and building new highways. We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles of road in the largest 100 urbanized areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42 percent. That rate of freeway expansion significantly outstripped the 32 percent growth in population in those regions over the same time period. Yet this strategy has utterly failed to “solve” the problem at hand—delay is up in those urbanized areas by a staggering 144 percent.
Those new lane-miles haven’t come cheap and we are spending billions to widen roads and seeing unimpressive, unpredictable results in return. Further, the urbanized areas expanding their freeways more rapidly aren’t necessarily having more success curbing congestion—in fact, in many cases the opposite is true.
If we really want to improve transportation safety, access to jobs, and mobility, we should be simply repairing (making safer) the roads we have while improving our modes of public transportation.
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