Another City Land grab for more unwanted trails.
Guest editorial by Vern Bentley
Mayor Chiavatero has requested
an affidavit from a Real Estate professional to prove that trails
operating across private property cause land values to fall more than
10% as compared to property that has no trails in place. He received an
answer but still insists on extending a trail into still another area.
Alert: Regular NB School Board Meeting is TUESDAY
Attention: There is no New Berlin school board-work session meeting Monday.
Nor will there be a Regular NB School Board Meeting at City Hall near the end of the month, as usual.
Wisconsin Senate Passes Great Lakes Compact
On March 6, the Senate passed the Great Lakes Compact.
The vote was 26-6. Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) was among the handful who voted no.
Big Basketball Wins Today for Ike Lions & UW Badgers
The New Berlin Eisenhower Boys Basketball team beat Adams-Friendship 54-41--- and won its first Division 2 WIAA State Championship. Awesome. Congratulations Eisenhower Lions!
Reminder: Dr. Kreutzer's Financial Presentation Is Tonight
NBPS Superintendent Paul Kreutzer's financial presentation will be held tonight at 7 pm at New Berlin West in the Performing Arts Center.
You will have an opportunity to aks him questions following his presentation.
NBCRG Spin & Blunders
My NOW blog, unlike New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government’s (NBCRG), conveys a person’s viewpoint (mine)---not a political action committee’s. And unlike NBCRG, I’ve never used my blog to endorse candidates for local public offices.
Ralph Heun’s (New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government) March 7 diatribe was so full of malarkey, it would take multiple blog entries to respond to all of it.
Young People support our Troops. Please pitch in and help too.
“WE CARE!!!”
The Eisenhower Middle School Student Council & Miss Whitty are proud to announce their “FOR DANIELLE & COMPANY” project.
New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government Election Choices.
The New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government (NBCRG) has invited all candidates for public office to our meetings for many years, to make a presentation on what the candidates vision is for the various offices.
This year we again asked all
candidates to make their views known to our members. They spoke, we
listened and asked questions, and then we decided if we wanted to make
any endorsements. We did consider all statements on their
positions as an indication of what could be expected in the
future.
2 Notable Court Rulings: Circuit Court Sides With City; Wis. Supreme Court Rules Against Harenda Enterprises, Inc
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (March 18 CommunityWatch & March 19 Business section of newspaper) brings us the exciting news that the courts have given the Deer Creek Inn and Conference Center the go-ahead.
Prescription Drug Abuse and Theft
Some individuals are so determined or desperate to get their hands on certain prescription drugs, they swipe their own family’s medications or rob pharmacies.
Earlier this month, New BerlinNOW reported that Stone Pharmacy,14105 Greenfield Ave. was robbed of drugs (sucessfully or unsuccessfully) three times plus there was an unsuccessful attempt to rob the pharmacy of OxyContin in February ( the thief fled empty handed). NOW had also reported that Walgreens at 3855 S. Moorland Rd. was robbed of $2,300 worth of OxyContin in January.
Holding Ald. Ken Harenda Accountable
New Berlin aldermen receive $10,000 annually in taxpayer-funded salary and expenses (the Council President gets an extra $600). I don’t think it’s asking too much of Council President/Alderman Ken Harenda to do his homework and come prepared to vote/take action on items that are on the meeting agendas.
NBCRG April 1, Ballot recommendations!
There is a Wisconsin State Referendum Question on the Ballot which is as follows:
QUESTION 1: "Partial Veto, Shall Section 10 (1)(c) of article V of the constitution be amended to prohibit the governor, in exercising his or her partial veto authority, from creating a new sentence by combining parts of two or more sentences of the enrolled bill?"
Observations About NBCRG
New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government (NBCRG) is using its NOW blog again to endorse candidates for election.
Re: Current NBCRG Endorsements
New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government (NBCRG) has endorsed a passel of candidates, including these fellows------
Ted Wysocki, who is the only candidate running for alderman in District 2. NBCRG is endorsing him anyway and apparently doesn't care about Wysocki's history of poor leadership decisions in public office that helped get the City into costly losing legal battles/lawsuits.
