{"id":3998,"date":"2007-09-06T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2017-11-24T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:26:55","slug":"milwaukee-having-no-budgetary-concerns-moves-into-unsecured-lending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/milwaukee-having-no-budgetary-concerns-moves-into-unsecured-lending\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee, Having No Budgetary Concerns, Moves Into Unsecured Lending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=658003\" target=\"_new\">City to fund part of office building repairs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The owners of a downtown Milwaukee office building will receive city financing to help with repairs &#8211; even though the comptroller&#8217;s office questions whether the funds are needed, and even as some aldermen fret that their decision could encourage other building owners to ask for cash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re setting a very dangerous precedent,&#8221; said Ald. Michael Murphy, one of two aldermen who opposed the financing plan.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say the project will make one of downtown&#8217;s oldest office buildings more competitive, while also breathing new life into an adjacent building that&#8217;s been empty for several years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, for Pete&#8217;s sake.  Correct me if I am wrong, but aren&#8217;t these sorts of &#8220;initiatives&#8221; coming faster and more frequently these days?  Are our municipal leaders that eager to hasten the death spiral of their cities finances?  <i>Yes<\/i>, as long as the ultimate crash comes after the municipal leaders have moved onto state or national leadership positions, where they can control bigger economies and initiate bigger five year plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City to fund part of office building repairs: The owners of a downtown Milwaukee office building will receive city financing to help with repairs &#8211; even though the comptroller&#8217;s office questions whether the funds are needed, and even as some aldermen fret that their decision could encourage other building owners to ask for cash. &#8220;We&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17848,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/17848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}