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Rise, Fall, Resilience … Renaissance?

Dave Steele | Thu, Nov 22nd, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, employment, renaissance, strength of industry, pfister and vogel, freeway, milwaukee industry | 1

Milwaukee’s history can be summed up in a neat, three-part narrative: rise, fall, resilience. We tell ourselves this narrative in an ongoing effort to define what kind of city Milwaukee is today, and where exactly it is headed.For those of us who came after the fall, however, such a pat retelling of Brew City’s past rings somewhat hollow. For as a thirty-something Milwaukeean whose roots in the city go back three generations, I have little firsthand knowledge of…
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