Brew City

Last year, hot off that success, I looked at the new lefty hitter in Milwaukee, Christian Yelich. […] Also, don’t forget how, in 1982, I projected Cecil Cooper to smash over 30 rockets in Brew City and he ended up with 32. (Okay, I made that up and hat-tip to friend and podcast partner Scott Pianowski of Yahoo for that joke.)

2019 March 8, Michael Salfino, “Can Mike Moustakas win a home run crown in Milwaukee?”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2026

A forthcoming paper by Desmond and Kristin L. Perkins found that Section 8 households in Milwaukee are charged $51 to $68 more each month than renter households in comparable neighborhoods. That surcharge costs taxpayers an extra $3.8 million a year in the Brew City alone, money that could have provided an additional 620 families with shelter.

2016 July 1, Jake Blumgart, “What an Affordable Housing Moonshot Would Look Like”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2018