By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver
Institute A city of Milwaukee Common Council committee has given
the go ahead on building a street car system from Milwaukee's
lower east side to Milwaukee's downtown. Nobody is really sure
how much the system is even going to cost and, due to some
utility issues, they're not even sure where the street cars are
going to actually run. Perhaps it will be worth every pun on the
Tennessee William's title, "A Streetcar Named Desire." It's the
"Streetcars Named Expensive." Or it's "A Streetcar Named
Pointless." WTMJ-AM's Charlie Sykes called it, "A Streetcar
Named Boondoggle." If the system does get built, the first two
cars need to be named Blanche and Stella or I won't be held
responsible for Milwaukee's lack of imagination. The cars can be
christened with bottles of Schlitz, as long as we're going to
the future backwards. Milwaukee can even ask Lenny and Squiggy
from Laverne and Shirley to do the christening. Lenny, Squiggy,
Tennessee Williams, would a