{"id":1334,"date":"2010-03-23T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2010-03-23T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:37:11","slug":"edgewater-mosiman-churns-out-hammes-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/edgewater-mosiman-churns-out-hammes-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgewater: Mosiman Churns Out Hammes PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Dean Mosiman pumps out what could easily pass as a <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Wisconsin State Journal: &quot;Plan Commission endorses Edgewater project&quot; by Dean Mosiman\" href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/article_c5895612-363b-11df-a129-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">corporate PR piece<\/a> straight out of <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"The Hammes Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hammesco.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Dunn&#8217;s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t even rise to the level of stenographic journalism. Pitiful.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad our Plan Commission is packed with people who simply don&#8217;t understand the concept of appropriate scale.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Herr Schumacher, bossy &amp; derisive as ever, labeling a proposal to bring the project into proportion with its context, &#8220;borderline absurd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Borderline might better describe the view he sees in the mirror.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Wisconsin State Journal: &quot;Edgewater project finally clears a hurdle&quot; by Chris Rickert\" href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/article_513dcb84-323b-11df-bb7e-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">At least the UDC still has a large minority who understand the issue of context.<\/a> Unfortunately, it was a minority. <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Brenda Konkel's Blog (go down to comments section for vote count)\" href=\"http:\/\/brendakonkel.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/udc-on-edgewater-just-move-it-along.html\" target=\"_blank\">And we got no help when it counted from my own alder, Marsha Rummel, on this one<\/a>. (It has become abundantly clear that spatial, contextual issues are not her forte, nor does she seem interested in ramping up that knowledge. But as I explained in my last post, that is a weakness most progressives cling to.)<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable just how easily progressives cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Dean Mosiman pumps out what could easily pass as a corporate PR piece straight out of Bob Dunn&#8217;s office. It doesn&#8217;t even rise to the level of stenographic journalism. Pitiful. Too bad our Plan Commission is packed with people who simply don&#8217;t understand the concept of appropriate scale. Then there is Herr Schumacher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,8,452],"tags":[729,730,351,727,623,726,728,352],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-places-that-suck","category-urban-designplanninggeography","tag-bob-dunn","tag-chris-rickert","tag-dean-mosiman","tag-edgewater","tag-hammes-company","tag-marsha-rummel","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-wisconsin-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}