John Gurda on Kinnickinnic River

Removing concrete channels from rivers is definitely my idea of great news. In today's Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee’s premier historian, John Gurda takes us down memory lane along the Kinnickinnic River, which is about to undergo a major—and welcome—transformation:

Kinnickinnic River ripe for rebirth.

Mass Transit at 150 and Gurda blasts Walker

I always look forward to John Gurda's column, which appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel every first Sunday of the month. As Milwaukee's historian, he is consistently insightful and entertaining. And although he writes from a historian's perspective, he manages to keep an eye on how history informs the present.

Today's column, about the 150th anniversary of mass transit in Milwaukee, is a particularly outstanding one:

150 years and transit's condition is 'guarded'