I just wanted to thank everyone who has been in touch regarding the recent events here in Milwaukee.
Indeed, they were close to home - about 13 blocks away.
We're fine, and have had absolutely no trouble, but the citizens in my neighborhood are hurting.
What you've seen on the television, the internet and in the papers was substantially true, but as a member of the Sherman Park neighborhood for better than 21 years, I can say that what the camera crews captured is certainly not representative of the community of committed neighbors and friends I share this area with.
One of the businesses on Burleigh that I have mentioned from time to time is Reynolds' Pasties. They are at 35th and Burleigh - right at the epicenter of much of the mayhem. While Slim may argue with me on this point, they make the best darned Pasty in the upper Midwest. They've been around since 1956, and survived this riot unscathed -
and undaunted. Today I bought lunch for a number of my fellow employees from Reynolds' for very selfish reasons - they're a pillar in the Sherman Park neighborhood, the food is first rate, and I don't want them leaving.