Cain would be proud of Milwaukee! Finally someone else is selling their birthright! The beer that made Milwaukee famous - you want someone else to own the water you make beer with?

Milwaukee - proof that, on at least a local level, socialist government and democract do get along and even prosper. The socialist mayors (Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan and Frank Zeidler) are all local heroes, and the years of socialist mayoralty are among the most prosperous and beneficial that Milwaukee ever knew.

P.S.: Wasn't it Esau who sold his birthright, not Cain?

There was a time when Milwaukee was recognized as one of Americas greatest, cleanest, and most livable cities, largely thanks to those "dangerous" socialists. How I wish we had them back. Now, after Wisconsin's noble history of clean government has been raped and pillaged by former governor Tommy Thompson, we face dealing with the insane rise of county exec Scott Walker and his steadfast dedication to the privatization of anything somebody will buy. I'm waiting for the sidewalks and the streets to be sold soon.

The sale of water rights in Milwaukee is about the stupidest thing that could possibly happen.

Esau - yes! Cain came to mind because of killing the water system - I guess, thanks

Selling those same rights in Cincinnati will be just about as dumb. Cincy used to be a beer town, now just a beer drinking town, making Sam Adams for midwest at old Hudepohl plant - sigh.

One of my ancestors - a multi-great grandfather on my maternal side - was the founder of Cincinnati's water works.

Strange coincidence. and yesterday, I was walking on river front past where the first pumping station was built. Cincinnati had one of the first city-owned water systems in USA

According to family records, an immigrant from Scotland named McCash (I'm not sure, but I think his first name was David) came to the area around the time Cincinnati was chartered and built some carts to bring water into the village, and it was this cartage operation that eventually became the water works. Somewhere, I have copies of this info, and if I find it, I'll post it. Descendents of this McCash continued westward on the Barlow and Oregon trails. Eventually, my mother was born in Washington and was brought back to the Midwest when she married my father.