The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

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The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

The Don Rosen Show · Wed Jan 17, 2024

I am halfway through my 20s and I am done.

Oh my God, I'm sick of my 20s.

I'm so sick of people telling me to enjoy them.

They're not fun.

They are 10 years of asking yourself,

will I outgrow this or is it a problem?

Like, is this a phase or a demon?

I just need to know.

Like, am I fun or should I go to a meeting?

That's not what helped me.

And people get upset when I complain about being young.

I don't want to come up to me after I show furious.

She's like, you should really appreciate this time of your life.

Because someday you're going to have a family like me

and you're really going to miss it.

You're your kids buried.

I'm just trying to get to my car,

ghost of Christmas future.

Oh days,

sometimes I remember,

fun days,

feeling shit about my child.

Grabbing movies,

having books and movies,

having books,

having books.

Good morning at 7-07 at WRJM Radio,

I'm Don Rose and I want to thank you for joining us here

on this Tuesday Wednesday morning.

What gets up next up?

When you get up at 4 in the morning,

it's never right.

With me today,

we're going to have our Congressional set of the game.

We're going to have two local politics,

and we're going to talk to Keith,

and with me is Denise Lockwood from Racine County I,

she's going to be doing the grilling.

What's the day?

So get ready.

You think 60 minutes is tough?

You think daylight is the way to get ready?

Where are we going to get ready?

I've been following her from afar.

Good, bad, ugly and ugly.

It's good.

Why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself

and your history and not from the day you were born.

Yeah.

Well, I'm a veteran of the United States Marine Corps,

graduated from Carthage College,

Master's degree from the University of Phoenix,

and presently at the Regent University

in my third year of seminary for divinity.

Yeah, and you were also an alderman at one time?

Yes, I forgot.

No, no, no.

I was an alderman in the first district for two terms.

Right.

And you used to go back and forth with Jeff Cole.

You were a humble guy because you have more than that.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I was like, what haven't you done?

Sometimes you kind of forget some of the things

and then they have to be spurned by somebody else.

And then you remember everything that's,

oh, yeah, I did that.

You have a master's degree in business management.

If I had a master's degree,

I would put it on my lapel,

a little bit, and I said, I have a master's degree.

So one of the questions I have for you is,

why do you want to be the fourth district alderman again?

They don't call it alderman anymore.

They call it alder.

They drop the person, the woman, the man,

they set the alder.

Why would you want to be, of course, the district alder again?

Well, I tell you what happened.

I got back to town and some of the veterans asked me

to participate at the American Legion on Douglas.

So I joined the American Legion and had an opportunity

to run up and down Douglas Avenue every day.

That was pretty much my routine at the time.

And then all of a sudden somebody came to me and they said,

well, the fourth district alderman is not running.

So I looked around, gathered my thoughts,

and I said, well, why not run?

And here you are.

Amanda Pathraff was the older that's not running for election again.

And this is the fourth district.

This includes my district, by the way.

So this is where I live.

I need your vote.

And yes, so we're going to have three of the four.

I can't get hold of the fourth one.

My phone calls and everything.

And the funny thing is this person lives on the street and back of me.

I can see the house.

She lives in.

I don't know.

They're on a stone at the door.

Hey, answer your phone.

So Denise Lockwood is here also from Racine County.

We have a lot of questions to ask you today.

And let me just start off by saying my question is,

what are you going to do with fourth district alderman?

What's on the table?

Why do we, what do you plan on doing?

Specifically, we have a high button issue in the fourth district as I was going around

and knocking on some doors and talking to some of the citizens of the fourth district.

They were mentioning the demolition of the Martin Luther King Center.

And so that particular project is very prevalent in the area for a lot of different reasons.

If you're putting this structure up in the middle of a neighborhood,

what is it potentially going to do for the people that live in that district?

It has the potential to get voluminous and it has the potential to stretch out into those homes,

some of them being renters and some of them being owners.

And the owners, the owners are complaining about if they can't get what they want for their homes,

some of them have been there a long time, they don't want to move.

So that issue right there, we speak in terms of gentrification, gentrification being,

you know, if you put this structure, this newly structure in the middle of a pretty congested sort of area,

what is it going to do to the area?

I'm not forecasting what it does to the area.

I'm not saying that it's going to do bad for the area, but it needs to be looked at a little bit further

because it's been my experience development does change other things other than just putting your structure in an area,

especially a housing area.

So frame out a little bit more about what is the fourth district because I think people,

to kind of anchor them in the concept, so it's state street, right, in the south and north of state street.

You know, that is the way it used to be.

Okay.

I go from the Lake Down Hamilton to Geneva Street to St. Patrick over St. Patrick to Martin Luther King Drive up to Douglas.

Going up to Goal, coming across, you know, that sort of thing basically to the lake.

And I do have some area, a little bit of area above.

So is that the new map or the proposed map or is that the old map?

I hope that's one of the stories that we're going to be working on is how are those maps going to be?

You've been knocking on the wrong doors.

It's been done before.

So the, to put it in some context, the state is changing the maps.

But I don't know how that's all going to kind of play out with the city.

So that's one of the stories that actually we're going to be working on very soon is how are those maps going to change with the redistricting of those maps.

So that's one of the things that we're going to be kind of digging into.

But that area has, tell me about, tell me about when you go through that area.

What do you see and what do you think needs to be addressed?

Well, we always talked about the entrance quarters to the city.

So they access quarters, meaning Main Street, Douglas, State Street, Washington, Washington Avenue.

Those are the quarters coming into the city, into the downtown area.

And those areas are what people see, basically, unless they get lost and they go up the beaten path.

But they're coming down one of those quarters to get to the downtown area, which is basically the hub, the business hub of the city.

So the development of those quarters is what always was a concern for the city.

And so in the fourth district is the Douglas quarter, in the Main Street quarter.

It's important that those quarters be enhanced.

And there are plans for it to be enhanced.

Sometimes plans get setbacks along the way.

Sometimes plans don't get done.

The way people perceive them to be done, and I understand that.

But I would like to see some of those buildings that are blighted.

We talk about the Flatiron Mall.

That was the one time.

And one time it was a thriving place.

I had the opportunity to walk up to the door of it and touch it.

And I read the letter that's on the front door, talking about how blighted it is and it needs to be raised.

So that area struggles really a lot.

When you look at the maps and where a lot of the poverty is, it's in that particular area.

So there's a lot of struggle in there.

And so I know that the city is also planning the Lincoln King development, the housing.

Is that what you're talking about?

Not necessarily the housing because they've been putting housing up around there all the time.

We started with the old homeward bound years ago and they sat up on the hill there for the homeless and so they tore that down and started building newer houses in the area and doing some development in that particular area.

But the housing wouldn't be the primary.

The housing would be the secondary because we're talking about a structure.

We're talking about tearing down the Martin Luther King Center and building a new structure there basically what I've been hearing.

And I'm going to do more research on it is that it's going to be a new structure.

Mental health.

Yeah, the health center, right?

Mental health facilities in it and that sort of thing.

Concerned of the people, is it going to be the Martin Luther King Center?

Yeah.

You know, there have been questionnaires and consultants working on visiting the people.

But sometimes when we go and present an idea or a vision, the people don't readily grasp a hold of what it is and what it's going to be and what it's going to do for me.

Our guest is Keith Faire.

He is running for the Aldermanic District, the fourth Aldermanic District in Racine.

We'll talk more with Keith than he's locked with here from Racine County I as well.

At 718 at WRGN Radio, I'm Don Rosen.

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At 721 at WRGN Radio, Keith Faire is here first of our candidates for the fourth Aldermanic District in Racine.

The primary is coming up in February.

Unfortunately, I forgot the date already.

How did my head?

16th February 16th.

My mom's birthday.

All right.

I should win.

What's that?

I should win.

That's a good luck term.

Denise Lockwood is here too from Racine County.

I want to talk about the homeless problem.

Now the mayor was in here the other day and we would talk about the homeless problem downtown right by dewey's

where he just closed up.

He didn't want to deal with the homeless problem a few about a block away.

It's a big problem homeless people and you don't know these are human beings and they've got to go somewhere

and people are not in my neighborhood.

How do you deal with the homeless problem?

Well progressively you know you can't you can't minimize like you were saying you can't minimize it.

I really don't minimize it from the standpoint that some of those homeless people are veterans, homeless veterans.

And we know from statistics, some of them have mental health issues, mental illnesses.

So in every city, not even major city, in every city, homeless people gravitate to the downtown area.

As you remember I want that first election by three votes and stuff because the homeless people voted for me.

So I have a passion for homeless people not because they voted for me but just because I believe that it is a matter that has continuously be attacked

because if it's not attacked people are falling into homelessness every day.

Some people are one step away from homelessness.

Denise was just mentioning the impoverished area of the fourth district.

That's a very fragile area from the standpoint.

It is very fragile.

You know you look at like some of the things that Deontre is doing at the main project and what like there's a lot of energy to really

from the community to really address a lot of those issues.

I can remember sitting not that long ago in the main project over on State Street and Deontre is making a kid

because he didn't show up for work on time.

He had some work out equipment in the back of the main project building and he was making the kid do reps.

So there's a lot of energy to really help kids and keep people off the streets and deal with your mental health too.

But that MLK Center to kind of speak to a little bit about one of the things that I think that I see is there is a lot of issues around access to mental health.

Especially in areas where there's a lot of poverty.

And so like that's what that vision of that MLK Center is to really pull people in and deal with a lot of mental health and health issues because it's not accessible other places.

Do you think that's something that is kind of widely understood or like do people make that connection?

I don't believe they make the connection because I didn't until you just said what you said.

I had an experience when I was the first district of Alderman for the first time.

In my experience was I went to visit the gentleman by the name of Mr. Kelly and he was the president of the Johnson Bank.

And he called me up to the second or third floor there about.

And we were looking down over the monument square and there was some homeless people taking a bath in a little shallow pool that they used to have there.

And he said Keith, we can't have this.

But at that particular time the buses were downtown and that was the hub where they transferred buses and everything.

So what they did was took that piece out and they put it over on state street and they made that.

And it's beautiful. I was just sitting there.

You know, I read a story and homeless people aren't just people walking the streets and down down.

Written a story about a woman who was homeless and she lived in her car with her six year old son.

And she was begging people to tell me the safest spot to park my car.

So we won't get in trouble during the night. Where can I park my car?

And I was like tearing up this woman with her six year olds and just wants a safe place to park her car so they can sleep in the car and not have to worry at night.

And there were people like that across America.

Sleeping in their cars. They have nowhere else to go.

And it's hard to, it's almost hard to believe because I never had a live like that.

And you probably never had a live like that neither to Denise.

But there were people like that who just want a parking space for the night.

No, I was my wife and I, you know, we were, we were homeless at one time, ex-wife.

We were homeless at one time living in Kenosha, got evicted from a, from a place.

She was a assistant principal and, you know, I was working and we were homeless.

We had money but we didn't have nowhere to go.

So that's a miserable feeling.

So although we had money, these people don't have money.

One of the things that I wanted to address from the standpoint of homelessness.

Sometimes we miss, miss some things in our vision.

It was proposed to me.

He said, Keith, if you go out and you get some of these, not even the older homeless people.

And you sit them down and you register them for their social security benefits.

How much economics would that raise?

And how many people would take, they'd take out a homelessness.

And that's a missing piece.

You know, our veteran services is a county, they say it's a county issue.

But it's just funded by the state.

But I propose that the city get involved with this problem because veterans have a high rate of suicide.

And we have a high rate of homelessness.

And you have a lot of people running around the city or walking around the city with PTSD.

We're talking to Keith Fair.

The city is one of the candidates for the fourth, all demanding, all demanding district.

And the, I guess the, what's the one I'm looking for here, not the election, but the coming up primary, coming up February 16th.

This case you're an announcer.

It doesn't mean you have a brand that could remember everything.

It's cold.

We're going to see if we're seeing county IT.

More coming up in just a moment, stay where you are.

I'm Don Rosen, 735 at WRJN Radio.

He's the first of our fourth district automatic candidates for the primary coming up on February 16th.

And with me is Denise Lockwood from Racine County.

I do in the interview.

And this isn't been that difficult today.

No, not at all.

I mean, I knew the attorney standing out there just in case.

I guess in case it gets bloody.

I'm sorry.

I can't answer that question on the advice of my counsel.

By the way, before anything, a time goes by.

I want to thank you for your service in the US Marine Corps.

Well, thank you.

Semper five.

Semper five.

Denise.

All right.

So here's one of the questions that I always would like to ask candidates is like what, when you're looking at your district, what does success look like when you're thinking about how to help elevate what's happening with people?

Success would look like the Douglas quarter, all of the buildings on the Douglas quarter, beautified landscaping, all the way up and down from three mile road all the way down to state street in the beautification of that particular quarter.

When beautification happens, people start taking care of the homes, different dynamics in the neighborhoods start to change.

You know, that's what success would look like.

Success would look like employment and stuff for all those citizens in the fourth district to be able to get transported some way by transportation, public transportation.

I heard that Trevor Young has projects that he's putting together that are going to potentially be good for the city and very excited and stuff to see his plans.

But the beautification of the area and taking care of the people, business, having people, having access to necessity needs.

Everybody doesn't have transportation in that area and that's why, you know, you say, Keith, why did you want to run?

Well, I wanted to run because I saw a vacant seat basically, but there is a need because that district has always been mapped out or designed and stuff for minority representation.

And so the representation, I don't know a man to path, I don't know where I don't have any negatives to say about it.

From what I'm hearing and stuff, she didn't, you know, the job that she felt she did, but the upkeep of the area and the upkeep of the neighborhood.

So when you're talking about, have you thought about how to pay for things like the beautification and getting some of those things as far as what would you, how would you pay for it?

Well, where there's a need and where there is, quote, priority, when the city deems something of priority, you go and find the money.

You will find the money somewhere. They do it all the time.

You know, sometimes when we come to budgetary items and things and you think that the money's not there, but it's in a fun balance or something over here, you know.

But there is $15 million coming into the district. So with the housing projects where the Lincoln King neighborhood, there's several phases of it.

So there's housing coming. There's some really interesting things happening in your district.

Really interesting things.

The thing that would concern me and put me on pause is if we look around the city and those proposed developments that were proposed went forward and then all of a sudden stopped.

That machinery role being one of them, Walker manufacturer ciders and what's going on with that Walker manufacturer?

So I have some insight into that. So what often happens in this is what happened with machinery row and the Walker manufacturer.

A lot of it is financing and it's that speculation of who's coming to dinner. Once you build this thing, is it going to get filled?

So developers will oftentimes were kind of like, and I think I've said this on the show before, the developers are kind of like they fall in love with Racine.

But once we get to the altar, we tend to back out the financing pieces of it.

And it doesn't, it doesn't make sense because what the developer has in their, their mind's eye and the development and agreement.

And then they go to get it financed and the bankers are like, well, you don't, you have so much poverty going on.

And it's kind of like the chicken or the egg kind of a thing because we need places to live.

But the financing pieces have to fit together, right?

A lot of times like what happened with machinery row is they're looking at wages and the number of people that will live in those places, right?

And they're looking at the viability of the area around those places.

Who's going to shop there if you have a commercial property? And it's just not there. And it's kind of like the chicken or the egg kind of a thing.

And so that's where these TIFF districts, I'm going to go into the weeds just for a second and I'm going to pop it back to you.

So TIFF districts, it's what's called the but for test, but for the government investment, these developments wouldn't happen.

And you saw that happen with the whorlick manufacturing, the project over there.

That is beautiful. And it's really, that's happened with the assistance of the financing of those financing districts.

You also, you know, you have gold medal lofts. But if you're not relying on those tax credits, not relying on the government financing of these projects,

they aren't going to happen because a lot of those properties are so contaminated from the manufacturing we did.

And so those are brown fields and it costs a lot of money like the Racine Steel project.

I want to say they spent almost three over $300,000 per year for two decades. That's a lot of money, a lot of money.

When you speak of tax credits, the developer for the machinery role ran off with the tax credits.

So that's not entirely accurate. What ended up happening is that he defaulted on the property and it ceded back to the city.

They did some of the, they did the work. So the infrastructure work was always going to be born and financed by the city.

But the financing of the actual building didn't happen. That is actually part of the building.

Yes, yes.

Let's talk about the C word crime.

Yeah.

Because I, I see posted online in my neighborhood, the people, the ring cameras are posting people walking up to their house,

stealing right on the camera with their faces shown.

And there's other crime too. There's, it's not as bad as some cities, but there are still people with guns and we,

about two years ago, we looked at the roof of our car and there was a bullet hole in the car.

And it was a brand new car. And I didn't know it was a bullet hole. It was just a hole. And when they fixed the repair,

the guy at the Chevy dealership said, by the way, here's your bullet that we found in the roof of your car.

So we shot a gun off and shot, I mean, what do we do about it? You're not going to get rid of crime.

But you might be able to put a dent in it. How do we deal with it?

Well, the normal, the norm question would be police department.

The police department has been cut. And so if crime is up in police department, the police department is cut so,

so much that, you know, I was going through the areas, I better slow down. So there's a police car right there.

But the police car is empty. So what they're doing as a deterrent to some of the activity in the area,

they're placing these police cars in different areas. And maybe some of them have cameras in it. I don't know.

But as I said, I watch enough videos on YouTube and so forth. And a lot of these kids, they don't care.

They just, they don't care about getting caught.

There's a lot of initiatives that are also, and that's one of the things that I think I see a lot of work being done.

And there's a lot of initiatives with like the credible messenger program. And there's like what's deontra is doing.

And you know what's interesting. So there's a couple of things. One is the budget wasn't actually cut.

But it was that people, they weren't able to find enough police officers. But the city also just hired.

I want to say they hired like 19 officers and they went, I think 14 of them graduated from the academy.

So they're, they're walking through the fire on some of these things. But a lot of it was how that city budget was financed with shared revenue and things along that line.

And the, the equation of how much money flowed from the city to the city from the state had been very limited.

They changed that. They changed that. So they're getting more money.

Or that right down the street from your house done. One night there was 64, 64 shots fired on Barker Barker and Douglas.

You know, so it's kind of like a roaming activity. I don't, I don't know at present what the, what the police have been as far as their initiatives are concerned.

I would imagine that, you know, if we do, do we need more policeman? Do we need more money for the police department?

Is that high priority? Or it is definitely a high priority because from the standpoint that people like to see police riding by the neighborhood walking.

It used to be a time that police were walking, you know, walking to beat, you know, man day and riding horses and all those, you know, nice things.

But police are definitely necessary. I've always not believed in cutting and cutting the police department that's sometimes you have to.

And I understand, I understand budget now that some things have to go rising healthcare, you know, retirees, all of those different things going to.

And they've had a lot of issues around that too as far as like they had, you know, obviously they have a lot of attrition, you know, and it's hard to be a police officer, right?

It's not an easy, it's kind of almost like being a journalist.

The kind of, but not the city.

You're either, you're either loved or you're hated.

Well, I also brought up when, um, um, Melissa Caprillian was in here, Main Street is like a drag strip.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you can hear cars zooming, I'm coming to work in the morning and there's zooming past May.

And it's only a, it's a 30 mile an hour zone on Main Street, 25 in some spots, 30 in some 35.

It's like a drag strip.

And we've got to do something about that because there's going to be a kid crossing the street one of these days and they won't be able to stop.

Okay, it's been happening.

Hold it right there.

Keith Ferris, my guest, he's one of the candidates for the fourth automatic district primary that's coming up on February 16th and he's Lockwood.

And we're seeing county IAs with me as well.

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You lost your mind.

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She hasn't done it since.

I was mentioning during the break.

I was a member of when I was growing up in New York.

The police boys club, the PBC.

And it was a way for kids to be busy instead of doing stuff on streets

and getting involved in messy things.

And I was never like that.

But my mother signed me up for the police boys club.

I think for about four years, I was a member.

And they had basketball leagues, bowling leagues.

They had everything to keep you busy.

And I was, is there anything like that around here?

Like the police boys club?

They do, actually.

And I can't remember the name of it to save my life right now

because I have not had enough coffee thinking Don Rosen.

But I showed you where the culture mission is.

Anyway, so yeah, actually, they just restarted that back up

I want to say a year or two ago.

And they just had one of their first people

that went through that program and ended up becoming a police officer.

So, that's a really good way to, I think, connect with kids

to kind of really connect on what it is actually that they do

and how the job is hard.

You know what it is?

Hard job.

And...

We used to have ride-alongs.

Yeah.

They still do.

They do.

They still do everything.

And that gave you...

I know if I want to go on.

Yeah, that gave you an indication, a little bit of an indication.

Right.

You know, I can say some about the police department.

I watch all these videos on YouTube,

about them pulling over drunk drivers, belligerent people.

It's not enough money in this world to get me to be a police officer

and bless these people who are

because I couldn't deal with these belligerent drunks

and they have the patience of Job.

They're out there.

Oh no, they just have a seat, please.

They'll be right with you.

I'll tell you all about...

I would be tasing everybody.

Just like teachers commonly complain.

They're underpaid.

That's another thing that hopefully schools open and closing.

I know in Kenosha, they're closing a ton of schools down there.

And I don't know if that's your jurisdiction, the schools,

but how are we doing with those?

Well, it's not necessarily my or the city's jurisdiction

that would be Kenosha Unified.

Yeah.

But, you know, I propose that the city

get involved with community education, connecting resources,

and so I used to get kind of agitated

when it came time for the budget.

And every time we had the budget,

and somebody would say,

well, let's cut this X amount of dollars from the library.

So why would you cut from the library

when this library is an extension of education

and resources for our kids?

And the library has always been a special place.

You know, I have a granddaughter, eight years old,

and she loves the library, you know.

So more funding for the library,

more programs for the library,

that would be a start.

Because when we talk about,

there used to be an outfit in town called the

Gangtask Diversion,

an Alderman, Alderman Maurice Horton.

You used to be on there and there.

And that particular thing was good at the time.

It's still the model probably would still be good.

But an extension of that would be our community centers.

And where do the kids go after school?

The cop houses are a plus.

They go there, mentoring programs.

Those types of things.

But mainly to, I call them the Nintendo generation.

You know, you have a hard time getting,

my nephew, you have a hard time getting them out of the house.

And so, you know, because he's on this game.

He's got his ear, his earbuds in,

he's talking loud because he don't know he's talking loud.

And it disrupts in the house.

You know, it used to be a time to say,

go outside and dribble,

a basketball, do something,

but just go outside.

I don't want to make you feel old,

but it's now PlayStation.

It's not the Nintendo.

When we started out,

when we started out with the Nintendo generation,

we moved on from there.

The pong generation.

Yeah, it's, it's,

okay, give us,

I'll give you the last minute here to say what you have to say

through our voters.

Well, you know, I would like to say,

once again,

hello to the people of Fort District.

I'd like to say,

to simplify Dallas to all of my Marine Corps brothers out there

in struggle.

A struggle it is.

Veteran services is definitely a needed plus in our city.

The staff at a workforce development,

they're understaffed.

We're three week wait,

you know, for, for,

to get in, to see if,

um, our benefits and stuff are,

are there or we can,

or we can properly apply for our benefits and the help

and the resources are not there.

I want to thank you for coming in, Mr. Fair.

Thank you. Keith Fair.

I was running for your Alderman in the fourth old

Atlantic District,

and the,

the primary is February 16th,

and he's Lockwood has always thank you very much

for seeing County I for coming in today as well.

Thanks for having me.

Thank you.

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