On The Record

A few months ago, host Tyler Maas met up with the mayor of Cudahy and left with some new perspective on the south shore scapegoat and industrial city. A year earlier, he hung out with the mayor of West Allis, another much-maligned Milwaukee suburb in the throes of an encouraging reinvention. This time around, instead of spending time with the civic leader of a city wrought in harsh stereotypes and a place Milwaukeeans blindly pan, Maas ventured just beyond the Bay View border to spend time with the appointed visionary of a 2.5 square-mile, roughly 9,500-resident locale that seems to struggle for any identity at all. He hung out with the mayor of St. Francis.