CITY TARGETS "NUISANCE VEHILCLES"

City of Milwaukee mailboxes will soon contain a mailing including a refrigerator magnet announcing the city's new "286-CITY" telephone number. "Finding the right number for city services just got easier," according to the mailing.
The red, white and blue document tells us the city has "8,800 Employees, 100s of Services 21 Departments ... 1 Number."
Unfortunately, the magnet is marred by a misspelling -- nuisance "vehilcles" is listed as a responsibility of the Department of Neighborhood Services. "Vehilcles," however is not a word. A call to 286-CITY (actually 1 414 286-2489) produced the information that the mailing was "probably" developed by the Department of Public Works. We asked the operator to connect us with somebody there to discuss the misspelling, but she couldn't get us in touch with the right person.--Michael Horne