Nail in Milwaukee's coffin?

Patrick discusses a Mike Nichols column on the effect of the Huggins murder on Milwaukee. The question that hovers is an interesting one. Was the Huggins murder a nail in Milwaukee's coffin? I hate to say it, but once you move outside of Milwaukee's suburbs, that coffin was nailed shut long ago for many Wisconsinites. There are many of us out here in the 'ex-urbs' of both Madison and Milwaukee that routinely chose to visit Madison over Milwaukee. There are many of us out here in Southern Wisconsin that will choose to spend a weekend in downtown Chicago over anywhere in Milwaukee. There are many of us outside of southern Wisconsin that will gladly choose to spend a weekend in Minneapolis over Milwaukee. In many ways, Milwaukee's problems are closing in on the city, and nobody within the city's leadership seems willing or courageous enough to reverse it.