Some ten years ago an education hustler out of Atlanta by way of Houston, stood in my office , pitching a story to me about the new school he was planning to open, the Milwaukee Preparatory Academy. Students would wear dress clothes. The girls would wear skirts; the boys would wear ties. It would somehow [...]

You wouldn’t think he would be so brazen, but County Executive Scott Walker‘s appointee to head the Ethics Board lied to County Supervisors about his past political activity. Don Uebelacker, a founding member of the Republican shill group Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG), told several Milwaukee County Supervisors that he was once involved with CRG [...]

Could it be that Sheriff David “Barney Fife” Clarke’s recent woes are due to educational deficiency? As Spivak and Bice point out this week, Clarke had trouble reading the signs in his own jail and brought a gun into an area where they are prohibited. He also has problems with that “more than” “less than” [...]

You can’t make this stuff up. As I read State Senator Tom Reynolds recent rant against ethanol I was struck by how utterly uninspiring Reynolds is. Yes, the right loves how he votes and they love that he sucks up to evangelicals, but c’mon people, this guy can’t write a good paragraph to save his [...]

Sheriff David “Barney Fife” Clarke strikes again — this time it’s freeway patrols he is screwing up, and property taxpayers are the ones paying the price. A new county audit says that the property tax levy needed to support the freeway patrol jumped from $286,566 to $886,858 — an amazing 209% increase — from 2001 [...]

In Milwaukee County, where 3/4 of the county voted for John Kerry in the last presidential election, local media outlets say there’s no market for Air America or a liberal voice. Their Republican bias is clear and they have shown, even at the expense of their shareholders, their willingness to burying politics stories critical of [...]