Nevermind that defending the institution of marriage is the last thing anyone in Wisconsin wants the state Assembly to concern itself with — not with energy bills rising out of control and a health insurance costs rampaging unabated — but the debate opened Tuesday night in the Assembly on the Republican-proposed “Defense of Marriage Act.” [...]

Last month, Scott Walker criticized Governor Doyle on accountability. It’s fair play to use Walker’s own format to take a closer look at his own record. Budget Deficit: How can County Executive Scott Walker say that the county budget is balanced when he underfunded the county pension fund by $23 million, raided the county sales [...]

Stagnation and a cancerous void of leadership has infected the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and it’s no surprise several Supervisors are looking for an amputation. County Board Chairman Lee Holloway has had to deal with ethics charges and while we believe in due process and Chairman Holloway’s right to fight these charges, Holloway needs [...]

State Representative Sheldon Wasserman has proposed a bill to reduce the amount of Counties in Wisconsin. That makes sense. County lines were drawn so Supervisors would be within one days ride by horseback. Those lines no longer make sense. Instead, county lines have served to separate citizens and rather than all working together to achieve [...]

“It’s a bit like Goliath whining that he didn’t want to go up against big bad David”.

Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager — who many county observers had hoped would clarify her legal opinion on whether the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors can remove its chairman, Lee Holloway, with only a simple majority vote — now says she won’t offer any further opinions on the Holloway matter, Capitol sources said today. Lautenschlager was [...]