Sometimes, all you have to do is wait for the emperor to drive a school bus down the street butt naked. The emperor in this case is the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which went crashing into a fire truck Wednesday morning, injuring 16 children. Lawyers with the state Department of Transportation had never before heard [...]

Demanding “quality representation for our tax dollars,” 49-year-old U.S. Army veteran Vianna Jordan delivered 2,300 signatures to recall Ald. Michael McGee Jr./Jackson yesterday, announcing as she did 10 reasons citizens of the 6th District need a new alderman. McGee Jr., in keeping with his usual reaction when disturbed by others, gave her two more. First, [...]

Talk show host Charlie Sykes notes on his blog that Milwaukee County Supervisor Ryan McCue is running for Mayor of Cudahy.  “We'll see whether being Lee Holloway's water boy pays off for Ryan,” Sykes wrote. I recall Ryan McCue was one of a group of 10 supervisors who went after Chairman Lee Holloway during the [...]

AFSCME union boss Rich Abelson is upset with Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, but Abelson shouldn't be feigning shock now that Walker is planning to lay off county employees. Walker said that he would order layoffs if the County Board passed the budget that was supported by Abelson. Walker put together yet another budget with [...]

They're all over the place in Milwaukee. Choice schools. Are they a bad thing? Are they a good thing? I don't know, but it does seem that the incredibly high "cap" on choice schools has pretty much opened them up to whoever wants to go to one. Choice schools have long earned criticism for mixing [...]

The O.J. Simpson book, If I did it, was pulled from shelves by Fox media giant Rupert Murdoch.  Also nixed was the Simpson special set to air during sweeps week — the week where the networks try to drive up their viewer numbers in an effort to impress would-be advertisers. This wasn't the first time [...]