Imagine a time when the government would come down on a citizen and force her into a legal battle which would exhaust her life savings and strip her of her good name. That time is now. Republican partisan and US Attorney Steven Biskupic did just that when he went after state administrator Georgia Thompson with [...]

Or, the apparent total-absence of coordination between progressive candidates in “nonpartisan” elections by Rick Kisséll I spent this past Election Day (4/3/07) at the Westlawn housing project on 60th and Silver Spring, going door-to-door with MPS School Board candidate Wendell Harris. I chose to work with Harris because my own neighborhood on the south side [...]

A few readers took umbrage with a column here on policing Mayfair Mall. Rather than just take pot shots at the mall management, what solutions would you propose? Share

Sometimes you read an article and you’re just left shaking your head at either what happened or what almost happened. This was the case a few weeks ago when Attorney Peter Earle was wisely elected to serve on the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Board of Directors. Earle, whose nomination was opposed by the Metropolitan [...]

Tommy Thompson has a lot of nerve to claim he is a pioneer of welfare reform. Yes, he was the Governor in Wisconsin at the time welfare reform was first talked about but it seems that very few people have their facts straight on this one. Welfare reform was not Tommy Thompson’s baby — it [...]

I took the evening off. Just an hour ago I saw a car in the middle lane of the freeway change lanes to the left lane and proceeded to keep on going. The car bounced off of the cement median separating the two lanes on I-45. It was horrible. There were at least three times [...]