Just because the Journal-Sentinel isn’t reporting that two democratic State Senators are working on a sick leave bill doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Yes, the Assembly passed a bill eliminating the benefit but it’s safe to reserve judgement on what will be the end result until after I see the Lehman-Sullivan plan I reported on [...]

In the last few days I was amazed to hear that our neighbors all received fliers in their paperboxes expressing how all of the problems in Milwaukee County are my fault — apparently related to a vote I cast back in the year 2000 (7 years ago) when I was still in office. This is [...]

It’s amazing that people can’t even agree that when a student strikes a teacher, the student should be expelled from the district schools. Lately, the Milwaukee Public Schools have become a debate ground where everybody claims to know what’s best for all of our kids. So I’ll weigh in on this one. Here’s McGuigan’s 3 [...]

Recently I was reading Bertrand Russell’s collection Why I Am Not a Christian, and I was struck by his naïve faith in the power of “scientific psychology.” He believed that we would soon discover the perfect way to raise children free of neuroses, free of what would later be called hang-ups, even free of damaging [...]

Brace yourself. We Energies wants another fee hike. This time it’s just 15.6% and they want credit for keeping costs down. Maybe they want a ticker tape parade too. This year the price of energy was fairly stable but do you remember the two preceding years? I do. 18% and 62%. They’re blaming the costs [...]

He may no longer be rolling over Milwaukee Police cars and thank goodness he’s no longer an Alderman, but Michael McGee Sr. crossed a line that should not be crossed when he said that the mother of talk show host Charlie Sykes deserved what she got coming to her when she succumbed to a fatal [...]