There’s a lot of talk from fear-mongering from the right against national health care these days. They’ve even sought to scare people by talking about how the government will have to decide who will live and who will die, all based on costs.
But if the fear is that someone other than the individual needing [...]

“I was raised to keep to yourself.”
This is what the mother of the suspect in Mayor Tom Barrett’s beating said on Tuesday. She also accused the Mayor of provoking her son.
Seeing this just galvanized the feelings I’ve been having since I first heard the circumstances of Barrett’s beating on Sunday [...]

Two term Governor Jim Doyle is calling it quits after this term but let’s not forget how effective he has been.
After nearly two decades of neglect by former Governor Tommy Thompson, Doyle recognized that Milwaukee played an important role in the future of Wisconsin. While Thompson traveled the state encouraging voters and rural legislators [...]

There’s never an excuse for domestic violence. Clearly Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett agrees but unfortunately he paid the price this weekend.
Barrett suffered a brutal attack at the hands of a pipe wielding thug. While the thug with a criminal record was in the middle of assaulting his own girlfriend, Barrett stepped in and [...]

Puff away.
That’s what CRG recall advocate Bill Savage wants the public to be able to continue to do in bars. Savage is bent out of shape that State Senator Jim Sullivan supported Governor Jim Doyle’s proposal which will make all bars smoke free by 2010. For years, non-smokers have complained that they were [...]