It’s getting to be that time — the time when newspapers and every news outlet that wants to claim they have some insight publishes polls about one candidate or another. Yes, we’ve all heard about the poll putting Tom Barrett over both Scott Walker and Mark Neumann in the race for Governor next fall. The [...]

Local leaders aren’t used to looking at thinking about the needs of their community in terms of age, but they should. Consider how all of us benefit society. In our young lives we symbolize hope and optimism. As enter our working years we keep the engines of industry and commerce going. As we enter our [...]

The restructuring of MPS is running into hurdles and roadblocks. Critics of MPS correctly point out that the school system has been poorly managed and many business and community leaders look to the Mayor of the City of Milwaukee for a fix. Unfortuately the current system gives the Mayor no voice and no control over [...]

Maybe it’s just a lack of understanding of the political process. Maybe it’s just ignorance. Either way, what the Catholic Church did to Julie Lassa, the state legislator, can be neither forgiven nor excused. Lassa, it seems, is doing her part by making church leaders pay for their sins. State Senator Julie Lassa is one [...]

How is everyone else in the world doing? Are they struggling to make ends meet? Who cares. Unfortunately that twisted sentiment is one that “welfare queens” and corporate CEO’s share. Neither really cares about the next person just trying to get by. Welfare queens care less that someone else has to work hard to pay [...]

I’ve always thought it was interesting that we live in one of the most technologically advanced ages, but the political discourse that much of the public seems to subscribe could be cut right out of an episode of “The Flintstones”. One of the biggest and most dishonest pieces of rhetoric is “cut taxes”. We’ve all [...]