In just 100 days, a new law will go into effect which prohibits smoking in public places. This includes bars and restaurants. Countries like Ireland have already enacted bans and they haven’t hurt business. But opponents here say it will hurt business for bars. What makes Wisconsin bars different than those in Ireland? Take an [...]

Many people look at the problems in the Milwaukee Public School district and they say that nothing short of divvying it up into several smaller districts would help it to improve. In the 2008-2009 District Report Card (the most current one available), 58% of students read at grade level in the WKCE testing and 47% [...]

The public is paranoid enough that their elected officials are all dishonest and looking to line their own pockets so when one of them is proven to be as bad as the public believes, the full power of the law ought to come down on them. That appears to be what’s about to happen to [...]