State Senator Jim Sullivan and self-appointed County Executive Lee Holloway have entered the race for County Executive. Holloway will undoubtably be a contender for the primary since Milwaukee County seems to sadly have a racial schism which will favor a lone black candidate in the primary. Unfortunately for Holloway, the majority of Milwaukee County will [...]

Wait in politics and pay the price. That’s an important message in this race as some key influential folks who could have been players are now all but irrelevant. The right side of the contest is Jeff Stone, the Greenfield republican who will follow Scott Walker’s lead, minus the charisma. On the center and left [...]

There will be no deficit of Milwaukee County Executive candidates this spring. Many candidates think they have what it takes and several of them do, but the voters will certainly find themselves watching an amusing primary. That being said, the position is not even yet open as County Executive and Governor-elect Scott Walker, who is [...]

It is always admirable when a person in elected office does his or her best to keep taxes affordable while maintaining core service. Sadly, Milwaukee County is not providing even a basic, responsible level of services to the mentally ill. Eliminating security, including removal of metal detectors at the Mental Health Complex was a bad [...]

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He claimed that he could get the federal government to let him use the $810,000,000 earmarked for high speed rail in Wisconsin for highway and other projects but Governor elect Scott Walker has failed. It now appears that he had no insight or inside information whatsoever, but rather a big pile of chutzpah when he [...]