Milwaukee County’s courthouse annex is home to several offices but it primarily serves as a parking structure. Over the years, the county has plowed money into asbestos remediation and repairs but the structure has long outlived its usefulness. It’s time for the county to take a serious look at demolishing the annex.To make matters worse [...]

“WILL YOU MARRY ME, ED HOWE?”
Burlington Memorial Hospital nurses and other workers strode down the aisle to Aurora Health Care headquarters on W. Montana Street June 23 — in bridal gowns — to ask Aurora CEO Ed Howe, who is paid more than $3 million per year, to marry them.
Why all the talk about marriage? [...]

It is a not-for-profit organization that runs it. It is a beloved institution and a public treasure but now it is fighting for its future.
I served on the Museum board from 1996 to 2002. At that time we had a budget of $12 million. We struggled with whether we should bring in exhibits such as [...]

Back in about 2000 the Potawatomi wanted to build their big casino in the Menomonee Valley in Milwaukee. Very few public officials showed any balls back then. Only me, Mayor Norquist, D.A. Mike McCann and an Alderman or two said anything.But now the GOP is whining that Governor Doyle is approving compacts with the tribes [...]