It's unprecedented but Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker vetoed the entire budget.  He claimed that the County Board was tax and spenders but he didn't just veto what they added into the budget.  It turns out that if he used his line item veto, he would have been exposed as heartless.
Para-transit, Parks and Public Safety [...]

John Nichols is about the only guest of Jean Feraca's show, Here on Earth, that I'll listen to through a pledge drive. Especially when he's promoting his new book The Genius of Impeachment: The  Founders' Cure for Royalism. While conservatives will dismiss the book as partisan grenade lobbing, what I've always liked about Nichols is [...]

Yesterday I wrote about a wonderful couple I met Monday.
Today I'm writing about a horrible couple I met Tuesday.

They called themselves Christians.  I think a better title would be bad parents who lacked Christian values.  I talked with them for a few hours and their daughter waited patiently.  When I first met them their daughter [...]

I heard the strangest thing on the news last night.
Apparently, Harley-Davidson workers are voting again today on the company's plans to expand in the Milwaukee area and create 120 new jobs. I was confused. When Mark Green ran for governor, he told me that Gov. Jim Doyle had chased those jobs out of [...]

…and all I kept thinking was "thank God Jim Doyle got re-elected."
Last week, Wisconsin was ground zero in the political fight for embryonic stem cell research — the research that holds promise for a cure for this horrible disease.
Parkinson's disease breaks the connections between the brain and the body.  It traps people in their [...]

We were pretty accurate in our election predictions this year.  Let's review how we did:
Jim and JD both correctly picked Doyle to win.
Jim picked Sullivan and Kreitlow as winners in the State Senate and correctly predicted the dems would take the State Senate.  JD picked Sullivan and Vinehout to win and predicted the dems [...]