No, Watchdog Milwaukee isn’t going soft on you, but I thought it would be interesting to take you into my life for the next several months to explore what all is involved in a kitchen remodel.
Over the past 6 weeks I’ve been talking with contractors and a kitchen planner. Yesterday I went out and [...]

Washington County Judge Annette Ziegler is a bit of a Julie come lately.
Despite her stock holdings in Wal-Mart, Ziegler did not recuse herself from a case involving the mega-chain store, at least until now.
The West Bend Daily News ran a short blurb on the front page of its website saying:
Ziegler recuses herself
A spokesperson for Washington [...]

I’ve been busy lately planning for an impending kitchen remodel. I’m told this could take months. That’s months of microwave meals and doing dishes in the laundry tub. I’m not looking forward to it.
Picking out the flooring was difficult. I bought a beautiful porcelain tile and set it on the floor [...]

I used to enjoy the Milwaukee Journal’s Neighbors section. Then-editor, Tom Tolan, had a nice angle and a good feel for what people were looking for. Unfortunately the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel axed it.
When I heard that the JS had acquired CNI, publisher of the Brown Deer Herald and other community newspapers I was concerned [...]

I’ve talked with a few reporters (print and radio) since starting Watchdog Milwaukee and when we’ve talked about blogs they consistently talk down about bloggers.
But what’s really the difference?
There are reporters whose stories I don’t trust because they’ve reported on stories I know to be untrue. There are bloggers who have done the same [...]

I’m disappointed that the Spice boys are breaking up.
Consider this — the stories that Cary Spivak and Dan Bice write are edgy but their columns have fun with people who take themselves too seriously.
Spivak and Bice have mixed investigative journalism with humor and that’s a good thing. It’s true that they can get a [...]