I met the founder of Camp Heartland, Neil Willenson, about 10 years ago. He struck me as smart and driven in his quest to create Camp Heartland, a camp for kids who are dealing with HIV/AIDS.
Camp Heartland is more than just an opportunity for kids to go camping. It offers kids suffering from [...]

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke like to portray himself as a knight in shining armor who cares about the fiscal well being of Milwaukee County. Unfortunately for taxpayers, his budgetary reality isn’t matching his rhetoric.
A Deputy Sheriff who has asked me to respect his anonymity for this story, shared the scoop:
Due to severe staff [...]

Today’s idyllic weather can’t but inspire a contrast to last Thursday, when the wind warred with the lake, blowing heavy flower pots off of porches, causing power outages and tossing skinny kids to the land of Oz, all leading to a New Orleans style squall that beat the cracked lead paint off slumlord housing throughout [...]

I’ve been giving this a lot of thought and I’ve come up with a theory. Now it’s only a theory and I’ve got no data on which to base it on, but I think I know one of the key reasons taxes are so low up north.
It’s all of the empty housing.
Houses and land [...]

Regular readers have probably noticed that posts have been infrequent over the past month. That’s a short term thing. I did a little European travel, worked on my kitchen remodel and had the motherboard on my laptop go bad — all which has contributed to my lack of posts.
But that will all change [...]

In the continuing debate about immigration reform, the human face of the issue is frequently absent. We should ask ourselves: What are immigrants contributing to our society? Who are these undocumented workers? And, most importantly, what happens when someone is deported?
The following is a true account of what recently happened to an undocumented worker in [...]