It’s a sad commentary but the current County Board Chairman, Lee Holloway, won re-election from his collegues on the County Board largely based on the politics of race.
Holloway managed to get all African-American supervisors as well as the one Latino supervisor to vote for him lock-step. It took over 30 rounds of voting from [...]

Milwaukee County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin wanted voters to think that her only challenger, Dan Cody, was some out-of-touch lefty and she was a sensible moderate. As such, she attempted to position herself as just to the right of Cody, figuring that she would pick up all moderates and all conservatives. In a two-person [...]

The following is a guest column by a Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff.
I’ve never been one to be very political. Opinionated yes, but I don’t attribute myself to either major party.
I’ve been a Milwaukee County employee for some time now and read about the first pension scandal and thought to myself ” jeez, that [...]

Back in 1996 when I first ran for County Supervisor I was urged to seek the endorsement of then Alderman Tom Nardelli. At the time I knew nothing of him and he knew nothing of me except that I was running against a person he disliked.
Nardelli gave me his endorsement in what I later [...]

Sheriff David Clarke is capriciously dispensing discipline on internal affairs cases. Let’s do something different for this story. We’ll let the readers match the facts of the cases to what they believe the disciplinary result was.
Case 1: off duty deputy solicits an undercover MPD officer for sex, gets arrested. This is a [...]

Saying “no” to everything can have a cost to a community. Hales Corners is about to get a wake up call when Hales Corner Pool doesn’t open but it could have been worse.
Milwaukee County Supervisor Paul Cesarz rode in on a wave of the CRG inspired recall-mania in 2002 but has since mistakenly credited [...]