What happens when a school district, under the guise of fiscal conservatism, delays maintenance and expansion until it’s too late?
The answer is that they find their failing infrastructure and lack of facilities an embarrassment and they finally look for ways to remediate the problem. This was the case in Brown Deer just a few [...]

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 [...]

MPS Director Peter Blewett had the courage to weigh in on the handcuff debate here at Watchdog Milwaukee.
It’s nice to see elected officials are paying attention.
You can see Blewett’s comments here.

The question that’s been debated recently is whether or not MPS should be able to handcuff disruptive students.
Yes.
Furthermore, yes, yes and another yes.
There’s never an excuse for taking a swing at a teacher and neither is there an excuse for resorting to violence in the schools but students who choose to turn an institution of [...]

Sometimes you read an article and you’re just left shaking your head at either what happened or what almost happened.
This was the case a few weeks ago when Attorney Peter Earle was wisely elected to serve on the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Board of Directors. Earle, whose nomination was opposed by the Metropolitan [...]

After four school repair and enhancement referendums failed to pass last year I was beginning to second guess if I had made a poor choice by buying my home in Brown Deer.
With last week Tuesday’s landslide passage (66% voted yes) of a referendum to support fixing serious problems in our high school including repair of [...]