Archive for the 'Watchdogging the Media' Category

7
December
2006

Kudos where kudos are deserved

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has made a few changes and they're a welcome addition.
First, their online news has gotten better and I can only imagine that it's because of an excitement that reporters have when they know they can scoop even the news or the radio.  (I'll admit to a bit of pride in having scooped [...]

5
December
2006

The Imploding North Side of Milwaukee

Living in Milwaukee can be difficult, especially if you’re black, and especially more if you’re a black male.
Things are not going well on the North Side, where income shrunk in the last year or two or three, but if anyone needed an economic indicator to tell them this, they were fooling themselves. The North [...]

19
November
2006

Hat Tip to Milwaukee Rising and WI Democracy Campaign

There's some good journalism floating around out there and it's in blog form.

Milwaukee Rising blogger, Gretchen Schuldt (formerly of Watchdog Milwaukee) has a long but insightful column on the hatchet job that the Public Policy Forum did on the City of Milwaukee in a recent report.  It turns out that they accused the city of [...]

7
November
2006

The Most Important Vote to Cast Today Is ‘NO’

"Marriage. Shall section 13 of article XIII of the constitution be created to provide that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state and that a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid [...]

1
November
2006

Merens shows what Talk Radio should be

I occasionally listen to talk radio.
Before you gasp in shock, I'll share that Wisconsin Public Radio is my mainstay.   I'll admit that it's not my ideal vision of talk radio.  I've only heard one perfect format and that was during my trip to Ireland.  Liberals and conservatives battled it out on Irish Public Radio and [...]

19
October
2006

Wisconsin Voters Want Action on Health Care, New Poll Finds

Health care is the number one issue on the minds of Wisconsin voters as they prepare to head to the polls this fall, but they're not hearing enough about it from Gov. Jim Doyle and his Republican challenger, Congressman Mark Green, according to the results of a poll released this week by One Wisconsin Now [...]

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