This is scary as heck: In These Times reports that proposed federal rules designed to thwart terrorists will block most public access to birth and death certificates for 70 to 100 years. Local governments will be required to report all requests for the documents to Washington.
Talk about Big Brother.
Reporters won’t be able to get [...]

County Executive Scott Walker, who loves to take credit for helping kill gas tax indexing, is still pushing for the humongous, multi-billion dollar freeway expansion plan. Isn’t it time he explained which taxes he would raise and how much he would raise them to pay for it?

Sheriff David Clarke’s incompetence in running the county jail could cost the county millions of dollars, as lawyers for maltreated inmates seek a prosecutor to go after fines of up to $5,000 for each of the 16,662 violations of a consent decree regulating conditions in the booking room.
Go, Dave, go…..elsewhere, preferably.

State Sen. Tom Reynolds (R-West Allis) has introduced a censorship bill that would ban school boards from adopting textbooks that offend his religious sensibilities by using the words “BCE” and “CE” instead of “BC” and “AD.”
Sen. Tom Reynolds: Reynolds Warp.

County Executive Scott Walker is appointing lawyer Barbara Boxer to the Milwaukee Public Museum Board. Boxer once was a Democrat, but more recently has been raising money for Republican Walker, Xoff reports. This simply shows how low Walker has brought the county — the best he can do for his new friend is give her [...]

Could it be that Sheriff David “Barney Fife” Clarke’s recent woes are due to educational deficiency? As Spivak and Bice point out this week, Clarke had trouble reading the signs in his own jail and brought a gun into an area where they are prohibited.
He also has problems with that “more than” “less than” [...]