Tonight I thought I’d do something different… blog as I’m watching the debate a few hours late on my DVR. Opening… my cuts are bigger than your cuts. You’re kidding me right? This passes for a debate question? McCain looks like he’s been up for 20 hours straight. Give this poor guy a cup of [...]

The buzz of energy you might have felt in the air this morning wasn’t another snowstorm. Today the Barack Obama for president campaign swoops into Milwaukee for a big rally at the Midwest Express Center. The event is beginning to feel less and less like a campaign stop and more like a coronation for the [...]

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 [...]

AirTran versus local perceptions By now it’s old news that AirTran upped its offer to Midwest stockholders 13 percent to $15 a share last week, or $389 million. The offer was again extended, this time to May 16, just in time for Midwest’s annual stockholders meeting May 23. But Jim’s Watchdog post “AirTran Deal Not [...]

Did anyone happen to watch Channel 12′s election coverage Tuesday night, in particular the interview with Michael McGee, Jr? The tall, mustachio’ed white guy standing just behind McGee as the alderman did his victory interview looked an awful lot like John Balcerzak, president of the Milwaukee cops’ union. Balcerzak had been on the news earlier [...]

At times it seemed like a tough decision in the 6th Aldermanic District, where the votes to force a recall of Ald. Michael McGee Jr. are being counted as I write this. But on election day the decision was easy. Vianna Jordan — the retired U.S. Army communications specialist who stood up to a barrage [...]