I was at the Labor Day rally at the Marcus Amphitheater where Sen. Barack Obama spoke. Certainly I expected a high degree of security. But they pulled something new out of their bag of tricks that really left me scratching my head. The guards had made us dump all liquids, just like at the airport [...]

Intel would like to keep their alleged theft of patent technology on the down-low but UW-Madison isn’t too pleased that Intel stole their technlogy to enrich the chip giant. This isn’t the first time Intel has taken liberties. Recently they decided to settle out of court with Transmeta, a small players in the chip business. [...]

On Friday November 2nd a Milwaukee County Sheriff’s office correctional officer was arrested and charged with 2nd degree sexual assault of an inmate. Somehow,this news wasn’t released via ‘press release’ from the sheriff’s office. This is just another example of how Sheriff David Clarke protects his correctional officers. Unfortunately he treats his deputies as scapegoats. [...]

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 misdemeanor violation [...]

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 [...]

It's the eve of the primary election for both Republicans and Democrats running to become Attorney General of Wisconsin, and the candidates ads are in full rotation on the tube.  Conspicuously absent are any ads from Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher, a Republican who looks like a long long shot Sept. 12. Also conspicuously [...]