Local Republicans screamed “FOUL” and “UNFAIR” last year when Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker failed to win support in a borrow and reinvest scheme that he was confident would save taxpayer dollars.
Walker wanted to borrow pension obligation bonds to invest in the stock market. He claimed that it the difference between the amount that [...]

Milwaukee businessman Sheldon Lubar believes that county government should be eliminated.
He’s right.
But he doesn’t go far enough. Counties should be eliminated all together.
The additional governmental level of counties is unnecessary and the role of County government could be divvied up between state and city government.
I say this as someone who has served as a [...]

It’s a sad commentary but the current County Board Chairman, Lee Holloway, won re-election from his collegues on the County Board largely based on the politics of race.
Holloway managed to get all African-American supervisors as well as the one Latino supervisor to vote for him lock-step. It took over 30 rounds of voting from [...]

Milwaukee County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin wanted voters to think that her only challenger, Dan Cody, was some out-of-touch lefty and she was a sensible moderate. As such, she attempted to position herself as just to the right of Cody, figuring that she would pick up all moderates and all conservatives. In a two-person [...]

The following is a guest column by a Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff.
I’ve never been one to be very political. Opinionated yes, but I don’t attribute myself to either major party.
I’ve been a Milwaukee County employee for some time now and read about the first pension scandal and thought to myself ” jeez, that [...]

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 [...]