The far-right side of the blogosphere is up in arms over my assertion that the ailing O’Donnell Park parking garage which has been having problems since the get-go has finally led to a fatality due to negligence by County Executive Scott Walker. Disgusting, politicizing, all words to describe my guilt for connecting the obvious dots. [...]

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has built his entire career on the simple slogan “cut taxes”. Part of the way he has achieved this reputation is by allowing Milwaukee County’s infrastructure to erode to the point where yesterday, a 15 year old boy lost his life. Yesterday a 30 foot wide concrete wall fell from [...]

A little time has passed since Milwaukee County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin decided to run to the media with discussions that happened in a closed door meeting down at the County Board. In that time, some of her colleagues have decided to put together a resolution to censure her. Whether it passes or not will matter [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]