As a citizen journalist I run into some pretty amazing stuff. Sometimes people quickly deny what a tipster may have let me know about and sometimes they exaggerate. Sometimes they’re simply misinformed and other times they’re simply ignorant that there was ever a problem. Sometimes there was nothing done wrong in the first place — [...]

I was surprised. I am appalled. My wife and I decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood and what I saw was extremely disturbing. Workers from Lowe’s were installing windows in one of my neighbors homes and did not take any precautions what so ever to comply with lead safe renovation. On April [...]

While there have been plenty of chicken littles complaining about a smoking ban, the reality is that the passage of the smoking ban will help hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from respiratory illnesses and far more people from developing health problems. But who would have thought just 5 years ago that an overwhelmingly [...]

I met the founder of Camp Heartland, Neil Willenson, about 10 years ago. He struck me as smart and driven in his quest to create Camp Heartland, a camp for kids who are dealing with HIV/AIDS. Camp Heartland is more than just an opportunity for kids to go camping. It offers kids suffering from HIV/AIDS [...]

Today the Supreme Court just took the first step to overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark decision that allowed safe and legal abortions for women. Yahoo! News is reporting that on a 5-4 vote, the court upheld President George W. Bush’s inaptly named “partial birth abortion” act which outlaws a very rare procedure which is [...]

They usually team up on issues but the Wisconsin Restaurant Association is at odds with the Tavern League on the proposed smoking ban in Wisconsin. The ban, as proposed by Governor Jim Doyle, would make it illegal to light up in public places. The Restaurant Association supports the ban but only if it excludes all [...]