Today, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel published their Politifact column and gave candidate Jeff Stone a “true” on a softball question. They may as well have done an analysis of whether Stone likes puppies. Stone said, “I’m the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.” But is this really true? The [...]

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel bungled another rating. They applied a higher standard to Milwaukee County Executive candidate Chris Abele than they did to our current Governor, Scott Walker. Abele’s website states, “Chris will grant a short-term property tax exemption for new small business startups based on new net jobs created in Milwaukee County.” The JS honed [...]

It is times like this that it is helpful to remember that one entity, Journal Communications, dominates our local news. They own the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, WTMJ AM620 radio and the WTMJ television station. Every once in a while they go on a feeding frenzy, discrediting people who have done no crime and who have made [...]

Over the past year the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has presented itself as an objective news source that, as a public service, has rated the comments of public officials. Sadly, these ratings, presented under the name “Politifact”, have at times been misleading and have even displayed a double standard when it comes to the ratings of candidates [...]

Those of you who, like me, were saddened by the ludicrous conservative response to President Obama‘s anodyne “stay-in-school-and-study-hard” speech need to read this article from the St. Petersburg Times compiling some teenagers’ reactions to the speech: they’re quite heartening, and some are very funny. Those Elmbrook School District kids missed out. Comparisons have been made [...]

Today’s Journal Sentinel‘s “Crossroads” section is a virtual festival of fallacious thinking, misunderstanding of reality, and just plain wrong-headedness. Reader Advisory Committee Member Kelly Kasum Ressel, for instance, criticizes those meddling local bureaucrats who mandate that pool owners put up proper fencing to keep children out. She complains that this places the responsibility on the [...]