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I have served on the Fire and Police Commission for seven years. For seven years, I have acted with integrity. For seven years, I have put the best interests of Milwaukee first. Any decision I have made was because I believe Milwaukee is a great city. My only fault is that I pushed back against a broken system. A system that does not benefit all of the citizens of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee is disappointed, yet reducing the Democratic National Convention to a virtual event was a smart move. But even after the pandemic, will big, expensive political conventions ever make sense again?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week rejected a petition from parents seeking relief from Milwaukee’s overreaching health officer.
Forcing students back into schools when the underlying pandemic hasn’t been adequately addressed is the equivalent of forcing kids into a burning building nobody bothered to extinguish.
We need a rapid course correction, or we stand to lose about a third of our child care providers.
In the latest Marquette University Law School Poll: Breaking down Biden vs. Trump, the divergent views of Wisconsin men and women, Republican mask outrage, and broadly popular Democratic policies.
We need a system where people with disabilities are universally included by design — not “accommodation.”
When the outbreaks come, and they will, we must not panic. We must act, but we must not panic. And when we act to isolate the infected and mitigate the spread, we must do so with the overarching goal of keeping our schools open.
New study suggests city couldn’t get any worse. New effort aims to improve that.
I’m starting to think that the biggest needs in this country are for online courses, video games and TV shows devoted to mask etiquette and efficacy.
Fitzgerald couldn’t help exhibiting his Donald Trump bona fides last week when asked to comment on Trump’s suggestion that the presidential election be delayed this fall.
When Black Lives Matter rioters in June ripped down the statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg, they destroyed one of Wisconsin’s most profound symbols of liberty.
It is ironic that Republicans voted for and Trump signed legislation to fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund after years of trying to do just the opposite.
What constitutional entitlement means in a nation created unequal.
The impact of Morales firing, Brunson hiring, and where this leaves the city.
It’s long past time for the Wisconsin GOP-led legislature to accept that Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin would cover more, substitute federal funding for state funding and save state spending on uncompensated care, mental health and drug-alcohol treatment.
“Politics ain’t beanbag” we’re told, but less-than-surreptitiously propping up a third party candidate to siphon off votes from your opponent goes beyond hard ball tactics.
The Democrats’ desire to take the majority in the US Senate should not overlook those incumbent Democratic seats that are in play in the November election.
Last week, radical New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association that ultimately seeks to destroy the storied Second Amendment advocate.
The legislature’s version of the state budget invested in the people of Wisconsin and the needs of our communities while protecting taxpayers. It was especially helpful for rural Wisconsin and I worked hard to make sure the rural voice was heard in this discussion. Rural Wisconsin matters.
I have served on the Fire and Police Commission for seven years. For seven years, I have acted with integrity. For seven years, I have put the best interests of Milwaukee first. Any decision I have made was because I believe Milwaukee is a great city. My only fault is that I pushed back against a broken system. A system that does not benefit all of the citizens of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee is disappointed, yet reducing the Democratic National Convention to a virtual event was a smart move. But even after the pandemic, will big, expensive political conventions ever make sense again?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week rejected a petition from parents seeking relief from Milwaukee’s overreaching health officer.
Forcing students back into schools when the underlying pandemic hasn’t been adequately addressed is the equivalent of forcing kids into a burning building nobody bothered to extinguish.
We need a rapid course correction, or we stand to lose about a third of our child care providers.
In the latest Marquette University Law School Poll: Breaking down Biden vs. Trump, the divergent views of Wisconsin men and women, Republican mask outrage, and broadly popular Democratic policies.
We need a system where people with disabilities are universally included by design — not “accommodation.”
When the outbreaks come, and they will, we must not panic. We must act, but we must not panic. And when we act to isolate the infected and mitigate the spread, we must do so with the overarching goal of keeping our schools open.
New study suggests city couldn’t get any worse. New effort aims to improve that.
I’m starting to think that the biggest needs in this country are for online courses, video games and TV shows devoted to mask etiquette and efficacy.
Fitzgerald couldn’t help exhibiting his Donald Trump bona fides last week when asked to comment on Trump’s suggestion that the presidential election be delayed this fall.
When Black Lives Matter rioters in June ripped down the statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg, they destroyed one of Wisconsin’s most profound symbols of liberty.
It is ironic that Republicans voted for and Trump signed legislation to fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund after years of trying to do just the opposite.
What constitutional entitlement means in a nation created unequal.
The impact of Morales firing, Brunson hiring, and where this leaves the city.
It’s long past time for the Wisconsin GOP-led legislature to accept that Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin would cover more, substitute federal funding for state funding and save state spending on uncompensated care, mental health and drug-alcohol treatment.
“Politics ain’t beanbag” we’re told, but less-than-surreptitiously propping up a third party candidate to siphon off votes from your opponent goes beyond hard ball tactics.
The Democrats’ desire to take the majority in the US Senate should not overlook those incumbent Democratic seats that are in play in the November election.
Last week, radical New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association that ultimately seeks to destroy the storied Second Amendment advocate.
The legislature’s version of the state budget invested in the people of Wisconsin and the needs of our communities while protecting taxpayers. It was especially helpful for rural Wisconsin and I worked hard to make sure the rural voice was heard in this discussion. Rural Wisconsin matters.
