The Political Environment

You want downtown streetcars: come to a planning session Thursday and help select the route. How and where: The public information open hous...

The Manitowoc-Ludington, MI coal-fired carferry The SS Badger is undergoing scheduled maintenance and repairs: Will the owners use this peri...

Two predictions: The Midwest High-Speed Rail plan will move forward regardless of the loss of Chicago's Olympic Games bid, so the Milwau...

A committee of the city's Harbor Commission takes up Michael Cudahy's plan to reopen a restaurant on the former Pieces of Eight lake...

Advocates pushing for affordable housing development in Waukesha County are holding an event Wednesday evening, beginning at 5:30 p.m. It...

Unable to attend last week's UWM Campus Master Plan meetings, but hearing far and wide that the process left much to be desired, I pose ...

You've got to hand it to economist Marc Levine: Looking at data, the UWM professor has directly challenged Chancellor Carlos Santiago...

Despite the high cost of some green solutions - - hybrid cars, solar heat - - there are many smaller, inexpensive steps that are easy on the...

So Chitown doesn't get the games. Time to move on with more localized opportunity and development.

Well-reasoned . In large measure, this is also what the emerging struggle over UWM's leap-frogging to the County Grounds' open space...

Dangerous ideas (Salon. com might make you read through an ad) but a not-entirely-surprising conclusion by a deranged mind if talk radio a...

The probable airing of the Gableman ad, either by reference or video linkages through interested media, that will further reveal how sleazy ...

While Mike Gablemen is still spinning, bobbing, weaving and parsing like an everyday defendant.

Again, the media has the sad details : a drunk driver, far over the limit after leaving a bar, kills herself, and an innocent passenger in a...

Feel free.

Nearly been a year since federal officials came to Milwaukee and ran a semi-open house, semi-hearing (the hearing part with a microphone and...

The effective, attention-garnering grassroots operation Growing Power gets an even-higher profile . And does so on its non-profit merits, A ...

Mike Klare has been at this a long time.

As predicted here, the seminal ruling two weeks ago by US District Court Lynn Adelman against the state transportation department over the ...

In February of this year I attended a panel discussion at UW-Milwaukee regarding the pending tidal wave of stimulus dollars and possibilitie...