Day: December 20, 2013

Well this is something… Milwaukee Ald. Jim Bohl is under investigation for allegedly causing a landlord to get hit with a slew of code violations after he refused to evict two sex offenders from a property in the alderman’s district. Investigators from the district attorney’s office believe Bohl then had…

Yesterday a federal judge struck down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban, noting that the ban violated due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53-page ruling saying Utah’s law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and…

This is worth a read. The Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity (through its Wisconsin Reporter and Watchdog.org websites) has aggressively attacked the “John Doe” probe into possible campaign finance violations during Wisconsin’s 2011 and 2012 recall elections. Its outlets have also published new information about the apparent targets…

This is why a single-payer healthcare system would have been a better option, in my opinion. Today, the Obama administration announced that people whose insurance plans were canceled this year will “temporarily” be exempted from the law’s individual mandate. Here’s how they’re doing it — and what it means for…

From my email inbox comes Democratic State Senator Kathleen Vinehout’s thoughts on how to tackle health insurance reform in Wisconsin. “What are you going to do for health insurance?” I asked. “I don’t know.” Sam told me. It was a conversation I’ve had a thousand times since I became a…