County Board Chair Theo Lipscomb Responds:
Last evening we received a response to our post about Milwaukee County Board Chairman Theo Lipscomb and voting rights. We are pleased to publish his response in his entirety, unedited, and with his permission. Thank you Theo!
Dear Blogging Blue,
To be clear the right to vote is your franchise, there is no […]
Greetings Blogging Blue readers! It’s been quite some time since I’ve graced these pages with my particular brand of progressive proselytizing, but the moment that’s upon us is one that even this cynical, jaded, retired and tired old man (sort of) can’t sit back and ignore any longer. So pour yourself a cup of coffee, […]
You may want to start here: Read the White House Letter in Response to the Impeachment Inquiry. It’s the NY Times link to the letter to the Congressional committees from the White House. It’s a long read but worth it.
And here is a clear and concise reply from Milwaukee attorney Jeremy Levinson. […]
This piece over at the Daily Kos was brought to my attention by one of our regular readers. It is a very thorough description of the Wisconsin connection to the Russia/Trump relationship during the 2016 election cycle. It’s well worth the read by one of our regular readers and commenters:
Wisconsin’s Russia-GOP connection. […]
Today we have a guest blog from long time friend of Blogging Blue: Graeme Zielinski.
The rict Waukesha County standing sieg heils poured on and over Josh Hader Saturday at Miller Park after it was revealed during his disastrous All-Star appearance last week that he, just 7 years previously, used racial slurs for black people […]
Attention Donald Trump: Harley: An Immigrant Story!
This appeared in the Ideals Lab section of the print edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday July 8, 2018. Since MJS no longer posts letters to the editor on their JSOnline website, I can neither link to it nor cut and paste it here. But I think this is important enough to reprint […]
This is a guest blog by former Blogging Blue contributor Steve Carlson!!!
Dear Bernie,
I want to start off by telling you how heartening it was to read your remarks in John Nichols Nation magazine tribute to Ed Garvey on the occasion of Garvey’s passing in February of 2017. You said he was one of […]
We Are Not Free to Be Mean
This is a guest blog by my personal friend Tina Owen-Moore (Founder, The Alliance School of Milwaukee, and current Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.L.D. Program). Tina originally published it at LinkedIn. I am presenting it here with her permission:
Like many others, this weekend’s incidents in Virginia have me angry. A group […]
This was originally posted over at Urban Milwaukee as an editorial piece by Rep. Gordon Hintz. I hope WashCoRep and all of our other regulars enjoy it:
The shiny object in front of lawmakers’ eyes when talking about the Foxconn proposal is the potential of new jobs. “13,000 direct jobs! Another 22,000 indirect jobs!”
[…]
Guest Blog: The Malevolent Character of Donald Trump
I was alerted to the post by a close friend on Facebook and contacted the author for permission to repost it here on Blogging Blue. So here are some thoughts on the malevolent character and antisocial aberration that is Donald Trump from the pen of George Godwyn (adult language included):
I belong to several Trump […]
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