Tag: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Apparently they’ve been around since the very first presidential TV debates. From my local paper’s Today In History feature: In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the third televised debate for their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles , Kennedy was in New York). emphasis mine So…

The little quotation following comes from the weekly education column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel written by Alan Borsuk. It is about the pros and cons of re-opening schools this fall and who may succeed and who may fail…at both the school level…and the student level. The article is here…

As local newspapers shrink and eventually die under the onslaught of the internet and internet advertising venues, their often grand and centrally located headquarter offices outlive their usefulness. This is exactly what has happened with the offices of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and they are moving from the beautiful art…

This editorial appeared on the front page of this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I am reprinting here in total. I agree with it. I will have comments on it later in another post. It’s up to us.  We can’t count on our elected representatives to work together for the public…

Like a number of other members of his cohort, 2020 Demcratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I- VT) visited Milwaukee last week…for the LULAC convention and other campaign appearances. Of course this garnered a major story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, as it should. But right in the middle of…

Many of us realized that Republican Senator Ron Johnson was in over his head during the primary during his first campaign for US Senate. A full blown product of the Tea Party explosion, anti-science denier of climate change and an opponent of affordable health care for Americans…Senator ‘Sun Spots’ Johnson…

Our regular readers know that I use the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and their website) as the source for a lot of facts in my blogs for things Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Over the past several weeks I have wanted to include links to letters to the editor and write responses or…

These are all from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel August 13th edition…including an op ed piece by Governor Scott Walker. Let’s renegotiate the Foxconn deal : Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican leadership in our state are rushing into a deal with Foxconn that will cost Wisconsin taxpayers up to $3…

A friend of the blog suggested that MJS was paying attention and used the proper type face for this headline. But that brings up two more issues! What the flock is this page three feel good story doing on the front page above the fold when the White House continues…

This is just a little Sunday quickie related to two recent Politifact Wisconsin articles published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The first one rated Senator Chris Larson’s statement on the projected $1.8 billion shortfall in the as yet proposed 2015 – 2017 budget as FALSE. On the day a Wisconsin…