Category: Guest Blogs

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…

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…

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…

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!…

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):…

The election is over. My mind is slowly coming out of its frozen, numb state. I’m beginning to do some deep soul searching as to what happened on Tuesday. While many are mourning over Trump’s election, my tears have been for the State of Wisconsin. Dems did not pick up…

What follows is a guest blog by longtime Blogging Blue commenter Duane Dubey. THE “ROBBER BARONS” HAVE RETURNED Early in the 19th Century there were two levels of society in America. One, composed of businessmen, was known as “Robber Barons” and the other was known as the “working class.” There…

April is known by several titles; Organ Donor month, Donate the Gift of Life month, and several other variations, all of which call attention to the same theme; that is, most if not all can contribute, as our last act, to the continuation of life for others through organ donation….

What follows is a guest blog from Stephanie Findley, candidate for First Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, in response to criticisms that have been leveled against her. I have been a loyal Democrat since I came out of the womb in 1973. The first campaign I’ve ever…

What follows is a guest blog by Joanne Brown. Is this the end of Wisconsin’s civil service? Yet another surprise tucked away into the Walker budget bill could mean the end of Wisconsin’s civil service system as we know it. The budget calls for the Office of State Employee Relations…