Category: Original Opinion

This was one of the posts that I meant to finish in that catch up Friday some weeks ago. But I never got to it, partly because I kinda burned out that day and partly because it seems impossible to completely get my head around. I started working on this…

During June 2017, just months after taking on publishing responsibility here at Blogging Blue, I got an internal message from someone that I didn’t know. They wanted to set up a meeting. Not sure on who was asking, I talked to my manager. They recognized the requestor as one of…

The State of Wisconsin put out a request for a new state crime lab for the Milwaukee area and although they got pretty specific on their geographical preference, would this be a candidate for Milwaukee’s Century City development? The state says either a refurbished existing building or new construction would…

The president-elect is somewhat between a rock and a hard place with his selections for cabinet positions and other West Wing roles. On the one hand he faces a very hostile White House that has been stonewalling co-operation on the transition, then a restive progressive wing in his own party…

I haven’t gone back to look for it, but I think I published an article a few years back suggesting that Congress and the various state legislatures pull back a bit and keep bills clean and lean. A spending bill should be a spending bill…a defense bill should be a…

Nurses, doctors, and medical support staff who continue to risk their lives to save the lives of COVID-19 victims. The medical personnel and the various National Guard units who spent time away from their daily routine to administer mass tests for COVID-19 over the past 11 months. The various election…

On November 3, 2020, US Representative Gwen Moore won her 9th term to represent Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional District. When this term is complete, she will have served 18 years in Washington and be 71 years old. Now, I have nothing personal against Rep. Moore. I realize that she is an…

I am not going to dig too deep into this topic today, but after my recent experience it becomes more and more apparent that we need a universal single payer system and that pricing for health care services is completely out of control. Early in October, I had my second…

Today, the New York Times has two very readable and defining articles about women journalists who have moved to the forefront in political reporting and writing. They are Abby Phillip at CNN and Savannah Guthrie at NBC. They are well worth reading and I will link them here: Savannah Guthrie…

As all of you have certainly read over the past four to six weeks, there’s been a lot of press and speculation about a certain laptop computer that somehow was abandoned by its owner and ended up in the hands of a has been lawyer. Now ignoring all of the…