What Parents Should Know

Hillary Plays the Crazy Card

Ill-advised threats to Iran won’t help her cause

In this protracted and often dispiriting prelude to the general election, few remarks have been as poorly chosen as Sen. Hillary Clinton's threat to "totally obliterate" Iran. What she obliterated with just those two words were her own boasts of superior diplomatic experience—and she managed at the same time to tar America's international image with all the subtlety of the man she hopes to replace.

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DNR OKs We Energies’ Plans

Power Plant’s Water-Intake Pipe Moves Ahead

Riverkeeper Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called it “a giant fish-killing machine,” but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) just gave a preliminary OK to We Energies’ plan to build a 1.5-milelong water-intake pipe into Lake Michigan.

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Express Yourself Milwaukee “Celebrates” Five Years

Annual Performance May 15th (Online Exclusive)

The hundred-plus kids involved in Express Yourself Milwaukee, Inc. come from some of the worst living situations imaginable. Many of their lives have been marked by drug addiction, run-ins with the law, teen pregnancy and unstable households. Every week, however, these children find hope working with Express Yourself Milwaukee’s staff, who mentor them using the artists.

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Was the State Campaign Finance Reform Bill of 2007 Actually a St

If an elected official is under investigation for campaign finance violations, will Wisconsin voters ever know it? Not likely, according to rules governing the new Government Accountability Board (GAB), which was created last year to clean up ethical lapses in government.

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Why Celebrate Rev. Wrong?

It’s more courageous to rise above division

As the Rev. Jeremiah Wright gleefully tours the airwaves, inflicting severe political damage with almost every utterance, he is proving that racism isn’t the only obstacle to a black president. The historic prize is almost within the grasp of one of the most talented politicians America has ever seen, yet...

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Good Intentions Gone Awry?

National voter registration group causes chaos

The group’s goal seems admirable enough—to register some of the millions of unmarried women who aren’t engaged in the political process so that they can vote in the 2008 primaries and general election. Unfortunately, the efforts of Women’s Voices. Women Vote.

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What Is a Viewshed?

Paradise in Our Own Back Yard

A viewshed is an area visible to an observer from a certain vantage point. It usually includes elements of natural interest and precludes unwanted visual incursions like tall buildings. When the Milwaukee River Work Group (MRWG) talks about preserving...

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The Hometown Site

Paradise in Our Own Back Yard

The fact that most of the river’s green corridor is surrounded by public parkland makes it easier for the MRWG to fulfill its vision. However, among the privately owned portions of the river, there’s at least one significant site that’s been the source of some dissent.

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A Global Vision

Paradise in Our Own Back Yard

The Department of City Development has formulated a Northeast Side Plan, a broad guide to future development of an area that includes the Milwaukee River environmental corridor and the Hometown site. The plan will be finalized later this month and will offer a broad frame within which site conflicts can be resolved.

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