Sports - May 21, 2013
Roenicke's future with Brewers may be determined soon
When a team is as bad as the Milwaukee Brewers have been, you kind of just hold your breath, waiting for somebody with authority to lose patience with the whole thing and start chopping. And, as we all know, the normal first head on the chopping block belongs to the manager.

Milwaukee Buzz - May 16, 2013
The weapons of war
For decades Milwaukee has been a whipping boy for all those state legislators who aren't from Milwaukee. We need to find a way to fight back, something that will scare the crap out of some Republican from Bonduel or Abbotsford or even Mequon. Here are Dave Begel's weapons of war...

Living - May 15, 2013
What I miss the most
I have been kind of out of commission for more than 40 days with a health difficulty and it's been a real long haul. I think I'm in the final couple of weeks before I get to go home, but lately I've been thinking a lot about what things I miss the most.

Milwaukee Buzz - May 14, 2013
Reaction to Journal Sentinel's new editor shows liberal bias
The Journal Sentinel just hired someone named David Paulsen to be its new Breaking News Editor. Paulsen comes to the paper after stints as a reporter in Wausau and Poughkeepsie, N. Y. and two years at Fox News. Well, when the announcement was made the cries from staffers in the newsroom in Downtown Milwaukee could be heard throughout the civilized world.

Sports - May 14, 2013
One change to rule them all
Any sport can be improved upon with simple tweaks to the rules. Here is a list of one change for the major spectator sports that will help each game.

Sports - May 9, 2013
Reaction to Collins news shows how far we've come
For months, all the pro leagues had been preparing for this announcement from some athlete. They had formed alliances with LGBT groups, laying plans for how to respond and how to handle the inevitable public reaction. But even in Wisconsin, we have moved beyond this kind of homophobic bull crap.

Sports - May 7, 2013
We boo because we care
Do something great and we adore our heroes with shouts, screams and applause. We care and we show we care. What are we to do when they screw something up? We care about them just as much and ignoring their failure should not be part of this equation. Not caring is worse, much worse, than disapproving. We have to let them know that we who depend on them so much are disappointed.

Living - May 3, 2013
Etiquette: why stop at forks?
Enough young people have been convinced they should care about using the proper fork that a number of colleges and universities in Milwaukee have started holding etiquette classes for students headed out for job interview lunches and dinners. I see no reason, however, to limit this to meals. Think of all the opportunities these kids are missing.

Milwaukee Buzz - May 1, 2013
Another shooting creates more questions
Another shock when a 4-year-old boy was shot while playing in front of his home near 40th and Chambers Tuesday night. But what was he doing outside?

Living - May 1, 2013
I vote for AnnieCare
I am one of those people who are interested in health care issues and all the arguments about what kind of health care we should have in this country. Farmer/Physicians Blue This and Green That. Let's even forget Obamacare, although I kind of like that one. I vote for AnnieCare.

Living - April 25, 2013
Does crime cause poverty or does poverty cause crime?
Nobody is born a criminal. There is no inevitability to a kid becoming a criminal. There is something else at work here, and that leads us to the big question: Does crime cause poverty or does poverty cause crime?

Sports - April 23, 2013
Paying for fun is nothing new
Excitement, recreation and fun are good things and they are well worth paying for. Let's remove the science from this debate and just concentrate on the style of life and caliber of a city we all really want.

Milwaukee Buzz - April 18, 2013
Milwaukee's moving forward fast - let's not forget to look backwards
Lately, it seems like the whole world has been singing Milwaukee's praises. We've been named on this list or that list. It's an exciting time. But we need to take caution and remember the educational and societal problems that need our attention.

Sports - April 16, 2013
Pro sports ready for openly gay athlete
The major American pro sports leagues are getting ready for its first active, male athletes to come out. And when this happens there's going to be a lot of shouting about progress and how far we have come, but that's a little overwrought. Real progress will be when a gay professional athlete is only concerned about his performance on the field and the rest of us cheer or boo for the way he plays.

Milwaukee Buzz - April 4, 2013
Why does the Journal Sentinel care how much Don Smiley makes?
I am one of the people in Milwaukee who doesn't mind that Summerfest chief Don Smiley makes a lot of money and I am one of a handful who knows why this is such a big story for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The newspaper has always been obsessed with how much money people who don't work for the newspaper make. When I say "obsessed," I am not exaggerating. I have very personal experience with this.

Sports - April 2, 2013
Brewers predictions for 2013
Baseball season is underway. Six months of drama, excitement, fear and loathing. It's a time to think, to make wishes and to predict. Yes, it's time to set your dreams aside and face the cold reality of what you think will happen. Predictions. Some serious. Some not.

Milwaukee Buzz - March 28, 2013
Why vote in state schools superintendent race?
This is kind of a classic race. The incumbent is Dr. Tony Evers, a veteran educator with a decades-long file of experience. He's being challenged by Don Pridemore, a right-wing lawmaker from Hartford who has no meaningful education experience and has made a name for himself by saying single parenthood is the leading cause of child abuse.

Sports - March 26, 2013
Tiger Woods is back, but is that good for golf?
After his long struggle back from mental, emotional and health problems, all carried out in spectacularly public glare, Tiger Woods is once again the most dominant golfer in the world - by far. The question is whether this is a good thing or not.

Arts & Entertainment - March 23, 2013
This Cooke Book needs a new recipe
It's difficult to pigeonhole this show. It's not a concert. It's not a tribute cover band. It's not theater. What it is seems to be a couple of hours of the great songs of Sam Cooke boiled down to a musical theater audience level and delivered with practiced smiles, dance moves, patter with the band and a timorous set of vocal chords that sometimes hit but often missed channeling one of the great singers of our time.

Living - March 21, 2013
No welcome wagon for released sex offender
Nobody wants Shawn Schulpius in their neighborhood and it's easy to understand why. Schulpius is a registered sex offender.