Politics - Sept. 14, 2007
Fighting the war on drugs through parking tickets
Milwaukee Police Chief Nan Hegerty continues the tradition of using federal money coming from drug bust seizures to fund pet projects for the department. The money comes from assets seized from drug dealers and is mandated to go for efforts to reduce drug use.
Tags: MPD, Hegarty, war on drugs, horse patrol, mmsd, Lazich, PIC, Private Industry Council, Red Dot, Great Lakes Water Resources Compact

Politics - Aug. 15, 2007
Budget time fills some legislators' bank accounts
Despite the semi-annual hand wringing and brow-beating over the fact that state lawmakers accept campaign contributions while they are writing the budget, the practice continues bigger than ever.
Tags: doyle, wasserman, democrats, scott walker, republicans, tommy thompson, iowa straw poll, kanavas, plale, colon, lazich, sinicki