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Senator Alberta Darling and Representative Dale Kooyenga are trying to take over Milwaukee Public Schools. Their proposal to take away "failing" schools from MPS and create a "recovery school district" is a blatant effort by out-of-town representatives to take local control away from the people. Let's not allow the state's poorest and most deprived schools to be handed over to private interests.

For the second time this year, Milwaukee Common Council members will consider an ordinance that would burn off most of the municipal fine for possessing a small amount of marijuana. This time, Ald. Nik Kovac is taking the idea straight to the

By Tom Kertscher on Friday, May 8th, 2015 at 1:37 p.m.

African Americans in Milwaukee County are 4.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites.  In the City of Milwaukee it is worse: African Americans are over five times more likely to be arrested, despite the fact that both groups use the same amount of weed. 

Article by: SCOTT BAUER , Associated Press

Karina Willes and Kami Young were married in Minnesota in late 2013. The spring of the next year, Young gave birth to their daughter, Olivia. And Willes attempted to get her name included on the girl’s birth certificate, receiving advice from the ACLU on how to do that.  

Important things to know about Voter ID (from the Government Accountability Board)

Written by The Wisconsin Gazette Tuesday, 21 April 2015 04:50

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, the ACLU LGBT Project, along with attorneys from Mayer Brown filed a motion today in the case of Wolf v. Walker asking the U.S. District Court to clarify that both parents in a same-sex married couple must be listed on the birth certificates of children born while they are married.  The ACLU is filing the motion on behalf of Kami Young and Karina Willes, who had married in Minnesota before their daughter was born last year.