Guest, Author at Milwaukee Independent

“Behold the Woman” featured at BVGN

Posted by Guest | Jun 3, 2016 |

My project for Bay View Gallery Night (BVGN) “Behold the Woman” takes its titled from Beulah Brinton’s second published book (1886), a sequel to her first “Man is Love” (1872). Beulah Brinton was a well known poet and essayist in Wisconsin, and started the first library in Bay View. The themes of her work were often metaphysical. They uniquely documented the shifting human consciousness after the devastation from the Civil War and into the industrial revolution. As I like to say, Beulah Brinton was born in 1836 and had a vision of human rights a generation before Eleanor Roosevelt,...

Map: Runway Dog Exercise Area

Posted by Guest | Apr 16, 2016 |

Dog Friendly MKE REVIEW: Runway Dog Exercise Area (Galoshes Required) Runway Dog Exercise Park Address: 1214 E. Rawson Ave. Oak Creek, WI 53154 April 12 was my first visit to Runway Dog Exercise Park.Humboldt Park is a mere five minutes from my house. So Runway DEP is about a 15-20 minute drive from my abode in the Bay View Area. But it was worth the trip, even if the experience was not balanced. My experience was merely my own, and no fault of the Park’s. I failed to understand the full gravity of the warning my fiancé gave when she said, “wear your...

Video: Brostoff introduces Bernie

Posted by Guest | Mar 30, 2016 |

Rep. Jonathan Brostoff talked about the broken political system in Wisconsin during his introduction on March 29 for Presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders at his visit to Milwaukee.

Op Ed: What does Bernie’s win in Michigan mean for Wisconsin?

Posted by Guest | Mar 10, 2016 |

On March 9 Wisconsin was feeling the bern by extension of Michigan’s upper peninsula, the oddly shaped attachment on top of the mitten we call the America’s Dairyland. Michigan gave presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, a historic win. He beat predictive front-runner, Hillary Clinton, even after she was polled with a 37 point lead. To put that into perspective, Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in New Hampshire by just over a 8 point Obama lead. The 2016 Presidential race has been about the unexpected, and going against norms. All the usual suspects have been wrong in predicting what would happen....

Op Ed: Vandalizing Wisconsin

Posted by Guest | Feb 29, 2016 |

In the five years since Scott Walker’s election in 2010, he has destroyed a century of progressive laws and policies, some dating back to the great reformer himself, Fighting Bob La Follette. This blog will show what he’s done, how he did it, and how his vandalism can be undone. There is a difference between a conservative and a vandal. In its most extreme form, which we see at work elsewhere today, vandalism can involve the destruction of artistic and architectural treasures thousands of years old. The psychology of a vandal includes self-hatred for his own lack of accomplishment,...

Op Ed: Who will fill Scalia’s shoes?

Posted by Guest | Feb 14, 2016 |

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has passed away at age 79. He was a patriot to this country for serving in the office to the best of his ability when he was called up by President Ronald Reagan. With that said, it’s time to get what everyone really wants, who will become the next top Court Justice of the land? And how will those future decisions affect Milwaukee? Obviously, this will be a contentious issue and a hot point of conversation. Currently, the Justices are stacked to a degree where we have an even split, as even as nine...