So the three-year John Doe criminal investigation some hoped would terminate the political career of Republican Gov. Scott Walker ends not with a bang, but a whimper

Did Milwaukee County voters give Scott Walker...

Who would want to be Milwaukee County executive? The county's finances are a mess, with an estimated $120 million structural deficit within the next four years. After years of questionable management, the mental health system needs to be utterly revamped...

Milwaukee County Executive and Milwaukee County Board Chair Lee Holloway will run for county executive, he told the Shepherd just hours before he was officially sworn in as county executive on Tuesday. “Am I going to run for county executive?” Holloway said. “Yes, I am...

While two candidates have made it official and filed with the Milwaukee County Election Commission, the real race to replace Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is taking place behind the scenes, where potential candidates are jockeying for political and financial support. Officially, Walker hasn’t stated when he’d leave office, so the election hasn’t even been scheduled...

Ever since Scott Walker became Milwaukee County executive in 2002, he has been systematically working to destroy county government. That is not a political attack. It is a description of Walker’s actual political objective that, for some reason, most of the media failed to notice. For years...

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So what the fock, the other day I suddenly realized we got an election for governor of America’s Dairyland right around the corner in a yearand-a-half come the November of 2010, which means I got a heap of pipe to lay from now...

Walker moved from Delavan to Milwaukee to attend Marquette University, which he left before graduating to work for the Greater Milwaukee Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Taylor was elected to the state Senate in 2004, after serving a partial term in the state Assembly.