Last week, Jim Doyle asked Washington for $519 million dollars to use to upgrade transit in Wisconsin. Would that money go for busses in the inner-city? Transit for the disabled? Bus ticket vouchers for homeless shelters?

�and here I was thinking Nas� album would be the most controversial release of the year. In The Roots' amazing/frightening new video for �75 Bars,� Black Thought drops more N-bombs than a Quentin Tarantino film as the band brutally beats a kidnapped white man, dousing him in gasoline and lighting a match. Who is this anonymous victim? We�re never told, but judging from the horror on his ...