Archive: Other Issues

New York Times, by Erica Goode, April 27, 2012
Chief Flynn [Milwaukee] recounted pleading with a state senator to include a...

New York Times By: Lily Raff McCaulou, April 24, 2012
I’m a hunter and a sportswoman. I own guns...

The Nation
By: John Nichols, April 16, 2012
Scott Walker, The Republican governor of Wisconsin was accorded a hero’s welcome when he...

New York Times
By: Erica Goode, April 12, 2012
No one had yet heard of a Florida teenager named...

Washington Post
By: Marc Fisher and Dan Eggen, April 7, 2012

When Billy...

By Julie Ajinkya
Center for American Progress
The senseless death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a neighborhood vigilante in Florida highlights the convergence of the state’s dangerous self-defense laws with a criminal justice...

Fatal Slinger shooting case spurs demonstrators to push for reforms

West Bend - The crowd that lined Highway 33 on Sunday evening had already mourned and memorialized Bo Morrison. This time, they were trying to start a cause, to get others...

In light of the deadly Monday shooting at Chardon High School, NOW’s Alex Wagner addresses the lack of strict gun control laws and a need to stand up to powerful gun...

Gregory Thornton Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 25, 2012

Dear community members:
As superintendent of Milwaukee Public...