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Holiday season comes to an end

Photo/Jack Orton

Mike Reilly (on lift) and other crew members of the Third Ward Association remove holiday decorations Monday at Catalano Square in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.


Group claims school levy tax credit distribution aids richer districts

6:31 p.m. | A change in how the state finances schools is having an effect that is the reverse of what Robin Hood would do, an advocacy group contends. It is aiding the rich at the expense of the poor.

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State DNR appointment may revert to panel vote

6:53 p.m. | A bill that would return authority to a citizens board to appoint the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources stands its best chance of passage in more than a decade. But whether Gov. Jim Doyle would sign the legislation is another matter.

Obama predicts quick approval
of economic rescue plan

Updated: 6:06 p.m. | President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was "bad and getting worse" and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion.

Eugene Kane

Burris saga shows Milwaukee's political connections

11:17 p.m. | A Milwaukee lawyer - sort of - has found himself in the center of a national storm. Roland Burris was chosen to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, setting off a political firestorm in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Packers make drastic changes

Ax falls on defensive staff

11:03 p.m. | Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. And fired. One by one, coach Mike McCarthy gutted his defensive staff and axed his strength coach during a 24-hour period unlike any other in the long history of the Green Bay Packers.