So much cable, so little information

May 28, 2019

Mt. Everest death stories show shallowness of network information

 

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Milwaukee Archdiocese documents show Vatican dragged feet in pedophile cases

Entertainment

The Brain of Eileen Ivers

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First Amendment

Meet Milwaukee's censor: Brutally targeting the great traditions of the United States of America, one journalist at a time, then fails to appear at trial.

Meet Milwaukee's censorJoseph Anderer: Brutally targeting the great traditions of

Read more from Google: Police Officer Joseph Anderer

 

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2007 Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Award

Magazine Category M-8
Best Investigative Story or Series

Which Milwaukee County judges ignore ethics rules and hear  cases in which they have an interest?

On Their Honor

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Does a state system that uses lawyers to punish bad lawyers actually work? Or does it just protect the profession?

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Chase Bank asks court for protection from telling the truth about consumer violations

How to train your banker
JPMorgan Chase Bank asks small claims court to protect employees from testifying about stealing money from depositors; spends thousands on lawyers over policy of charging $150 overdraft fees when money is on deposit 

By GEOFF DAVIDIAN
Editor, MilwaukeePress.net
©2006 MilwaukeePress.net

 MILWAUKEE, Wis. (August 27, 2006) – Poor JPMorgan Chase Bank! The out-of-state banking big shot bought BankOne, and now they have to pay for it. So they've been charging local customers "Insufficient Funds" fees, even when there is money in the account to cover outstanding checks and debit-card purchases. I woke up one day recently to find a whopping $150 hole in my bottom line, thanks to a service fee for "Insufficient Funds" on about $300 worth of purchases when there was more than $1,000 in my checking account.

Now, the bank has hired a lawyer to protect the architects of this consumer fraud from having to be "embarrassed" by talking about their actions. MORE


Amid the public relations din, a patriotic voice

Feingold: acting like a patriot as senate tackles the Patriot Act

By GEOFF DAVIDIAN
Editor, MlwaukeePress.Net

There’s a good reason for Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold’s courageous stand against secrecy in the Senate’s consideration of renewal of portions of the PATRIOT Act:  the government has disregarded limits on federal police action in the War on Terror and arrogantly refuses to discuss it in congressional hearings or before the United States Supreme Court. More


The hidden cost of the War on Terror

Supreme Court asked to decide whether attorney general illegally changed IRS regulations to allow federal police powers Congress meant to curb

By GEOFF DAVIDIAN
Editor, ShorewoodVillage.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 14, 2005) -- Millions of Americans put down a good chunk of their earnings each year as the tax man takes his cut to provide services like protecting us from terrorists.
      But the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked in Payne v. USA to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft illegally rewrote treasury regulations in a surreptitious end-run around congressional limits on federal police powers – powers that were meant to protect citizens from the damage caused not by terrorists, but by the IRS.  More


Reviews of books

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
(2004, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 250 pp., $24.95)  

'And we wonder why terrorists attack us?' asks author John Perkins

By GEOFF DAVIDIAN
MilwaukeePress.Net

In Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins gives us good insight into everything wrong with capitalism, and in doing so shows us an example of the kind of person who makes it all wrong.

Perkins portrays a world where a few are kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that millions of souls lead lives of economic misery and exploitation, through a system in which religious groups, corporations and U.S. policy converge wherever poor nations have resources we want.  More


Organize, then agitate

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Journal Communications: Downtown and Uppity

New North Shore Herald is a marketer's dream and resident's nightmare

They are not selling the paper to you -- they are selling you to the advertisers

Thanks so much (Not) to Journal Communications, or whoever the corporate parent entity they own is that repackaged Shorewood news into a North Shore Herald. Not only has the horizontally and vertically monopolistic organization forced Shorewood advertisers to now spend more to reach people in Brown Deer and Fox Point who will never patronize them, but readers have to scratch around for news they care about through the otherwise irrelevant items about the inner workings of other municipalities.

While it is the trend nationally for newspapers to merge, consolidate staffs and raise advertising costs after falsifying circulation figures, the joining of suburban Herald's into one mega-neighborhood advertising circular only tightens Journal Communication's grip on the information it thinks it can trust us with without us acting up and rebelling.

There is a way to strike back, however. The Herald is offering four free weeks to try to get you hooked on their revamped marketing product.

We suggest you call (262) 317-4254 and take advantage of the free offer, but clearly insist that the trial end with the fourth issue.

After that, you can read the three Shorewood stories or so for free at Walgreen's, Pic N Save or the gas station in less than five minutes.

Our hearts go out to Bridget Fryman and the other writers who aspire to journalism but are chained to the inverted pyramid of corporate domination. RIP.

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Shorewood officials named in money-transfer scheme

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Clare L. Fiorenza
says law requires Village to retain all e-mail messages; village attorney says all email is intact -- Motion

Someone very much like Rodney DowSHOREWOOD, Wis. (Jan, 2, 2004) -- Rodney Dow, the former Village president, apparently opposes openness in government.

In two essays in the Shorewood Herald he refers to correct action by  conscientious trustees as "leaks" by "moles." See ShorewoodVillage.com
 

Attorney Raymond Pollen and Milwaukee firm Crivello, Carlson & Mentkowski are sued for withholding public records in search for clues to library fund transfer

December 12, 2003 -- MilwaukeePress.Net asks judge to enjoin Shorewood officials from destroying records of illegal $535,000 transfer to Village library and to command village attorney and village manager to produce what documents remain -- Taxpayers will foot the bill for official intransigence, foot dragging.
                      Read the verified motion

Texas lawsuit turns attention to Hearst's media monopoly --

The Houston Chronicle allegedly got auditors drunk and falsified circulation figures in a scheme meant to cheat advertisers.

Exclusive Putnam Pit investigation

State case dismissed as lawyers prepare Federal anti-trust complaint accusing Hearst Corp. of refusing to deal, price-fixing and fraud

Latest state complaint is prelude to federal action

 Canned Heat

Canned Heat was good enough to play for Harley executives in Indianapolis on Monday, but you won't be seeing them at Harley-Davidson's 100 Birthday celebration. On the other hand, the Madison Blues Festival served up this band of veterans to the rank-and-file on August 24, 2003, and the crowd's enthusiasm reportedly prompted Luther's Blues  to bring them back to Madison Oct. 2.

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Wisconsin court has jurisdiction over Tennessee officials, lawyers who hacked Shorewood Web Site critical of them, Judge Dominic Amato says -- Hearing transcript


Shipley

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Jan. 13, 2003) -- A Wisconsin judge today denied a Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit naming Cookeville, Tennessee officials for hacking a locally run Web site (www.putnampit.com). The defendants who must go on trial in Milwaukee are Cookeville, Tenn. 

City Manager Jimmy Dale Shipley, City Attorney T. Michael O'Mara, Cookeville's Computer Manager Steve Corder and the city's insurance lawyer, John C. Duffy, of the Knoxville firm Watson & Hollow, which defends city officials through the Tennessee Municipal League's Risk Management scheme.

The city was in the national spotlight since a Cookeville Police Officer blew a family dog's head off with a shotgun during an erroneous traffic stop on Interstate 40 the evening  of Jan. 1, 2003. The incident, which was captured on video, was not reported truthfully by the police officer, according to the Nashville Tennessean.

In denying the Defendants' motion, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dominic Amato said many telephone calls are bounced off satellites, but pointed out that you don't have to go to outer space to sue someone who cheats you by phone from another state. Likewise, he reasoned, if Tennessee officials reach out through the Internet to destroy Wisconsin property, those officials can be sued in Wisconsin regardless of where the host server is located. Pleadings --  Read the hearing transcript

Defendants destroyed the log files that would have shown to which Web Sites Cookeville government officials uploaded files: "The files you requested had been deleted when you made your earlier request and no longer exist," Co-conspirator O'Mara said.  Click here


O'Mara

 

 

Senator Feingold, the way the federal courts interact with the public is a great problem.

Let's work to  evaluate the status of the federal judiciary at this time, and to reconfigure the administration of justice so that individuals are not swept away like gnats off crème brulee

Letter from the publisher  
 


Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.)

 

Kremers says privacy rights trump his own court's order

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Aug. 28, 2002) -- Kathy A. Stover received at least a temporary reprieve from a Milwaukee judge Tuesday in a contemptuous battle with a musician over the contents of her computer.  Story

Related Story: Medical staff at House of Correction faces inquiry Story

WarnerThe battle for Milwaukee's first cable franchise brought political influence home with unprecedented clarity -- Story

Milwaukee Police Department patch

 

Schoemperlen beating in 1981 was a wake-up call for Milwaukee's old-school cops -- Story

Milwaukee Police Chief Arthur JonesIs the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission giving Milwaukee Police Chief Arthur Jones too much rein? Story  

OPINION

Deputy Sheriff’s Association demeans the department and all deputies by demanding praise for random accidents

MILWAUKEE (Aug. 1, 2002) -- Anyone who wonders why unions in this country don’t get no respect no more needs to look only to the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association, which on Monday criticized Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke for failing to publicly praise a deputy injured while responding to a car crash. -- Column

'Officer shot'

MILWAUKEE (July 31, 2002) -- On July 31, 1967, John Oraa Tucker loaded up his .12 gauge shotgun and stood at the window of his home at 134 W. Center St. By the time he put it down, Patrolman Bryan Mosche, 24, and widowed 77-year-old invalid Ann Mosley were dead. Det. Capt. Ken Hagopian was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where surgeons removed 126 pieces of lead from his face; Det. Kenneth Henning was at St. Mary’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest; Patrolman Thomas Borzych was taken to County General Hospital with a gunshot wound in the upper left side; Det.  Leroy Jones was treated at County for a gunshot wound to the right arm and released; Patrolman David Kunde was treated at County emergency for a gunshot would to the left arm, and released; and Detective Harry J. Daniels was released after treatment at County emergency for a cut above his eye from the windshield that shattered.  
    And then there was Patrolman John J. Carter.  -- 
Story

John O. NorquistMarilyn Figueroa

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John O. Norquist depositions -- Documents

Animated gavelAnnual financial disclosure reports for  United States district judges in the Eastern District of Wisconsin -- Download PDF files

How much should drugs cost in jail?

Milwaukee County ready to flush local pharmacy in effort to cut $500,000 from annual jail medical costs -- Story

Selig a racketeer?

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, others  named in federal racketeering case over allegedly defrauding Canadian investors in scheme to eliminate Expos franchise -- Complaint

Journal Sentinel mum on gag order

Former employees who sued the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel say they are forbidden by a gag order from discussing anything about the class-action lawsuit that ended by settlement July 1 - three years, two dozen briefs, 20 motion hearings and dozens of motions, affidavits and depositions after it was filed.  Story

Court record
Summary judgment

Journal Sentinel pulls Business section critical of Commissioner Selig from it's All-Star promo copies. Story

 

Milwaukee Water WorksMilwaukee, the city with the worst case of water-borne illness in U.S. history, loses control at its purification plants. Story

TheraPissed

Donald PlatnerFox Point therapist Don Platner fights restitution to client he admits sexually abusing for a decade. Story