http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp Murphy's Law by Bruce Murphy en-us Copyright 2008 Milwaukee Magazine. All Rights Reserved. Tue, 6 May 2008 14:00:01 GMT 60 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=20512&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring all voters to show photo ID. The decision ignored powerful Wisconsin data that would have blown a rather large hole in the majority decision. The gist of the Supreme Court decision, ... 5/6/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=20399&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss The Milwaukee International Film Festival is mired in controversy that hasn’t been reported. It’s a juicy controversy pitting liberals against liberals, and also starring the Shepherd Express, Mayor Tom Barrett and the Greater Milwaukee Committee. The ... 4/29/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=20284&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss Poor Robert Zellner. After supposedly viewing pornography for a grand total of 67 seconds, the Cedarburg teacher was not only fired, but had his name dragged through the mud at public hearings. Zellner’s photo has run many times in the Milwaukee Journal ... 4/22/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=20171&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss It is remarkable how little has been written about Milwaukee County’s suit against Mercer Human Resources Consulting. The stakes for county taxpayers are high. The county has hired actuarial experts who have estimated the total cost of the notorious ... 4/15/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=20022&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss Few issues caused as much controversy as the tax bailout for Miller Park. Now that we’ve all cooled down on the issue, the Milwaukee Journal Sentineldid a story looking at the cost and benefits of the new stadium. It referenced an impressive-sounding ... 4/8/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=19899&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss The Great Lakes Compact has often been portrayed as a battle between Milwaukee and Waukesha. It’s not. The compact’s rules for how to use and conserve Great Lakes water have been portrayed as pitting Democrats who favor them versus Republicans who don’t. ... 4/1/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=19722&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler came into this race with less-than-resounding support from voters. In mid-February, before the media was paying much attention to the Supreme Court race, a telephone survey by WISC-TV in Madison found 37 percent of ... 3/25/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=19622&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss It’s ugly. Challenger Michael Gableman is doing a nasty ad charging that Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler “found a loophole” to get a convicted child molester, Reuben Lee Mitchell, off on a technicality and that Mitchell went on to commit another ... 3/18/2008 http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?newmessageid=19496&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=murphyslaw_rss Wisconsinites are having less and less say over who gets elected to the state Supreme Court. In the 2007 race between Annette Ziegler and Linda Clifford, more than half of the money spent on the race, some $3.1 million, was spent by outside interest ... 3/11/2008