Politics - March 13, 2009
City addresses license plate victims' sticker shock
The City of Milwaukee will give a break to vehicle owners who have had their registration stickers ripped off -- sort of. For the past two years parking checkers issued $50 tickets to unregistered vehicles and those without stickers no matter the circumstance. The city can also tow those vehicles. In an effort to be less punitive the city now issues tickets for failing to display registration, which run $17 instead of $50.
Tags: West Bend, license plate sticker theft, Emilio De Torre, ACLU, Jim Holperin, Scott Walker, Joe Wineke, Custer High School, Jason Field, Ed Flynn, John Chisholm, UWM, Kyle Duerstein, UW Regents, Michael Moscicke, Nancy Mistele, Brittany Zimmerman, Kathleen

Politics - July 30, 2008
Teeing up a Darling political debate
What's more important, money or golf prowess? That's the latest debate in the contest for state Senate between incumbent Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and her challenger, state Rep. Sheldon Wasserman (D-Milwaukee).
Tags: alberta darling, sheldon wasserman, tom barrett, scott walker, milwaukee county, ed flynn, dale knapp

Politics - May 30, 2008
Lawsuit could bring Jones era to a close
One of the last vestiges of the Art Jones' tenure as police chief in Milwaukee could come to a close next week as the city considers settling a lawsuit with a former officer who alleges Jones discriminated against him.
Tags: Art Jones, Ed Flynn, Milwaukee Police, Carl Gee, Gary George, Police Athletic League, James E. Miller Jr.

Politics - April 11, 2008
Where are the cab stands?
Milwaukee used to have taxi stands Downtown, but now there seems to be only one.
Tags: Taxi, cab, David Cieslewicz, Common Council, Ed Flynn, property assessment, smoking ban, Chad Cotti, Fred Kessler, All Children Matter, Ald. Bob Bauman

Politics - March 19, 2008
Chief's civilian plan stymied
It is the unthinkable. Civilians running the Milwaukee Police Department. That vision, at least part of it, was the brainchild of new Police Chief Ed Flynn, whose plan to reorganize the command structure at MPD was thwarted by the Common Council this week.
Tags: Ed Flynn, MPD, Tim Carpenter, SeniorCare, Martin Luther King Drive, Tom Ewart, Milwaukee County Parks Department, Lake Park Lumberjack

Politics - July 17, 2008
Truth or Consequences
(The following appeared in the July 13th edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.) Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn is off to a good start curbing gun violence with his neighborhood patrol task force, but after July 4th carnage, he needs more citizen cooperation, with or without financial...
Tags: crime, Ed Flynn