Bruce Murphy

Milwaukee

Editor at Urban Milwaukee

Editor, Urban Milwaukee, Inc.

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Murphy’s Law: Who Will Oppose Justice Rebecca Bradley?

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

Murphy’s Law Who Will Oppose Justice Rebecca Bradley? WI Supreme Court incumbents almost never lose. Bradley could be an exception. //end headline wrapper ?> This article is available only to Urban Milwaukee's paid members. Membership is available for $9 per month or $99 per year and includes access to this article, an ad-free website, a customizable member email, access to free tickets and events and more.
Murphy’s Law: Anti-Trust Case Against Live Nation Could Impact Milwaukee

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

It was nearly a year ago, in May of 2024, that the U.S. Department of Justice filed an anti-trust action against Live Nation-Ticketmaster “for Monopolizing Markets Across the Live Concert Industry,” as a press release by the DOJ announced. Live Nation, already a powerful concert promoter in the U.S., purchased Ticketmaster in 2010, creating a formidable pairing that has created a “unlawful monopoly,” the DOJ case claimed.
Murphy’s Law: The Decline of The Water Council

2 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

Murphy’s Law The Decline of The Water CouncilThe MMAC has basically taken over its financial management. Why? //end headline wrapper ?> This article is available only to Urban Milwaukee's paid members. Membership is available for $9 per month or $99 per year and includes access to this article, an ad-free website, a customizable member email, access to free tickets and events and more.
Murphy’s Law: How Much Did Musk Pay Per Vote?

2 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

Republican members of Congress defending billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and his meat-ax approach to cutting federal funding and employment have called Musk a “genius.”But he doesn’t look like so smart when it comes to his investment in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. He spent $25 million to “buy” the conservative candidate, Brad Schimel, as Democrats charged, and failed badly.
Back in the News: Crawford Was Ahead Through Entire Election

2 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

There were so many Democratic voters anguishing about whether Susan Crawford would win the election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The unprecedented spending in the judicial race, estimated at $107 million, the most ever spent in a judicial election in U.S. history, seemed to give the Republican-supported candidate, Brad Schimel, a clear advantage, what with billionaire Elon Musk‘s massive spending — some $25 million — on the race. But it turns out Crawford never trailed in the election.
Milwaukee Poet Takes On the Universe

3 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

Poet and retired philosophy professor John Koethe was chosen as the first Milwaukee “Poet Laureate,” in 2000, a prize that is bestowed every two years by the Milwaukee Public Library. He was the obvious choice given his national stature. Koethe has been publishing poetry since 1969, for decades by major publishers like Harper Collins and Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has received numerous awards and accolades.
Murphy’s Law: 19 Winners and Losers in Historic Election

3 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

If ever there was an election where some of the biggest winners and losers were not on the ballot, this was it. At times it seemed that the Wisconsin Supreme Court election was all about one loudmouth with a $25 million megaphone who didn’t live in Wisconsin. Oh yes, he heads the list. Loser: Elon Musk. Wow, did he lose big. Liberal George Soros, as always, quietly donated, $2 million this time, to the Democratic Party in time for this election.
Crawford Beats Schimel in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

3 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

More than $100 million spent and the election was over less than an hour after polls closed. Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Dane County judge defeated Waukesha County judge and former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel in the race for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court that galvanized the nation and got tremendous media coverage.
Murphy’s Law: Wisconsin a Leader in Using Signal App to Hide Public Records?

3 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

Last week’s revelation that Trump administration officials used the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss top secret national security issues was all about the lack of security of this group chat. Specifically, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth carelessly disclosed to a journalist the exact time that American fighter jets would take off for strikes against the Houthi fighters — which could have endangered the lives of U.S. pilots.
Back in the News: Musk May Target Other State Elections

3 weeks ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Bruce Murphy

A story today in the New Yorker on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election pitting liberal Susan Crawford against conservative Brad Schimel offered much that we in Wisconsin already know, but some interesting stuff (by writer Dan Kaufman) that’s new:-Billionaire Elon Musk‘s total spending to elect Schimel has surpassed $20 million and is likely still rising. -For voters in heavily Republican Waukesha County, the race is all about Musk.