Legal conflict looms despite what county official calls generous peace offering

In an effort to defuse a looming legal battle with the Town of Saukville, County Board Chairman Robert Brooks has offered to discuss concessions that include donating land to the town and paving its roads in exchange for the ability to expand the county’s gravel mining operation in the town without a fight, he said Tuesday... Read More

Dark clouds hang over the horizon, tumbling closer as a moist, warm air settles in and lightning strikes in the distance.

Then, the sirens sound.

The wind is picking up and it seems like conditions are getting very dangerous — but with Lake Michigan right next door, there's no way it's a tornado, right?

Wrong.

"That is one of those wives tales that’s been out there for a long time," said Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Tod Pritchard of the Wisconsin Emergency Management department.

Cool lake breezes are not thunderstorms' ideal..... Read More

Paul Salsini is a veteran Milwaukee journalist, having been a Reporter, State Editor, and Staff Development Director at the Milwaukee Journal. He now teaches writing courses at Marquette University. He was the Wisconsin correspondent for the New York Times for twenty years, and his travel essays have appeared in the Times and elsewhere. Paul Salsini is the author of three historical novels that make up “A Tuscan Trilogy.” He has received a first place in fiction from the Council for Wisconsin writers and from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.