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Caption: Adolf Hitler tours the 1939 International Auto Exhibition in Berlin. Three years before, at another Berlin auto show, Hitler announced that Porsche would design the "People's Car," or Volkswagen, an affordable, practical vehicle for the working German family.Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Feb 17, 1939

A 42-year-old Richfield man, his 9-year-old son and a 12-year-old girl from another family were killed Sunday morning when the SUV they were riding in was hit by a truck that slid across a snow-covered road in Washington County. The man's 40-year-old wife, two of their children and the 12-year-old girl's 11-year-old brother suffered serious injuries and were taken to hospitals, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department. The three men who were in the one-ton flatbed truck were not injured. ... According to the sheriff's department: The crash occurred just before 9 a.m. on state Highway 164 north of...

Please give a hand and an opinion on stimulus spending to "save Wisconsin." Poll and comments are at the address linked above or: http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/poll/index.html

MJS reader forum question: What would you do if your neighbor was openly carrying a handgun while planting a tree in his yard?

What do you want to see President Barack Obama do in his first 100 days in office? Here's how 20 first-graders at Hartford University School, a public school tucked into the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, answered that question. There probably won't be much talk at the White House in coming weeks about better prices for toys, but Obama could certainly do worse than listen to some of the ideas - or to keep in mind why some answered the way they did. 1. Give us more jobs. 2. Lower the price of gas. 3. Give us more money. 4. Love...

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Looks to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 100-150 in attendance. Many press and even more AFSCME (Unionized city workers) waving signs or staring off away from the stage. Tax dollars at work. http://flickr.com/photos/rowlikewow/sets/72157608031535871/

Can someone out there post the name and/or of the former NYPD officer who spoke this morning on Fox and Friends re: the Ayers/Weatherman bombings? I'd love to track down and see the segment again and pass it along. Key points: - Photos of the nail bombing site. - Quite a bit of very clear talk about what kind of effort was put into targeting and killing civilians and the level of destruction and mutilation inflicted by Ayers terrorists. - A flat refusal to dignify Ayers as a radical; he's a terrorist. - An aquittal via legal loophole does not...

Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition Dear Friend: As you know, the economy is in crisis. Some have suggested that the current crisis compares not only with the savings and loans bailout of the '80s, but also with the greatest economic crisis our nation ever faced - the Great Depression. However, just one short month before a presidential election, we were stunned to see this weekend that one of the two major presidential candidates said they want to "turn the page," on discussing our economic crisis. Whether you support one major-party candidate or the other, or a third-party candidate, it is absolutely...

Excerpt: ... Four of the protesters were charged with mob action and disorderly conduct after trying to break past a makeshift barricade at a side entrance to the council chambers. Madeleine Talbott, a leader with Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), said she felt justified in trying to lift a table to get past police who were guarding the doors. "We have a right to be in there and to watch them use parliamentary tricks to block this vote," Talbott said moments after being handcuffed. 'ACORN, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and the Service Employees International Union...

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A link to a photo gallery of shots taken at the McCain-Palin rally in Cedarburg, WI - the first post-convention stop for the candidates. Media estimates put the event at 10,000 or more in attendance and long lines remained outside the area even after the event had concluded.

Can a city stop people from posting a link to its Web site? That’s the question at the center of a federal lawsuit brought by a Sheboygan woman against the mayor and other officials there, in what appears to be a first-of-its-kind case, according to an Internet law expert. Jennifer Reisinger says the Sheboygan city attorney ordered her to remove from her Web site a link to the city’s police department, in what she believes was retaliation for her support of recalling Mayor Juan Perez, according to the suit filed last week. The city went further, the lawsuit claims, launching...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2008, 6:18 p.m. By Larry Sandler City refers 32 more to DA for voter fraud Milwaukee's election chief turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney's office for possible prosecution today, after they tried to submit falsified registration cards. That brings to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. An organization warned the commission staff late this afternoon about some questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers, Edman said. All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid...

Video: NAACP formally buries the "N" word at the 98th Annual NAACP Convention in Detroit July 9, 2007. On demand webcast of the entire content is available thanks to AT&T at naacpwebcast.com

Why do you live in Milwaukee? Posted: July 7, 2008 Whatever the reason, clinging to hometown roots, taking up a new job, or shedding a house in the suburb for a condo in the city, Milwaukee continues to sustain its population numbers early in the 21st century. What's your reason for living here? Submit Your Comment

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Clinton delegate to vote for McCain As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton's defeat. She's not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama. And she's not entirely alone in saying she'll vote this fall for Republican John McCain instead. But what makes her unusual is that she holds these views as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer. "I'm sure people are going to be upset with me. I don't want to lose my national delegate status," says Bartoshevich, a...

Parent wants apology from school district He spends $4,000 fighting citation By JANICE KAYSER jkayser@cninow.com Posted: June 5, 2008 The Wauwatosa father said he took a photo of a reading wall in a Wilson School classroom Feb. 19 to help a parent in his wife's online support group for parents of autistic children. The photo, however, led to an interrogation of another parent, conspiracy accusations and, eight hours later, a disorderly conduct arrest of the puzzled father. "I just cannot believe this happened," Dave Gallenberger said. Gallenberger and his wife, Arlene, and Dana and Barbara Nicholson told a reporter last...

A reader who witnessed yesterday's anti-war protest sent us several photos of the incident so we thought we'd share a couple of them with you. Milwaukee police arrested four people during the late afternoon march, according to Officer Bobby Lindsey, a department spokesman. At least two of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, Lindsey said. The photos show that a number of paper boxes and trash cans were dumped in the street during the afternoon rush hour at N. Water St. and E. Wisconsin Ave. The march later moved south toward the Historic Third Ward. It was unclear whether the...