Tag: drive-by shooting

  • ‘Things happen’ and another black kid gets whacked.

    But — once again — not by the police. We will not speak ill of the dead. Neither will we tell fairy tales. Nicholas T. Cooke, we are told, “had a loving and large family” and “was very driven.” But Nicholas Cooke is also very dead at age 20, shot to death 09-06-21 on the east…

  • UW Madison campus becoming danger zone

    ‘We were relieved to get our kids out of Chicago, but …’ The University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus was never a monastery. Often enough, the carillon bells on top of Observatory Drive get drowned out on football Saturdays, Mifflin Street block parties, or various protests. Today’s must-read Wisconsin State Journal report on a rash of loud…