Ten quotes that stick in my head from the panel discussion of former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendents at the Law School on Monday evening:
Robert Peterkin, superintendent from 1988 to 1991: “This is a town that loves politics as a blood sport.”
Peterkin on school reform when he was in Milwaukee: “We should have done it twice as much, twice as fast, and twice as deep.”
Mark Attanasio “has been everything anyone would want in an owner.”
He has embraced Milwaukee, taken the Milwaukee Brewers organization “to the next level,” and made thoughtful, smart business decisions.
That’s the kind of praise a happy fan of the local baseball team might well offer.
In this case, the praise comes from Wendy Selig-Preib, the woman who was president and CEO of the Brewers when the decisions were made in 2004 and 2005 to put the team up for sale and to choose the Los Angeles financial manager as the new owner.
What kind of message should the law send when it comes to a woman who kills a man who has been abusing, assaulting, or threatening her?
“I think it is important that we send the right moral message in the law,” Joshua Dressler, a respected authority on criminal law and procedure said in a lecture at the Marquette University Law School.
In the annual Barrock Lecture at the Law School last week, Dressler said that even as some feminists advocate for expanding what is justifiable under the label of self-defense, the law should proceed cautiously.