Dining - Oct. 1, 2009
Diablos Rojos Restaurant Group goes smoke free until 10 p.m.
I stopped at Cafe Hollander on Downer Ave. for lunch today, and noticed signs promoting a new smoke-free policy.
Tags: Diablos Rojos Restaurant Group, smoking ban, trocadero, hollander, Cafe Centraal, smoke free, no smoking, dining

Milwaukee Buzz - Sept. 1, 2009
Milwaukee heat index: September 2009
There's never a shortage of new people, events, decisions and ideas in Milwaukee, some moving the city forward and some holding it back. In this subjective and light-hearted article, we take Milwaukee's temperature for at the start of September 2009.
Tags: heat index, brett favre, doug melvin, swine flu, david cross, bon iver, milwaukee film, aaron rodgers, smoking ban

Bars & Clubs - Aug. 24, 2009
After renovation, Blu will be smoke-free
Blu, atop The Pfister Hotel in Downtown, is finally going smoke-free. It will also close at the end of September for a "complete renovation."
Tags: Blu, Pfister, smoke free, smoking ban, night life

Bars & Clubs - Aug. 21, 2009
On the town in Milwaukee: Less than a year and counting
We've rolled into the final year of smoky bars and cigarettes over beers. At least indoors that is. The impending city wide and statewide smoking ban goes into effect July 5, 2010 and so with less than a year left, Milwaukeeans have a limited time to embrace and enjoy their tobacco filled evenings.
Tags: landmark lanes, smoking ban, smokers, non-smoking, bay view bowl, leff's, rookies, denny's george webb's

Politics - Aug. 14, 2009
Waving the flag for free speech
A Crivitz supper club owner will get help from a bevy of lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin as he sues the village for denying his right to fly the U.S. flag upside down.
Tags: Critivz, Vito J. Congine, ACLU, smoking ban, Milwaukee River Dam, Estabrook Park, Gov. Jim Doyle, Sen. Russ Feingold, Ald. Terry Witkowski, Ald. Robert Bauman, Cash for Clunkers