North Shore Exponent

To paraphrase Mark Twain, when you hear someone talk or read about the death of newspapers and their newsrooms, you can respond by saying that view is greatly exaggerated and provide the following facts.

Ted Jennaro seemed surprised that I would ask why. Why clip all these random articles and photos from newspapers and magazines and glue them in scrapbooks? Why is this so satisfying to him?

As the air appeared last week to be seeping out of the effort to make fundamental changes in the way the Milwaukee Public Schools system is run, in stepped the leading academic researcher of mayoral control of school systems with a surprisingly strong message: You've got to do it.