Email: james.price@patch.com
Phone 414-218-2779
Hometown: Wauwatosa, WI
Birthday: February 21, 1956
Bio: I've wanted to write ever since my father introduced me to the complete works of Mark Twain when I was a child, but I didn't get my start in journalism until 1986 when I began supplementing my income as an English major through freelancing for the Chicago Reader. Getting paid to write seemed better than not, so after graduating from the University of Illinois-Chicago, I applied to the graduate program of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the first and I believe still the best J-school in the world.
Still a poor student, I begged my way onto the copy desk of the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. After five years of journalistic boot camp, I made my way to The Milwaukee Journal, settled in Wauwatosa, and I've been here ever since, editing and writing for The Journal and Journal Sentinel and teaching journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I'm thrilled to be a Patch editor in my adopted hometown of 22 years.
Our Beliefs
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My Politics
I am unashamed to call myself a liberal in my personal political beliefs, and I don't think anyone should think it's a dirty word, because I believe this nation was founded on the most liberal principles the world has ever seen: that all people are equal and should govern their own affairs as equals. That said, I agree with my hero Thomas Jefferson about the limits of government and with many people today who believe that our government has in many ways outgrown that notion. In any case, I have 25 years of training and experience in journalism and I can assure readers that I have never let any personal beliefs affect my sense of fairness and balance in reporting or editing any story.
My Religion
I grew up in the Methodist Church, and although I do not practice any religion now, I still adhere to much of the guidance of that church, which taught that we should all act toward others and conduct ourselves in accordance with certain beliefs that underlie Christian morality.
Local Hot-Button Issues
The hottest button in Wauwatosa, I believe, is in the undercurrents that swell to the surface from time to time as we try to deal with being the closest suburban community to urban Milwaukee and the socio-economic issues that sometimes spill over our borders.
Victim's identity isn't being disclosed while police and medical examiner investigate exact cause, but available evidence points to heroin use just before his death.
Sessions in aldermanic districts 5, 6 and 3, in that order, are scheduled beginning next week, on topics including property revaluations, sewer rate changes and economic development projects.
Take a moment later this week to help organization fill Milwaukee area families' food needs and see your donation matched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Take a moment later this week to help organization fill Milwaukee area families' food needs and see your donation matched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Take a moment later this week to help organization fill Milwaukee area families' food needs and see your donation matched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Take a moment later this week to help organization fill Milwaukee area families' food needs and see your donation matched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Take a moment later this week to help organization fill Milwaukee area families' food needs and see your donation matched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
The item was held over on Monday's Wauwatosa Plan Commission agenda. But the region's commercial realtors strongly warn against prohibition of chain restaurants, while neighborhood leader defends the proposal as public comment begins.
Take a moment later this week to help organization fill Milwaukee area families' food needs and see your donation matched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Claiming she needs money for an abortion, she tries to steal enough to cover the bill and then threatens to shoot arresting officer.
Missouri woman denies the obvious after she's found passed out and stuck in the snow, and a Brookfield man reveals upon further questioning that not all beer is created equal.
Stopped by Wauwatosa police, driver acknowledges he'd been drinking some beer, but at first fails to note that it was double-strength brew.
Tosa police wanted a more serious charge, but district attorney settles for a Class A misdemeanor.
If found, suspect could face a considerably stiffer penalty after escalating something possibly less than a misdemeanor into a serious felony.
With her hands in everything and especially in our schools – even though her own children are grown up – Debbie is a non-stop volunteer who makes Wauwatosa an even better place, every day.
Parent company made Chapter 11 filing in January and has closed its restaurants in Michigan as well as in Wauwatosa.
Sitting at traffic light Tuesday, a Wauwatosa patrolman hears call that a Walgreens right in front of him is being robbed at that moment. The suspect, already charged, admits to two other recent robberies for narcotics.
While working at a men's hair salon in downtown Milwaukee, Lauren Anderson over three months defrauded the owner three different ways, investigators say.
Through shared grief and support, Wauwatosa police have bonded with Jennifer Sebena's mother and brother as one big family, Weber says.
Stein will take over Hawk's retail center, Qdoba will fill gap in Village, and Schoonmaker Creek will run on under new ownership.
