Robert Moon, 48, Stabbed to Death by 13-Year Old Step Granddaughter

A 13-year-old Milwaukee girl has been accused of fatally stabbing her step-grandfather, Robert Moon, 48, because he poured the milk for her cereal down the drain. Authorities said the bloodshed was the result of a long feud between the two. Public defender Joy Sherard said county officials had intervened in the household the past. "This is about more than spilled milk," she said in a media interview.

According to the police, after Moon dumped the milk - saying another child in the house had to be fed first - Brown grabbed a paring knife and stabbed him in the neck. Isn't that very extreme for a 13 year old child, especially a girl?

"She stabbed me, she stabbed me in the neck," Moon said as he collapsed Saturday.
Cops said Brown told a neighbor: "I stabbed him! I cut his throat! He's dead ... I'm not afraid to go to jail for this." She was held on a reckless homicide charge.

Where are the parents of this child and why was she living with her grandparents? It seems to me that she was failed by many people in her family and it is a tragedy. There is more to this incident than spilled milk.

Milwaukee Neighborhoods Consider Printing Own Currency

This may sound totally incredulous, but residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet to discuss printing their own money. The basic idea is that the local cash could be used at neighborhood stores and businesses, thus encouraging local spending. Supporters hope that the result would be a bustling local economy, even as the rest of the nation deals with a recession.

"You have all these people who have local currency, and they're going to spend it at local stores," said Sura Faraj, a community organizer who is helping spearhead the plan. "They can't spend it at the Wal-Mart or the Home Depot, but they can spend it at their local hardware store or their local grocery store."

Incentives could be used to entice consumers into using the new money. For example, perhaps they could trade $100 U.S. for $110 local, essentially netting them a 10 percent discount at participating stores To put it in some perspective, according to the Chicago Tribune, It's not a new concept—experts estimate there are at least 2,000local currencies all over the world—but it is a practice that tends to burgeon during economic downturns. During the Great Depression, scores of communities relied on their own currencies.

So, laugh if you will, but this is completely legal. As long as communities don't create coins, or print bills that resemble federal dollars, organizations are free to produce their own greenbacks. This may seem like a crazy idea, but it is completely legal and probably worth a second look.

Milwaukee Neighborhoods Consider Printing Own Currency

This may sound totally incredulous, but residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet to discuss printing their own money. The basic idea is that the local cash could be used at neighborhood stores and businesses, thus encouraging local spending. Supporters hope that the result would be a bustling local economy, even as the rest of the nation deals with a recession.

"You have all these people who have local currency, and they're going to spend it at local stores," said Sura Faraj, a community organizer who is helping spearhead the plan. "They can't spend it at the Wal-Mart or the Home Depot, but they can spend it at their local hardware store or their local grocery store."

Incentives could be used to entice consumers into using the new money. For example, perhaps they could trade $100 U.S. for $110 local, essentially netting them a 10 percent discount at participating stores To put it in some perspective, according to the Chicago Tribune, It's not a new concept—experts estimate there are at least 2,000local currencies all over the world—but it is a practice that tends to burgeon during economic downturns. During the Great Depression, scores of communities relied on their own currencies.

So, laugh if you will, but this is completely legal. As long as communities don't create coins, or print bills that resemble federal dollars, organizations are free to produce their own greenbacks. This may seem like a crazy idea, but it is completely legal and probably worth a second look.