My Dissent

Columns from the Green Bay Press-Gazette published posthumously for readers who miss his wisdom and humor. A collection of newspaper columns typically O'Malley. Colorful. Blunt. Reflective. Humorous. Eloquent in explaining why life had been good to him. Lou earned graduate degrees in education from Harvard and in law from Marquette University. He worked in construction, served as a U.S. Marine, was a teacher, principal, and ran for public office. For 11 years he had a weekly opinion column. With his wife of 44 years, he lived in a homeless shelter as a social justice advocate, and was beginning a new career as a poverty lawyer and mediator when cancer ended his life.