Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Education reporter Alan Borsuk has an article in today’s MJS which provides some insight into Barack Hussein Obama’s (mmm mmm mmm) visit to a Madison school this past week. Borsuk refers to it as a subtle message “aimed right at Wisconsin and Milwaukee”. I’d interpret it more as a subtle [...]
warrior ant press (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Books fall from trees and Warrior Ant Press rakes them up and bags them for your fall enjoyment. Let the Great World Spin. Colum McCann.2009, Random House. A book that stretches a long thin wire between Philippe Petit's wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and 9/11 and dares to take the reader along the route. With a cast of New Yorkers that makes you long for a big city escape....
ShinyRed (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
If you are a regular Twitter user you’ll know that the last couple of weeks has been all about lists. Thanks to a tweak to the Twitter website users can now make lists of users and shares them with others. There’s a good post on how this works here. So will lists transform the way that [...]
17 SECONDS (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Echo and the Bunnymen -’Ocean Rain.’ (Korova, 1984) For some of the records on here, I could have written pages and pages about how these albums make me feel. This seems to be the exception…because the music seems to speak for itself. It’s goth, Jim, but not as you know it. Strings that could grace a classical [...]
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Scott Walker voluntarily gives back almost 50% of his salary his first six years in office…totalling about $360,000. He then opts to scale back his voluntary pay cut to about $10,000 per year. Seems to me Walker was leading by example well before he demanded any sacrifice from anyone else in County government. How hard would [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A packed house at Washington Park Senior Center bore witness Monday night to a litany of impassioned pleas made to 19 mostly silent Milwaukee County supervisors to save programs threatened by next year's unusually tough budget.
AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
It's On, Wisconsin! Southwest Airlines officially kicked off the carrier's service from Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport at a news conference this morning, capping-off a weekend of...
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Happy Birthday, Scott Walker! On 11.02.10, I believe Scott will be celebrating more than another birthday. One year from today, Wisconsinites will elect a new governor. Hopefully, our long statewide nightmare will be over. Here is Scott Walker's column marking one year until the election: "With Big Challenges Come Big Opportunities" By Scott Walker It is one year until the election. As much...
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Today marks the one year mark from the election that we hope will sweep Scott Walker, and common sense back into to the Governors mansion in Madison. There is still a long way to go, and even though the Democrats are in disarray, we know that liberal forces will put huge amounts of money [...]
The Chief (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Here's an interesting claim : I do not know if Walker would win MKE County in 2010, but the DEM candidate would need to get 60% in MKE County to win statewide. I think almost any DEM could do that against Neumann (and Belling agrees), but I do not know any DEM who could pull those numbers against Walker, including Barrett. I'm interested in the bolded line (added by me), which isn't true. Let's go...
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
County Employee Layoffs Averted Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and the County Board have averted the layoffs of 180 county employees by agreeing to meet weekly to work on the county’s budget. “I appreciate the efforts of the County Board to work with us on alternatives to avoid laying off County employees,” Walker said in a news [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Memo to Milwaukee County employees: Never mind. That was the upshot of a Friday session that ended with a new deal to avert the Thanksgiving layoffs of 180 county workers intended to avoid a 2009 budget shortfall.
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
When the government possesses videotape evidence of the torture of subjects under its dominion and control, there is only one reason to destroy the tapes. That reason is not because they possess no evidentiary value; in fact it is the direct opposite, it is because they are smoking guns. Videotapes are definitive for [...]
highwayfive (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Night Falls Over Kortedala sounds effortless. It glides like a kite of angel wings on a soft summer breeze, all twinkling keys, kettle drum rolls, soaring strings and Lekman’s glorious croon. It belies the difficult genesis of the record. Three years in the making, the songs were honed live, written and rewritten until they sparkled. Lekman was so disenchanted at one point that he talked of retirement....
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's plan to temporarily lay off up to 180 employees as a last-ditch move to balance this year's budget prompted finger pointing, accusations and shouting Thursday from county supervisors.
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