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  • Get Shorty?

    Radio Free Wisconsin

    Get Shorty?

    Great balls of fire! Before the Veterans Affairs Board fired controversial John Scocos, certain board members apparently discussed his removal.

    Say it isn’t so!

    The alleged conspiracy hinges on the board exercising its prerogative to hire and fire the secretary. But [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 2:05pm EDT
  • Coggs showed her passion for community

    News and Opinion

    At the last Milwaukee Common Council meeting of the whole, Ald. Milele Coggs became very emotional. She was responding to a proposal that would have kept a fire station operating in her district by using money from the contingency fund. She acknowledged the importance of public safety but saw no [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 1:00pm EDT
  • Coggs showed her passion for community

    Across the Board

    At the last Milwaukee Common Council meeting of the whole, Ald. Milele Coggs became very emotional. She was responding to a proposal that would have kept a fire station operating in her district by using money from the contingency fund. She acknowledged the importance of public safety but saw no [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 1:00pm EDT
  • Stuff You're Not Supposed to Know About ObamaCare

    Dad29

    Gee. This is supposed to be a secret, sent by QueenNancy to her underlings.

    ...most health staff are already aware that our health proposal does not contain a “doc fix.” Some Republicans have repeated CBO’s November 18th letter that says “the sustainable growth rate (SGR) mechanism governing Medicare’s payments [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:56pm EDT
  • This Just In...

    The Monthly Newsletter of Wisconsin's First Craft Distillery -Special- In This Issue Blog / Facebook Bourbon Released The Party Featured Article Featured Article Add us to your Social Network Follow us on Twitter and Facebook Also check out "Distilled!" a blog where we spew about alcohol related topics a bit more frequently than the newsletter allows. Featured Article Author Charles Cowdery' [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:45pm EDT
  • Biden and the Insurance Companies

    FREEDOM EDEN

    Number of comments: 0
    It's clear that the Obama administration's goal is to grow government. The long-term plan is to have government control our lives as much as possible.

    Of course, the more power the government has, the less freedom we have.

    Joe Biden states, "We're going to control the'" [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:36pm EDT
    by Mary
  • Scott Walker is true hero of Amtrak procurement

    illusory tenant

    Former assemblyman Walker personally blessed no-bid provision Neither Scott Walker nor anyone from his staff contacted rail equipment manufacturer Talgo to ask them to consider the Super Steel facility before the company made its decision, Talgo executive Ferran Canals told committee members.In fact it was Tom Barrett who went to bat [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:31pm EDT
  • FireDogLake: NO!!! On Obamacare

    Dad29

    FireDogLake is a Left-O-Wacky blog, but they get respect for being meticulous (wrong, yes, but meticulous).

    They hate ObamaCare.

    A middle class family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $8,628 per year for insurance. After basic necessities, this leaves them with $8,307 in discretionary income [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:17pm EDT
  • We incite, we report

    illusory tenant

    The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel documents public "shock" at inflated parking prices during the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and then it turns out the Journal-Sentinel itself is charging just as much (fifty bucks) as anybody. Journalists also kept a close watch on the doings of a rival parking facility, to see if [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:05pm EDT
  • Wisconsin does great job on clean air

    News and Opinion

    Clean jobs act and global warming legislation, why? Most feel we deserve millions in carbon credits. For over 30 years we’ve recycled paper, plastics and glass, kept our thermostats at 60 in winter months, turned off unused lights just like Dad did. We conserved on gasoline, car pooled, didn’t use [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
  • Wisconsin does great job on clean air

    Across the Board

    Clean jobs act and global warming legislation, why? Most feel we deserve millions in carbon credits. For over 30 years we’ve recycled paper, plastics and glass, kept our thermostats at 60 in winter months, turned off unused lights just like Dad did. We conserved on gasoline, car pooled, didn’t use [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
  • Legislative Dummy: Moepske

    Dad29

    There's some creature named "Molepske" that got elected to the AssDems

    He has a "green" building-bill up.

    Molepske’s bill would require new public buildings or building additions of at least 10,000 gross square feet achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver certification.

    The U.S. Green Building [...]

    Posted: March 19, 2010, 11:33am EDT
  • Good News for Gun Manufacturers

    Dad29

    Another bonus from ObamaCare: the gun-makers will be very busy.

    New tax mandates and penalties included in Obamacare will cause the greatest expansion of the Internal Revenue Service since World War II...

    A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 11:04am EDT
  • Gallup "NO!!" Poll

    Dad29

    Gallup released a poll on ObamaCare.

    Two thirds of Americans believe the Democrats health spending bill would make things worse (37) or make no difference (29) for themselves and their families.

    A majority of Americans believe the bill will make things worse (44) or maintain the status quo [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 10:59am EDT
  • Promoting innovative entrepreneurship

    Across the Board

    Milwaukee lags on several important indicators of innovative health, including university research and patent production, according to a new Public Policy Forum studyhttp://www.publicpolicyforum.org/pdfs/InnovationIndex.pdf. The study just proves once again how critical it is for this old manufacturing region to embrace education and fight for scarce dollars to bolster its universities [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 10:44am EDT
  • newberlinnow.com Community Blogs Inside New Berlin

    New Berlin aldermen should revisit the Council’s rule that prohibits candidates for public office from participating in privilege of the floor (public comment period) at City Council meetings. It seems wrong to prevent one group of citizens from speaking at City government meetings while allowing everyone else. Those candidates could be [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 10:40am EDT
  • Yeah, there’s no hypocrisy there!

    Blogging Blue

    To say Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker is a hypocrite would be an understatement.

    At a press conference alongside big-bucks campaign donor Fred Luber on Wednesday, Walker attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett for helping to bring new jobs to Milwaukee, and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, eager to carry water [...]

    Posted: March 19, 2010, 8:56am EDT
    by Zach W
  • WisDems take aim at guy who isn't running

    illusory tenant

    24/7/365 campaign cycle broaches Fourth Dimension Video via Cory Liebmann. Republicans will say, 'This proves beyond any doubt that Russ Feingold is running scared from Tommy Thompson.' But I don't know about that. Thompson, despite his legendary profile in Wisconsin, is laden with baggage, much of which he's collected since he left' [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 8:50am EDT
  • This Just In...

    Obamacare: An ugly process, and it will only get uglier "Even President Obama himself has described his attempt to overhaul health care as ‘an ugly process.’ Count on things getting even uglier when the final vote occurs this weekend." Where this is going: Single -payer nightmare "Democrats don't care how much ObamaCare costs.' [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 6:00am EDT
  • The All-Powerful Pelosi

    Righty Blog

    It wasn’t too long ago that Hillary Clinton was thought to be a force to be reckoned with.  Not so much anymore.  But it’s a fact that Nancy Pelosi has the power.  And she’s so darned unlikeable.  What makes her tick? from the Economist -  WHEN Nancy Pelosi moved to San Francisco, [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2010, 5:57am EDT
    by Righty

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