I received this from the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce this morning:
The final version of health care reform legislation is about to be voted on by the US House of Representatives, perhaps as early as Sunday. Rep. Steve Kagen is one of the few Congressmen who has not announced [...]
It isn't every day I can use a touring artist as an excuse to tell you about a good book. On March 20, U.K. singer-songwriter Scout Niblett will take the stage at the Frequency, but that isn't the only place you can [...]
You might like these.Fat Cats In The Bloated Hudson School DistrictTexas is deciding to re-write history... again. And contrary to what some believe, these changes do not provide "balance"... they provide craziness. Here is a list of some of the "balance" that Texas is adding:
- A reduced scope for Latino history and culture. A proposal to expand such material in recognition [...]
Much to Reasonable Citizens dismay, I’m changing up on the usual Krauthammer Op/Ed.
Today we hear from Peggy Noonan. I normally don’t care for Peggy but this week……
Now for the Slaughter On the road to Demon Pass, our leader encounters a Baier.Excuse me, but it is embarrassing—really, embarrassing to our [...]
The second round of our Mad Love Tournament continues as we see one of Madison's most beloved places to kick back, drink a cool one, and watch the sunset facing off against one of Madison's most beloved places to rock out, drink a cool one, and watch a band. Do [...]
Get Shorty?
Prophet Blackmon, whose art I have always found to be exquisitely evocative, died Feb 8th. His obituary is in the online Journal-Sentinel today. "I'm a street preacher," he told The Milwaukee Journal in 1982. "I stay in the streets. The greatest theology is in the streets.'" [...] Well Democrats and supporters of this thing, I hope you've all found a good bomb shelter to stay in this November. If Caterpillar, which has been used as a political football by Obama to push the stimulus (even when they didn't want to be), is running the numbers, so [...]
and we're not any safer.
From Rethink Afghanistan:
Report the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as an example of waste, fraud and abuse on Recovery.gov today. Simply scroll down to the field marked “What” and paste this message into the text box:
"I'd like to report the waste of trillions of dollars" [...]
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Except, you know, the other bookstore in the exact same spot that experienced the exact same "confluence of events" that forced them out of business.It’s Sunshine Week in America, a “national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information.” Open government in Wisconsin includes open meetings, surely, and Wisconsin law has clear provisions for open meetings. See, WOML, Wisconsin Statutes, 19.81-19.98.
Over at the Wisconsin State Journal, [...]
The U.S. Green Building [...]
No, doesn’t surprise me.
Milwaukee County Board votes not to cut own pensions
A plan to cut pensions of elected Milwaukee County officials to match trims approved earlier for other county workers was defeated by the County Board Thursday on a 7-7 vote.
Let them eat cake!
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Apologies for getting this to all of you a day late, I know you've been hitting refresh on your browsers for the last 24 hours in rapt anticipation. The agenda at the Alcohol License Review Committee was filled to bursting Wednesday night' [...]
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New video from the state Democratic Party.
[...]The second round of our Mad Love Tournament finds Madison's beautiful and landscape defining lakes up against our plethora of independent coffee shoppes. Which one should go to our version of the Elite 8? Follow along on our Mad Love tournament bracket.
Both will be held on Sunday. Next week is a big week for the candidates. [...] 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 [...]
I smell a few recalls coming:
A proposal to cut pensions of elected Milwaukee County officials to match the same trim approved for other county workers was defeated Thursday by the County Board on a 7-7 vote.
The measure came up only after a substitute calling for a study of the county [...]
Confronting full wards and an overflow of patients, hospitals in the United Kingdom (U.K.) are treating patients in areas not designed for clinical care, according to a recent survey of the nation’s nurses.
The survey, conducted by Nursing Times, polled more than 900 nurses and found that about 63% of respondents [...]
Today is March 19, the 78th day of the year. On this date in 1918, Congress approved daylight-saving time.
* WSJ: New library is dead; city, Fiore Cos. agree to drop plans
* BH: "Madison citizens may be seeing increased taxes if they approve a future referendum for a project" [...]
Hey, Congress wants to dictate the BCS and college football, what's one more thing I guess?
(sigh)
As basketball teams across the country prepare for March Madness, Education Secretary Arne Duncan is putting forth a proposal to ban men’s teams from the tournament and all post-season play if they fail to [...]
How does a man go about killing a wolf with his bare hands?
Okay, it may never come up. You may never need it, but that one time when you’re confronted with that big wolf, this is how you do it. You’ve got to give the wolf your arm. You’ve [...]
It’s no secret that some County Supervisors treat their jobs as nothing more than part time commitments with full time pay. The trend is just getting more noticeable and it happened yesterday when an important vote to decide if Supervisors should cut their pensions came up.
The absences of four Milwaukee [...]
The reason these problems will not get fixed are a) you can’t replace bad parents and b) you can’t replace bad teachers.
[...]The National Football League reportedly is considering changing postseason overtime to guarantee each team an overtime possession if the team that wins the coin toss kicks a field goal.
That was the way the NFC Championship ended, of course, with New Orleans turning Minnesota Vikings fans either purple with rage [...]
Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a mostly cloudy day, with a high of fifty-three degrees.
At each of the schools in our public school district today, from 8:30 to 9:30, there’s a Coffee with the Principal hour. Spring Break begins at the end of today’s school day.
We’ve had a few days [...]
Despite the fact that Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walke’s “Brown Bag” fundraising campaign has been exposed as a recycled gimmick from a campaign in Ohio in 1998, Walker’s “Brown Bag Movement” still has at least two fans. As The Chief notes, conservative blogger Aaron Rodriguez is furiously spinning Walker’s “Brown [...]
Forbes.com asks: Are you born to be a billionaire?
The story quotes Joan Kane, listed as “a Manhattan psychologist who treats many a high-powered executive,” as saying, “People who are very successful have an incredible sense of optimism. They don’t have the sense of limitations that most people have. There’s [...]
Since this may be the last week we hold an open line before the United States Constitution and our nations founders are stabbed in the back by those sworn to protect this sacred document, I suspect it will receive a lot of talk of the unconstitutional socialized medicine law that [...]
Time to vote on it.
If you missed The Daily Show last night, you have got to watch (yes, let a commercial run for a few seconds) Jon Stewart 
