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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: September 7, 2010
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Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a windy day with a high temperature of sixty-seven degrees.
The City of Whitewater’s Common Council will meet tonight at 6:30 p.m. The agenda for the meeting is available online.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recounts that on this day in 1977, Wisconsin’s first judicial recall election took place:
1977 – Wisconsin’s First Judicial Recall Election
On this date Wisconsin’s first judicial-recall election was held. Dane County citizens voted Judge Archie Simonson out of office. Simonson called rape a normal male reaction to provocative female attire and modern society’s permissive attitude toward sex. He made this statment while explaining why he sentenced a 15-year-old to only one year of probation for raping a 16-year-old girl. After the recall election, Simonson was replaced by Moria Krueger, the first woman judge elected in Dane County history. [Source: Initiative & Referendum Institute]
Public Meetings
Banned Books Week
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Public Meetings
Urban Forestry Work Session
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Government Spending, Law, Laws/Regulations
Wisconsin: State Journal: Shame those who hide state contracts
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The Government Accountability Board deserves credit for trying to put some teeth into the law that requires state agencies to post online the details of any contracts that involve more than $10,000 in state money….
Problem is, that website [to post details] has been mostly blank, as agencies have routinely ignored the requirement for online transparency with state contracts. In mid-summer, just 22 of 98 required agencies were posting contract information to the Contract Sunshine website, operated by the GAB.
Uncategorized
Bed Bug Registry – Check Apartments and Hotels Across North America!
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The Bed Bug Registry exists to give travelers and renters a reliable and neutral platform for reporting their encounters with bed bugs. Though most Americans have still never come across one one, these retro pests are spreading extremely quickly across American and Canadian cities.
Wisconsin Reports: http://bedbugregistry.com/location/WI/
Via Bed Bug Registry – Check Apartments and Hotels Across North America. Hat tip to Instapundit.com for the link.
Economy
Not Enough Labor Day: How the government is destroying jobs – Reason Magazine
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Paying people not to work, barring them from taking wages they would be willing to accept, and penalizing companies that hire them? It’s an ingenious formula for destroying jobs, and it seems to be working.
Economy
Capital Times: Labor Day 2010 offers little to cheer
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For many thousands across Wisconsin, this is a particularly hard Labor Day holiday:
While the state unemployment rate has eased somewhat, falling to 7.8 percent in July, the “underemployment” rate — which includes those who’ve given up looking for work or are working part-time because they can’t find a full-time job — now accounts for fully 15 percent of the Wisconsin labor force.
Public Meetings
Planning Commission
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Public Meetings
Tech Park Board
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Public Meetings
Common Council
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Cycling
U.S. Mulls Joining Cycling Lawsuit – WSJ.com
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There’s no party with the resources of the federal government —
The U.S. Justice Department is weighing whether to intervene in a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed earlier this year by one of Lance Armstrong’s former cycling teammates, Floyd Landis, people familiar with the matter say.
Mr. Landis’s lawsuit was filed under the federal False Claims Act, these people say. The act allows citizens to sue on behalf of the government alleging the government has been defrauded.
The U.S. Postal Service, an independent federal agency, sponsored the team led by Mr. Armstrong for several years during which Mr. Landis has said some of its riders, including himself and Mr. Armstrong, cheated by using performance-enhancing drugs and practices.
Holiday
Labor Day 2010
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Uncategorized
On Wisconsin: Picnic table saved family from Turtle-Flambeau tornado
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Sensible thinking saved a family camping near the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage from disaster when a tornado struck:
The Park Falls man [Larry Krznarich], his wife, Rita, and their dog, Lilly, along with Mark and Gay Rumppe of Clinton, used the 2,000-pound log table on his campsite to escape the ravages of a tornado.
The storm occurred just after 7 p.m. on July 27 and tore through many of the flowage’s 60 remote island campsites.
See, On Wisconsin: Picnic table saved family from Turtle-Flambeau tornado.