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Lots of links and embedding? I’m not a bit surprised.

I’ve read that Whitewater’s switch to Vimeo for posting videos affords the city more information about how many times a video is viewed, and whether viewers linked, embedded, or downloaded the program. Some of the Whitewater videos recently uploaded have been viewed, linked, embedded, or downloaded many times. (I’ve posted a few videos to YouTube,…

Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters October 2011 Newsletter

The Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters’ October 2011 Newsletter is out, with articles and a calendar of upcoming LWV events. The latest copy of the LWV newsletter is available as a link on my blogroll, and is embedded below, with coding through Google. Upcoming events: Date: November 1st (Tuesday) Event: LWV on-campus program “Impact of…

The Tragedy of Urban Renewal

There are few worse tragedies than ones that come about by our own hands. New York City has seen more than her share of tragedies, of all sorts, and so-called urban renewal has been one of them. These experiments are mostly over for major cities, but the impulse behind them still persists, plaguing others as…

Tenure as Curse and Code

Generally, a long tenure in a job or office is a bad thing – too much time in one place, without enough exposure to other people and practices. It’s a stagnant pool, as against the more vigorous environs of rushing waters. Most people see this, and understand this, easily. They move willingly from one position…

Seven Days, Twenty-Three Hours

Here’s a press release with more info on the October 1st Pork in the Park event at the Cravath lakefront. The release – with info on the day’s happenings – can be enlarged or printed from the link immediately below the embedded image. Please note that some events begin before the regular 10 a.m. start…

Wisconsin’s median income plunged over the last decade

Shocking, and proof of infuriating, disgraceful political failure. Down 14.5%, far worse than the American average (itself an unwelcome decline). Of what use were so many grand, much-touted state and municipal projects? One Next Big Thing after another, and all of them doing nothing to prevent a double-digit decline in common people’s incomes. Every big-talking…