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Kangaroo-Avoidance Technology

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Only a matter of time — Stateside, as large mammals go, deer are probably the single biggest threat to cars traveling the highways. Now, imagine a smaller, “very unpredictable” deer that hops on two legs: that’s the hell of driving in Australia, where some 20,000 kangaroo collisions are said to happen annually…. There’s no word…

City, Good Ideas, Hip & Prosperous

Today @ the Whitewater City Market, 3 – 7 PM

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    If you’ve not had the chance, today would a fine day to visit the Whitewater City Market, at the Cravath lakefront.   They’ve an impressive lineup, and you’re sure to find something you’ll enjoy. MUSIC Andrus & the Mariners  5:30-7 p.m. VENDORS BeefN’Beaks  grass-fed beef, farm-fresh chickens and eggs Bluff Creek Nursery  plants, produce, painted…

Adventure, Good Ideas, Lifestyle

The Cinder Cone

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The Cinder Cone from Farm League on Vimeo. In the Spring of 2014 a small group of close friends broke ground on a building project in Skamania County, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. Their primary endeavor was a multi-platform tree house, but also included a skate bowl and a wood fired soaking tub as…

City, Good Ideas, Government Spending, Health, Hip & Prosperous, Planning

Arguments on Cost & Flexibility Under a Complete Streets Ordinance

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There are two questions that I promised yesterday that I would take up today about the Complete Streets ordinance recently passed at Council on 1.20.15. The first is whether the draft ordinance was flexible enough, and the second about the costs of new roads or reconstruction that would include sidewalks or bike paths. I read…

City, Cycling, Development, Economy, Good Ideas, Health, Hip & Prosperous, Planning

In Support of the Complete Streets Initiative for Whitewater

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This Tuesday, January 20th at 6:30 PM, Common Council will consider a Complete Streets ordinance (item O-3) for Whitewater. A Complete Streets program simply requires planners to consider bike and pedestrian travel, for example, when either building or reconstructing streets within our city. (I listened closely to discussion of the idea at our 12.16.14 Common…

Good Ideas, Science/Nature

The Makers of Things Present and Future

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There’s a story at the Christian Science Monitor about makerspaces across America, like the one we have in town @ whitewatermakerspace.org, 1206 E Bluff Rd, Whitewater, WI 53190. It’s a new-old idea, as Noelle Swan writes: The ‘maker movement’ is heralded as a new industrial revolution – combining the spirit of the old shop class…