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CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Government Spending, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Law, Official Misconduct, Open Government, State Government, Taxes/Taxation, Wisconsin

The Truth about the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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A person should be able to make simple distinctions, as between the sensible and foolish, or practical and impractical. Sometimes those distinctions should be clear, and as stark as the difference between the contents of a sample cup and a glass of Chardonnay. You’ll hear a lot locally over the next few days about a…

Green Energy Holdings, Open Government, Waste Digesters, Wisconsin

Waste Digesters and the Ledge Guardians

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Nearly one-hundred fifty miles from Whitewater, in Maribel, Wisconsin and surrounding communities, hundreds of residents are organized and committed against a large, commercial waste digester in their area. They’ve an impressive website on behalf of their dedicated efforts: Ledge Guardians, www.ledgeguardians.com. There are sound arguments against waste digesters, against how they really work, what they bring into a community, what they spew out into a community, against their…

Daily Adams, Presidential race 2012, Wisconsin

Which Romney for Wisconsin?

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In January, looking ahead to Wisconsin’s big political year, I thought that Gov. Walker would be recalled in June, and Gov. Romney would win both Wisconsin and the presidency in November. The first prediction was well off-the-mark. (Gov. Walker actually did better in 2012 than he did in 2010.) The November contest is yet ahead,…

History, Open Government, Politics, Wisconsin

Then and Now

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Consider these remarks, from a Wisconsin politician: What is it that is swelling the ranks of the dissatisfied? Is it a growing conviction in state after state, that we are fast being dominated by forces that thwart the will of the people and menace representative government? Do you not know people who feel, as perhaps…

Agriculture, Walworth County, Weather, Wisconsin

USDA declares 23 Wisconsin counties disaster areas

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Walworth County among them. Neither ordinary nor easy times: MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Federal officials have declared 23 counties in southern Wisconsin as natural disaster areas, making farms in those areas eligible for low-interest emergency loans. The counties have been baked by recent heat waves in which temperatures sizzled into the 100-degree range and left…

Food, Wisconsin

At this year’s State Fair — the Pork Donut

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WEAU reports that there will be dozens of new recipes at State Fair this year, including the….pork donut. Who knows what they’re like, but I did find this video about Dunkin Donuts’ introduction of pork donuts in their one-hundred fifty Chinese stores. Mark your calendars: State Fair runs from August 2nd to August 12th.

City, Elections, Liberty, Wisconsin

The Secular Call

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For the first time in her history, likely not to be repeated in our time, Wisconsin votes on the recall of her governor. If you are well and able, will you not turn out today? From every part of this beautiful but divided state, citizens will pour out to vote, exercising their right to select…

Freedom of Speech, Law, Liberty, Wisconsin

The Place of Peace and Honesty

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Is there a place where hundreds of thousands have protested, packed their Capitol building, nearly a million later signing election petitions, without violence, at limited public costs, and without fraud? What spot of peace and honesty, integrity and democracy, is like that? Could there even be such a place, in all the world? There is.…