Day: August 23, 2009

If you live on Milwaukee’s North Shore and you like to read, you should check out the Open Book Coop: We are in our final week of our membership drive, and we need everyone who would like to support a bookstore in the North Shore to sign up. Signing up…

I simply cannot believe the number of moms in Chetek who have white teeth nor the number of people in Cameron with flat bellies. And I cannot begin to tell you about the dens of iniquity that surround me with the most beautiful women I have ever seen (scantily dressed) and online waiting to…

House Rep. Obey, state Rep. Hubler, and state Sen. Jauch were to participate in the announcement of stimulus money coming to Rice Lake this past  Thursday but I don’t have confirmation that they came. Main Street, Haugen, and Pioneer Avenues reconstruction will all come under the $3.5 million stimulus grant and work is to begin in…

The proposed consolidation of the Chetek and Weyerhauser school districts is continuing to move forward almost unopposed. One would think that bussing kids 20 miles to another school district would have more of an outcry. The Weyerhauser parents view Chetek as a viable alternative to the expenses of maintaining their own school…

Though it’s still early, polling shows Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker in a statistical dead heat: The statewide poll found 44% of likely primary voters saying they favored Walker vs. 43% for Barrett, with 13% undecided, according to the poll. Walker is an announced Republican…