County Supervisor Wants To Grow Hemp In The Domes?

Oh please.. This is wrong on so many levels I can’t believe it made it to print. County Supervisor Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, who requested a study about the feasibility of growing hemp at the Domes, encouraged using one of the Domes to grow hemp “clones” in order to help save the…

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WMC Proposes New Socialist Programs

The WMC (aka Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Foundation) is a conservative and very successful business lobbying group who have found ready accomplices in former Governor Scott Walker, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald over the past several years. Despite supporting the various business tax cuts provided…

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It’s Just A Bunch of Trees @ Marcus Center

This post will be a bit different than my usual rant. But after years of talking about it and not getting any concessions from the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, the Milwaukee Symphony is preparing their own home in the old Grand Theater on Wisconsin Avenue. With the loss…

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Ok, Now Sen. Fitzgerald etal Are Just Being Mean Spirited

Wisconsin Governor-elect Tony Evers has nominated Craig Thompson as his Secretary of the Department of Transportation. Now Mr. Thompson has been a very vocal advocate of infrastructure support including increased gasoline taxes to pay for Wisconsin’s deteriorating roads and highways. And of course he found fault with Governor Walker’s management…

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The US Military fails in protecting families of service members from lead poisoning.

There has been increased concerns about lead levels in Milwaukee children over the past year or more. The city health department has dropped the ball on following up with treatment for children identified as suffering from lead poisoning. Lead water laterals are only slowly (far too slowly) being remediated because…

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The truth about mobile speeds…we are losing

Ironically a number of articles have been bemoaning Wisconsin’s poor showing in comparisons of mobile speeds for downloads to smart phones. Particularly the fact that Minnesota is….like…first in the US…and Wisconsin is only 36th. That’s unfortunate. What’s even more unfortunate is the fact buried deep in the news. The U.S….

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If I Were Going To Increase The Deficit by $1.5 Trillion…

I’d want to get something for my money. Like safe bridges, pot hole free roads, cleaner safer airports, clean water, clean power, clean air…and JOBS! Not a bunch of fat cats getting fatter while the country’s infrastructure cracks, crumbles and unravels.

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Damn Those Federal Mandated Insurance Programs!

One of the slams on the Affordable Care Act by the GOP are the mandates requiring Americans to buy health insurance. Anyone who’s followed the conversation knows that the mandate is in the law so that young healthier Americans are forced to participate to help offset the cost for older…

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Is The State Ready To Invest In Education For Foxconn?

This is a question I’ve asked several times on social media but apparently not here. But beyond the potential $3 billion in tax credits and the sales tax holiday and the infrastructure build outs…is the state of Wisconsin and Governor Scott Walker prepared to fund the 21st Century educations needed…

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An Open Letter To WE Energies

As solar and wind power have come closer to mainstream electric generation environments…WE Energies had done everything in it’s power to prevent their growth in Wisconsin (btw: WE has a bank of solar panels on their downtown Milwaukee headquarters). For instance they’ve been trying to prevent private solar installers from…

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