The Shepherd-Express has given Milwaukee County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin the title “Jerk of the Week” for her votes siding with County Executive Scott Walker on the recently passed budget. I can understand why they did it and DeBruin has certainly been a disappointment on many issues but while I don’t agree with what she has done [...]
From the latest edition of the Sheperd Express : (towards the bottom) Jerk of the Week County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin “Jerk” is too strong of a word to describe Supervisor Lynne DeBruin for her votes on the Milwaukee County Board, but we are extremely disappointed with her for caving in to pressure from the Citizens for Responsible Government, an extreme right-wing group, and voting with...
Milwaukee County started putting anyone screened for outpatient drug or alcohol treatment on a waiting list Tuesday, the result of a potential shortfall in federal aid. "It's a crisis because addiction is a disease and these people can't get help when you're turning them away," said Rob Cherry, of the Milwaukee Addiction Treatment Initiative. The county put a temporary halt on outpatient...
Nearly 706,000 passengers used General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee in October, a record for the month, according to statistics released Tuesday.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker says he didn't mean to subject sheriff's deputies and jailers to eight unpaid furlough days next year, but others say one of his 2010 budget vetoes did just that. At stake is roughly $250,000 in savings counted toward next year's budget, as well as Walker's credentials as a Republican law-and-order candidate for governor. Walker has already criticized Mayor Tom...
CITY of Edinburgh are through to meet Edinburgh Spartans in the second round of basketball's Scottish Chairman's Cup after travelling to Aberdeen to defeat Grampian Po
or where carla bozulich indulges her inner swan (not cygnus but the blackened no-wave skree of gira and jarboe). always interested by the crazy lines you can draw from the noise and avant-whatever to folk / blues / country twanging. and ms. bozulich offers up a rather fine example wandering as she does between the worlds [...]
With the election for governor almost a year away, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is running at full tilt, while the campaign of businessman and fellow Republican Mark Neumann is revving up more slowly.
10 - Turn, turn, turn You know it's the 60s when you hear the screaming at the start of this clip from the US music show Shindig that sets the theme for this month's top ten. It's a setting of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 by Pete Seeger, the man of peace who had to be restrained from taking an axe to Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, illustrating peaceniks' curious propensity...
The Wisconsin State Journal bemoans the lack of competition in the state's Republican and Democratic gubernatorial primaries and even goes so far as to call for third party challengers for the governor's seat: It's as if the Democratic and Republican primaries for governor have already wrapped up 10 months before voters get their say. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is the lone Democrat of note
Milwaukee County's precariously balanced $1.4 billion 2010 budget could fall apart within a few months, forcing hundreds of additional layoffs, program cuts or both. The budget counts on more than $20 million in employee givebacks never approved by unions that represent 85% of the more than 5,000 county workers. Though County Executive Scott Walker initiated the giveback demands with his budget proposal,...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_(Scott_Walker_album) I've just been listening to this album for the first time in ages, but instead of a small CD player, I was listening through the church sound system where I work. For all those who call Noel Scott Engel's later works "obtuse", "scary" and "boring", they really should try this. Whilst not as accessible as the pop of...
The Box is an upcoming horror film based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by author Richard Matheson. The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box with a mysterious power. Production began on November 2007 and concluded in February 2008. The film was originally scheduled for release on October 30, 2009, but on July