The Business Journal of Milwaukee (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Only one in five, or 21 percent of workers, plans to browse for holiday gifts online while on the job, according to a survey by Accountemps.
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
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 [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
Tales from a Draughty Old Fen (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
Poli-Tea Party (Free subscription) | yesterday
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
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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,...
The Political Environment (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Scott Walker and Ted Kanavas express some synthetic outrage over a highway repair schedule.
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Two political foes accused Gov. Jim Doyle of making a politically motivated mistake in putting reconstruction of I-94 south of Milwaukee ahead of rebuilding the Zoo Interchange on the state's freeway repair priority list.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
WITH his uniquely dramatic songs and delivery, Sheffield's Richard Hawley is fast becoming the Scott Walker of our generation.
Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
More photos » by Karl B DeBlaker - AP MON-STER! MON-STER! MON-STER! Browse more photos » 13 days ago these two teams met in Toilet Bowl I and the Leafs emerged victorious on the back of some great goaltending by Jonas Gustavsson and a game-winning goal by Jason Blake. A fortnight later and the two teams are ready to reprise their roles as neither one has been able to shed the anchor that...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Community Justice Resource Center received a reprieve Wednesday when the Milwaukee County Board voted to override a veto by County Executive Scott Walker, restoring $345,000 to the center's budget and allowing the program to continue.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker won half a loaf on his privatization push Wednesday, as the County Board finished work on the 2010 budget that will increase the property tax levy by $5.6 million. The 2.2% increase will raise the 2010 levy to $263.3 million. The tax rate goes up 18 cents to $4.13 per $1,000 of a home's value. The board backed Walker on outsourcing scores of housekeeping jobs...
Fairly Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Just saw it on Twitter. I’m sure there will be more tomorrow. Good job, Mr. Walker. Just because I’m not on the bandwagon yet doesn’t mean leadership should be ignored.
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This will be an ongoing post for the rest of the day as the County Board votes on Scott Walker’s vetoes. Check Comments for updates.
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domino75 | 10/03/2009
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
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