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JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Journal Sentinel received a national award Friday for efforts to shed light on Wisconsin's drinking culture that could lead to an overhaul of the state's drunken driving laws. The newspaper was presented a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "Lifesavers" public service award for stories that examined the perils of drunken driving and Wisconsin's relatively lax anti-drunken...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
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,...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ted Jennaro seemed surprised that I would ask why. Why clip all these random articles and photos from newspapers and magazines and glue them in scrapbooks? Why is this so satisfying to him?
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanksgiving preparations have begun in the Milwaukee area. And many of the foods purchased at area farmers markets will be brought to the table with stories attached, or at least the name of the farm or local business that produced it.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some people don't believe a recent poll that suggested widespread opposition to a proposed mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools. Not me.
Ryan's Smashing Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photographic Evidence by Johnny Arguedas The House of Blues in Boston Thursday, 11/19/09 Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in Boston this week YOUR TICKET - On the road with Brett Dennen, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals arrived in Boston this week and played an outstanding set. Check out these red hot photos! "Stop the Bus " from This is Somewhere RSL Streaming Photo Album Grace Potter at...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
A 36-year-old Wauwatosa man was wounded in the thighs Saturday morning in a deer hunting accident in Grant County, the Grant County Sheriff's Department said. Rex M. Ballinger was wounded when a rifle being unloaded by Daniel Z. Kassees, 36, of Dousman, discharged, the Sheriff's Department said. Kassees was unloading the gun next to his pickup truck on private property about 8:15 a.m. in Glen Haven...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
On a day that felt a lot more like spring than Christmas, thousands turned out Saturday to watch the Holiday Parade in downtown Milwaukee and cheer as Santa Claus came to town, escorted by marching bands, giant balloons and floats. "This is the best Christmas parade weather ever, and I was born and raised in Milwaukee. Last year, it was freezing. It was very cold," said Jennifer Washington-McMurray...
Bostonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do you ever feel like weird shit hapens a lot in Boston? Well, you're not wrong. Tableseed.com , some kind of weird email system for restaurants, has inexplicably come up with a list of the strangest cities (and states) in the U.S. Boston makes the top ten, coming in at #7 behind (explicably) NYC, Philly, and Chicago, but (perhaps inexplicably) Lincoln, NE. Is it really that weird there? Boston shows...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Madison - If Wisconsin and Minnesota lawmakers can reach agreement on a tax reciprocity dispute lawmakers in Wisconsin may call a special session to enact the deal. A spokeswoman for Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker says talks are ongoing but Decker is committed to calling the Senate into session if a deal can be reached. The Wisconsin Legislature isn't scheduled to come back again until...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Madison - Wisconsin's traditional November gun deer hunt has begun. But state wildlife officials say don't forget to stay safe. Department of Natural Resources experts say they can't remind hunters enough to follow the four basic firearm rules: treat every weapon as if it were loaded, always point the muzzle in a safe direction at all times, be certain of the target and what's beyond it and keep your...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
A 41-year-old man was killed in a crash early Saturday morning after the vehicle he was in struck two concrete light poles and overturned in the 4500 block of N. Hopkins St., Milwaukee Police said. The man was found lying in front of the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses reported that the vehicle was speeding before the driver lost control of it.
Althouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's been some discussion here in Madison, Wisconsin, where former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is a visiting professor at the law school, about whether that headline, on a Wall Street Journal editorial , is racist. The editors begin: As consolation prizes go, Louis Butler can't complain. After being twice rejected by Wisconsin voters for a place on the state Supreme Court, the former...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The 83rd annual Milwaukee Holiday Parade starts at 9:30 a.m. today at E. Kilbourn Ave. and N. Astor St. The parade will end at The Shops of Grand Avenue at about 11:00 a.m. A map of the parade route is available here. More parade information is available here.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Milwaukee aldermen Friday sustained Mayor Tom Barrett's only veto of a 2010 budget item, a move that means more unpaid furlough days for police officers and lower-than-expected property taxes.
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