As you may have heard on the news, Wisconsin experienced some pretty severe flooding last month. Shortly after the rains subsided, I received Congresswoman Baldwin’s monthly e-mail update. She included this quote:
Our entire state Congressional delegation sent a letter to President Bush last Friday asking him to respond quickly to any requests Governor Doyle makes [...]
With the spring weather that we had this year, eating local doesn’t look like such a great idea:
The floods that damaged farms in southern Wisconsin will likely result in fewer fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets this summer and help boost already high prices for organic eggs and meat at grocery stores in [...]
Initially, I was cheered by this story: Yard signs welcoming immigrants to Madison are starting to appear on the snow-piled landscape..
The signs say “Immigrants Welcome” printed in English, Hmong and Spanish. The word “Welcome” also is handwritten in six languages: English, Hmong, Spanish, Norwegian, German and Arabic, by members of immigrant families in [...]
Lately, I’ve felt like the cold weather will never end. It seems like every single week of the winter has brought more snow, more cold, more icy, and more dreariness. But — at last! — I have hope that we’re seeing the end of winter.
Average temperature for the first five days of March: 28 degrees. [...]
I must be missing something, because I don’t understand how this makes any kind of sense:
Eventually, Olson said he put up $2 million and got financing from Anchor Bank and First Business Bank, spending an average $250,000 per property and about $130,000 in each to convert them. The project, he said, was a [...]
How’s the weather in Madison, WI?:
Including today’s snow, it is the 37th time in the last 67 days — since Dec. 1 — Madison has seen measurable snowfall, according to weather service data. Madison’s normal winter snow total is about 49 inches, Kuhlman said, but the city is already well [...]
The city of Madison believes that if it limits your freedom it can truly make you safer. Next up on their agenda: plastic water bottles.
The city of Madison, enamored of bans on everything from smoking to phosphorus fertilizers, may be setting its regulatory sights on another target — plastic. In [...]
Last year I was extremely critical of Governor Doyle’s plan to increase heating aid for poor Wisconsin residents. This year, I’m still critical of the state’s heating aid program.
I’m certainly not opposed to helping my poor neighbors. In fact, I don’t really think I have much of a choice in the matter.
Matthew 25:34-40 Listen Then the [...]
My opinion on American education is simple: it’s outdated. We haven’t changed the way we’ve done school in over 100 years. Society, technology, and knowledge have all changed considerably during that time. I think it’s time that we took education apart, reexamined it closely, and figured out how to educate a new generation of children. [...]
Governor Jim Doyle is once again threatening to shut down the Wisconsin government. He’s so desperate to pass a budget, he’s trying to scare us with stories of shut down prisons and canceled university classes.
“In order to fund essential services that are needed to protect the health and safety of Wisconsin residents, a [...]