Thursday, August 20, 2009

Arguing With Dining Room Tables

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Kudos to Barney Frank for his workshop for elected officials on how to effectively confront dining room tables masquerading as town hall par...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Gannett: Don't Gut Our Advertising Client

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I found out on Monday that in 2008-2009, the Grand Opera House management has expended approximately $6,000 in local media advertising. One ...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Doemel Walkin' The Walk On The Grand

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Oshkosh Common Councilors just received this email from Jon Doemel of Glass Nickel Pizza: Hello, I am writing in response to your call to sh...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Sheboygan Council Rejects Plan To Shoot Urban Deer

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Hat Tip: foxpolitics.net By a 12-1 vote, the Sheboygan Common Council voted against shooting deer identified by some residents of the city a...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Woodstock At 40

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The legednary Woodstock concert is now 40(!) years old. The August Media Rants column celebrates the anniversary with a hypothetical convers...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Liquor Licenses: First Come, First Serve?

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Regarding how to award liquor licenses, today's Oshkosh Northwestern argues that "the council should adopt a scoring system with a...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Week In Review

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I'll be on " Week in Review " with Joy Cardin on WPR Friday morning (8-9 a.m.) opposite Owen Robinson of Boots and Sabers fam...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

The Environment in the Age of Obama: Prospects for Reform

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The July Media Rants column looks at what we can expect from Barack Obama's administration as regards the environment. Here it is: On J...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Missed Opportunity

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I've been on the city council long enough now to not be surprised by anything we do or don't do, but last night's 5-2 vote to re...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Healthy, Sustainable, Green

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Earlier this evening I had the opportunity to listen to Tony Nelessen summarize the results of the visioning surveys taken in Oshkosh a few...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Last Night's Meeting

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The morning after the May 26th Common Council meeting, Lori and I took off for a long road trip that took us to Indianapolis; Oklahoma City;...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Whitewater: "Discover Your Center Of Opportunity"

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According to this piece in the Journal Sentinel, the city of Whitewater is using a direct mail campaign to try to attract business to the a...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Big Brother's Greatest American Hits

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Here's the Media Rant column that will appear in the June, 2009 edition of The Scene . Big Brother’s Greatest American Hits Media Rants ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Mayor Ousts Head Of Transit Panel Who Opposed Him

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The mayor in question is not Paul Esslinger. Rather, it's Madison's Dave Cieslewicz. Story here . Apparently the Madison Common Coun...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

E-Mail To School Board

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I just emailed the following to the School Board: Dear Board of Education: I read in the paper today about the idea to suspend your salarie...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Single Payer Advocates Arrested

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With the United States in dire need of a single-payer health care system, and with Democrats controlling both branches of Congress and the W...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Eye on the Bailout

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ProPublica has an outstanding archive of federal government bailout expenditures. It's quite shocking. (Though "obscene" migh...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009

A Free Press Infrastructure Project

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The May Media Rants column summarizes Bob McChesney and John Nichols' proposal to save American Journalism. Here it is: A Free Press In...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Eau Claire Process For Filling Council Vacancy

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A vacancy exists on the city of Eau Claire Common Council due to a situation very similar to Oshkosh. In April, at-large council member Kerr...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

A Specter Is Haunting The Democratic Party

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One of the themes dominating media coverage of Senator Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party is that the GOP has becom...