Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Media Rants: Earth Day at 40

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Earth Day At 40 By Tony Palmeri On April 22 Earth Day , the brainchild and legacy of the late Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson , celebra...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

TIF Standards

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Due to a bout with pneumonia, I missed the city council meeting last night. Former councilor Kevin McGee wrote a great commentary for the N...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

New Politics Site

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Launched by Milwaukee Magazin e, and called MilwaukeeNewsBuzz . Seems like a clearinghouse for mainstream reporting and commentary from arou...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Sunshine Week 2010: March 14-20

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A Scripps poll conducted for Sunshine Week shows that the majority of Americans do not believe that the federal government has become more ...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

UW Madison Student Rips Feingold For Oshkosh Corp. Support

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I don't agree with everything that UW Madison student Steve Horn says in this op-ed piece about Senator Feingold's support for Oshk...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

March Media Rant: Jo Egelhoff Reviews the Post-Crescent

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Last month at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA), the Appleton Post-Crescent (PC) was named the state's ...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Sunlight and the Health Care Summit

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Kudos to the Sunlight Foundation for their brilliant live coverage of today's White House Health Care Summit. As each wealthy special i...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

I'll be on Week in Review Tomorrow

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AnnAlthouse and I will be on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Week in Review" tomorrow from 8-9 a.m. Questions/comments can be calle...
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Monday, February 01, 2010

Censored in 2009, Part 2

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Censored in 2009, Part 2 Media Rants By Tony Palmeri Last month I identified half of the top ten stories that were underreported, ignored, ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Thank You Howard Zinn

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When I think of all the people who have influenced my politics, civic life, and approach to teaching, the late Howard Zinn is near the top ...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Former City Manager Was Not Fired

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One of Gannett's questions to this year's common council candidates starts off with "When the Council fired the former city ma...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Review of Going Rogue

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Over 40 people showed up at the Appleton Public Library last night to discuss Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life . After Brian ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Discussion of Palin Book at APL Wednesday Night

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Political activist Brian Farmer and I will be leading a discussion of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue tomorrow (Wednesday) evening from 6:30 ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Deer Cull: Firearms Were Discharged Illegally

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Because neither the public at-large, the press, nor the city council were warned of the imminence of a deer cull, no one was in a position t...
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Lamb Not Sheepish About Transparency

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The C-Span icon wants the congressional Democrats and president Obama to hold true to their pledge of maximum transparency in health care d...
Monday, January 04, 2010

So Much For Transparency

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All members of the City Council received this notice today from city manager Rohloff: " Chief Greuel reported to me that Urban Wildlife...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Censored In 2009, Part I

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The following Media Rants column will appear in the January, 2010 edition of The SCENE .--TP Censored in 2009, Part I Media Rants By Tony P...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

Not Quite Blowin' In The Wind . . .

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. . . but Bob Dylan is now using music to help feed the hungry. Proceeds from his " Christmas in the Heart " recording will suppor...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Buyer Beware Care Passes Senate

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I had an opportunity to watch some of last night's US Senate "debate" over health insurance reform. Earlier in the day, the e...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Tell Feingold to vote NO on Lieberman Bill

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Back in June Senator Feingold said he was "not interested passing health care reform in name only." He called a strong public opti...