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• —This Just In...

  Your Grassroots Action is Unprecedented Our Job Isn't Over -- We Need Your Continued Action The Senate could vote as soon as this weekend on health care legislation in what is being called 'one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever considered.' However, only a select few have actually seen the bill. As' [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:10am EST
  

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• Love the teacher, target the union

  —Patrick McIlheran: Right On

  After I wrote yesterday about why it’s a bad idea to turn over the Milwaukee Public Schools to unchecked mayoral authority, I heard from readers who said -- because I mentioned the teachers union in passing -- that I don’t like teachers. It’s a hard job, several wrote. Teachers do noble [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Love the teacher, target the union

  —News and Opinion

  After I wrote yesterday about why it’s a bad idea to turn over the Milwaukee Public Schools to unchecked mayoral authority, I heard from readers who said -- because I mentioned the teachers union in passing -- that I don’t like teachers. It’s a hard job, several wrote. Teachers do noble [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• State Employment Numbers

  —Dad29

  Rep. Zipperer shares a shocker.
  
  

  For the first time since at least 1966, the number of government jobs in our state has overtaken the number of manufacturing jobs, and it's been quite a rapid change.

  JANUARY

  NOVEMBER

  difference

  MANUFACTURING

  464,700

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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:09pm EST
  

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• Urgent Health Care Action Needed

  —Wisconsin GOP Blog

  You’ve done an incredible job fighting Harry Reid’s health care spending experiment. Reid thought he could ignore the American people and pass a bill containing everything he wanted, but now he and his Democrat allies are desperate to ram anything through the Senate before Christmas - no matter how many [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:26am EST
  

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• KLEEFISCH REPORT: DOYLE'S PLAN TO KILL EVEN MORE JOBS

  —Charlie Sykes

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  Fetched: December 18, 2009, 5:47am EST
  

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• MI Poll: Obama, Granholm get negative ratings

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  LANSING, Mich. (AP) A new statewide poll shows Michigan voters aren’t very impressed with how President Barack Obama or Gov. Jennifer Granholm are doing their jobs. The poll released Thursday by EPIC-MRA of Lansing shows 600 likely voters give the Democrat president a 55 percent negative job rating, with just 44 [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:02am EST
  by The Admiral

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• It’s called Christmas!

  —Try 2 Focus

  Jesus is the reason for the season.  So this CHRISTmas season – say “Merry Christmas!” when greeting people. Here’s a great song that does a great job of explaining that it is CHRISTmas with a CAPITAL “C”. [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by brvanlanen

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• Unemployment rate drops to 14.7 percent in MI

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan’s unemployment rate has improved for the second straight month. State officials said Wednesday that the November jobless rate dropped to 14.7 percent, down from a national high of 15.1 percent in October. It was the state’s lowest rate in six months. The state’s jobless rate reached 15.3 percent [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by The Admiral

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• The stimulus is working, but...

  —Stepping Right Up!

  The stimulus is working, but they need a lot more money.As the House was preparing to pass a $150 billion bill for additional job creation, reporters on Wednesday evening pressed White House officials on why the country needs another fiscal boost even as the Obama administration argues that the first [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:16am EST
  

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• DEMOCRATS ATTACK SCOTT WALKER….ON DIRTY TOILETS…. Seriously, ...

  —Something To Die For

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  DEMOCRATS ATTACK SCOTT WALKER….ON DIRTY TOILETS…. Seriously, that’s what’s wrong with Scott Walker?????  He caused the dirty toilets in the Milwaukee County Courthouse.  Um, what about the union workers being paid to clean them…..Hopefully they at least acomplished my favorite union job-holding the mop to the floor.  You know, someone always has to be [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  by josiahcantrall

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• Recovery, as long as Harry Reid doesn't screw it up

  —News and Opinion

  Grim news on how bad the past year has been on business, according to a survey of the job creators of southeastern Wisconsin. Two-thirds of businesses in the Milwaukee area didn't meet expectations, as the polite phrase has it, and it was 82% among manufacturers. Four in ten saw a' [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

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• Recovery, as long as Harry Reid doesn't screw it up

  —Patrick McIlheran: Right On

  Grim news on how bad the past year has been on business, according to a survey of the job creators of southeastern Wisconsin. Two-thirds of businesses in the Milwaukee area didn't meet expectations, as the polite phrase has it, and it was 82% among manufacturers. Four in ten saw a' [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

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• Loophole Scocos

  —Radio Free Wisconsin

  Loophole Scocos
  
  Unstable, irrational former secretary demands $500,000 including $200,000 or more in attorney fees after job loss, alleging the veterans’ board violated open meetings laws
  
  Poking at his BlackBerry with both thumbs, John Scocos came up with the usual suspects to endorse nobody [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:21pm EST
  

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• Flip Flop Walker deprioritized economic development before he prioritized it

  —One Wisconsin Now

  Dear Mr. Walker, Yes, jobs are the top concern for people all across the state of Wisconsin. But unlike you, who didn’t start addressing job creation until after your announcement for Governor earlier this year, Wisconsin families have been concerned about losing their jobs in this Bush-created recession for nearly [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  by Anna Landmark

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• My Property Tax Bill Doesn’t Fit the Conservative Narrative

  —Left on the Lake

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  If you had to name any single talking point for conservative Wisconsin politicians and their fan-boys on TV and radio, it would almost assuredly have to be the one about how “Taxes are out of control” or something similar about Wisconsin and Milwaukee bleeding jobs and business because the taxes [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 9:24am EST
  by Dan Cody

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• Duffy money bomb tomorrow!

  —Try 2 Focus

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  Sean Duffy,  who’s taking on Dave Obey over in the 7th District is having a money bomb. If you can donate to Duffy’s campaign tomorrow.  Help send a message that it’s time for Dave Obey to be replaced. Related articles by Zemanta A Campaign Ad About Jobs, Unheard Of (berrylaker.blogspot.com) Replace Dave Obey (berrylaker.blogspot.com) Duffy [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:39pm EST
  by brvanlanen

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• Joint Finance to hold hearing on stimulus job reporting

  —News and Opinion

  Joint Finance Committee co-chairs Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison) and Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona) said today they will hold an informational hearing on oversight of federal stimulus money and the jobs it has created or saved at their committee meeting Thursday. The announcement comes more than a month after state Rep. Rich [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:15pm EST
  

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• "your wits have been dulled by the Uniform Commercial Code"

  —Letters in Bottles

  Elizabeth Wurtzel talks tough times for big law in the WSJ.
  
  I'm not sure who's out there right now passing up an $80k paid year off with a job guarantee at a top firm at the end of it...but I tend to agree with Wurtzel's speculation:
  
  These' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:30am EST
  

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• Question for SEIU union members

  —Badger Blogger

  Do you (SEIU Union members) believe that illegal aliens should be legalized and compete for your jobs? Your union leadership seems to think so.

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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:35am EST
  by Patrick Dorwin

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• Wisconsin Jobs Initiative is crucial for dislocated workers

  —mid coast views

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  Wisconsin’s unemployed workers are enrolling in the state’s 16 technical colleges in record numbers, stretching the Wisconsin Technical College System's (WTCS) capacity to the breaking point.
  
  Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), the WTCS's largest institution, is currently experiencing a 27% increase in enrollment.
  
  The states other 15 technical [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:16am EST
  by Michael Rosen

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• Something stinks in the Courthouse, and it’s not the nasty bathrooms

  —Blogging Blue

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  As first reported by Dan Cody, there’s something smelly in the County Courthouse (and this time, it’s not the disgusting bathrooms).

  After Scott Walker eliminated the jobs of over 90 County housekeepers in his effort to privatize as much of County government as possible, MidAmerican Building Services was [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:37am EST
  by Zach W

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• School Thumper…

  —Moons Ending

  The “school thumper”… ..You know, the one person at school you can call who’s job it is to walk into your kids class, grab them by one ear with one hand, and “thump”em in the back of the head with the other as they proclaim their petty crime aloud for all [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  by Alexander

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• The Dane County Job ...

  —Radio Free Wisconsin

  The Dane County Job Center is a central location for people looking for work
  
  MANY PEOPLE turn to their churches when they go through a difficult time such as a job loss.
  
  But that’s not what the Scocos clan did.
  
  Instead of applying [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 2:47pm EST
  

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• Is the $175 fine enough?

  —News and Opinion

  Arguably teaching may be one of the most stressful jobs in the world. And I know from personal experience that teachers carry around a lot of stress. Last week, one teacher let her stress get the best of her when she got so mad at one of her students, that she [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  

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• Are these the folks you want determining your health care?

  —Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative

  The federal government’s latest extension of unemployment benefits passed in early November, but jobless people in Wisconsin have yet to see the money. State officials said Friday the delay was because of computer programming requirements that come with federal funds. They expect the first checks to be mailed Wednesday. via State’s computers [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:12am EST
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• Look for new directions in job hunt

  —News and Opinion

  Congress has several times extended jobless benefits for those out of work. Is this the government’s idea of a jobs program? Don’t be fooled by a false sense of security. Now is the time to look for a new direction in your job hunt. Take advantage of training offered by [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:24am EST
  

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• Look for new directions in job hunt

  —Across the Board

  Congress has several times extended jobless benefits for those out of work. Is this the government’s idea of a jobs program? Don’t be fooled by a false sense of security. Now is the time to look for a new direction in your job hunt. Take advantage of training offered by [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:24am EST
  

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• Need realistic plans to save economy

  —News and Opinion

  So President Barack Obama has this new plan to stimulate the economy by creating all these new jobs and new businesses that will in turn create new jobs. Those companies that have already been given stimulus money are sitting on the money and not expanding or adding new workers because [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:13am EST
  

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• Need realistic plans to save economy

  —Across the Board

  So President Barack Obama has this new plan to stimulate the economy by creating all these new jobs and new businesses that will in turn create new jobs. Those companies that have already been given stimulus money are sitting on the money and not expanding or adding new workers because [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:13am EST
  

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