Stay tuned for their six week series on "Water is wet." [...]
Urban Milwaukee’s Upcoming Events & Meetings Calendar should help you keep up to date on important events effecting our neighborhoods, the City of Milwaukee, and our region.
November 23, 2009 Community & Economic Development Committee Meeting November 23, 2009 9:00 am The Community [...]
My friend, Billiam, was recently off for a long stretch as he recovered from some work-related health issues.Friday's much publicized revelation of DNA traces of Asian carp on the wrong side of the electric barrier designed to keep them out of Lake Michigan is not just appalling on its face, but raises a question that needs soon to be faced: how can we restore the Great Lakes [...]
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to change Washington, D.C., but as president, Obama hasn’t changed one Washington tradition: giving prized ambassadorships to big political donors:
Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since Obama’s Inauguration, 56 percent were given to political appointees and 44 percent have [...]
Did Illinois Governor Pat Quinn fall asleep during a recent event?
You decide:
A state lab' [...]
Republican: This health care reform thing is a government takeover of 1/6th of the economy! And the bill is over two thousand pages! And it costs hundreds of billions of dollars! It’s socialism! It’ll raise the deficit!
Me: It’s not a “takeover” and it doesn’t raise the deficit–it lowers it. [...]

It’s Bay View. Not “Bayview.”
It’s Riverwest. Not “River West.”
*sigh* [...] To debate or not to debate the Senate’s health care reform bill; that is the question.
The legislative body on Saturday is expected to vote on whether to begin debate — also known as invoking cloture — on its version of the health care bill, which was introduced Wednesday [...]
Shortly after jobless claims numbers were released, Sen. Russ Feingold issued a statement announcing the introduction of a jobs tax credit bill:
“Today’s jobs report clearly shows we need to do more to help people get back to work. With the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, the highest since the [...]
If you were looking forward to catching some of your favorite actors from television shows like Heroes, House, and Desperate Housewives up on stage playing your favorite hits it appears your hopes have been dashed. According to Band From TV frontman Greg [...]
If you were looking forward to catching some of your favorite actors from television shows like Heroes, House, and Desperate Housewives up on stage playing your favorite hits it appears your hopes have been dashed. According to Band From TV frontman Greg [...]
Servicemen tell The Associated Press they had trouble focusing [...]

Off deer hunting for the weekend and trying to avoid the shutout again this year
Have a good weekend!
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