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Diagnosed Diabetes by County
Either we’re a healthy bunch or doctors in Washington County don’t test for diabetes. Here are the results for the country, if you’re interested.
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Trying for Sanctions Against Iran
The Obama Administration is continuing to be impotent in foreign policy. The Obama administration is shifting the focus of its Iran policy from talk to sanctions, but the prospect of winning early international support for toughened new penalties appears dim. Equally problematic is finding a ...
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Congresspeople Worried About Jobs
Their own jobs, I suspect.  Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration. Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw ...
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MPS Situation Report
Via the MacIver Institute. 
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How To Field Dress a Deer
For all of y’all getting ready to go hunt… here’s a friendly reminder. Hat tip to Berry Laker.
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Emergency Bridges Needed
The bright side is that those happen to be the bridges in that interchange that I use the least Three bridges in the Zoo Interchange have reached such dire condition that the state Department of Transportation acted Thursday to replace them, in what could be a weekend barn-raising fashion, ...
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Overpaid Milwaukee County Custodial Workers Call in “Sick”
This is just stupid. One day after the Milwaukee County Board agreed to privatize scores of county housekeepers, 19 of the 25 custodial staff at the Courthouse complex called in sick, county officials said Thursday. Jack Takerian, the county’s interim director of public works, said he didn’t ...
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More Job Losses
Ouch, that smarts. Wisconsin employers cut 129,600 jobs since October 2008, the steepest year-to-year plunge in 70 years of data. The state Department of Workforce Development is scheduled report on job losses and unemployment midday Thursday. But preliminary estimates from a state database ...
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Hanging Offense
I’d tell that town official to shove off.  Although there are no formal laws in this southeast Pennsylvania town against drying laundry outside, a town official called Froehlich to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they ...
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Lawyers Suing Lawyers
bootsandsabers.com — Too funny. Someone looking for a personal injury lawyer in the Milwaukee area might easily type the names Habush and Rottier into an Internet search engine. Habush, Habush & Rottier, one of the state’s oldest and largest law firms specializing in personal injury cases, has had many ... (more) Lawyers Suing Lawyers
Grafton Man Charged with Murder
Hang ‘em high.  Thirty-seven-year-old Charles A. Avey of Grafton was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide and felony bail jumping. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon. The criminal complaint says Avey killed 14-year-old Cody A. Reetz on Sunday. ...
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Park East Development Inching Forward
Here’s a good example of the failure of a command economy. The long-stalled Park East Square project, which Chicago developer Richard Curto wants to build on a vacant lot his firm bought from Milwaukee County, may be moving forward with the sale of a $30 million bond. The city Redevelopment ...
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City of West Bend Passes Budget
Good for them! West Bend’s Common Council approved a zero percent increase in the assessed value tax rate and a 2.94 percent increase in the tax levy as part of the city’s 2010 budget Monday night.   [...]   Overall, the 2010 budget represents a 0.38 percent increase over the ...
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BadgerCare Plus Waiting List
Waiting lists and lines for government-run health care?  Preposterous!  Absurd!  Oh wait… About 7,000 people are on a waiting list for the state’s health-care program for childless adults, and that list could grow to 20,000 or more by March. [...] The program extends the ...
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Reliable Data?
It’s becoming more and more difficult to trust anything the government is telling us about how they are spending our money.  Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At ...
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Enter Barrett – stage left
My column for the West Bend Daily News is online.  It’s called, “Enter Barrett – stage left.”
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Convicted Child Molester Gets Off Easy
What the heck? Investigators want to know what former West Allis swim coach Daniel J. Acker, awaiting sentencing for sexually assaulting two boys, was doing during a six-day trip to Florida earlier this month. Acker’s mother told authorities Acker was visiting Disney World, which Acker denied ...
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Drilling for Whiskey
If it’s still good, this will be some expensive whiskey.  A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and ...
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A Few More Pics
Just because I’m procrastinating about writing my column… Greece with my Mom. Egypt with the whole fam damily.  Half of them are dead now.    Here’s some ol’ buds at Final Review.    Me toasting my dad somewhere in the Middle East.    Me and my ...
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New Dishwasher
No, we’re not having another kid… our old Whirlpool Gold dishwasher went out… again.  It’s the second time in less than a year.  Rather than get it fixed again, we decided to buy a new one.  It’ll be here on Tuesday.  I’m going to attempt installation by myself.  Wish me ...
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