Wisconsinites already know too, too much about this story. It’s not a fun video to watch. Seeing Keith Olbermann laughing about our Tea Party Governor-Elect Scott Walker confirms that I live in a laughingstock red state. He shows footage of Ohio Governor-Elect Kasich boldy fabricating, saying the train in Ohio would run at 39...
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Keith Olbermann says Scott Walker cut off his nose to spite his face: Wisconsin high-speed rail rejection
Millions yanked away from a Wisconsin fool by a man with a spine: Ray LaHood
High-speed rail money “taken”? Removed as an act of “political retribution”? Some say tomato and others, tomaaato. I offer one more verb: “yanked”. Progressives, it is a different day, same shit. Your opposition makes things up. Thusly, why not “yanked”? And yanked by a man showing some spine. My tweet last Friday: @bluecheddar1 Note to...
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A wake for Wisconsin’s high-speed rail: B. Krupinski of Kruptoons.com
I’m just going to post a series of high-speed rail nuggets here. Part of my wake for our dead beloved train that never was. Look what I found in my in-box! This came from B. Krupinski of Kruptoons.com
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Clock runs out on Wisconsin high-speed rail money.
Just this morning I learned that Gary Grunau was pulling together Milwaukee businesses to fight for Wisconsin’s train by December 15th. I thought, “About time!” Apparently “about time” was not in time. Today first an AP leak came out and then the formal announcement:...
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Grab bag of blogging, Dec 1: High-speed rail | Republican recipes | NYTimes studies Palin | Die already, DADT | Melee at Isthmus
What’s up with Wisconsin’s rail?: This haunts me. Madison’s Mayor and Common Council President Mark Clear have told the city’s Economic Development Committee to keep its mouth shut and let the mayor diplomatically broach the subject of high-speed rail with Gov-Elect Scott Walker. And by “diplomatically broach” I mean wait around for Scott Walker to...
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Pass the turkey, you LIBRUL
I am not with my sister & brothers & mom this Thanksgiving. So I won’t have to face my brother M. as he gloats about Wisconsin’s DOA passenger train and his expanding opportunities to legally kill wild creatures. Of my three siblings, M. enjoys teasing the most. I forgive him, because he is family...
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What’s next? Wisconsin high-speed rail updates November 24
What next? Good question. Wisconsin had 7 pro-rail rallies Saturday and a Talgo vigil in Milwaukee last night. Meanwhile our Governor-Elect Walker has not budged. Here are 2 actions that take it local: Eau Claire City Council sent its own pro-rail message to Walker. Appleton public library is hosting a pro-train forum scheduled for December 2nd....
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Coverage of Wisconsin Save the Train rallies for high-speed rail: Madison, Milwaukee, Watertown, Eau Claire, Oshkosh, La Crosse
My collection of coverage of Saturday November 20th’s statewide rallies to Save the Train. My rally attendance numbers are from articles, tweets, and blog posts. Let me know if you find an article/blog post/video/photo album to add. These rallies were sponsored by Sierra Club. MADISON: I’ve heard these numbers: 300, 500, and 1,000 “My...
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Summing up the Watertown Save the Train Rally
Wow. The Watertown Save the Train rally for high-speed rail. 125 people in the parking lot of a shuttered Pick N Save grocery store, us all shivering a little but at least under a sunny sky. No microphones or bullhorns. Just Mayor Ron Krueger – who everybody seems to really like, by the way...
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6 rallies in Wisconsin for high speed rail [AKA intercity rail]
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It’s a pretty amazing day. Six rallies in Wisconsin to support the Wisconsin passenger rail project that Scott Walker wants to reject. They are in Madison, Milwaukee, La Crosse, Watertown, Oshkosh, and Eau Claire and all at NOON. I’ll be going to Watertown, where there is/was a station for the planned route and Mayor...
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Scott Walker and high speed rail: This is why Wisconsin can’t have nice things. Or jobs.
New Development immediately after I posted this: Sensenbrenner, Petri, and Ryan conduct worthless stunt: legislation to return $810 million in rail $ Walker needs to eat crow and support our high speed rail plan as originally crafted, and FAST. Or he’ll have to change his notrain.com site to nojobs.com. Scott Walker, Gov-Elect, has consistently campaigned...
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Doyle calls Walker’s bluff on high-speed rail.
Yesterday news got out that Governor Doyle hit the pause button on the high-speed rail project in Wisconsin. I agree with Brew City Brawler. This amounts to Doyle calling Governor-Elect Scott Walker’s bluff. But the first person I saw to call this one was @maryb1161 of blog Mary’s World who tweeted at 10:07 last...
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The latest from blue cheddar writers:
Honadel wants rushed law to keep hikers from N. Wisconsin iron mine drilling
Photo credit Pete Rassmusen
I read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story “Republican lawmakers want to act quickly to restrict access to mine site” last night.
It says
Rep. Mark Honadel (R-South... more»
WI GOP to WI Women: Sit Down and Shut Up
Along with many others, I was shocked by what transpired in the Wisconsin State Senate last Wednesday. The clearly unhinged State Senate President Mike Ellis abruptly cut off debate about a very... more»
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Madison, WI -Â Last week, Wisconsinites sitting in the legislative gallery for debate on the controversial Senate Bill 206 (mandatory trans-vaginal probe bill) taped their mouths [...]
Source: Occupy Riverwest - a Milwaukee based blogLawmakers want to close off mine site to stop protesters : Wsjhost.madison.comThe action would also prevent activists from documenting wildlife and unmapped streams. [...]
Source: a feed from the facebook page Shit Scott Walker is Doing To My State
Here's the items that they want to talk about, the rest of the items will likely be on the "consent agenda" unless someone shows up [...]
Source: MADISON FOCUS: Forward Lookout
Minnesota is levitating. The state is lifting away from Wisconsin and heading off into the 21st century while Wisconsin is working hard to reestablish the [...]
Source: Citizen Dave - IsthmusRemember Al Franken's book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot...." Franken wasn't just kidding.Blubbering media leaders like Rush on the Republican side of the [...]
Source: DemocurmudgeonRemind me again why this man is drawing a government paycheck?
"We are witnessing the IRS scandal, we are witnessing the lies surrounding Benghazi, we are [...]
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Source: reddit: the Wisconsin subreddit
In a last-minute set of changes to the state budget, Assembly Republican leaders plan to boost school voucher programs, remove a proposed cap on a property tax credit for disabled veterans and delay loosened rules on large wells. [...]
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel State Politics RSS feedTwo of three men accused of stealing 14 iPads and three laptop computers from an Eau Claire store have been convicted by an Eau Claire County jury. [...]
Source: Eau Claire Leader Telegram LOCAL NEWS
The issue: The U.S. Supreme Court rules it's legal to collect DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes. [...]
Source: Eau Claire Leader Telegram EDITORIALEnjoy a nice crisp apple recently? Chances are you can thank a honeybee for that. Like to snack on almonds or perhaps sip a glass of orange juice in the morning? Those foods were also made possible by bees. Bees pollinate much of the food we eat, but they're dying [...]
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