There’s been so much talk over the decades - - but little action - - about the wisdom of better cooperation involving Madison and Milwaukee, so here’s a modest proposal:The city councils and mayors of both jurisdictions sign letters or resolutions urging Gov. Doyle to elevate local and inter-city rail projects as top priorities for the spending of transportation stimulus funds from the federal government after the inauguration of Barack Obama.This list would include rail to connect the two large

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It’s a tremendous night to beat the sportsbooks. Of course fresh off perhaps the best year in recorded history for sharp sports bettors why should that be a surprise? Sharp players are winning more than ever and squares losing more and the gap will continue to widen. Yes, both professional bettors and Joeybagofdonuts are salivating for the Fiesta Bowl between Ohio State and Texas, but pro gamblers have not and will not overlook basketball betting. Let’s go to the power of 620 sports servic

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Four weeks ago, I noted that the economic profile linked at the economic development button on the home page of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission was so out of date that the top bank in a list of the three largest banks, Bank One of Wisconsin, didn’t exist anymore after a take over by Chase Morgan.And that the phone number in the disappeared bank’s information now belonged to Kincaid’s, a downtown Milwaukee chophouse.Doesn’t the menu look more mouthwatering that SEWRPC’s wa

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Winning home and homes in back to back nights are always hard, but as well as the Bucks have been playing lately this should not have happened. The Bucks dropped a game tonight 102-92 to the (12-22) Charlotte Bobcats one night after beating them by 25 at home. The Bucks (16-19) still hold the 8th seed, and while still being a CURRENT top 10 team in the NBA still have a few things to work on. By the way, Charlie V played the flagrant foul off in the photo above about as cool as Tom Cruise’s po

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NWUS53 KMKX 040139LSRMKXPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI739 PM CST SAT JAN 03 2009..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE…. ..REMARKS..0711 PM FREEZING RAIN WISCONSIN DELLS 43.63N 89.78W 01/03/2009 E0.00 INCH SAUK WI TRAINED SPOTTER THIN COATING OF ICE ON SIDEWALKS AND CARS. &&$$MBK+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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Title: Dog 1.3.09 …… Size: 6 x 6″ …….. Oil on cradled boardArtist: Fred Bell ………. Price: $80.00 free postageIsn’t this just the nicest doggie you’ve ever seen? If you want to paint a dog or cat you have to use a photo. They may understand “sit” and “stay” but they don’t get “hold still.” I think I got this dog pretty well. I do custom portraits like this through a fancy dog supply store “Hounds Around Town” in Whitefish Bay Wisconsin a suburb of Milwaukee. T

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Daily Painting Dog Original Oil Portrait by Fred Bell

MILWAUKEE WI Jan 3 2009 – Killings dropped by a third here last year, making Wisconsin’s largest city among the nation’s most successful in tackling its 2008 murder rate.While New York and Chicago saw an uptick in slayings last year, other cities including Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Los Angeles had fewer violent deaths in ‘08 than ‘07.And though a study released Monday by Northeastern University showed black teenagers killing each other in rising numbers, Milwaukee stands ou

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Butler: Horizon will be no picnic–The Indy StarButler’s ranking precarious–Indy Star Butler InsiderButler slides past UAB–Dawgnet News#25 Butler Returns To Horizon League Play At Valparaiso–ButlerSports.comCSU Insider: Frustrated Vikings know beating the Titans can’t be such a long shot–Cleveland Plain DealerWright State Whacks Vikings–The Fan Home of the Cleveland State VikingsDetroit Next For Viking Hoops–csuvikings.comWomen’s Hoops to Open Horizon League Play on the Road–detroittitans

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Every bit of music is a piece of firework as far as I’m concerned, so today no special firework release. I realized I didn’t post a piece of vinyl is some days, so here’s one. Music by Vocokesh has been posted before and as said then Vocokesh is a sort of hobby project of Richard Franecki, whose main band is F/i.”F/I are From Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has been around since 1981, releasing half a dozen LPs on RRRecords. The band started out as a unit elaborating on noise structures in the traditi

Continue here: F/i / Vocokesh - Merge Parlour / 3 New Untitled Tracks (LP, RRRecords RRR 082, 1992) F/i - From Poppy With Love (7", SSS Productions, RRRecords SSS 50

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee ,WI,USA Milwaukee police still have no leads in cases of missing men. By Ryan Haggerty of the Journal Sentinel Posted: Dec. 29, 2008. Anyone with information about either case is asked to call the …

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