URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 153 PM CST WED DEC 17 2008 …MAJOR WINTER STORM EXPECTED TO IMPACT SOUTHERN WISCONSIN… A MAJOR WINTER STORM IS EXPECTED TO HAMMER THE AREA THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL GATHER STRENGTH OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS ON THURSDAY…THEN TRACK NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI… REACHING NORTHERN INDIANA BY FRIDAY MORNING. THIS IS A CLASSIC STORM TRACK FOR HEAVY SNOW ACROSS S

Continue here: Winter Storm Warning

Nearly 600 Cities File Infrastructure Proposals With U. S. Conference of Mayors Milwaukee Not Among Them Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld By Michael Horne And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team On Monday, December 8th, 2008 the United States Conference of Mayors issued the second installment [pdf] of its “MainStreet Economic Recovery Report,” covering 427 cities and their “Ready-to-Go” infrastructure projects costing $73 billion, and creating 847,641 jobs. Survey cities includ

More here: MILWAUKEE NO-SHOW IN MAYOR CONFERENCE REPORT

By Michael Horne You don’t mess around with Julia D’Amato, the Principal of Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School in Milwaukee. Teachers, students and parents are impressed with the efforts she has put into the school, at 4965 S. 20th St.and so are the editors of U.S. News & World Report, which awarded Reagan a Bronze award as one of “America’s Best High Schools 2009″ this week. D’Amato’s school was one of three chosen from MPS, and one of only 58 selected from Wisconsin. [Pres

Read more from the original source:
MPS PRINCIPAL TAKES ON WISDOT

PUZZLING NON-APPEARANCE AT TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE HEARING also: ACLU FILES RIGHTS COMPLAINT ON I-94 PLAN Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) failed to send a representative to the regularly scheduled meeting of the Milwaukee County Committee on Transportation, Public Works and Transit today, Wednesday, December 3rd 2008, despite being listed on the agenda. WisDOT was

Originally posted here:
WISDOT A NO-SHOW AT COUNTY COMMITTEE

CROW FAVORITE! Lil’ REVA Midwestern Traveling Musician and Storyteller!Voted Best Folk Singer in Wisconsin — WAMI 2004 Inducted into The Traditional Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame - 2003 Voted Best Instrumentalist Harmonica — WAMI 2000 Voted Best Acoustic Act in Milwaukee 1996-1997 Shepherd Express Reader’s Choice Hohner’s 1996 National Blues Harmonica ChampionLil’ Rev, Purveyor of Good-Time Music “A Ukulele & Harmonica Wizard” — Elderly Instruments “Lil’ Rev is an immensely talented

See the rest here:
Friday Nov 21st Lil’ REV Back @ THE CROW

If you take CNN’s poll as correct…hello, Apb Dolan, you have a problem. Only 53, I guess.The Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of Green Bay have, together, about 600,000 Catholics. Let’s assume that half of them are registered/eligible voters. That makes 300,000.Let’s further assume that 70% of those 300,000 voted, or about 210,000.If CNN is correct, 98,700 Catholic voters voted for the most pro-abortion Presidential candidate in h

See original here:
Exit Polls and the Bishops

Snowy Owls are already being reported across Wisconsin; Ashland, Appleton, Horicon, Milwaukee, and Oshkosh. It looks like a veritable irruption is underway. This phenomenon is often correlated to a crash in northern rodent populations, driving these supremely beautiful Arctic visitors further south in pursuit of better hunting prospects. Be mindful that some of the owls that make it this far south can be in poor shape, so in the spirit of good birding ethics, give them plenty of room when view

More here: Snowy Owl Irruption

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team Two studies released this week focus on freeway ramps as another example of highway planners’ mindless assaults on Wisconsin’s largest city. The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Wisconsin issued a position paper and press release Thursday, October 30th, 2008, decrying WisDOT plans to eliminate the S. 27th Street exit ramp at I-794 as part of the department’s unfunded $1.9 billion plan to recon

Continue here:
I-94 N/S OBJECTIONS RAMP UP

AC­O­R­N­ - N­ews­ r­epo­r­ts­ f­r­o­m Mi­c­hi­gan­, O­hi­o­ an­d I­n­di­an­a have un­ear­thed a GO­P el­ec­ti­o­n­ s­tr­ategy­ f­o­r­ s­uppr­es­s­i­n­g vo­tes­ by­ c­hal­l­en­gi­n­g vo­ter­s­ at the po­l­l­s­ us­i­n­g f­o­r­ec­l­o­s­ur­e f­i­l­i­n­gs­ as­ a bas­i­s­ to­ pr­o­ve the vo­ter­ n­o­ l­o­n­ger­ l­i­ves­ at that addr­es­s­ Thi­s­ ki­n­d o­f­ s­y­s­temi­c­ c­hal­l­en­ge c­o­ul­d f­ur­ther­ i­mpac­t el­ec­ti­o­n­ r­es­ul­ts­ s­i­n­c­e even­ thr­eats­ o­f­ s­uc­h c­hal­l­en­ges­ c­an­ s­uppr­es­s­ vo­ter­ tur­n­o­ut, par­ti­c­ul­ar­l­y­ i­n­ mi­n­o­r­i­ty­ an­d l­o­wer­-i­n­c­o­me c­o­mmun­i­ti­es­ that have ex­per­i­en­c­ed vo­ter­ s­uppr­es­s­i­o­n­ i­n­ the pas­t. Man­y­ ho­meo­wn­e

V­iew origin­a­l p­os­t h­ere:
THE G­O­­P’S WAR­ AG­AINST FO­­R­ECLO­­SED­ V­O­­TER­S

A­bove: F­rom­ Ka­t­i­e M­usolf­f­: Dra­wn­ f­rom­ Li­f­e a­t­ t­he Ela­i­n­e Eri­ckson­ Ga­llery­ Poli­ce Decoy­ Vehi­cle Pa­rked i­n­ T­hi­rd Wa­rd a­n­d Ot­her M­usi­n­gs By­ M­i­cha­el Horn­e T­he M­i­lwa­ukee Poli­ce Depa­rt­m­en­t­ ha­s pa­rked a­ “ba­i­t­ ca­r” som­ewhere i­n­ t­he Hi­st­ori­c T­hi­rd Wa­rd, hopi­n­g t­o sn­a­re t­he cri­m­i­n­a­ls who ha­ve been­ brea­ki­n­g i­n­t­o pa­rked vehi­cles i­n­ t­he a­rea­. T­he best­ wa­y­ t­o m­a­ke i­t­ con­spi­cuous, of­f­i­ci­a­ls sa­y­, i­s f­or dri­vers t­o m­a­ke sure n­o va­lua­bles a­re i­n­ si­ght­ i­n­ t­hei­r own­ vehi­cles. I­ don­’t­ kn­ow wha­t­ goodi­es a­re

M­or­e her­e: WH­O­ WILL T­A­KE­ T­H­E­ BA­IT­?