MADISON, Wis. – Governor Jim Doyle’s office has no records relating to the decision to scrap plans to build a train station in Oconomowoc, as all eyes now turn to the Department of Transportation for answers. “This keeps getting more and more interesting,” said Brett Healy, President of the John K. MacIver Institute for Public…
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Citizens’ Guide to High Speed Rail Construction Debate
Currently, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is working on convincing local governments in Southeast Wisconsin to invest local property tax dollars for the construction and maintenance of train stations along the proposed Milwaukee to Madison high speed rail line. The DOT is promising some funds toward construction of the stations, however the Department has repeatedly…
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Racine Unified Drafting Resolution Supporting DREAM Act Friends, On a national level, please note this section of the article below that states: “The U.S. Senate will be considering the DREAM Act next week as part of a defense policy bill.” After seeing the MPS resolution to Boycott Arizona from a few months ago and now…
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Progressive Auto Insurance Peter Lewis and George Soros Here is a heads up regarding Progressive Auto Insurance. You know who they are. They’re the ones with the clever television ads featuring the perky brunette actress all dressed in white. What you might not know is that the chairman of Progressive is Peter Lewis, one of…
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UN board Could Rein in $2.7 Billion Carbon Market
By John Heilprin, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS – An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam. At a meeting last month that ended Friday,…
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The Week That Was September 18, 2010 Quote of the Week For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner … on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. … That is the…