Sunday, May 20, 2012
Political signs along right of way are illegal, potentially dangerous, and will be removed.
With a major recall election set for June 5, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is reminding citizens that state law prohibits the placement of any type of sign – including political, commercial or garage sale signs – on state highway right of way. "We certainly don’t want to discourage anyone from participating in elections, but signs within highway right of way are a public safety concern," said Deb Brucaya with WisDOT’s Bureau of Highway Maintenance, in a news release. "Improperly placed campaign signs can distract motorists or obstruct their view, especially at intersections. And when people enter an intersection or highway right of way to install a sign, they’re putting their own safety at risk, as well as risking …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Local police are installing automated camera systems that can read and react to problem plates in an instant, keeping patrol officers safer and making them manifestly more efficient.
Suppose you are a police patrol officer. As you cruise the streets – even the highway – you keep your eyes safely on the road, both hands firmly on the wheel. At the same time, you scan every approaching car, every car in front of you, every car parked along the side of the road. You know in an instant when any one of those cars, even in heavy traffic, even in very fast traffic, has so much as an expired registration. You know in an instant when one of those cars has been reported stolen, or that it was seen as the getaway car in an armed robbery. Are you some kind of super-cop? Nope. No human has that capability. But local police officers, including those in Greenfield and Wauwatosa, soon will have it, thanks to technology that up to now …
Jim Ward has collected double the maximum number of signatures required to get his name on the ballot against incumbent District 28 State Sen. Mary Lazich in November, according to a press release.
Jim Ward, who is running for State Senator in the 28th District, which includes parts of Greenfield, announced that he has collected double the maximum number of signatures to get his name on the ballot in November, according to a press release. He turned in his nomination papers to the Government Accountability Board on Thursday. Once the signatures are certified, his candidacy will be official. Ward will be running against incumbent District 28 State Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin). “I found that while going door to door many people were eager to sign my nomination papers,” Ward said in the release. “I also had great support of dozens of volunteers who collected signatures from neighbors, friends and family. I found that people on both …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Now that the recall primary is behind us and messages from both sides are more targeted, Wisconsin voters are starting to get more decisive.
Gov. Scott Walker is up by six points against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll of likely voters. The results of the poll were released Wednesday during a segment of the on-going "On the Issues" series with Mike Gousha and Professor Charles Franklin. Polling of 704 registered voters took place between May 9-12, and the poll results include responses from 600 likely voters in the pool with a 3.8 percent margin of error. Only 3 percent of those surveyed said they are undecided. The voting sample was split at about 52 percent women, 48 percent men and 89 percent white and about five percent each for African Americans and Hispanics. Before the primary, registered voters had Barrett leading by…
Facing a recall election, the governor says new jobs numbers released Wednesday are a more accurate reflection of how the state is doing. Tom Barrett calls announcement a political stunt.
Gov. Scott Walker released a new set of job numbers Wednesday morning that showed the state gained 23,300 public and private jobs during 2011, up from a previously-reported drop of 33,900. The new numbers come from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, part of a national report due to be issued on June 28, according to an Associated Press report. With Walker pushing up the announcement so that it comes three weeks ahead of the June 5 recall election, reaction has been predictably and wildly mixed. Walker's campaign said the numbers more accurately reflect what is happening in the state. The data is comprised of reports issued to 96 percent of Wisconsin employers and makes the numbers "much more reliable," according to a news …
Monday, May 14, 2012
The 28-day residency requirement in the Voter ID law and the unique summer election cycle could cause a low college student turnout, so Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett met with students Monday afternoon to energize young voters.
In a normal election year, college students are encouraged to go out and vote at their nearest polling location, but the new Voter ID law and the unique summer election schedule will completely change how political parties get out the college vote. Milwaukee Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett met with UW-Milwaukee students and faculty Monday afternoon to remind them not only to get out and vote in the June 5 election, but to vote using the same address they used in the May 8 primary election. Because of the new 28-day residency requirement included in the Voter ID bill, students that voted from their campus location in May will have to request an absentee ballot to vote from that same address when they go home for the…
He was at Jensen Metal Products in Caledonia Monday afternoon to announce the addition of 39 jobs. He earlier announced 350 new jobs at a plant in Neenah.
It will take baby steps for the state of Wisconsin to get the 250,000 new jobs Gov. Scott Walker promised on the campaign trail in 2010 and recommitted to over the weekend, he said Monday. Walker made the statement while speaking to about 50 employees of Jensen Metal Products, when he stopped in Caledonia while campaigning for the June 5 recall election. Walker announced Monday that Jensen Metal Products will expand its manufacturing operation, creating 39 new jobs, thanks to $2 million in tax credits through the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation over the next several years. The announcement came just a few hours after Walker was in Neenah to announce Plexus Corp., another manufacturing company, is planning to create up to 350 …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
President's campaign sends e-mail to Obama supporters urging them to vote for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in June 5 recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is actively getting behind the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker from office, The Huffington Post reports. The campaign is focusing its efforts on educating and registering voters in advance of the historic June 5 gubernatorial recall election. Tripp Wellde, the Wisconsin state director for the Obama campaign, sent an email to supporters Thursday night, urging them to support Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker's Democratic opponent. The Obama campaign also hosted "Own Your Vote" events around the state this weekend, described as "organizing phone banks and knocking on doors to make sure Wisconsinites are registered and ready to own their vote on Election Day," according to The Huffington Post…
Friday, May 11, 2012
Hostess Brands notified employees across the country, including those in Greenfield and other Wisconsin cities, that a bankruptcy restructuring might result in layoffs.
The Greenfield Hostess outlet store, 5340 W. Loomis Rd., is among those that could face layoffs under a bankruptcy restructuring of the wholesale baking company. Famous for its Twinkies and Wonder Bread, Hostess Brands Inc. notified the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development that it may lay off more than 180 workers in Wisconsin, according to a report by WAOW-TV in Wausau. Nationally, Hostess mailed notices to all 18,500 Hostess Brands employees about the potential for layoffs. "The notices were sent to alert employees that a sale or wind down of the company is possible in the future," Hostess spokesman Erik Halvorson said in an statement emailed to Patch. "However, our goal is still to emerge from bankruptcy as a growing company …
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
A holler away from Gov. Walker's home, the Democratic challenger gets his populist effort under way, and says that Tosa 'is up for grabs.'
On Wednesday, basking in the glow of a sweeping victory in the Democratic recall primary, Tom Barrett met with and accepted the backing of his former opponents. On Thursday, he launched his campaign proper from the front yard of a home in Wauwatosa, the first stop on what he promises will be an old-fashioned face-to-face, meet-the-people effort across the state. Barrett spent close to an hour chatting with about a dozen and a half supporters seated on lawn and deck chairs at the home of Lynn Broaddus and Marc Gorelick in the 500 block of North 68th Street. One thing he did not mention was the proximity of the Broaddus-Gorelick home to another well-known Tosa residence. Scott Walker and his family live an easy lob over the back fence, two …
Randy1949
12:43 pm on Sunday, May 20, 2012
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