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Tag: Wisconsin

Crime and Justice

Wisconsin, where a sexy vehicle is a Dodge Caravan

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 18, 2014, 10:44 AM Nov 18, 2014
20 Comments

Minnesotans spend an inordinate amount of time looking for new ways to belittle our neighbors to the east.

Vox today provides all the jokes you’ll ever need with this map of the most-stolen cars by state. Read more →

Wandering moose wows ’em in Wisconsin

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 9, 2014, 8:57 AM Oct 9, 2014
7 Comments

A young bull moose is causing a bit of a sensation in western Wisconsin. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Show faces of Wis. attempted murder suspects, age 12?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 11, 2014, 1:04 PM Jun 11, 2014
2 Comments

How far should the news media go to protect the Wisconsin 12-year-olds who were charged with stabbing a friend near Milwaukee last week to satisfy a fictional character in an online meme? Read more →

Economy

Wisconsin cheese makers say new FDA rule stinks

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 11, 2014, 7:57 AM Jun 11, 2014
5 Comments

People, the end of Limburger cheese is at hand! Read more →

Politics

Booze is king when it comes to political power

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 6, 2014, 7:30 AM Jun 6, 2014
5 Comments

In Minnesota, liquor store owners killed Sunday liquor sales — again — in the recently concluded Minnesota legislative session. Now, the liquor service industry is flexing its muscle in Wisconsin where it appears to be controlling the fate on a crackdown on drunk driving and efforts to change the state’s drinking culture. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Gay video too hot for Janesville

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 14, 2014, 8:13 AM May 14, 2014
12 Comments

The Janesville, Wisconsin school superintendent has apologized for the showing of this video last month at a high school day to bring ‘attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools.’ Read more →

Arts & Culture

Lessons from a Wisconsin love song

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 4, 2014, 8:50 AM Apr 4, 2014
1 Comment

This is a good day to pay attention to Nickolas Butler, of Fall Creek, Wisconsin, near Eau Claire, who gets plenty of New York Times love today for his book, ‘Shotgun Lovesongs.’ Read more →

Five by 8

Minnesota superiority, kids who stick up for bullied kids, and a woman’s hockey history in St. Cloud (5×8 – 11/25/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2013, 7:01 AM Nov 25, 2013
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Why Minnesota works and Wisconsin doesn’t, the band of brothers who stick up for a first-grader, the woman behind the hockey microphone, the B-17 flyover in Green Bay, and why Dilbert’s creator wanted his father to die. Read more →

Bill protecting race-based school mascots would undo Prescott students’ work

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2013, 4:04 PM Sep 26, 2013
1 Comment

Republican legislators in Wisconsin have introduced a bill protecting race-based nicknames in the state’s school districts.
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Crime and Justice

In Wisconsin’s Capitol, singing vs. First Amendment

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 8, 2013, 12:04 PM Aug 8, 2013
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Wisconsin government declares, “Disperse ye Singers!” Read more →

Child caught in Wisconsin surrogate birth case

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 11, 2013, 2:14 PM Jul 11, 2013
0 Comments

A deal is a deal when it comes to surrogate birth, even if the mother changes her mind, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today. The court ruled in the case of Monica Schissel of Columbus, Wis., who changed her mind after agreeing to bear a child for David and Marcia Rosecky of Menomonee Falls, using Read more →

Minnesota eating Wisconsin’s economic lunch

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 26, 2013, 1:42 PM Jun 26, 2013
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My colleague, Paul Tosto, has a loving passion in pointing out Minnesota’s dominance over the state to our east when it comes to the economy. Today, he’s got a little more ammunition from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. In a report today, the Fed says Minnesota is rapidly catching up to Wisconsin in the total number Read more →

Surveys and trivia

Wisconsin: The economy’s caboose

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 17, 2013, 10:58 AM Jun 17, 2013
2 Comments

Clearing off the desk of items that’ve been sitting here a week or so. There goes the Federal Reserve again, destroying perceptions. In its assessment of state economies released a couple of weeks ago for April 2013, only five states have contracting economies under a survey’s method. And two of them border the fair state Read more →

FAA wins controller showdown in Wisconsin

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2013, 3:40 PM Jun 13, 2013
4 Comments

When Wisconsin’s biggest event — the air show in Oshkosh — takes place next month, the FAA will be providing air traffic controllers at what becomes the world’s busiest airport, and the organization that sponsors the event is hopping mad about it. The Experimental Aircraft Association announced today it’s agreed to pay $450,000 in expenses Read more →

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