The Marquette Neighborhood Association’s 1st Annual Neighborhood-wide yard sale is Saturday August 4, 2012. Participating neighbors can add their yard/porch/garage sale to the map by e-mailing the street address here.

Ads have been placed with the following publications: Capital Newspapers,  http://gsalr.com/ , Madison Craigslist; and refer to an on-line map () so there is still time to add your sale right up to Saturday.   The map is posted on our website and Facebook page.

Signs will go up on Friday night/early Saturday morning.  Volunteers needed general signage and support can offer their help here.

Festival hopes to raise awareness of area lakes

The Lake Monona Water Walk Community Festival kicked off last night (July 6) with a music festival at Winnequah Park in Monona. Today and tomorrow is filled with many events featuring multiple educational and inspirational activities will expand people’s awareness, appreciation, and gratitude for the waters of the community and the world.

On Saturday a Water Expo will be held with with exhibitors, vendors, science projects, and Water Art, an outdoor movie screening of Waterlife, an All Traditions Water Blessing, and a community potluck, all building enthusiasm for the Lake Monona Water Walk itself on Sunday.

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Baby born on John Nolen Drive reminiscent of 1998 Chevy Blazer birth

Madison Police Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain is known for his poetic re-interpretation of police reports, and some have made national news. Those of us who follow his reports on Twitter were especially struck by a report he released today (July 5) of a high-speed maternity incident that occurred last month. It reminded me of 911 audio I saved from 1998 of a baby born in the back of a Chevy Blazer in the middle of an ice storm.

In the Madison incident, a Sun Prairie, Wisconsin man was observed speeding on East Washington Avenue around 3 a.m. on June 17, 2012 and soon an officer pulled him over on south Blair Street. When it was determined that he was transporting his wife who was deep into labor the officer told him to slow down a bit but offered to follow them to the hospital.  Continue reading →

Walker steps in it again with vid clip about his collective bargaining plans

With only precious weeks left before the June 5 recall election it is hard to know if the revelations in the recent video clip of Governor Scott Walker talking with a well-heeled donor from Beloit in January 2011 just weeks before he began his march to eviscerate collective bargaining in Wisconsin will sway those four to five percent of undecided voters.

In the clip, Walker tells billionaire widow Diane Hendricks how he plans to go after the public-sector unions in response to a question by Hendricks about how to make Wisconsin a “right-to-work” state and to turn the state “red”.

The clip is just the latest evidence that confirms the true motivations of Walker and his crowd was not to “save” Wisconsin from budgetary disaster but to permanently marginalize unions and by extension Wisconsin Democrats. If he wanted to improve the state’s economy and create those 250,000 jobs he promised, why did the Republican majority spend the entirely of last session largely on social legislation?

Lost in the inflammatory clip is the real story and the reason the documentarian Brad Lichtenstein was there to catch the moment in the  first place – to chronicle the long slow death of manufacturing in Janesville and its impact on its citizens.

An extended trailer of the film is presented above, you can see a sneak preview this Wednesday at Discovery World in Milwaukee.

Check out some additional perspective on this documentary from  the stellar Cognitive Dissidence Blog

Kathleen Falk cast her ballot in the Recall Primary for Governor and Lieutenant Governor at the Wil-Mar neighborhood center on the near east side of Madison today. In comments to the media after she voted, Falk was upbeat about her prospects even though statewide polls show her trailing Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett by double digits.

The election hasn’t happened yet, people are still voting and I hope to win,” Falk said. “I have been selected as the strongest candidate to run against Scott Walker by these organizations that have gotten this to this historic election”

Falk added that no matter what the results at the end of the day when it comes to the recall election next month, “We will be united.”

You can hear her comments here:
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