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We’ll drink to the Brewers!
The little engine that could! We are so juiced by the Milwaukee Brewers! Eleven straight wins to jump ahead of the Chicago Cubs. Best record in the majors at 60 and 40! When everyone gave them up for dead after trading away Corbin Burnes, Willy Adames, and Devin Williams (Who? Who? and Who?) in the…
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‘May every day be another wonderful secret’
Donald Trump (or James Comey?) to Jeffrey Epstein. The indentured servants quit watching Stephen Colbert’s smug and indulgent partisanship after his very first show 10 years ago. What a comedown from David Letterman, who was irreverent, unpredictable, and funny! America needs Stupid Pet Tricks! Blame Trump or blame a graying audience. We just can’t stay…
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The adults must enter the room
Dane County is the sick man of the Wisconsin GOP! This little game the chairman of the Dane County Republicans is playing (do you think it could fool a Corleone?) will be put to end — one way or another — on or before July 25, we are told. Brandon Maly announced 12 weeks ago…
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Only to a progressive is this bad news
Why the ‘Abundance’ platform is DOA among Democrats. A little bell rang, knees jerked, and progressive mouths spit buckets of saliva at the news that a company called QTS wants to build a data center on 615 acres in the very rural Town of Vienna, west of DeForest. As many as 15 buildings could go up…
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Is ambitious lakefront project skirting the law?
“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” We subscribe to 19th Century planner Daniel Burnham’s credo. Think of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Hoover Dam, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Wisconsin’s own beaux arts…
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Green with garden envy
Rabbits not welcome! It’s our annual guilt trip: the annual Olbrich Gardens Home Garden Tour. Due to advancing decrepitude and diverse topography, the Lovely Lisa and the Head Groundskeeper visited only four of the seven on the tour Saturday 07-12-25 — enough to reach for the ibuprofen. No cure for Stage Four case of terminal…