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Applus Technologies Upsets the Cart Did Governor’s Associate Influence Emissions Inspection Deal? Proposal and Contract Violate State Law, Firm Alleges By Michael Horne Thursday, July 24th, 2008 – The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is embroiled in another controversy, this time about the state’s decision to award a vehicle emissions inspection contract to Applus + Technologies

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Developer had Promised $10 Million Renovation of Floorless Shell By Michael Horne and the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team Crews are busily demolishing 1330 N. Martin Luther King Drive, [See Map] a 22,782 square foot [floor area] vacant former power plant nestled between the Milwaukee headquarters of Time Warner Cable and the World headquarters of Manpower, Inc. The news was first reported in a

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Busalacchi Lauds Rail to Outstate Crowd While Promoting Freeway Expansion Here Agency Releases Plans for 2009 I-94 N/S Construction Report: $7 Gasoline by 2010 New Blog Announced! Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the MilwaukeeWorld Hound Dog Team For nearly a year, Milwaukeeworld has been following, with horror, the Doyle administration's proposals to expand I

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Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne The folks at Pabst Brewing Company, who usually don't have much to say about anything, have issued a statement on the Budweiser-InBev merger: "In response to the many inquires we have received regarding the acquisition of Anheuser Busch by InBev: "No doubt, the AB-InBev combination will create a formidable competitor. And it is

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But Cafe, Theater, Retail Functions Remain Prescriptions Transfered to Hayek's Special to the Readers of milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne The Brady Street Pharmacy, 1696 N. Astor St., has dispensed with its drug dispensing function, sold its inventory and transfered its files to Hayek's Shorewood Pharmacy, 4001 N. Downer Ave. The coffee shop -- now Cafe -, the intimate theater performance

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LAURA J. TENNESSEN, 1988 - 2006 Jurist Rules Lack of Consent Easy to Prove when Victim is a Corpse By Michael Horne The tentacles of the activist Wisconsin Supreme Court reached out and strangled yet another legislative prerogative Wednesday, July 9th, 2008, when it ruled that sex with a corpse is illegal in this state, overruling the free-and-easy decision rendered in by Grant County Circuit

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By Michael Horne Just months after being portrayed as a dangerous liberal intent on eliminating the rights of property owners, and losing re-election to a handpicked candidate of the corporate elite, Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler wrote the unanimous decision favoring Walgreens in its tax assessment dispute with the City of Madison. In the decision, released yesterday, Tuesday, July 8th,

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Sorry folks, I have nothing to report here other than the bare fact that a City of Milwaukee police officer attached to the Third District has been arrested in a sting operation. Apparently he did not turn over all money from one or more incidents. Captain James Harpole of the Third District referred milwaukeeworld to Anne E. Schwartz, the department's spokeswoman, who has not returned our phone

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Are You Ready for "Managed Attrition"? Journal Communications, Inc. [JRN], the publisher of Milwaukee's only remaining daily newspaper, announced a "restructuring" today, Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008, that will involve the elimination of 10 per cent of its workforce, or 130 employees. All employees, with no "years of service" requirement are eligible to apply for the package, which includes a cash

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted today, Tuesday, July 1st, 2008, that jailed former alderman Michael McGee told a fellow inmate he used wire transfers to launder Vice Lords drug money. A headline referred to $15,000 McGee wired illegally to an agent to book rapper "The Game" [a.k.a. Jayceon Taylor] at the Rave nightclub. This transaction is similar to a concert money-laundering scheme

Michael Hornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17398194263255490901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10280109.post-42493057724008656372008-06-26T11:08:00.003-05:002008-06-26T15:54:01.308-05:00

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com [Dear Reader: There are a number of items that have been summerfestering in my in box, so I thought I'd spend some time on this little grab bag. There are a couple of amusing tidbits here and there, perhaps even some of substance. --Ed.] By Michael Horne Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is still on the bench until August 1st, 2008, when successor

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Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team The 59th South Shore Water Frolics Parade will go on as scheduled Saturday, July 12th, 2008, milwaukeeworld has learned. The news will be announced at a press conference scheduled at South Shore Park for 11 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, June 25th, 2008, according to festival organizer Les Johns,

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Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team According to a graphic in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning, Sunday, June 22nd, 2008, Senator Russell Feingold "owns $94,500 in Green Bay Packers stock." He therefore joins Senator Herbert H. Kohl in the ranks of those with significant assets in a professional sports franchise. (

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Special to the readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne Midwest Airlines has notified the Association of Flight Attendants - CWA, the union representing its flight attendants, that it is considering filing for bankruptcy protection, according to a memo fetched by the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team. The memo, addressed to the company's flight attendants, reads, "Midwest Airlines management

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SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE: GO TO A BALL GAME! The City of Milwaukee Public Safety Committee recommended adoption of council file 080317, a proposal to amend a grant from the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club Limited Partnership to the Milwaukee Police Department to pay for security at home games and other activities at Miller Park. The original grant, approved on March 22nd, 2007,

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Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne MilwaukeeWorld Hound Dog Team Links Correspondent River Hills, WI -- MGIC Chairman and CEO Curt Culver has had a terrible year at work (when he’s there) but a fabulous year on the links (when he’s not.) He shot a 78 at Naga-Waukee last Saturday, June 14th, 2008, and carries an impressive 3.9 handicap. Interestingly, he is able to

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Is Moribund Agency "Merely an Embarrassment" or "Cause for Concern?" Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the MilwaukeeWorld Hound Dog Team Milwaukee Common Council President Willie L. Hines, Jr. sent a letter to City Attorney Grant Langley [Marquette '70] yesterday, Thursday, June 12th, 2008, asking for his "legal opinion in regard to the fact that the City of

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JENNIE TUNKIEICZ Her Service to the Public Knows No Bounds From Reporter at the Racine Bureau of the Journal Sentinel To Administrative Assistant to the Highest Office Holder in Kenosha County Wisconsin Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and the MilwaukeeWorld Hound Dog Team [Kenosha Greyhound Kennel Bureau] Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser, elected unopposed

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Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne A few months ago, a fellow named Dave Reid, described only as an east side resident and owner of website firm Texo Development LLC, sent a mass e-mail opposing plans to develop a UWM engineering school on 84 acres of county-owned property in Wauwatosa. He started a group called UWM Downtown, and its blog, hosted by Texo. Reid argued

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Publication Never Found Voice or Audience Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne MKE, the weekly urban lifestyle publication of Journal Communications, Inc., has folded, according to a staff memo distributed today, Wednesday, June 11th, 2008. Apparently it was literally bleeding red ink. The tabloid, launched in 2004, never really took hold in the community. Although

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Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne and The MilwaukeeWorld Hound Dog Team The City of Milwaukee Common Council will vote tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10th, 2008, on Mayor Barrett's reappointment of Martin G. Collins as Commissioner of Building Inspection [File 080057]. However, an April 7th, 2008 letter Collins sent to the Department of Neighborhood Services mailing

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Special to the Readers of Milwauekeworld.com By Michael Horne A tugboat from the Gillen Co. fleet is on the scene of the barge incident at The Edge Condominium project, 1890 N. Commerce St. The doughty craft and its seasoned crew will push the wayward construction barge back into place, according to Antonio Estevez of Gilbane Co., the general contractor. He said the plan is to "reattach the

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By 1 a.m., Sunday, June 8th, 2008, traffic had resumed on the Holton Viaduct and Holton Marsupial Bridge. The construction barges which had occasioned the closing of the vital thoroughfares due to their successful struggles against the dock wall to which they were moored, had been stabilized and secured at new points. A long rope, newly laid to anchor the barges, dances in the water. The barges

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Police squads now block access to the Holton Viaduct and its companion Holton Marsupial Bridge and efforts underway to prevent catastrophe include the use of the construction crane mounted on the imperiled barges that nearly block the entire width of the swollen Milwaukee River. At midnight the crane could be seen to hoist several containers to the shore, where the dock wall is failing at the

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Dock Wall Failing Where Barges Tied Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com By Michael Horne Two construction barges, lashed together, one carrying an erect 70 ft crane, are breaking free and within 6 feet of striking the Holton Viaduct. The Milwaukee Fire Department is on the scene, and three fire fighters are on board one of the barges. The barges are moored immediately upstream from

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