http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summaryWed, 07 Jun 2006 00:37:41 +0000http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/index.htmlAdministratorhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114973348532709451Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:24:00 +00002006-06-07T21:24:45.390-05:00Coming soon, a new look for Dailytakes. I've had it with Blogger.com.http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/new-dailytakes.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114969956124186134Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:52:00 +00002006-06-07T12:35:34.380-05:00Not so fast. County sales tax proposal stalls A referendum on a proposed new 1% sales tax for parks, recreation, culture and transit stalled in a Milwaukee County Board committee today. On a 3-3 vote, the Transportation, Public Works and Transit Committee in effect blocked the measure from being taken up for discussion. One of its sponsors, Supervisor John Weishan Jr., had sought to substitute http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/300-percent-increase-in-milwaukee.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114965940240602054Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:39:00 +00002006-06-07T00:51:07.760-05:00Quid. If Doyle's veto had been overridden Tuesday, Wisconsin would have joined 46 states that already allow residents with proper permits to carry concealed weapons. Now, supporters must wait until at least 2007 for another chance at passing the legislation, and many on Tuesday promised to make it a campaign issue in this fall's elections. In the end, Democratic Reps. Terry Van Akkeren of http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/doyle-backs-sheboygan-flip-flopper.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114961843066799641Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:54:00 +00002006-06-06T17:47:35.740-05:00So, you thought I was joking earlier today when I wrote: Some members of the impotent Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors are suggesting raising the sales tax in Milwaukee County from the current 5.85 percent to a whopping 6.85 percent. That's a 17 percent hike in the local sales tax. The humorous part about this proposal?They are going to claim that part of this hike will go toward 'tax http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/milwaukee-county-sales-tax-baloney.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114963301467852821Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:43:00 +00002006-06-06T17:36:09.293-05:00 As the push for a $1.2 million annual tax hike begins, the Milwaukee County Board is touting data that attempts to downplay the drag retiree benefits have on the County budget. "We must continue to do all we can legally to keep County pension costs to a minimum," said Holloway. "But it is wrong to portray all County retirees as receiving large pensions, as this data shows."The data indicates http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/milwaukee-county-boardretiree-costs.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114962528699230165Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:18:00 +00002006-06-06T16:42:40.000-05:00The next best thing to a hug. Wauwatosa - A day before they were to go to trial, the city and Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee today reached a plea agreement on the municipal charges stemming from a traffic stop outside a Wauwatosa video store late last year.Under the terms of the agreement, McGee will plead no contest to a municipal charge of resisting and obstructing an officer, and pay the $103.50http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/mini-mcgee-reaches-blockbuster.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114962419365544829Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:31:00 +00002006-06-06T15:03:14.246-05:00 The Republican Party of Wisconsin is undertaking a full court media barrage regading the daily revelations surrounding the travelgate controversy. Today's release: (Madison, WI)...Prosecutors in the bid-rigging trial of the Doyle administration are exposing an organized cover-up by Jim Doyle's top officials to deceive the public over the governor's personal involvement in his Travel-gate http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/rpw-on-doyles-travelgate-problems.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114960869607984025Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:39:00 +00002006-06-06T10:44:56.086-05:00The real reason June 6th is important, any year. Minute by Minute Account of D-Day, courtesy of the National WWII Museum00:15 hrs 17,000 British and American paratroopers and glider troops drop behind German lines into Normandy. 00:35 hrs British Airborne troops take control of bridges over the Orne Canal and River. 01:00 hrs First Navy hands ordered to man battle stations. Landing http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/06-06-06.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114960766801007531Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:07:00 +00002006-06-06T10:29:43.783-05:00 Some members of the impotent Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors are suggesting raising the sales tax in Milwaukee County from the current 5.85 percent to a whopping 6.85 percent. That's a 17 percent hike in the local sales tax. The humorous part about this proposal? They are going to claim that part of this hike will go toward 'tax relief.' You just can't make this stuff up. More on thishttp://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/milwaukee-county-board-supervisors.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114954448703010347Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:47:00 +00002006-06-05T17:21:11.533-05:00Interesting. Whereas no potential GOP candidate has caught fire in Wisconsin, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the clear favorite of party activists in neighboring Minnesota. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the easy winner of a straw poll Friday night that tested 2008 presidential candidate support at the Minnesota Republican Party state convention. Gingrich got about 40 percent of http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/gingrich-wins-minnesota-straw-poll.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114953124245911971Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:09:00 +00002006-06-05T15:56:36.220-05:00 Prediction: Nurse Judy is going to be in hot water over her recent hperventilating fundraisng solicitation for Air America, a private corporate enterprise. Imgaine if Ted Kanavas used campaign resources to raise money for Clear Channel. I can't see how this passes as appropriate use of campaign funds. It's only a matter of time beofre someone makes an issue of it.http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/prediction-robson-in-hot-water.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114954073225867245Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:48:00 +00002006-06-05T15:52:12.313-05:00The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Mike Nichols has penned another very good column. I don't always agree with him, but I envy his writing ability. In the case of this recent column, however, I also am in complete agreement with his perspective. A self-described "casual acquaintance" of Susan and Lev Baldwin informed me over the weekend that I owe them an apology for a recent "attack" and http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/apology-worth-repeating.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114952412401675551Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:08:00 +00002006-06-05T11:27:08.283-05:00The Legislative Audit Bureau has completed its review of Fish and Wildlife funding at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. An initial review of the summary of the audit is not encouraging. Amazingly, the DNR’s accounting system does not link revenues from user fees, including the different types of hunting and fishing licenses, to particular expenditures. This is why hunters and http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/wisconsin-department-of-natural.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114951591117601603Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:27:00 +00002006-06-05T08:58:31.236-05:00Uecker to Ann Ladd, his alleged stalker. Get up.... Get up.... Get out of here... GONE! Sorry, I just had to. http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/uecker-stalker.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114943110617633534Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:17:00 +00002006-06-04T09:45:51.933-05:00The high-stakes trial of Doyle Administration official Georgia Thompson begins tomorrow. The fate of Georgia Thompson, a purchasing division supervisor, will likely determine whether more charges and other defendants will follow in the investigation Republicans have dubbed "Travelgate." Thompson, 56, of Waunakee, was on a team of evaluators that reviewed bids for the three-year contract to http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/high-stakes-for-doyle-in-georgia.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114935489033859979Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:13:00 +00002006-06-03T12:20:46.806-05:00I've been watching HBO's Band of Brothers all week. It got me thinking about the sacrifices of my own father, a World War II vet. Like hundreds of thousands of others, he selflessly served the duration of the war. Dad was a navy man and although he was proud to have served, he never boasted. Never bragged. He passed away a couple of years ago. Today would have been his 85th birthday. Not a dayhttp://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/keep-him-in-your-prayers-today.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114928079790733129Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:38:00 +00002006-06-02T15:39:57.976-05:00 h/t Cox and Forkumhttp://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/second-coat.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114926007301441577Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:47:00 +00002006-06-02T09:58:48.656-05:00This is great news for Republicans. Senate Democrats, rather than spend time and energy recruiting candidates and raising money for their campaigns, are busy trying to raise money to purchase an Air America affiliate for Milwaukee. State Senator Judy Robson (she's a nurse, you know) is hyperventilating while making the following appeal via email. I wonder, by the way, if this is kosher with http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/democrats-distracted-air-america-in.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114925361924906174Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:01:00 +00002006-06-02T08:25:13.350-05:00Well, better late than never. Gov. Jim Doyle's office has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference at Milwaukee City Hall to announce "state action" to help curb the violence on Milwaukee streets. He'll be joined, according to a release from his office, by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Police Chief Nannette Hegerty.Yesterday, Mark Green and the Doyle team had the following exchange: U.S. Rep. http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/doyle-wakes-up-regarding-milwaukee.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114922290610162150Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:32:00 +00002006-06-01T23:38:11.173-05:00Very Cool. Packers sign Levens; RB plans to retire Green Bay - In a symbolic move, the Green Bay Packers on Thursday signed former Pro Bowl running back Dorsey Levens so that he can officially retire Friday a member of the team with which he began his National Football League career. http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/dorsey-levens.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114919676932377034Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:16:00 +00002006-06-01T16:19:29.383-05:00The Regents have the wrong priorities. According to Madison's WISC-TV. MADISON, Wis. -- Resident students in the University of Wisconsin System would see a 6.8 percent tuition increase next fall under a plan released on Thursday. The increases would translate to $382 more per year for students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, $374 more at UW-Milwaukee and $291 more at all other UW http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/doyles-regents-to-screw-wisconsin.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114919137542715708Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:47:00 +00002006-06-01T14:51:09.533-05:00Poor Wisconsin State Representative David Ward. He announces his retirement after more than a decade in the legislature, and the state's largest newspaper gets his name wrong. Ward's Wednesday surprise: Won't seek re-election Madison -- Seven-term Rep. Mark Ward (R-Fort Atkinson) was the latest Assembly Republican to announce that he will not seek re-election, telling his fellow Republicans on http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/making-lasting-impression-dave-ward.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114919023234392118Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:27:00 +00002006-06-01T14:31:21.000-05:00Forty years for this scumbag seems about right. Ben Stibbe, who's been linked to at least three heroin overdose deaths in Ozaukee County, pleaded guilty today to supplying the heroin that killed Cedarburg teenager Angela Raettig last November. In addition, Stibbe's attorney, William A. Mayer, said Stibbe is likely to be charged in at least two other overdose deaths, that of Matthew Kobiske, 21, http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/plea-in-cedarburg-heroin-death.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114918500042700256Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:57:00 +00002006-06-01T13:03:20.486-05:00 I'll be on NewsTalk 1130 WISN's Early Spin program Friday morning at 7:05 to discuss the issues covered in this post and some of the reactions it generated. You can listen live here or download the podcast later. Thanks for tuning in.http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/early-spin-early-friday.htmlBrian Fraleyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/20141526/posts/summary/114917139729593372Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:55:00 +00002006-06-01T09:34:07.046-05:00I received several comments to recent posts, including yesterday's take on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's editorial, which I called a Typical Reaction Violence. Many anonymous comments chastised me for either not offering any solutions (Yes, leave it to the bloggers to be our leaders) or for being a racist for any of a variety of thinly-argued reasons. So, in a nutshell, what is my take http://www.wisopinion.com/blogs/dailytakes/2006/06/my-take-on-race-and-milwaukees.htmlBrian Fraley