Wisconsin DNR conducts armed raid of animal shelter. Why?

Justice for Giggles - the baby deer.: "KENOSHA, WI – When Wisconsiners sent in their hard earned tax money this year to the Government, they never knew their money would be spent on a highly organized Department of Natural Resources (DNR) raid sent in to eliminate a fawn.
Nine DNR agents and 4 Deputy Officers, all heavily armed, raided the shelter with the mission of detaining the shelter workers, and then targeting and destroying a two-week-old fawn named Giggles. The mission that was set in place by Chief Conservation Warden Randy Stark included a pre-raid aerial surveillance of the shelter and photos of the barn that housed Giggles."

Why not just send one or two unarmed agents and ask for the deer? Why aerial surveillance and a swat-team-like raid? People are shocked by the storm-trooper tactics of government over the last few years. But the 1% knows something they are not telling the public. Cheap oil has peaked. There will be no more growth. They are preparing for uprising and practicing their totalitarian response.

People speak up for #publictransit in Wausau

Ken Miller, of Wausau, waits for the disability ramp being load from Metro Ride bus Wednesday afternoon, March 7, 2012, near Riverview Towers in Wausau. / Daily Herald Media file photo

wausaudailyherald.com: "I am all for the sales tax proposal, and I doubt a penny on the dollar will dissuade any shoppers from visiting the area to shop, in fact it would enable more people to shop in Rothschild and Rib Mountain. I will contact my state senator and Rep. Mandy Wright with my support."

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Mixed messages from Milwaukee County transit in bidding process

Public Investigator : ""In my experience, I've never seen a public agency bid in which they wanted you to spend so much," a person representing one of the bidders on the contract told the Journal Sentinel.

"Price counts for 20% (of the evaluation score), but you say you want to spend $164 million. They didn't make it explicit they were looking for savings to be plowed back into service.

"The taxpayers of Milwaukee County could easily wind up losing if they keep the same set of services and don't have savings that could be used to enhance services.""

Governor implements oil industry agenda, with negative economic consequences

Timeline Photos: "This speaks for itself. 'Share' if you agree."

NAOMI: "[public transit] is not an extra frill"

A bus headed to Shopko in Rothschild on Monday drives through the intersection of Scott and Third streets in downtown Wausau. / Dan Young/Daily Herald Media

City leaders seek mass transit tax | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com: "The local NAOMI bus task force, which has worked to expand mass transit in the metro area, supports the proposal.

“Transit isn’t a luxury, and it is not an extra frill; it’s a needed part of the community that impacts a tremendous amount of people,” said Jean Abreau, NAOMI chairwoman."

Urban Sprawl counties' growth leads to more traffic - and more crashes

Shaina loves Milwaukee: "The sprawl-building consortium have been lobbying for more expressways, more off-ramps, and wider roads for over 70 years now and the taxpayers have been blindly subsidizing their profits through their taxes. Don't like taxes? Look to your built environment and tell me if the big box retail, ruined city centers, and empty storefronts of "main street USA" make sprawl it all worthwile."

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How Weston, Wisconsin saved its buses

Truthdig: "Hanley pointed proudly to the union’s outreach to community and church groups to save bus service last year in Weston, Wis., a town of 15,000. Weston’s Village Council, as part of austerity cuts, had voted to eliminate local bus service. A broad coalition of groups organized to get an advisory vote put on the ballot to block the council’s decision. It was the same ballot on which Gov. Scott Walker, a foe of organized labor and a proponent of the austerity cuts, faced recall. Walker won his fight in the state and in Weston to stay in office. But about 65 percent of those who went to the polls in Weston, many of whom voted not to recall Walker, voted to protect their bus service."

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