I attended a Milwaukee Bucks game for the first time in a number of years on Saturday night. I found out that the NBA no longer stands for just the National Basketball Association anymore. In fact, it is more like Noise Blasting Always. The game is now a near constant sonic assault from the…… MORE
WOSH eClub Membership
Christmas in Oshkosh with WOSH! Russian Grand Ballet presents The Nutcracker Before there was Toy Story, there was The Nutcracker. Masha, one of ballet’s pluckiest heroines, journeys to a land where toys come to life. The Nutcracker, based on a fairy tale by Hoffman isn’t just for Christmas. Tchaikovsky’s lustrous music and the magnificent choreography…… MORE
The Unpersons
When I was a kid, George Orwell’s novel 1984 was a work of fiction about a dystopian future. Little did I know that during my lifetime it would morph into more of a non-fiction blueprint for modern society. We have a form of Big Brother–as security cameras, facial recognition software, internal body scanners and electronic devices…… MORE
A Threat to the Constitution
It didn’t receive a lot of hype this week, but the Wisconsin Legislature has approved the most-dangerous bill ever. I’m not talking about the measure that would allow a child of any age to carry a gun while hunting with an adult. Instead I refer to the call for a Constitutional Convention. Wisconsin became…… MORE
Just Be Consistent
I’ve already made peace with the fact that the Oshkosh Common Council will vote tonight to formally offer to sell Lakeshore Golf Course to the Oshkosh Corporation for their new world headquarters. But what I want to see tonight is some consistency from Councillors in their messages as they explain their votes. Councilmember Jake Krause…… MORE
Just One Year to Go!
It will be nice to head to the polls today and put another campaign season behind us. I was growing tired of the ads telling us how much Senator Tammy Baldwin has raised our taxes alternating with those telling us about how she is fighting to preserve our healthcare, mixed in with ads for the…… MORE
Our Own Little Foxconn
The Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation and the Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce might want to order more of those “We Support the Oshkosh Corporation” yard signs–because if the company does accept the City’s offer to sell the Lakeshore Golf Course as proposed, all of us will literally be supporting the Oshkosh Corporation. The first…… MORE
It’s Not Just For the Rich
Now that the Republican Tax Reform Plan is out there for everyone to see, the attacks are coming from every direction. The main talking point is that “the middle class is not going to see any relief”. Well I am here to tell you that I will be one of the middle class that will…… MORE
We Are Becoming the Prisoners
Ben Franklin once wrote: Those that would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Those words come to mind every time we have a terror attack of some sort and “TV experts” start listing all of the security measures we should take to prevent the same thing…… MORE
Not A Whole Lotta Planning Going On
I have to give credit to the Oshkosh Common Council for knowing how to build drama, they made us sit through two full days of lengthy budget review before getting to the issue of Lakeshore Golf Course. Lakeshore was literally the last budget item discussed on Tuesday afternoon–and it was actually kind of a sad…… MORE
