No generation of Americans has had a more detrimental impact on our nation as the Baby Boomers. They are the reason school districts like Oshkosh have too many school buildings–with so many being built to handle their burgeoning numbers in the 50’s and ’60’s. They started American families on the path to so much student debt…… READ MORE
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My biggest pet peeve is being late. I hate when something happens that makes me late for something. I hate when other people show up late for appointments or events. And I really detest people who don’t care that they are late–as to me, it is the ultimate show of disrespect. Obviously, they think your…… READ MORE
The Next Lambeau Experience
If increasing ticket prices every year, raising parking rates, inflated concession prices, a share of the largest TV rights package on the planet, licensing of the name and logo, renting property to brewpubs, upscale hotels and sporting goods stores, and operating the most-successful team owned pro shop in the league isn’t enough to “keep the…… READ MORE
Show Me a Sign
For those of you who are fans of the diamond sports–baseball and softball–I hate to tell you that another traditional part of the game is going away. Joining wood bats, stirups, pine tar, and everybody that plays a position bats on the scrap heap of history will soon be signs. There is a new…… READ MORE
The Modern Way to Handle Things
Well United airlines has really stepped in the dog doo this time. The world of social media has been on fire the past 24-hours after video surfaced of a doctor being beaten by airport security and dragged from a United flight because he refused to give up his seat on an overbooked flight. The incident…… READ MORE
The TV Time Machine
Do you know who may be the most powerful and shrewd people in the world of sports? The men who serve on the Masters Television Committee. Somehow, these guys convince TV networks to broadcast their event is a way that has become unprecedented in the world of sports and media. There is nothing left that looks,…… READ MORE
Who’s Next?
When the US battled fascism in World War II we had to take that fight to a lot of countries all around the world. Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Burma, French Indochina, China, Japan and hundreds of small islands scattered throughout the South Pacific Ocean. Our…… READ MORE
It’s Never Enough
On Tuesday, voters in the Howard-Suamico School District rejected a referendum that would have given the school board an additional $4-MILLION a year over the state-mandated revenue cap FOREVER to cover recurring costs. As a graduate of Bay Port High School I kept an interested eye on those results this week. I have a couple of former classmates who…… READ MORE
Kicking the Cobblestoners to the Curb
I think it’s safe to say that the era of the “Cobblestoner” in Oshkosh is over. I can’t remember who exactly coined that term for those on the Common Council and the School Board that were opposed to increased spending every year. I know one of their opponents commented they would be happy if “we…… READ MORE
Where Have All the Problems Gone?
It’s another election day in Wisconsin–and you know what that means. Get ready to be inundated with stories of fraud at the polling places, disenfranchisement of the populace and deligitimization of the process. It’s time for another round of stories about the little old lady in a nursing home who doesn’t have a birth…… READ MORE
