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petsincollections · 1 year

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Kiki, the Pet Crow

Michelle Miller smiling at Kiki, her family's pet crow, as he perches on her arm.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 18 days

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Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill Monday that would have eliminated work permits for the state's youngest employees, which he said would prevent children from being "taken advantage of."

Evers vetoed the bill at the Wisconsin State Council of Machinists Conference on Monday at a Capitol Square hotel alongside members of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO.

"Growing up, it shouldn't be worrying about getting injured on the job, or receiving a fair wage for their work, or being taken advantage of," Evers said shortly before the signing. "It's time that Republicans get real about the real pressing challenges, and I've put them on notice."

The bill would effectively eliminate work permits for 14- and 15-year olds in Wisconsin, as state law changed in 2017 to remove the requirement for 16- and 17-year-olds. That law also replaced references of "child labor" in state statutes to the "employment of minors."

"Parents should have the right to deal with this issue," Evers said as he vetoed the legislation. "(The bill) sends a message that 14- and 15-year-olds can do anything, they can go into the most dangerous places without any OK. And that is just absolutely wrong."

Sen. Cory Tomczyk, R-Mosinee, Rep. Clint Moses, R-Menomonie and Rep. Amy Binsfeld, R-Sheboygan, who introduced the bill last year, said that it would remove needless administrative barriers that slow down the hiring process.

Currently, work permits are required for 14- and 15-year-olds, unless they work in the agriculture or domestic service sectors. Parents or guardians must apply for their child's work permit, and the $10 fee is reimbursed by employers.

The bill would have also eliminated street trade permits for the age group, which are needed to deliver newspapers or sell products door-to-door, for example. Those permits don't apply when fundraising for nonprofits or schools.

DWD issues about 35,000 work permits for minors each year.

Opponents of the bill argued that removing the permit system would take away the method of informing employers about child labor laws and the Department of Workforce Development's system for collecting data to guide efforts to reduce violations, which would be suspended without funding to cover the agency's $169,000 increase in costs.

"The bill is anticipated to reduce education and outreach interactions with employers, employees and their guardians, which would increase the number of (Equal Rights Division) investigations," the department wrote in testimony during a hearing on the bill late last year.

Child labor violations tracked by the federal government have spiked nationally, including investigations tied to Wisconsin.

A federal investigation into a 16-year-old boy's death at a Florence sawmill this summer found the company employed children as young as 14 to illegally operate machinery and work outside of permitted hours. Three children, ages 15 to 16, were injured at the mill in the last two years. The company paid about $191,000 in fines.

And a Wisconsin-based food safety sanitation company paid $1.5 million in fines earlier this year for illegally employing more than 100 children in eight states, following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.

Evers has vetoed similar bills before.

Labor groups like the Wisconsin AFL-CIO opposed that effort, arguing permits protect young workers from exploitation and give parents a say in their child's employment.

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mejakeme · 3 months

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subsidystadium · 1 year

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Milwaukee Brewers continue ballpark upgrades push, not moving very fast

For the last few months, the Brewers have been begging city/state leaders to give them money for so-called ballpark upgrades. Last month, the Governor of Wisconsin proposed giving the Brewers almost $300 million in public money in exchange for an additional 13 years being added to the lease. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote a good story detailing how this proposal really meant that taxpayers…

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week Our Top 5 stories of the week from Maurice Chammah, Benoît Morenne, Amanda Gefter, Jane Miller, and Cheryl Katz and our first-ever audience award. https://longreads.com/2023/03/10/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-456-2/

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beardedmrbean · 6 months

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A conservative Wisconsin newspaper publisher is no doubt hoisting a cold one to a local jury that has ordered a brewery-owning liberal activist to pay $750,000 in the state's largest defamation judgment.

The previous record for a libel suit in Wisconsin was $450,000, said James Friedman, the attorney for the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.

On Friday, an Oneida County jury took only three hours — including a lunch break — to order Minocqua Brewing Co. owner Kirk Bangstad to pay $750,000 for defaming Lakeland Times publisher Gregg Walker in posts on the brewery's popular social media outlets.

Among other things, the 13-member jury found Bangstad had smeared Walker by calling him a "crook" and a "misogynist."

Bangstad, who operates a federal super PAC, also was found to have defamed Walker by claiming in a Facebook post that he had engaged in elder abuse and committed other crimes against family members so that he could inherit the newspaper business.

Under the jury verdict, Bangstad and his brewery are to pay $320,000 in compensatory damages, and Bangstad is to pay $430,000 in punitive damages out of his own pocket for his Facebook post about crimes against family members. The jury concluded Bangstad acted with "malice" with that Aug. 22, 2022, post.

Bangstad, who ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the Wisconsin Assembly in 2020, declined to discuss the case. The Lakeland Times' editorial page is conservative.

"I'll talk to the Journal Sentinel, but I would prefer not to talk to you," Bangstad told columnist Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, part of the USA TODAY Network. Bangstad's super PAC recently asked state Supreme Court's new liberal majority to eliminate funding for the state's four taxpayer-funded school voucher programs and independent charter schools.

Minocqua Brewing owner Bangstad vows to appeal verdict

On Facebook, he said he would appeal the jury verdicts.

"I have to trust that Wisconsin’s Judicial System — its appellate system in particular — will ultimately be 'just' in this case," Bangstad wrote. "I have to believe this because I still believe in America, Wisconsin, and our institutions."

"And years ago, before Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News, our institutions, because they were strong and trusted by our citizens, were the envy of the world."

On Friday, he put it more bluntly, attacking Oneida County Circuit Judge Leon Stenz: "The long and the short of it is this Oneida County judge had it in for us."

Matthew Fernholz, the attorney for Walker, said he was pleased with the jury's conclusions.

"We feel like it was a solid jury verdict," Fernolz said. "It should be upheld."

Friedman, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association lawyer, said at least two cases have logged $450,000 awards, the previous record for the state, including a 1992 case against the Milwaukee Sentinel and a more recent one over a book claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting never happened.

"I'm quite certain there's never been like a million-dollar verdict in Wisconsin in a defamation case," said Friedman, an attorney at Godfrey & Kahn. "So I think this is the biggest one now."

What's interesting about the case — in addition to the amount of the jury verdict — is the role of the newspaper in the case.

Usually, a paper is the target of a libel suit, not the one bringing it.

"I'm not recalling a newspaper or news outlets suing someone for defamation," said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, an associate journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Nothing is leaping to my mind."

Minocqua Brewing known for 'Progressive Beer' like 'Bernie Brew'

Bangstad has drawn attention for his outspoken political stances, hanging a giant "Biden/Harris" sign outside the brewery and battling with local government bodies.

He started selling "Progressive Beer" with names like "Bernie Brew" and "Fair Maps" in 2020, and he launched the Minocqua Brewing Co. SuperPAC in 2021.

The PAC has funded a lawsuit against the Waukesha School District for removing COVID precautions and another alleging three Wisconsin Republicans conspired to keep Democrat Joe Biden from becoming president.

Walker and Lakeland Printing Co. brought the defamation case against Bangstad and Minocqua Brewing in May 2021 after Walker became a frequent target of Bangstad on his popular social media outlets, where he often posts about Wisconsin politics.

Minocqua Brewing has 82,000 followers on Facebook. Bangstad soon started raising money off the litigation.

In its verdict, the jury found Bangstad and his brewery owed $40,000 for calling Walker a "crook," and $40,000 for calling him a "misogynist." The jury said Walker deserved $200,000 in compensatory damages for the post about his family and $430,000 in punitive damages.

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cryptid-quest · 2 years

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Cryptid of the Day: Wisconsin Bigfoot

Description: According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, a man in Clark County, Wisconsin encountered an 8ft humanlike creature covered in dark gray fur, and oddly, was carrying a goat. The man sped away and reported it to the Sheriff’s Department.

#cryptids #Cryptid #cryptozoology #cryptid of the day #wisconsin bigfoot

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sjack959 · 3 months

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The nearly full moon rises over Lake Michigan near the Summerfest grounds Mike De Sisti-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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stevebattle · 2 months

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iDog Dance (2008), Tiger Electronics and Hasbro. The iDog Dance is a larger version of the iDog that stands up on its hind legs and dances to the music.

"Using an included audio cable, you can connect your CD player, iPod or other music device to the i-Dog's rear leg, and he'll broadcast it far and loud, leaping on his hind legs, pumping his front paws, flopping his plastic ears and making a general spectacle of himself. In addition to seven LED lights in his face, the i-Dog has touch-sensitive controls there that let you change the volume, get him to dance, stand up, sit or stay. If he gets too saucy, you can quiet him down for a few minutes by pulling his tail. If you need more peace and quiet, holding the button on his nose for a few seconds shuts him down completely. The i-Dog also serves as a simple external speaker so everyone nearby can enjoy your music. It's in this role that the i-Dog truly shines, adding some energy and animation to your tunes." – Testing 1, 2, 3: I-dog dance from tiger electronics, Stanley A. Miller II, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on a Sunday morning news program that he is a "never-again-Trumper" and that Donald Trump is "unelectable."

Ryan, a Republican who represented Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District for 20 years, was Speaker of the House from 2015 to 2019. He told correspondent Jonathan Karl on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" in the wake of Trump's announced run that Republicans would lose if they backed Trump for president in 2024.

“We get past Trump, we start winning elections. We stick with Trump, we keep losing elections. That’s just how I see it," Ryan said.

Ryan said he was not a "Never Trumper," as he worked with Trump as Speaker on tax reform and other issues. But he believes Trump would lose the general election for presidency in 2024.

"I am a never-again-Trumper. Why? Because I want to win. And we lose with Trump. It was really clear to us in ’18, in ’20, and now in 2022," Ryan said.

Ryan said he thinks that Republican voters will "move on" and that Trump will not win the GOP nomination for president in 2024.

"I think we have a great stable of good, capable conservatives who are more than capable of winning this primary for the presidency and winning the (general) election, and I think Republican voters know that," Ryan said.

He pointed to recent midterm losses of Trump-backed candidates in Arizona, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire and said Republicans could have won if "we had a typical and traditional conservative Republican, not a Trump Republican."

Ryan, who said he is "definitely" not running for president in 2024, was interviewed by Karl as he promotes his new book, "American Renewal: A Conservative Plan to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Nation's Finances."

Ryan is part of a slate of Wisconsin Republicans who have come out in opposition to Trump in the wake of the Nov. 8 mid-term elections in which Republicans performed below expectations by failing to gain control of the U.S. Senate and winning back the House by only a thin margin. In an interview with WISN-TV, Ryan called Trump "kind of a drag on our ticket" and said he "gives us problems politically."

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mejakeme · 1 year

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saintmeghanmarkle · 5 months

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Arsewell's The Welcome Project shares its name with a decades-old Massachusetts non-profit. by u/KarenDelaneyWalker

Arsewell's The Welcome Project shares its name with a decades-old Massachusetts non-profit. Hank and the Drunken Emu tried to make a splash this week by announcing the launch of their newest attempt at distracting the world from their dumpster fire brand: The Welcome Project.According to the Arsewell website, "[they] launched The Welcome Project in 2023. [It] supports women-led programming for recently resettled Afghan women to help build more inclusive and connected communities. Currently, there are 11 active Welcome Projects across the U.S. 'designed to foster a sense of belonging' through activities including sewing, art, hiking, swimming, photography, storytelling and cooking."https://ift.tt/v0nQgXT Milwaukee, WI is one of the 11 cities. An article in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Arsewell's Welcome Project was inspired by a visit from Hank and the Drunken Emu to a joint military base in New Jersey, where they visited with displaced Afghan families. The visit was apparently two years ago."[The Drunken Emu] was reminded of how the Hubb Community Kitchen, a group near and dear to her, was created so women could gather to make meals after the Grenfell Tower fire... Inspired by their New Jersey visit, the Archewell Foundation began working with partners to help address the needs of families resettling in the U.S...""When they continuously heard of the 'intense social isolation' the women in these communities were facing, they wanted to find a way to combat that, too. Hence, The Welcome Project was born."The article lists the other 10 Welcome Project cities and the programming for the particular location: South Bend, IN (arts and crafts); Missoula, MT (swimming); Oakland, CA (arts and crafts); Orange County, CA (storytelling); San Antonio, TX (sewing); Washington D.C. (photography); Clarkston, GA (hiking); Lynn, MA (sewing); Sterling, VA (sewing); and Arlington, VA (cooking). Milwaukee's focus is sewing."By facilitating programming, the project 'also brings access to critical resources, educational opportunities, workforce development, employment, and entrepreneurship,' according to [Arsewell's impact] report."https://ift.tt/V2jyopF So far, so good, riiiight? Except... there already appears to be a non-profit organization called The Welcome Project based in Somerville, Massachusetts.https://ift.tt/yb7UVJM to its website, "Somerville's leading immigrant organization, The Welcome Project builds collective power amongst immigrants to participate and shape their community through programming that strengthens the capacity of immigrant youth, adults and families to advocate for themselves and influence schools, government, and other institutions. The Welcome Project builds immigrants' power through programming that strengthens their economic and educational capacity to participate in and shape their community for a better future.Our programming is designed to build the strength and resiliency of our students by increasing individuals confidence in speaking the English Language, engaging in community activism, and breaking down the barriers that have long plagued the immigrant community."https://ift.tt/Q7O3rCY ***************************************************************************************It doesn't appear that the two Welcome Projects have anything to do with one another.Coincidence? Bad luck? Or did the Lazy F*cking Grifters jack a non-profit's name and general idea to pass off as their own? post link: https://ift.tt/ayoz5gH author: KarenDelaneyWalker submitted: December 14, 2023 at 09:46PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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beardedmrbean · 7 months

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MADISON – About 3 1/2 hours into a Wednesday hearing that centered on high-profile investigations of Hunter Biden and former President Donald Trump, Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany posed a question to Attorney General Merrick Garland about a local June incident — to which Garland furrowed his brow in apparent confusion.

"There was a World Naked Bike Ride in Madison, Wisconsin, just a couple months ago," Tiffany said. "I sent you a letter two months ago, asking if you had a problem with that, because it exposed a 10-year-old girl, by the race organizers, to pedaling around Madison, Wisconsin, naked. Do you think that's a problem? And why did you not answer our letter from two months ago?"

Garland said he would ask the Office of Legislative Affairs to respond to Tiffany, who then asked if it typically takes two months to respond.

"It sounds like you're asking about a question about state and local law enforcement. We get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters," Garland said.

Tiffany ended the exchange: "State and local law enforcement would not act. We were hoping you would. It's obvious you are not."

Tiffany was referencing a letter he sent with Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald on July 14, which asked Garland to investigate a young girl's participation in a local World Naked Bike Ride event, which is also hosted in Milwaukee.

Both Tiffany and Fitzgerald's offices previously confirmed to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that they had not heard from DOJ after they requested a response by Aug. 26. DOJ did not respond to requests for comment on the letter and if the federal department was investigating the incident.

Local Madison police received multiple complaints about the girl's participation, including from a conservative Dane County supervisor, but the Dane County District Attorney determined her participation did not violate any state laws.

The state Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation also was never involved in investigating the incident, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

More: A young girl's participation in Madison's Naked Bike Ride didn't violate state law, police say. Here's why.

A spokeswoman for the Madison Police Department said Thursday there were no updates in the case. Police had planned to reexamine the case if more information became available and discuss internet safety with the girl and her mother if they were identified.

The police department's Special Victims Unit reviewed the photo depicting the girl's participation but determined Wisconsin's statutes on possession of child pornography did not apply because the photo was not sexual in nature. Police also determined a statute relating to exposing a child to harmful material or narrations did not apply.

But Tiffany and Fitzgerald disagreed with police, organizers and legal experts that because the purpose of the event was not sexual, local ordinances and state laws would likely not apply.

"The laissez-faire attitude of all parties, such as the organizer, the attendees, and the Wisconsin Attorney General, underscores the need for the federal government to intervene and act to protect our children from this perverse behavior," the lawmakers said in their letter.

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