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A quick guide to Milwaukee's best beaches Here is a quick guide to some of Milwaukee County's best beaches, so you can soak them up enough to last the whole year round. |
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Ballet Beautiful After two weeks of teeth-gritting exercise courtesy of Mary Helen Bowers' "Ballet Beautiful" DVDs, I now see that ballet dancers are warriors on pointe. |
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Memorial Day weekend weather forecast We have had our share of warm Memorial Day weekends. This year's won't be one of them. |
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State Fair unveils new food competition Are you ready for the Wisconsin State Fair's newest food competition? Introducing ... the Sporkies! |
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Tornadoes are terrifying It seems like every week, sometimes more than once, we're grieving something awful. |
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Kramp will rhyme for cash When Jack and Nick Packard, the creative team behind FunnyOrDie.com's "Bowling Trick Shots" videos contacted me and wanted to film something fun I was a bit hesitant. After some convincing to get me in front of the camera we headed out and filmed some creative ideas. |
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Rediscover Milwaukee neighborhoods with GeoTour Don't be scared away by the high-tech sounding name. Geocaching is just one big scavenger hunt, and it's easy enough for all ages to partake. Already attracting more than 5 million participants around the world, this treasure-hunt meets hide-and-go-seek pastime just got more interesting and more accessible for Milwaukeeans. |
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Rise in transit tides lifts all boats Everyone wants to be able to get around a city easily. It's simple in stuff. Cities need bike lanes, roads, side walks, taxis, rail, trolleys, busses and other forms of transit to move people from here to there. |
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What I miss the most I have been kind of out of commission for more than 40 days with a health difficulty and it's been a real long haul. I think I'm in the final couple of weeks before I get to go home, but lately I've been thinking a lot about what things I miss the most. |
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Kramp for sale My name is Brian Kramp. Here's the real story. This is first installment of The Kramp Cast. Listen each week as I bring quality broadcasting back to your ears in a weekly podcast. |
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How does Friday look? Today's weather is ... pretty bad. But is it worse than it was on May 10, 1990? |
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Sun and warm temperatures ahead Gorgeous weather continues Tuesday and Wednesday. Expect lots of sun, light winds, temps above normal (normal is mid 60s) and rain likely Thursday along with the start of a cooling trend. |
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We're in for some real spring weather It will be picture-perfect spring weather for the first few days this week, with a threat for rain coming late on Wednesday night and Thursday, then again on Saturday. |
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The era of manufactured bigotry As I said weeks ago, I fully support gay rights. To me, there is no sensible reason to deny someone happiness, regardless of sexual preference. However, that is my personal opinion. I am entitled to it, but it isn't more or less valuable than the opinion of anyone else. I accept that people may have social views that differ from my own, and I appreciate their right to have these views. |
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Chilly Friday will give way to spring weekend Indications which once pointed to a rainy weekend in Milwaukee have lately been trending the other way. Rain on Friday will gradually end Friday night. Saturday's threat for rain is rather low Sunday looks to be rain-free. |
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More Zipcars boost Milwauk-ability As we speak, on the tip of the triangle at North Avenue and Ivanhoe Place, in front of Hooligan's, Mayor Tom Barrett, Ald. Nik Kovac and Jim Plaisted, of the East Side Business Improvement District, are announcing a new partnership with Zipcar that will put a Zipcar station in the parking lot behind the U.S. Bank on Farwell and North. |
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I vote for AnnieCare I am one of those people who are interested in health care issues and all the arguments about what kind of health care we should have in this country. Farmer/Physicians Blue This and Green That. Let's even forget Obamacare, although I kind of like that one. I vote for AnnieCare. |
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Rollercoaster ride of assessments upsets my stomach Living in the City of Milwaukee has provided a rollercoaster ride of assessments since I bought my house a decade ago. You've likely experienced the same. On Saturday, we got our new assessment and found it had dropped another 8 percent and our home is now assessed at less than we paid 10 years ago. That's depressing. |
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Get naked at the Korean spa I took part in a beauty ritual of the Korean Day Space in Oahu before a red-eye home. The experience not only beautified my outside, but did something powerful to my self-awareness and self-esteem, too. And did I mention I was completely naked the entire time? |
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Will it be 80 degrees tomorrow? Following highs near 70 Monday, we'll threaten 80 Tuesday, says Craig Koplien. |
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Twitter is just a tool My students who read this post are going to laugh because I had a soapbox moment about this in class last week. Here is my current media "thing": Twitter is a tool used by human beings. It can be used for both good and evil. It can be used with skill and finesse or with ineptitude and incompetence. My concern is that many of us seem to lose our common sense when it comes to evaluating the difference on the social media site. |
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Don't let landmarks distract you from the city's subtler beauty For a long time I often found myself looking down when walking. Now, I'm always looking up - have you ever noticed just how many lovely cornices there are in this town? - or all around me. And it's paid off. In focusing on the places widely accepted as local landmarks, I've often looked right past examples of equally stunning beauty. |
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NYC mixologist and UW grad talks drinks, style James Beard Award winner/author/mixologist Jim Meehan of PDT in New York has opinions on Milwaukee. The UW-Madison grad is also a fan of denim and Japanese fashion. We caught up with Meehan for our style blog. |
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Milwaukeeans experienced the horrors of the marathon explosions When Milwaukee's Amy O'Neill got a text from her dear friend and former Milwaukeean Deanne Wecker at 1:53 Central Time that said "Amy a bomb went off" she immediately knew something went horribly wrong at the Boston Marathon. |
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Tragic. Maddening. Crushing. Inexplicable. I'm probably not the only person out there with an uncomfortable sense of deja vu right now. The city is different, and so is the death toll, but the last time I sat up when I should be sleeping, glued to CNN listening to reporters saying the same thing over looped video tape, it was Sept. 11, 2001.
Tagged with: Boston Marathon parenting
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