RACINE POST 2008

FELNER WATCH: FOI request brings stack of grievance reports Another ozone alert here National peace march stopping in Racine Thursday| New website launched to celebrate Wisconsin| Analyst sees strong future for CNH stock | Racine woman WINS rain garden | Raiders win season opener, 41-8 | The Redemption of John Sustachek: A tale from Racine's drinking culture | Bizarro World: Vos, McReynolds oppose cuts in state spending

First two 'Quilts on Barns' coming soon

Sturtevant OKs massive indoor soccer complex

L A T E S T N E W S
Unified interviewing superintendent finalist today | St. Cat's Angelfish team wins Dragon Boat races Thompson won't talk trade | Racine's Obama HQ to open July 16, on Sixth Street Racine Post creates new Web site for Racine obituaries Q U O T E O F T H E D A Y Racine wants good public schools and that is not unusual. People value schools. They value children. --Dr. James Shaw, Unified's latest superintendent finalist. H A I K U O F T H E D A Y Attracting tourists: Can it be as easy as Putting quilts on barns! Your turn! Write a haiku here! JULY 14 County Dems to discuss election plans 17-19 Peace March will pause in Racine 18 Zoovies presents E.T. 18-27 Sondheim's Side by Side at RTG 19 Singer/guitarist, 13, at JavaVino 19 Photogs host 'Name the location' contest 19 16 galleries open for Gallery Night 22 Smoke-free celebration at Shillings 24 Le Tour de Racine cycle races 25 Body Language: Rebecca Venn exhibits 25 OOHP offers witty summer bonus plan 26 Micro Cars coming Downtown 30 Bariatric surgery seminar at All Saints Music and More Thursday concert schedule Summer Storytimes at the Library RSO Summer Pops schedule Racine Raiders home games Free movies in city parks this summer Bookmobile's summer schedule Music on the Monument line-up Animal Crackers' schedule Theatre Guild's '08-'09 schedule Submit your community events to racinekiosk@gmail.com This Madonna will come home with you A B O U T U S - RacinePost exclusive story - Independent media - Racine Kiosk event SEND TIPS TO Dustin or Pete Get RacinePost via Twitter RacinePost on the radio: HERE Oh say can you C.C.? Brewers deal for Cy Young winner A hard night for the Raiders DRAMA KING: FAVRE THINKING ABOUT PLAYING ANOTHER SEASON Raiders open in championship form Racine Threat fall to Rock County Packers profits plunge to mere $21 million 1947 Racine Belles All-Star team... Tony Romo split with Simpson over her father Interview with Racine's ultimate fighter Nick Agallar Craig Leipold sells Minnesota Swarm lacrosse team MSU, Illini go after Horlick's Jamil Wilson P R O P E R T Y T R A N S F E R S CLICK for our growing archive of Racine County Property Transfers

Project superintendent named for new SC Johnson building Lee Enterprises' second-largest investor bails | Sun, sand, cold beer and bikinis ... life is good! UW-P's Felner search chair faces discipline for blowing off class | Arts funding gets short shrift; want to change that? Is this Unified's next superintendent? Best local gas prices HERE

State gives us $865,193 to maintain Downtown's bridges Supreme Court: Racine cops illegally searched home Commuter's lament: I Got the Hiawatha-to-Chicago Blues July 4 fireworks pictures | And VIDEO of the grand finale! FourthFest Parade: Outstanding! Slide show HERE Our under-funded public library Who's the fattest of them all? Not us, fellow Cheeseheads! Mount Pleasant, Sturtevant merging fire departments, rescue service Theatre Guild sets trip to Chicago for 'Dirty Dancing' United Way coordinates flood donations Now Caledonia wants to secede from Racine's 4th of July parade? Career Industries collects items for soldiers in Iraq Racine's float builder for 33 years Racine gains 6th sister city Court rules against social workers union; County Exec. pleased It's none of my business, but... | UPDATED Sell one, knock down another: Nonprofit transforms neighborhood How you can help flood victims | United Way helping out Lighthouse Run draws thousands | Some unexpected runners OOPAH! (Greek Fest to you) Civil War cannons went BOOM! Hot Rods returning in 2009 Big art transforms Uptown | More Pix On the dry side... or under water? Photos Feingold loses fight against FISA... | Kohl, Obama vote for it Vos makes it official Doc Thomas not running for Congress; hopes to run again someday Saving energy, opposing gouging: Who's not for that? (Guess!) No surprise: Ryan seeking 6th term $555 hotels, $80 dinners: State pays big when Commerce Sec. travels Mason puffs up his feathers with $64K; Krupp breaks $100K Last two states pass Great Lakes Compact; now it goes to Congress John Mogk: The candidate as sommelier FEINGOLD'S FILIBUSTER: Fight for privacy delays FISA spy bill passage Michigan OKs Great Lakes Compact; one state to go LATEST WISCONSIN POLL: Obama, 52%; McCain, 39% FEINGOLD ON FISA: 'No one should be fooled by this bill...' | VIDEO Ryan, Feingold on opposite sides as Congress OKs FISA bill Modine raises parts prices 15% Your electric bill just went up... | ...natural gas is next Steve and Barry's files Chap. 11 bankruptcy Landlords protest mandatory inspections of rental properties Russ Weyers to head WI Bankers Assn. 14 businesses cited for sale of cigarettes to minors CNH tractor factory here flourishing Lenny Kravitz! Soon at a Kohl's near you! Short layoffs set at CNH plants in Italy The rich are different from you and me SCJ's commuters hop aboard KRM bandwagon Journal Sentinel cutting 130 employees Why you can feel good about SCJ products SCJ buys New Zealand bug spray maker MODINE: One plant closes, another doubles its workforce Modine wins 'Friend of Tourism' award SC Johnson backs cutting state's greenhouse gas emissions |Catches heat for going green PROPERTY TRANSFERS: Total 24 sells for $1.2 million CNH: Hikes prices... | Alarm bells at dealer network... | Joins mission to Iraq | Stock falls 10%... Your incredibly shrinking 401k | The LEE roller coaster continues Store closure talk at Starbucks, Steve and Barry's Provost at UW-Oshkosh is Parkside's interim chancellor 21st Century Prep's library named in Jack Keating's honor Web site launched for new Caledonia school district Unified implements 4-day work week to save energy Caledonia school district secession effort continues The FELNER Chronicles That $694,000 grant was for us? Grant money went to fake company? VIDEO Grant monitoring ignored -- VIDEO The Grievance King Feds widen probe He was crime victim, too UW System finger-pointing Troubles began in '80s at C-U Retaliated against critics Try this, Unified and UW-P! THE NEVERENDING STORY Withdraws before taking office Jack Parker to head Unified through September (maybe longer) 9-year-old student driven to bus driver's home; driver fired Breaking up is hard to do (and costly), Caledonia told Unified's test scores show... what exactly? 500 students (and $3 million) leave Unified through open enrollment Unified hints at its next referendum

`L A T E S T N E W S` `Unified interviewing superintendent finalist today \| St. Cat's Angelfish team wins Dragon Boat races Thompson won't talk trade \| Racine's Obama HQ to open July 16, on Sixth Street Racine Post creates new Web site for Racine obituaries`		Q U O T E O F T H E D A Y Racine wants good public schools and that is not unusual. People value schools. They value children. --Dr. James Shaw, Unified's latest superintendent finalist. H A I K U O F T H E D A Y Attracting tourists: Can it be as easy as Putting quilts on barns! Your turn! Write a haiku here! JULY 14 County Dems to discuss election plans 17-19 Peace March will pause in Racine 18 Zoovies presents E.T. 18-27 Sondheim's Side by Side at RTG 19 Singer/guitarist, 13, at JavaVino 19 Photogs host 'Name the location' contest 19 16 galleries open for Gallery Night 22 Smoke-free celebration at Shillings 24 Le Tour de Racine cycle races 25 Body Language: Rebecca Venn exhibits 25 OOHP offers witty summer bonus plan 26 Micro Cars coming Downtown 30 Bariatric surgery seminar at All Saints Music and More Thursday concert schedule Summer Storytimes at the Library RSO Summer Pops schedule Racine Raiders home games Free movies in city parks this summer Bookmobile's summer schedule Music on the Monument line-up Animal Crackers' schedule Theatre Guild's '08-'09 schedule Submit your community events to racinekiosk@gmail.com This Madonna will come home with you A B O U T U S - RacinePost exclusive story - Independent media - Racine Kiosk event SEND TIPS TO Dustin or Pete Get RacinePost via Twitter RacinePost on the radio: HERE Oh say can you C.C.? Brewers deal for Cy Young winner A hard night for the Raiders DRAMA KING: FAVRE THINKING ABOUT PLAYING ANOTHER SEASON Raiders open in championship form Racine Threat fall to Rock County Packers profits plunge to mere $21 million 1947 Racine Belles All-Star team... Tony Romo split with Simpson over her father Interview with Racine's ultimate fighter Nick Agallar Craig Leipold sells Minnesota Swarm lacrosse team MSU, Illini go after Horlick's Jamil Wilson P R O P E R T Y T R A N S F E R S CLICK for our growing archive of Racine County Property Transfers
`Project superintendent named for new SC Johnson building Lee Enterprises' second-largest investor bails \| Sun, sand, cold beer and bikinis ... life is good! UW-P's Felner search chair faces discipline for blowing off class \| Arts funding gets short shrift; want to change that?`	`Is this Unified's next superintendent? Best local gas prices HERE`

State gives us $865,193 to maintain Downtown's bridges Supreme Court: Racine cops illegally searched home Commuter's lament: I Got the Hiawatha-to-Chicago Blues July 4 fireworks pictures \| And VIDEO of the grand finale! FourthFest Parade: Outstanding! Slide show HERE Our under-funded public library Who's the fattest of them all? Not us, fellow Cheeseheads! Mount Pleasant, Sturtevant merging fire departments, rescue service Theatre Guild sets trip to Chicago for 'Dirty Dancing' United Way coordinates flood donations Now Caledonia wants to secede from Racine's 4th of July parade? Career Industries collects items for soldiers in Iraq Racine's float builder for 33 years Racine gains 6th sister city Court rules against social workers union; County Exec. pleased It's none of my business, but... \| UPDATED Sell one, knock down another: Nonprofit transforms neighborhood How you can help flood victims \| United Way helping out Lighthouse Run draws thousands \| Some unexpected runners OOPAH! (Greek Fest to you) Civil War cannons went BOOM! Hot Rods returning in 2009 Big art transforms Uptown \| More Pix On the dry side... or under water? Photos Feingold loses fight against FISA... \| Kohl, Obama vote for it Vos makes it official Doc Thomas not running for Congress; hopes to run again someday Saving energy, opposing gouging: Who's not for that? (Guess!) No surprise: Ryan seeking 6th term $555 hotels, $80 dinners: State pays big when Commerce Sec. travels Mason puffs up his feathers with $64K; Krupp breaks $100K Last two states pass Great Lakes Compact; now it goes to Congress John Mogk: The candidate as sommelier FEINGOLD'S FILIBUSTER: Fight for privacy delays FISA spy bill passage Michigan OKs Great Lakes Compact; one state to go LATEST WISCONSIN POLL: Obama, 52%; McCain, 39% FEINGOLD ON FISA: 'No one should be fooled by this bill...' \| VIDEO Ryan, Feingold on opposite sides as Congress OKs FISA bill	Modine raises parts prices 15% Your electric bill just went up... \| ...natural gas is next Steve and Barry's files Chap. 11 bankruptcy Landlords protest mandatory inspections of rental properties Russ Weyers to head WI Bankers Assn. 14 businesses cited for sale of cigarettes to minors CNH tractor factory here flourishing Lenny Kravitz! Soon at a Kohl's near you! Short layoffs set at CNH plants in Italy The rich are different from you and me SCJ's commuters hop aboard KRM bandwagon Journal Sentinel cutting 130 employees Why you can feel good about SCJ products SCJ buys New Zealand bug spray maker MODINE: One plant closes, another doubles its workforce Modine wins 'Friend of Tourism' award SC Johnson backs cutting state's greenhouse gas emissions \|Catches heat for going green PROPERTY TRANSFERS: Total 24 sells for $1.2 million CNH: Hikes prices... \| Alarm bells at dealer network... \| Joins mission to Iraq \| Stock falls 10%... Your incredibly shrinking 401k \| The LEE roller coaster continues Store closure talk at Starbucks, Steve and Barry's Provost at UW-Oshkosh is Parkside's interim chancellor 21st Century Prep's library named in Jack Keating's honor Web site launched for new Caledonia school district Unified implements 4-day work week to save energy Caledonia school district secession effort continues The FELNER Chronicles That $694,000 grant was for us? Grant money went to fake company? VIDEO Grant monitoring ignored -- VIDEO The Grievance King Feds widen probe He was crime victim, too UW System finger-pointing Troubles began in '80s at C-U Retaliated against critics Try this, Unified and UW-P! THE NEVERENDING STORY Withdraws before taking office Jack Parker to head Unified through September (maybe longer) 9-year-old student driven to bus driver's home; driver fired Breaking up is hard to do (and costly), Caledonia told Unified's test scores show... what exactly? 500 students (and $3 million) leave Unified through open enrollment Unified hints at its next referendum