RACINE POST 2008

Q U O T E O F T H E D A Y

Except where essential for public safety or where required to meet the needs of our vulnerable populations, we will not fill vacancies for the remainder of 2008. --Racine County Exec. Bill McReynolds, announcing a county hiring freeze. H A I K U O F T H E D A Y POLITICS AS USUAL? City employee Fired. Accuses. Rumors. Nasty plot thickens. Your turn! Write a haiku here! JULY 18-27 Sondheim's Side by Side at RTG 22 Smoke-free celebration at Shillings 23 Brubeck Brothers at Animal Crackers 24 Library storytellers go 'buggy' 24 Le Tour de Racine cycle races 25 Gocks take over TeenSpace at library 25 Brian Daniels at the Monument 25 Body Language: Rebecca Venn exhibits 25 OOHP offers witty summer bonus play 26 Reenactment at library 26 Ribbon-cutting at new Uncorkt 26 Micro Cars coming Downtown 30 Bariatric surgery seminar at All Saints 31 Miss Spider's Tea Party at library AUGUST 1 Mean Jake at the Monument 1 Lots of music downtown on First Friday 1 RSO to perform 'Happy Feet' dance music 3 Starving Artist Fair on Main Street 4 Feingold to listen in Kenosha 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 We have a winner: Luke Bell, in 3:49.58. Defending champ is 3rd. Thousands compete in Spirit of Racine | RESULTS HERE Racine's Matt Lojeski playing for Bucks NBA summer team| St. Cat's Angelfish team wins Dragon Boat races | More pics HERE Raiders win season opener, 41-8 | 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

`L A T E S T N E W S` `River Walk proposed for Downtown Racine New Delhi factory turns out its 100,000th CNH tractor Milwaukee to vote on requiring employers to provide sick pay\| Jessica Simpson attempts country crossover ... in Kenosha \| 'My name is Wisconsin, and I'm addicted to gambling' You can't get there on Midwest anymore... State running low on funds for jobless Community to meet Unified Supt. finalist Wisconsin banks safe, say experts \| Racine Post creates site for Racine obituaries`		Q U O T E O F T H E D A Y Except where essential for public safety or where required to meet the needs of our vulnerable populations, we will not fill vacancies for the remainder of 2008. --Racine County Exec. Bill McReynolds, announcing a county hiring freeze. H A I K U O F T H E D A Y POLITICS AS USUAL? City employee Fired. Accuses. Rumors. Nasty plot thickens. Your turn! Write a haiku here! JULY 18-27 Sondheim's Side by Side at RTG 22 Smoke-free celebration at Shillings 23 Brubeck Brothers at Animal Crackers 24 Library storytellers go 'buggy' 24 Le Tour de Racine cycle races 25 Gocks take over TeenSpace at library 25 Brian Daniels at the Monument 25 Body Language: Rebecca Venn exhibits 25 OOHP offers witty summer bonus play 26 Reenactment at library 26 Ribbon-cutting at new Uncorkt 26 Micro Cars coming Downtown 30 Bariatric surgery seminar at All Saints 31 Miss Spider's Tea Party at library AUGUST 1 Mean Jake at the Monument 1 Lots of music downtown on First Friday 1 RSO to perform 'Happy Feet' dance music 3 Starving Artist Fair on Main Street 4 Feingold to listen in Kenosha 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 We have a winner: Luke Bell, in 3:49.58. Defending champ is 3rd. Thousands compete in Spirit of Racine \| RESULTS HERE Racine's Matt Lojeski playing for Bucks NBA summer team\| St. Cat's Angelfish team wins Dragon Boat races \| More pics HERE Raiders win season opener, 41-8 \| 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
`Some flood victims still out of their homes Here comes the County Fair! Opens Wednesday ... Spain may charge former Nazi who lived in Caledonia Starbucks spares Racine coffeeholics... and we have a BONUS for you! State tax revenue doing fine, thanks`	`Is this Unified's next superintendent? Best local gas prices HERE`

State Job Service cuts here cancelled Sturtevant OKs indoor soccer complex First two 'Quilts on Barns' coming soon Sun, sand, cold beer and bikinis ... life is good! River City Racine: Plan lays out future of the Root River\| Caledonia restricts where sexual predators may live\| City cracks down on garage sales\| Racine native's world climbing tour continues in Peru Racine woman WINS rain garden \| The Redemption of John Sustachek: A tale from Racine's drinking culture \| 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 Optimism reigns, as Dems open Obama HQ Say goodbye to Commerce Sec. who stayed in $555 hotel Garin gets top spot on ballot; Hebert survives challenge\| Mogk schedules listening sessions\| Vos, McReynolds oppose spending cuts \| Ryan, Feingold, Kohl together at last! All vote to override Bush Medicare veto 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	Door-to-door magazine sales: The ugly backstory SCJ encourages laparoscopic surgery The incredible shrinking Wisconsin State Journal Maple Leaf Farm auctioning its acreage Project superintendent named for new SC Johnson building Lee Enterprises' second-largest investor bails \| You want a latte or a share of LEE? Under $3 for the first time ever M&I reports 2Q loss of $393 million\| Kenosha kids festival flops, files for bankruptcy\| Janesville GM: Earlier closure,10 more weeks of layoffs in 2008 Analyst sees strong future for CNH stock \| 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 UW-P's Felner search chair faces discipline for blowing off class \| 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 UofL president raps 'anonymous crap' FOI brings stack of grievances 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