Voice
by Dino Corvino on July 2nd, 2009 • 4 Comments »
I am blessed each and every day, and I fight with cynicism and sarcasm on each of those days. The City of Wausau has blessed me with an amazing life and a rich tapestry of friends and experience. Most days I feel like the luckiest little boy in the world to be living where I am, being around the people I am around, and doing the things I do. Never once do I not realize it. Often times, I hope you feel the same way.
Over the past year, I have been exploring ideas and politics in this town in a …
Community, Cynicism, Wausau
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by John H. Fischer on July 1st, 2009 • One Comment »
This Saturday, July Fourth, we will be celebrating the 233rd anniversary of “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” which is a term often used when describing the act of the 13 British colonies in North America declaring their independence from the Crown, located an ocean away.
As has been tradition for some time, we Americans have decided that the best way to celebrate a “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” is with shooting other things that make much noise to be heard – specifically fireworks.
Wausau has a great deal to offer for a community our size. Those …
Fireworks, Wausau
by Dino Corvino on June 26th, 2009 • 9 Comments »
1. The King of Pop and Farrah Fawcett passed away. Do the passing of folks like these, for lack of a better word — celebrities, affect you? Sadden you? In 2009 are there anymore heroes anymore? Or do we as a culture destroy this with some predatory need?
2. The heat was simply impressive, and the fact that it did not break into a massive storm boggled my mind. How did the heat affect you? As we look to the future, what societal changes can we make to ensure that these extremes in …
Friday Questions
by Brad Schjoth on June 23rd, 2009 • No Comments »
You would be hard-pressed to find a soul within the Wausau community who would prefer to see the area more clutter-filled, more polluted and more irresponsible when it comes to pressing environmental issues. Those folks simply do not exist, and if they did, their hand would certainly not be in the air. But while the whole of the community, and the globe for that matter, can easily concede that we ought to strive to take better care of our planet, making that happen is exponentially more difficult than it would seem it should be.
Attempting to turn that mindset into a …
Commission for a Greener Tomorrow, Sustainability, Wausau
by Katie Smogoleski on June 22nd, 2009 • No Comments »
[Editor’s Note: We love summer reading lists. Katie, an amazingly powerful reader, took on the first one, so we now go to you to send us your reading list for this summer. Work, play, or whatever. We want to know what you are reading, or planning to read.]
Every summer, I look forward to Farmers Markets, concerts on the square, Sunday afternoons at the splash pad and lazy nights spent reading in the hammock. I love my kids dearly, but 8 pm is that magical time when they’re both in bed for the night, and I have a half an hour or …
Books, Summer
by Brad Schjoth on June 18th, 2009 • 3 Comments »
The column I intend to present here is one that is observationally critical and one that displays an opinion about the community that is Wausau, Wisconsin, but to do both in a way that is not overly pessimistic toward what I feel can be a great city. As a 19-year-old headed into my second year of college, whose interests include film, live music, broadcast journalism and an engaging nightlife, Wausau doesn’t necessarily lend too readily to that sort of lifestyle. Does it bug me? Very much so. But while I struggle to fill my summer schedule with a plentiful palette …
New Poster
by Dino Corvino on June 17th, 2009 • 2 Comments »
I have spent a lot of time decrying the 400 Block plans, and the lack of transparency involved in the process, and the rising costs, but the reality of it is I love the 400 Block, and I love downtown. I spend a lot of my time there. I have also spent a good portion of my adult life living and working in and around the idea of community creation. While it would be easy for me to spout off about Web 2.5 tools and social media, I thought I would talk about the 400 Block.
This week I had a …
400 Block
