Monthly Archive: March 2008
Your Voice: Saturday Night Live or Morning or Afternoon
[A note from Dino: As spring springs on us, our thoughts take us away from the computer, and outdoors. To new hobbies, and to bikes, and camping. Well, WNRB is a community radio station, and while it might not be a Santa Cruz full suspension dream bike, it might be a hobby you’re interested in. I have a feeling that it might be a little bit like Citizen Wausau, where it is what you bring to it a little bit. So, thank you to Tom Neal for this post.]
Saturdays are wide-open … …
Did You Know We Have a Trek Store?
Coming on the heels of yesterday’s enviro-post I started to think about my bike and when it will be warm enough to ride it to work again. If I’m lucky, it will be at the end of April, and that’s because I have an aversion to cold weather.
But on that subject, did you know Wausau now has a Trek Store? It’s over by Hardees on Stewart Ave (I guess it used to be a carwash?). I’m not totally sure whether it is a Trek-sponsored venture (like a Nike Store) or if that sort of thing even exists, …
13 Questions as Bootsy Collins Rattles the Plaster Off My Walls
I have come down. Truly. The Easter Weekend was the mighty Scott Holt weekend up north, and from that I finally have returned to Earth. I did not have voice, so I could not record anything at work, and as a result spent a whole week reading.
Tonight, the walls shake, the dog looks on me with a pained expression of self knowledge, and I dance. I dance the dance of release. The dance that brings it all around to 1991, and a joy for life that I have longed for. The big-brained super discussion from the past today, the collaboration …
Young Professionals Network Meeting
Clearly we think this is important. We are young and professional, and as a result knowing others who are young and professional makes sense to us. Citizen Wausau is about the community, and as a result we like to support the community activities, especially those activities that seek to enhance the community (and that overuse of the word was totally on purpose). I think that supporting an effort like this, on the part of an individual group is the sort of thing that makes Citizen Wausau a real resource. We hope to hear about more of this stuff.
To Wausau …
Your Voice: Earth Month Pledge
[A Note from Dino: I know typically we pull a post from the Community on Monday for Your Voice. We felt that this was such a welcome addition that we would put it up here in a timely manner. I have personally pledged to take public transit to and from work each day, all month. What will you do? What commitment can you make?]
Hi,
The Commission for a Greener Tomorrow was established in the summer of 2007 by the City of Wausau to encourage greater awareness of sustainability issues in the Greater Wausau area. Volunteers staff various teams dealing with issues …
Cool Dude #4: The Voters
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
I have fallen back on that quote often in my life. It comes as the closing paragraph in Abraham Lincoln inaugural address. I think …
Mike Morrissey on Leave
This just in! This just in! Michael Morrissey placed on Administrative Leave.
As you read in the previous post, Mr. Morrissey is in the middle of a rather messy legal issue involving a former Wausau employee who it appears that he terminated. This whole saga is really quite ugly; both sides have spoken in the media using unflattering terms about one another, claiming inappropriate relationships on the staff, violation of city policies regarding cellphones and text messaging, and even accusing people of stealing funds. For some of the details please see the Jasurda document (PDF) regarding her …
Credit Card Scandal?
Recently there was a credit card scandal reported, one involving a former Development Office employee. We’ve received a copy of a document that is clearly in regards to a suit filed by the former employee regarding the work place, and her position there.
Download the Jasurda Document (PDF)
What I find the most interesting in this document is the intermingling of City departments, and how it all works. Clearly the presence of an employee of a different agency at the meeting, as is alleged in this document is a bit interesting.
Being new, and hopefully unjaded by the whole …
Your Voice: The Wausau Film Festival
[A note from Dino: If the purpose of CW is to celebrate Wausau, and I am not saying that is the point, but if it is, the Wausau Film Festival is an amazing thing deserving of our attention. A film festival is a monolithic undertaking, and James Rubino is out there on his own taking this on. We felt it was important enough to bring to the front of the line, in the hopes that you will add your expertise to what he is working on. Film, movies, cinema, culture, it all matters. It adds to the quality of life, …
6 Questions While Listening to Nine Inch Nails Far Too Loud
I am getting to these Wednesday evening. My lips are chapped, and my legs are tired. But the amazing glide of Trent Reznor is filling my head, and I am glad I saw this band as many times as I have.
- Have you decided who you’re going to vote for, for Mayor, for City Council, for County Board? Does the recent story about the email from Mr. Kluz as reported in the Wausau Daily Herald affect your choice?
- Have you been in the new Dudley Tower yet? I was talking to Al Post at his book shop, and I told him that …