by John H. Fischer on December 4th, 2009
Early next week, the City of Wausau’s CISM committee will again be looking at Third Street, specifically, the direction of traffic flow. They are also including the city’s Traffic and Parking committee in on the discussion.
Currently, traffic on Third Street starting at the Wausau Center mall runs one-way — north. Third Street is scheduled to be redone in 2010, and if the direction of this one way street were going to change, that would be a good time to do it. And, based on a presentation given to the CISM committee, there is overwhelming support of changing Third Street to a one-way street going south instead.
Many have spoken up or made online comments that investing millions of dollars to change the direction of Third Street is irresponsible considering other needs that the City of Wausau has. However, those comments are not really accurate.
The fact of the matter is that Third Street was slated to be redone in 2009, but late in 2008 many downtown businesses asked the city to hold off. It is no mystery that construction makes it difficult on businesses in the area of that construction. And, with much of the redevelopment in downtown, it seems that every single year something was being built that made it harder for downtown businesses to survive. Once one construction project was complete and businesses were ready to get back to normal, a different one was scheduled. It started to look like having downtown torn up and under construction was “normal.” The businesses asked, and received, a one-year break from construction.
During these discussions in 2008, there was talk of whether or not Third Street even needed to be re-done. Many said it was just fine. The street project included sidewalks and planters and there was discussion of why this would be done, as they were just fine as well. I openly admit that I really don’t spend much time downtown other than my frequent trips to the County Courthouse or Wausau City Hall, so as an “outsider” to downtown (but someone who pays a significant amount of taxes); I decided to check out the situation for myself. I spent a day walking up and down Third Street, taking pictures of the street, of the sidewalks, of the planters. I also walked into a few businesses to talk to them about things. I then shared my thoughts (and a few of the pictures) with Citizen Wausau.
My thoughts at that time: That Third Street was in bad shape. Period. Could it last another year? Probably… but seriously something needs to be done. The planters are mostly wood and years of snow and exposure to the elements have them looking kind of crappy. They could be repaired with similar materials for a low cost that would get another 5-10 years of life out of them, but as nice as some of the facades are in our downtown, having “cheap” wood planters is almost more of a distraction than anything else. The sidewalks though, looked to be in GREAT condition. There were a few spots near intersections where repairs were needed. But as a whole, I saw no reason to do anything with the sidewalks.
So, the one year break from construction is nearly over and the City again wants to proceed with the Third Street project. As a matter of fact, based on comments made by council members, waiting the year was actually a good thing because current economic conditions mean that many contractors are desperate for work. Between contractors looking for work and the price of petroleum-based products down, bids for street work have been coming in lower than expected.
But, the question facing the City now, is the direction of traffic flow. Main Street talked with business owners and other people downtown and summarized in their presentation to the City that most wanted the traffic flow to change to southbound. The theory is that many come to downtown from the north, from Bridge Street. And because of the direction of Third, people fall victim to the “can’t get there from here” situation that can often be caused by one-way streets. Main Street feels that it makes sense to come up 3rd which would end at one of the mall entrances. Based on the overwhelming support of the change in direction, CISM recommended going ahead with the change in direction as part of the reconstruction.
Then came the City Council meeting, where many downtown businesses were questioning the change in direction. They claimed to have done their own informal surveys to come up with the conclusion that the majority actually favored keeping things just the way they were.
Councilman Ed Gale (as well as others who are on the CISM committee) indicated that they were making the recommendation on the change in direction based on a very convincing presentation by Main Street, that this is what downtown business owners wanted. However, now that the business owners are making it known that may not be the case, it would be prudent to bring this back to the committee. It was acknowledged that the original public hearing was held at a time of the day that made it difficult for business owners to attend.
Gale said he would be willing to hold the meeting at a time that was late enough to gain maximum input from those affected. Because of notice requirements, this would not be a “public hearing” as defined by state law, but he did indicate that the committee would solicit the input from those attending the meeting, if they wanted to provide input. The meeting notices have just been posted, and the date of the meeting will be Thursday, 12/10.
So, should Third Street be a one-way going north? Should it run south instead? Or, is it time to open up Third Street to traffic going both directions? What are the thoughts of Citizen Wausau?
by Dino Corvino on November 1st, 2009
At Citizen Wausau we consider ourselves as a part of the community, we want to engage in the projects that we see as interesting or valuable. We want to engage the process of growing our city in new and exciting ways, ways that build community. That’s why we’re proud to introduce a new idea: TweetBus.
What is Tweetbus?
TweetBus starts with a simple goal: we want to increase both awareness and use of the Wausau Public Transit System, the bus. Public transit is a vital part of our city’s growth. Sadly, every year Public Transit seems to be attacked around the time of the city budget. So we want to do something fun and progressive that uses technology to create awareness of the Public Transit System.
Members of the CW family will be riding the bus all day on Saturday November 7th. We would love your company, but we’ll get to that in a second. We will be using Twitter to provide a live play-by-play of the day, and you can follow events as they happen on the new TweetBus website.
Want to Join Us?
You can take part in this adventure in any number of ways, from all day participation, to just a run here or there, to simply following along and spreading the world.
- We will be meeting at 8:45am Saturday November 7th at the Downtown Transit Center, and getting on the bus for our day long sojourn. We would love to meet you there, and start the day together. If you cannot make it there, or just want to do a part of the day, see below. We would welcome you to the fun of a day on the bus.
- Follow our progress on Twitter. Participants in the event should use the hashtag #tweetbus at the end of any relevant tweets. You can follow all the #tweetbus posts on the TweetBus website, or by searching for them on Twitter.
- If you plan to participate, share your Twitter username in the comments. We’ll try to put up a list of expected participants later this week!
Twitter on the Go
All you need to participate in TweetBus is a mobile phone. Twitter allows for any number of ways to tweet from your phone; click here for more info. At the very least you can use text messages to update Twitter – just make sure you end them with the #tweetbus hashtag! Smartphone users can do the same or use any of the many Twitter apps that are floating around out there.
Goals
The goals are simple. Increase awareness, use these new tools, and have a little fun. We love seeing the people who read and take part in CW at events, and we hope that this is another way for us to connect. We think that even if it is only a ride or two through out the day, it will be a good cause and some fun. We hope to upload some photos to a Flickr group, and maybe collect some stories of people who ride the bus, the drivers, and all the surrounding good times. Public transit is important, it is a part of the infrastructure of any city, and we want to highlight it here in Wausau.
So again, we are meeting prior to boarding…
Saturday November 7th
8:45 am
Downtown Bus Terminal
We hope to see you there.
by Shawn Sullivan on October 9th, 2009
Wednesday night, my wife and I attended a meeting at St. Anne’s church regarding the future of the Newman Catholic School system. Schools will be closed, students will be impacted, and money needs to be saved. Both of our children attend the Newman Catholic Schools, and we wanted an opportunity to hear what was being proposed and have the chance to have our voices heard. I wish I could say I left that meeting confident in what the future holds.
Ultimately, it will be the decision of the Bishop of the diocese that determines our future, but the local pastors are the ones who will decide upon a recommendation to make. Four ideas were floated to us last night, and the St. Anne’s Education Committee actually did a presentation and made a recommendation based on their research. I won’t bore anyone with the details, but the WDH does an admirable job summing it up here:
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20091008/WDH0101/910080624/1981
As a point of full disclosure, my children are 3rd generation Newman students. I had a tremendous experience in WACS (Wausau Area Catholic Schools) and hopefully, my children can say the same for theirs in Newman Catholic Schools (NCS) as well. I realize many of the struggles NCS is facing, with reduced enrollments and reduced financial support from the parishes. I realize the task before the system is hard, but I also believe they are doing themselves no favors in how they are arriving to a decision.
There are going to be meetings at all of the parishes regarding the proposals, and surveys will be available for all interested parties. This is where things get a bit out of whack. As a concerned party, I suggested that all of the plans put forward by the other parishes should be put on a website or otherwise available for all to see and process. This way, we would have a lot of data with which to base our opinions.
I was looked at in a very strange manner and told that wasn’t really thought about. I know St. Anne’s had a vested interest in one of the options, and they made a case for it. What if St. Mark’s had an equally compelling argument? As a parent and consumer, I feel as though the system, and the pastors are ignoring an opportunity to arrive at the best decision.
Further, with the survey, there has been no discussion about releasing the data from it, or even scheduling a massive meeting afterwards to discuss all of the data collected at the many meetings being held. It feels as though this is being set up as a very divisive process. In the meeting, I likened it to the way the Olympic Committee makes their decisions. We all make an individual pitch, and they go behind closed doors, without the benefit of true dialogue. That disappoints me.
Without that ability to see and give feedback to the data, I fear that NCS will find themselves in a worse situation, and many parents will be saying their piece, not in a meeting, but by transferring their students to public schools. I hope that the NCS administration, as well as the local pastors, heard what the parents had to say, and I hope that other parents voice similar concerns in future meetings. This is a great opportunity to shed the view of the Church and system as out of touch. For my children’s sake, I hope they take that opportunity and run with it.
by Dino Corvino on July 2nd, 2009
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 new way, at least for me. I have been trying to learn the players and learn the game a little bit better. As such, I have had both great experiences (spending time with Pat Peckham) and bad ones (spending time with others). I have seen acts of tremendous leadership and sacrifice, and I have seen acts of tremendous personal cruelty that is masked as somehow part of this political process. We have watched a GOP spokesman ousted for seeking moderation in tone, and we have watched the national media decry a man seeking that cooler heads prevail.
We had the terrible incident involving the letter of intimidation sent to the Council here in Wausau, fraudulently from the VFW address. This letter was, in my opinion, a low point in Wausau politics. But I did not know some of the terrible stories about the last few election cycles, and the personal and vicious attacks some of our elected and nonelected officials have taken.
Do not get me wrong. I believe that this administration lacks transparency. I believe that this administration is misguided, and in many ways, in over its head as Wausau seeks to find its footing in the next 10 years. I think our Mayor is far too passive in regards to anyone and anything, save for his friends he spends time with up north. None of this makes him a bad man, and none of this warrants personal attacks on him made through anonymous means.
In the past months we have seen a local village administrator and his wife attacked personally, and some might say viciously in the Wausau Daily Herald Forum. Everything from this man’s weight, to his wife’s ability to have a more attractive husband was brought forth by an anonymous poster. This administrator was able to get the name and address of the attacker, and he sent him a measured letter inviting the attacker in for a face-to-face meeting to handle these sorts of conflicts. The attacker then had what I would call a bit of a nutty, dancing all over town about how the administrator was doing this or that with the letter, and attacking him further. Then suddenly, as if out of nowhere, he changed his tune and screamed that the Wausau Daily Herald gave out his personal information. This would be AFTER the man showed the world the letter, gave interviews, and the like.
In Wausau we have a large elected council. This council is tasked with management of the future of our city. We have an elected Mayor who is tasked with the day-to-day operation of our city. The Mayor came to us after retiring from his professional life. The council … they all have other jobs. My point is, I am thinking they all chose this. They all chose to serve.
Sure there are some benefits. Many go on to improved lives, higher standing the community, and some go on to higher office. It appears that our Mayor is getting some of the great social perks that come from being the man in charge. Many decry this, and I have in the past, but recently it was pointed out that no matter who is in the chair, those perks have existed. Whether I like the Mayor or not, they all tend to get to spend time at the cool up north lake house of wealthy friends, they get invited to the cool Christmas parties, they get the cool stuff. They are, after all, the Mayor.
But now it seems like we have entered into a horrid time of personal attack. We can see the massive venom on display places like the WDH forum or facebook, or by some degree twitter and other places where people can anonymously post mean spirited items. Personally I have received emails from folks saying that I should attack people more viciously, and more personally if I oppose their actions or policies. For about a day that seemed like a good idea. These are public officials after all. They volunteer, so they have willingly placed a target on their back.
I was wrong. I was wrong, and that sort of personal cynicism has no place here in Wausau, or Central Wisconsin. Everyone who seeks office does so willingly. They seek to help, they think that they have something to offer their fellow man. They think that they can make it better. That is it. End of story.
Our personal cynicism clouds our judgment about these people. We see conspiracy where it is not, and we seek to make them into targets. Doing this, we only harm ourselves. By allowing people in this city to use vicious means to attack all of the members of the council, we make the next generation of leaders less likely to appear.
Jim Rosenberg once told me that you need to be aware of what is next, when you seek to cast stones. I did not get it, and I probably still do not fully understand it, but I think he meant that before we tear down what we have, we should be aware that the next one is less likely to be as good. We might in fact be creating a descending grade on which we get poorer and poorer leadership each time we seek to tear someone down, simply because we can.
Our personal cynicism enables us to feel powerful, instead of sad or afraid. This misguided power is often used to lash out and harm people. Hear that, harm people our attacks are harming the people who have volunteered to help our city move forward. I have not been elected to anything, so maybe I need to consider that before I throw stones. Maybe you could consider that as well.
It is fair to disagree on policy: it is even encouraged. Our newfound lack of civility as evidenced all over the place should be stopped. We, as a COMMUNITY, should demand of ourselves that we do not condone the actions of those who would seek to harm people, not policy, for their own ends. We should seek to engage these folks and seek to drive a wedge between them and the process, as they seek to drive wedges between the council and the voters.
Our city council is full of good people. They mean well, and they are trying their best. Maybe instead of encouraging them to be part of the voting block (which is thankfully disintegrating) maybe we should encourage them to take steps to be more transparent, and we should engage in their discussions with votes and the media.
In honor of their sort of goodness, I thought I would make a list of one thing I like about each of them. In no particular order.
- Gary Gisselman. I have created a mythos around Gary that makes him simply the smartest man I have ever known. When I was a boy I would go to the library and work on school papers, and inevitably Gary would help me find everything I was looking for, and more. Hence, the smartness. Plus, he is a studied and patient member of the council.
- Deb Hadley. First off, it appears Deb has known me far longer than anyone should. So that immediately makes her cool, for enduring that. Secondly, I think that Deb is committed to her ideas, and she sees things clearly and acts with a clarity of vision. She does not often seem to get sidetracked by the passion of it all. And she owes Rosenberg 20 bucks.
- Steve Foley. Steve is simply the cool guy on the council. But more than that, Steve is a multitasking, community driven father who puts his money and his life where his ideas are.
- Ed Gale. Ed Gale is passionate, smart and driven.
- Lisa Rasmussen. New to the council, Lisa is willing to engage in the conversation far more than anyone else. When no council member will respond to an email question, Lisa will always. I think that is noble.
- Gary Klingbeil. Like Pat Peckahma, I like Gary’s calm sense of process. Things take time, discussions happen, time passes and Gary seems to get that.
- Jim Brezinski. Simply put, Jim is a teacher. He presents his opinion in a way that reflects his ability to communicate. And, Jim is a survivor.
- Jim Rosenberg. Rosenberg wants to be the cool guy, but you can tell just by looking he is a dork. In a good way. He has dorky passions, but he is really passionate. He is that sort of dorky earnest guy who will always end up being the hero, because it is the right thing to do. And he acts on a longer vision than most.
- Bill Forrest. The thing about Bill is I think that Bill gets it. He understands the divisive nature of things, of the process, of those people in the community who would drive that wedge. And he does his best to ensure that the process is safe and possible for council members. He is a great council president.
- Tom Miller. First off, Miller has a great pickup truck. Second, I think that Miller sees the world in such a way that he is able to understand his voting and position with clarity and grace.
- Matt Kaiser. Like Lisa, Matt is a new cat and is more than willing to engage the process. To engage the conversation. I like his willingness to say things, make mistakes and correct them. That reflects earnest effort.
- Sherry Abitz. Sherry is tough. Tough as nails. You can see that her time has been hard on the council. You can see that she listens to her district closely, and she works hard to ensure that these things are brought forth. Abitz is a worker, and that is awesome.
So there it is. 12 people. All trying to do something. All volunteers for lack of a better term.
by Cheryl Mathis on June 8th, 2009
I watch a lot of old black and white movies. The other day, I noticed that people who lived in apartment buildings tended to treat the hallways and lobbies as extensions of their own homes. Those common areas were shared between all neighbors. When guests came, those spaces were utilized.
Isn’t it the same now with so many other areas of our community? We don’t have a playset, but we use the one down the street at the local park, where other families who don’t have playsets go to play. I go for walks on the sidewalks in the neighborhood to exercise, and I pass others who are doing the same thing. Every Sunday we go to mass and gather with dozens of other families for an hour of quiet reflection.
I think it’s all too easy to forget how much we share common spaces with other people. By forgetting, we distance ourselves from everyone else. Life isn’t something to go through avoiding people, keeping to ourselves, striving for privacy above all. Life is messy and wonderful, cram packed full of interesting people with everyday dramas and desires. By being conscious of our interactions with other people in our lives, we break down the walls between income levels and status. We become humans who are living human lives in a community.
When I work in my garden, I can see other neighbors working in their gardens. We are separate, but we are taking advantage of the same sunlight, the same rain that keeps soaking our soil. In an abstract way, we are working together under the sun. I think it’s time for us all to remember just how much we are connected to everyone else.
by John H. Fischer on January 15th, 2009
[The name might not be familiar, but the writing will be. This is our own Dr Rent, Wausau's answer to any question dealing with landlord-tenant issues. John is also a wellspring of knowledge regarding many aspects of civic life, and we look forward to many more posts from him in the future with an aim to enlighten us of the behind-the-scenes decisions and machinations of the city.]
A few blog posts ago, I had talked about the potential development of “affordable,” multi-family housing on the Wausau river front. The Wausau City Council decided to provide nearly a half-million dollars in development incentives. I disagreed with this action by the City because this development, if it proceeds, will already be getting a great deal of federal and state monies. I found it hard to believe that this development would not go through if the City didn’t throw in a big chunk of funds as well.
One thing that did bother me though, was that some of the council members were voting against this development for reasons that made very little sense to me.
I had made the statement at the City Council meeting that right now, the market for multi-family housing units was saturated. A couple of council members stated that there were also a large number of “affordable” housing units available. Based on my knowledge of “affordable” housing availabilities in Wausau, that is simply not the case.
When the term “Affordable Housing” is used, what it really means is subsidized housing, or housing where the amount of rent paid directly by the tenant is a set percentage of income. One form of subsidized housing, Section 8, has a waiting list of nearly two years. Other subsidized housing units also have a healthy waiting list. The vast majority of this housing in the Wausau area is actually owned and operated by the City of Wausau, through the Housing Authority. (The City of Wausau is Wausau’s largest residential landlord.)
Another statement that was made a number of times was the concern about the crime that will be brought in by having these low-income renters in this area. Really? A six-million-dollar housing development will generate more crime than a blighted riverfront that is a haven for god knows what?
People probably have images in their mind of rundown housing projects in large cities that they have seen on the news or in episodes of COPS. However, these type of “projects” are mostly things of the past. New affordable housing developments tend to be mixed housing. These are not luxury units, but are decent, mid-range market units. Some of the housing units have market rents with normal income tenants, and some of the housing units are subsidized. But the units all are of the same quality. So you mix low income with moderate income. You treat low income people like real people giving them decent quality housing. You treat them like real people, not second class citizens, and in return, you tend to get real people, people who take pride in their housing, their neighborhood, their community.
The final thing that council members were pointing out was how this was not the best use of this parcel of land, and they would prefer to wait for some type of commercial development. In my opinion, commercial development for the immediate downtown area makes sense. But the farther you get from downtown, the less sense commercial development makes. It is not easy to navigate those streets, which is a primary issue for commercial development. Plus, parking ratios will kill you. Commercial properties require much more parking, which means you either need more parking garages, or a large amount of this nice riverfront land gets turned into a parking lot. I have always thought that area was a great place for multi-family housing. (I thought it would be more of a condo development because I didn’t think you would be able to get multi-family to cash flow.)
Whether or not City funds should be thrown at this development I think is something worth a good, informed discussion. However, claims that there is plenty of subsidized housing available for those who need it is wrong. Accusations that apartments will bring in more crime simply because of the income level of the tenants is simply an insult. Crime related to multi-family housing has more to do with property ownership/management than the income level of the tenants. Finally, once you get away from “downtown,” residential development makes a great deal of sense on the river, and the higher the density, the better the potential tax base.
by Kristy Medo on January 14th, 2009
Lacey Meinel, a young figure skater and superior athlete of her age group, will be sadly missed by many. If you have not already laid eyes on the many local headlines, she was a victim of a drunk driving accident on Saturday, January 10, 2009. To the best of my understanding she was on her way home from a figure skating competition when she and her mother we hit by a drunk driver driving in the wrong lane.
As a health and fitness professional I see many kinds of talent within athletes each and every day. Some individuals don’t even realize their own human potential and capabilities in the athletic realm. I find it is usually in the children that I see the most fire and desire to develop their natural born skills and abilities. That was surely the case in what I had experienced while being near Lacey on the ice.
While I had participated as a US Figure Skating Basic Skills Instructor for small children with Wausau’s very own 6.0 FSC International School of Skating, I had the pleasure to share ice time with Lacey at Greenheck Field House in Weston. During that time I would watch her in amazement of her power, grace and art that she applied to her figure skating. As an adult I know there is a certain element within me that wants every child to begin to explore their own individual greatness through physical expression. Lacey did just that everyday she would come onto the ice. With devotion to her sport, as a young girl she would be on the ice around 6 am prior to her normal school day. This is the typical regimen of most figure skaters as ice times are very limited for their practice. Many of these children and teens learn true discipline and sacrifice through their sports while most of us never learn that deep dedication, even as adults.
Lacey will always be remembered by those who surrounded her both on and off the ice. I know as the Badger State Games are right around the corner there will be a lot of tears and emotions that will be expressed through her fellow friends and “ice-mates” as they skate in the very same places that she had once skated. Our thoughts and prayers will be with her family now and always.
Kristy Medo
www.exercisewausau.com
by Tyler Vogt on November 12th, 2008
I am new to Citizen Wausau, but I have been working downtown for almost ten years. Currently I am one of the owners of Malarkey’s Pub. I am looking over the 400 block everyday.
Except during events, most of the time there is no one on the square; if it’s really nice outside, maybe a handful of people. I think this is due to the lack of definition on the square. People don’t like to sit in the middle of an open space. Having walls, flower boxes, trees, shade or whatever would help divide up the square into spaces people may feel more comfortable.
I think next year we should try putting the stage on the north side of the block. Eventually it would be nice to see some streets close down (and buses re-routed). I think having the stage on the north side may help a business to move into the old Little Italy building (I looked at that space for Malarkey’s, and one of the reasons we did not go with it was because I felt that space was “behind all the action”).
If the stage were moved to the North side I would like to eventually see an environment where 3rd, 4th, and Jefferson Streets could be used to let businesses supply tables and chairs to cater to customers, like they do in Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison, other cities, and all over the world. This of course would require the city to loosen its prohibition laws. They some how get this to work in other communities, couldn’t we at least try?
Imagine if you could come down to the square just like you do now, but you also had the choice to grab a stage view table outside at the Mint, Malarkey’s, Yao’s, Erberts, and other places? After the shows on the square you could enjoy the evening till 10 (or some other designated time all the tables have to be cleared) then go check out local nightlife at The Intermission, Malarkey’s, The Fillmor, the Red Eye, or The City Grill. Eventually, the downtown retail shops could get together and stay open later or restaurants could serve past 8 or 9. We could have events on Thursdays, too, since so many people take Fridays off. And how about a weekend music concert or two? (I’m in it to win it!)
When I travel to other cities the downtown areas are teaming with activity on hot summer nights. In Wausau, Wednesdays do all right, but other than that, it’s a ghost town at times.
I realize that is a pipe dream at the moment, but all this momentum for downtown retail and nightlife could stem from the events that are already held downtown. It’s important to keep them there. Please don’t move them.
I believe all this discussion could really be helped out by asking a simple question: What is the downtown for?
If it is for the people of Wausau, then one could argue it’s doing a decent (although the square is not too pretty) job the way it is.
But if its goal is to help continue to make Wausau more of a destination-style city, we are on a good path, but we have a way to go. The square is a step in the right direction, but I would like to see it expand in a way that could let local business cater to the growing crowds, generating an energy that would make people want to spends more time downtown and in Wausau.
by Citizen Wausau on September 3rd, 2008
All right everyone, now is the time to get serious. Enough of the fun and frivolity. It is time for LINKS:
• The wonderful and talented Andy Laub – actor, designer, coding monkey, singer, player of Rock Band – has solved a problem that has dogged CW for some time, which is the preponderance of fake-people who want to start fake-blogs dedicated to spamming you and everyone around you. Current real-person bloggers are unaffected, and future real-person bloggers need only undergo a short validation period and then will be set loose into the wide world, where you want to be. (more…)
by Citizen Wausau on August 12th, 2008
Your Voice took a week off last week but we are back in the groove again, and really it is easy because there is so much good stuff being posted in the CW personal blogs:
• Cheryl Mathis has a playground workout that probably lots of us could benefit from. I think she should put out a line of videos.
• Welcome to the new blogger Stephenie and her blog “Adventures of a Midwest Sound Girl.” I’d expect a Midwest sound girl to have some pretty interesting adventures, so it will be fun to hear updates on bands she sees and other aspects of the Audio Life. For instance, I have a question, why are bands always asking for more vocals in the monitor? The vocal levels are fine, just chill out already with the asking for more vocals in the monitor, okay?
• Soundtrack news on Erik’s movie.
• Less word-posts, more pictures of puppydogs. That is what this place needs.
• Our own politicalactorvist has been to the United States Student Association’s Summer Congress and even drafted a resolution of some sort.
• And Billie of the “A Stable Personality” blog reflects rather poetically on the physical aftermath of all that hay-stacking.
