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We Can Learn Much From Drunk Dials

by Dino Corvino on October 31st, 2007 • 11 Comments »

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

Kurt Vonnegut

Marathon Park, Rant, Wausau

Creating Nothing Out of Something

by Kevin Reissmann on October 27th, 2007 • 17 Comments »

Wausau developers yearn to dump concrete over every inch of the city’s soil. Many Wausau residents spoke out against such abomination at the latest Westside Master Plan meeting.

Marathon Park is the next target of the evil concrete-pouring developers. They hope to eliminate trees, grass and recreation areas, and mix the remnants into a steamy, black witch’s cauldron. Developers can bank on the fact that the final stew will plug plenty of green paper into their already fat pockets.

Construction, Development, Marathon Park, Recreation, Wausau