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Meridio Migration to Cloud
Proventeq provides expert content migration services for fully-featured end-to-end migration of documents, e-mails and digital records from Meridio eDRM into SharePoint Online (Office 365), Alfresco, Oracle and a wide range of cloud-based content platforms. Retain and enrich Meridio metadata, restructure Meridio Fileplan, resolve internal links, remap Meridio security onto cloud.
- All-inclusive migration service - no requirement to purchase additional tools
- Discovery and Analysis of Meridio Fileplan, with PowerBI reports
- Pre-migration checks to identify and mitigate potential issues
- Preserve and Enhance Metadata, Taxonomy, Structure and Security permissions
- Automatic transformation of Links, Images within documents and HTML
- Controlled automation with bulk or granular tasks and scheduling
- Iterative migration capability for content quality and delta handling
- Flexibility to meet bespoke migration requirements
- Super-fast data upload from Meridio into Office 365/SharePoint Online
- Service packages to suit your requirements
- Best practices, Full Fidelity migration for compliance and retention
- Business continuity during migration through incremental migration
- Fast and reliable migration of records/documents from Meridio eDRMS
- Maximum ROI as a result of migration tailored to requirements
- Reduce Risk through item and version level audit
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- Simpler systems, reduction in support costs through legacy consolidation
- Reduce storage costs by filtering redundant data
- Prompt support and expert consultancy for best practices migration
- Option of end-to-end migration service
£550 to £1200 per person per day
- Education pricing available
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- Pricing document (pdf)
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card (pdf)
- Terms and conditions (pdf)
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- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Proventeq cloud planning and discovery service provides insight into the source system(s) and identifies the potential issues which may arise when migrating to cloud. This phase of the project will allow customers with a view of their as-is information architecture, data volumes, usage patterns, security models, storage statistics. Proventeq will use their Content Analyser on the source content to build an items inventory and various content breakdown in Power BI reports to provide an insight into source content. Proventeq will also execute Pre-migrations checks to highlight any potential issues when migrating content into cloud hosted platforms. The findings from Discovery and Analysis would be used to define the scope and feed into the migration design, target implementation architecture design.
- Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
- Meridio
- HP Records Manager
- Office 365
- SharePoint Online
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Office 365 Training can be provided to ensure the successful implementation and configuration.
- Training is tied to specific services
- Yes
- Services the training service works with
- Office 365
- SharePoint Online
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- Proventeq offer an end-to-end migration service. As part of this, Proventeq takes care of all stages of migration, starting from Discovery through to Design, Configuration, Execution, QA and Post-migration support. Our Migration Methodology follows the industry standard Data Migration ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) principles, for separation of content extraction, transformation and load stages.
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- Yes
- List of supported services
- Office 365
- SharePoint Online
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- Support is available for both the Proventeq Migration accelerator and Office 365.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
Support response times
Standard support is available 9 AM to 5:30 PM on week days.
Severity 1 - Response time within 4 working hours.
Severity 2 - Response time within 8 working hours.
Severity 3 - Response time within 16 working hours.
Severity 4 - Response time within 24 working hours.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don't know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
Support response times
Standard support is available 9 AM to 5:30 PM on week days.
Severity 1 - Response time within 4 working hours.
Severity 2 - Response time within 8 working hours.
Severity 3 - Response time within 16 working hours.
Severity 4 - Response time within 24 working hours.
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2012
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
- Price
- £550 to £1200 per person per day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
- Pricing document (pdf)
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card (pdf)
- Terms and conditions (pdf)


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In SQL Server there are two stored procedures that help one to determine the size of a table. One is documented and more widely popular, the other is not. These two stored procedures are sp_spaceused and sp_MStablespace. Dukagjin Maloku wrote a blog article about the the two stored procedures in March of this year. I don't intend to rehash what he has covered. What I intend is to look at the internals of the two stored procedures. This will be the first of a multi-part series.
I saw a question asking how to find the table sizes for all of the tables in a database. A few scripts were provided (one using sp_MStablespace and one using sp_spaceused). I had been using the msTablespace version for quite some time and had never questioned it's accuracy. That changed when the question evolved into why do they (the two scripts) show the same results? So, I decided I needed to figure out what is happening inside both procedures to see if I could determine a reason for the difference. I will be comparing these on SQL Server 2008.
This stored procedure has been mostly updated to use the new DMVs available since SQL 2005. It currently relies heavily on sys.dm_db_partition_stats. This procedure determines the size of the indexes by subtracting the number of pages from the number of used pages. The idea here is that the number of Data Pages will be less than the total number of used pages. This stored procedure does still rely on a soon to be deprecated object called sysfiles. The replacement for that object would be sys.database_files. The functionality would be somewhat different, in regards to how it is used in this procedure – the results are the same. Despite that, this proc does not look to be on the replacement block any time soon.
This stored procedure on the contrary does look like it will be deprecated, though I was unable to find information to back that up. When delving into the procedure, one can quickly spot that it relies on sysindexes and sysobjects for much of its heavy lifting. The sizing information will be coming from sys.partitions, sys.allocation_units and sysindexes. This procedure uses sysindexes mostly for that sizing information and then calculates the data size based on clustered indexes and heaps. Then to calculate the remaining index size, it subtracts that size from the total for all of the indexes on the specified table. The math is a bit different and can be the reason for the difference. This procedure seems to be in need of a decent sized overhaul if expected to not be deprecated.
After looking at the code and then running some tests with each of these procedures, I was able to corroborate the claim that they don't return the same results. With that in hand, I decided to take a stab at writing something different to help create a consistent return. Thus I will be sharing some queries I have been working on for each of these. The desired goal is that both would return the same results. Based on the consistency of information between the DMVs and the necessary (and some bonus) elements for these queries, that may be a bit more difficult to do. For the sp_MSTablespace query, the crux of the query will be the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats function, while the sp_spaceused query may continue to rely on sys.dm_db_partition_stats or just sys.partitions. Both queries may rely on a combination of these latter two DMVs, tune in to find out.

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has signed a bill to continue financial benefits to families of fallen troops during the government shutdown.
The White House says Obama signed the measure into law Thursday hours after the Senate cleared it for his signature.
Final passage came a day after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said a military charity, the Fisher House Foundation, would make the benefit payments during the shutdown. The lapse in funding meant the Pentagon had no authority to continue the payments.
The Pentagon typically pays out $100,000 within three days of a service member's death. Twenty-nine members of the military have died during active duty since parts of the government shut down on Oct. 1.
By voice vote Thursday, the Senate approved a measure that would reinstate benefits for surviving family members, including funeral and burial expenses, and death gratuity payments. The Pentagon typically pays out $100,000 within three days of a service member's death.
Twenty-nine members of the military have died on active duty since the government shutdown began last Tuesday.
The Pentagon infuriated congressional Republicans and Democrats and touched off a national firestorm when it said that a law allowing the military to be paid during the partial government shutdown did not cover the death benefit payments. Congress passed and Obama signed that measure into law before the government shutdown last Tuesday, and lawmakers insist that the benefits shouldn't have been affected.
In stepped a charity, the Fisher House Foundation, which Hagel said Wednesday would cover the costs during the shutdown. Hagel said the Pentagon would reimburse the foundation after the shutdown ended.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Thursday that the organization is "extraordinarily generous and they do very good work," but he pressed for Senate passage of the benefits bill to ensure the Defense Department and Fisher House wouldn't have to figure out a special work-around.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Pentagon had essentially resolved the problem and the issue was moot, but he didn't object to passage of the bill.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the arrangement with Fisher House means "the legislation is not necessary" because the issue has been resolved. He would not say whether Obama would sign the bill.
Across the Capitol, Republicans on a House Armed Services panel excoriated Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale, accusing him of playing politics with his interpretation of the original law. They said the law was designed to pay the death benefits as well as keep all Defense Department civilians on the job -- not to select the most essential.
"You went out of your way to make this as ugly as possible, to inflict as much pain as possible on this department," said Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., who introduced the first bill days before the shutdown in an attempt to exempt the military.
Hale responded that the law was poorly written and there never should have been a shutdown in the first place.
"I resent your remarks," the budget chief said. "I acted on the advice of attorneys and our best reading of a loosely worded law."
He said it was "not a political judgment -- we were trying to do what the law said."
The chairman of the House subcommittee, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., told Hale that while he welcomed the charity organization's help "to fill this senseless void created by government lawyers narrowly interpreting the law, it is Secretary Hagel's responsibility to make the hard policy judgment and to do the right thing. That is to find a way to treat our families with the respect and dignity they have earned."
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By Caroline M.L. Potter
Your resume is the most important document in any job search. But what if you're submitting resume after resume and receiving no results at all -- not even a call? Your resume may be fatally flawed.
How can a resume betray a job seeker? It's not just typos or poor formatting. "The biggest flaw for a resume is when it fails to showcase a person's accomplishments, contributions and results, and instead spouts a job description of each position he's held," says Lauren Milligan, founder of ResuMayDay, a resume-writing and career-coaching firm based near Chicago.
Use these three tips to make sure your resume doesn't betray you.
1. Think Big
Whatever jobs you've held -- be it as an assistant or a CEO -- think beyond the everyday tasks of your position. "People get bogged down in the day-to-day details of their jobs, but when it comes to your resume, you've got to get out of the clutter and ask yourself, 'What does this work mean?'" Milligan says.
If a manager is hiring for an administrative assistant, he already knows what an admin does and doesn't want to see a resume that says an applicant can type and answer a phone. "You have to go beyond that to point out your specific strengths," Milligan says.
Start by having big-picture conversations about what you do and how it serves the organization as a whole. "If you're in a support position, consider how successful the person you support is and how you help her do her job better," Milligan says. "What role do you have in her successes? Those are your accomplishments."
2. Be Clear
Focusing on your accomplishments rather than your specific responsibilities will help keep your resume concise. "There's a huge difference between a resume and the Great American Novel," says Milligan. "The resumes I'm most proud of summed up a 25-year career in a single page."
She urges job seekers to remember that resumes are typically skimmed for a mere six to eight seconds. "Make sure you're identifying the companies you worked for, how long you were there and if you earned a promotion," she says. "Those are things that people look for immediately." Also, if your job title is long and vague, tighten it up so that people immediately understand what you've done. For example, "Marketing Manager" is much more accessible than "Global Identity Architect."
Given the time you have to catch a recruiter's eye, a focused, accomplishment-driven resume is the way to go. "If you are loaded up on peripheral stuff, it's too hard for a hiring manager to find your story," Milligan says.
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What if you come up blank when trying to think about how you've helped build the big picture for your employer?
"A couple of times I've talked to people who insisted they just did their jobs and there's nothing special about them that jumps out," Milligan says. She's asked them outright if they're in the right position. "It's a difficult question to ask, but these people may be chasing the wrong job," she says.
She counsels clients that if they cannot speak about what they've done in terms of enhancing the position or the company, "You may be just punching a clock -- and you and your employer deserve more."
Look for other opportunities in which you can contribute and grow professionally. You'll enjoy a more rewarding career and have a more successful resume.
This story is republished, with permission, from Monster.com.


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I love this place! Timber Ridge Lodge in Arkansas is where we have my mom's side of the family reunion each year. It is such a beautiful gathering spot to relax, visit, and spend quality time with family! Here's a pic of the front of the lodge, me holding one of the newest members of the family - Annalyse, Ya-Ya Sisterhood time - exchanging secret pal gifts and girl time - Gwen, Mande, and Elwanda, Cindy Kay and Shirley, and the view from the lodge of the lake, hillside, and deer (they might be too small to see, but trust me, there are tons of them! It's all so calming!!!! Loved seeing all of you, can't wait to see you again next year!
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Family Reunion - Timber Ridge Lodge - Arkansas
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Sisters are Special!
Aren't these girls beautiful! My sisters are such a gift to me! I love them so much! I'm not sure they know how much I love them and I want them to know, although I fear words can't express it enough - but I'll try!
The first pic is me and my little sis Jae. Here's why I love her:
1. She's only 13 months younger than me, we fought when we were little but became best friends when we roomed together in college at A&M - whoop!
2. She's beautiful inside and out - she is hot and stylish on the outside and sweet as can be on the inside - she's always been a sharer - she'd lend you the shirt off her back and never asks for anything in return!
3. She's very talented - she can make anything happen - whether it be curtains, purses, backyard patio decor:), or plans for the weekend - you want it done...she's your girl!
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5. She makes some of the funniest faces I've ever seen, just make her turn upside down and look at her chin:) :)
The second pic is me and my older sister Jayna, here's why I love her:
1. She's my big sis, although she's 10 years older than me, we're very close!
2. She is so positive, she dreams with God's will in mind, and therefore most of her dreams come true - it's inspiring!
3. She's and incredible christian, a stronghold for her family, and an awesome mom - I'm in awe of how incredibly awesome her kiddos are!
4. She's very comfortable to be around - always happy to see you and actually interested in what you have to say. She's real as real can be!
5. She's funny - she will make you laugh with her often silly personality - remember the "pwer-ple mah-ker"?
There it is - the best I can describe it! Love ya'll!
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How cute are they?!
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Little Rock with Mom, Jae, Sharon, Linda, Ethan, and Alli
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Happy Birthday Princess!
Kinsley finally had her REAL birthday party complete with all things pink and princess -y! We ordered precious cupcakes from a girl Curtis did a website for - awesome and delicious! Let me know if you want her info:) Here's pics of the big three year old, the table/food, opening presents and our good friends Sarah and Adam, and Kayden and Colton! Thanks for coming everyone - it was so fun!
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Lazy Summer Days
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All during the pandemic, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers liked to talk about how, with his Badger Bounce Back plan, he would, every day or so, announce a new "turn of the dial," which would slowly re-open the state, get workers back to work, and families back on their feet.
As it happened, thanks to the state Supreme Court, we never had to suffer through Evers's turns of the dial, which he really didn't plan on turning very much, owing both to his hatred of the private sector and to his thirst for power.
Dials aren't the governor's thing. Knives are, especially when it comes to northern Wisconsin, and these days the state is watching as the governor once again slowly twists the economic knife into the backs of forest products workers.
In early June, Verso stunned the state with its announcement that, by the end of July, it would close its Wisconsin Rapids and Duluth paper mills. In Rapids alone, 900 jobs are to be lost, and that's not just 900 families but countless more when the economic ripple effect sweeps over the city.
Since early June, those with their lives on the line have waited for some word that the governor would propose state action to at least buy the mill and these workers some time — perhaps incentives for Verso or a potential buyer to keep the mill operating, or a loan to retool the factory, or at least direct financial assistance if the mill could not be saved.
Those hopes, despite legions of local officials and citizens trying to work out options, have been met with silence by the governor. As the end of July nears, we have heard not a peep from Evers. He has rendered no moral support, proposed no action, demonstrated no evidence of leadership.
The governor's office did not return messages from this newspaper asking what his plan is and his position on state incentives. He did have a minion, the WEDC's Missy Hughes, trot out vague pufferies about all the good things the administration is doing, you know, 'exploring options" and "connecting the dots." This administration loves catch phrases like "connecting the dots," "an all-hands approach," "turning the dial," and more, which are all grand ways of saying they are busy doing nothing.
But when it came to the governor's position on state incentives, or any specific proposal for that matter, we were met with silence. With the governor, we were met with complete silence.
Silence everywhere from this administration. It is the song the governor sings when people are in trouble. It is the song of a man who shows nothing but contempt for workers. It is the song of a man holding a large economic knife, and twisting it into those who knock on his door for help.
Make no mistake, as we report today, the economic pain will extend far beyond Wisconsin Rapids and Duluth, Minnesota. It will cascade across Wisconsin, especially in our own region, and bring job losses and more stagnation.
As we report, in Oneida County alone, the forest products industry directly employed 621 people as of 2017, or more than 2 percent of the county's employment. Including indirect employment, the industry accounts for more than 7 percent of the county's jobs, and the pulp and paper industry accounts for more than 6 percent.
When a mill that takes a quarter of the market for pulpwood goes out of business, not just mill workers but logging contractors and truckers and suppliers across the region are put in jeopardy. And that puts the entire economy in jeopardy.
Perhaps we should not be surprised, given the governor's track record.
Things were different when Scott Walker was governor. When a similar situation occurred, Scott Walker showed leadership. Walker and the Legislature went to work immediately after Kimberly Clark announced plans to close its Cold Springs plant, eventually brokering a deal that provided the company with $28 million in incentives to keep the plant open.
The company did close another one as planned, but saving Cold Springs spared 388 jobs, as well as a $30 million annual payroll, and the company pledged to invest $200 million in the facility.
Things have only gotten better since then. As of late 2019 and prior to the pandemic, as reported by the Appleton Post Crescent, the Cold Spring facility was operating at full capacity, employed 430 people, up from the days when it was slated to close, and was operating 24 hours a day with two 12-hour shifts.
What's more, the company invested $115 million to build a new warehouse and add four production lines to its existing 12 lines, the Post-Crescent reported.
Of course, when the deal was being negotiated, Tony Evers didn't say much. He grumbled about the governor and the GOP "playing politics" with Kimberly Clark, and he huffed and puffed about new legislation that stripped him of the same power Walker had to negotiate such a deal. Such deals must be approved by the Legislature now.
But all in all, Evers was never effusive about saving jobs at Kimberly Clark. He talked in general terms about an industry-wide or macro approach to the forest products industry and, after his election, he said he did not like Band-Aid deals like Kimberly Clark, you know, the type of government action that saves jobs and families and communities, rather than lathering the pockets of unions and the special interests of identity politics.
Given the economic importance of the Verso mills and of the forests products industry in Wisconsin, we would have thought — and we hoped — the governor would been at the forefront of efforts to save and turn around this situation.
He has not been. It's part of a pattern of disdain —disdain for the private sector, disdain for the forest products industry and its sustainable and reasonable rather the radical approach to forest management, disdain for any place in Wisconsin that is not named Madison or Milwaukee.
Perhaps, in the end, we shall be proven wrong, and it will turn out that Gov. Evers was working behind the scenes all along. Maybe those options that Hughes and the WEDC are exploring will bear specific fruit. We hope that will be the case, though, if it is, that will raise questions about transparency and why any solution had to be brokered in secret.
Usually, though, the most successful economic approach is to use the bully pulpit of the office, and aggressively pursue strategies that publicly engage stakeholders and citizens. Evers is constantly preaching for Wisconsinites to work together for a better tomorrow.
He should practice what he preaches.
In his letter of resignation from the Oneida Vilas Transit Commission this week, Oneida County supervisor Bob Mott said that, after a conversation about yet another question brewing over at the commission, this time about the transit manager, he could not sleep.View
Black Lives Matter protests led many people to want to do something useful to reduce racial injustice. Racial justice groups are being flooded with money.View
Another Packers training camp has presented itself, and with lots of positions up for grabs and depth that needs to be filled out, here is how I see the offense playing out.View
To say this year has been a strange one for fishing would be an understatement. Water temperatures shot up quickly early on, the fish — especially the smallmouth — seemed to stay in their post spawn funk for far longer than normal, and in general, everything just seemed a bit upside down.View
I used to make it a point, if at all possible, to be fishing on June 21, all the way to and past sunset, so as to enjoy completely the longest day of the year.View
Another Packers training camp has presented itself, and with lots of positions up for grabs and depth that needs to be filled out, here is how I see the defense playing out.View
Was the power on in your house this morning?View
Gov. Tony Evers' second declared emergency order over the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly out of order, and the Legislature should act now to overturn it — if they haven't by the end of the week — and for multiple reasons.View
The NBA bubble experience in Orlando has been an unprecedented event. It's been quite a sight to behold. Here is what I like and don't like about the restart so far.View
As some readers know, my husband, Rod Gaskill, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in July of 2018. This year marks the second annual Rod Gaskill Memorial Bass Tournament, which will be held in Rhinelander on Boom Lake.View
Around your lake, and mine, there are dozens or even hundreds of individual pollution preventers — that can become pollution sources.View
Sports are back and I couldn't be more thrilled. To be able to watch the Yankees on TV for all three games July 23-26 was a real treat.View
At a U.S. House judiciary committee hearing this week, U.S. attorney general William Barr said what many people are thinking, and that is, just why aren't Democrats and the media condemning the violent riots that have occurred in recent weeks across the United States?View
This week, American astronauts returned to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the U.S. in 10 years.View
One thing I've learned in life is it's important to do things you love and to surround yourself with what makes you happy. For me, I have many outlets that bring me happiness. One of those is sports.View
Ever since I was young, I have loved frogs. Of course, I have always been curious about all things nature and outdoors, but frogs are pretty interesting creatures. I use artificial frogs as bait when I am fishing, but who wouldn't? Bass love frogs, too.View
You spend enough time on your lake and over time you see things you'd never seen before and may never see again.View
The NFL season has vastly come upon us. Players are concerned about the safety protocols and the lack of planning by the NFL. It's now or never.View
Sometimes good people do bad things, and sometimes good Supreme Court justices do stupid things, and that's just what happened in a recent decision by the state Supreme Court.View
"Are you lonesome tonight? / Do you miss me tonight? / Are you sorry we drifted apart? / Does your memory stray to a brighter, sunny day?" — Elvis PresleyView
The NBA is returning soon and I cannot wait. Elite players and exciting plays will fill Walt Disney World in Orlando with joy. I predicted the Western Conference on Tuesday. Here is how I see my predicted NBA Finals playing out.View
Being a bit of a geek, but also a tournament bass angler, I find comparing tournament results to be fun and, at times, quite interesting. While there are many smaller club tournaments on lake dotted across the Northwoods, there are three main trails in which bass anglers compete for a bit bigger purse.View
Five years ago the state legislature passed a measure that said county and local governments could not enact zoning provisions along lake shorelines that are more protective than a set of statewide minimum standards.View
The NBA is returning soon and I cannot wait. Elite players and exciting plays will fill Walt Disney World in Orlando with joy. I predicted the Eastern Conference on Friday. Here is how I see the Western Conference playing out.View
Between 2 million and 3 million Americans will die!View
One of the worst failings of political journalism in our time was just illustrated again. When Joe Biden delivered a path-breaking address on climate change, he drew less media coverage than a rumored shakeup in the Trump campaign. Do you care more about the fate of Republican grifters — or the fate of the Earth?View
The June blockbuster jobs report is more evidence that the economy is healing, but this remains a brutal period for the some 30 million still unemployed Americans.View
The NBA is returning soon and I cannot wait. Elite players and exciting plays will fill Walt Disney World in Orlando with joy. Here is how I see the Eastern Conference playing out.View
Pollinators have become a hot topic lately, with their rapid decline in the last few decades. With two-thirds of the food we eat being possible because of pollinators like bees and butterflies, coupled with the increase in food demand brought on by larger human populations, it makes sense people would be worried and try to do what they can to create pollinator habitat and food sources.View
There are times one just has to give thanks for the gift of life on a lake. Imagine this. It's a Tuesday evening about eight o'clock. The July 4 weekend is just over, the visitors gone home.View
We're just over a week away from MLB's July Opening Day. Read that again. July Opening Day. It doesn't sound right, but I'm excited and ready to get this thing started.View
President Donald Trump showed strong leadership this week, best expressed in a single tweet: "SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL."View
The online mob came for Harald Uhlig.View
I recently went on vacation and did a little swimming, relaxing and … tubing. It was a very fun vacation and the tubing was a highlight.View
Last month, the Oneida County Land and Water Conservation Department put on a two-day webinar entitled "Healthy Shorelines for Animals, Plants and People." The webinar in general was very well attended, which was commented on by many speakers.View
All lakes change with time, some more rapidly than others, and some also more significantly. One way to track what's happening in your lake is to do a periodic deep dive, literally.View
Protesters say America's criminal justice system is unfair.View
Ever since I started my column, I feel like I've talked about almost every sport. One sport I haven't talked about that I have a lot of respect for is swimming.View
Some experts say the recent surge in COVID-19 cases may represent a second wave of infection sweeping through the country, while others think it is still the first wave, and still others think we're somewhere in between, kind of like a wave-and-a-half.View
New York Times/Siena College has Democrat Joe Biden at 50% and Republican President Donald Trump at 36%; CNN has Biden at 54% and Trump 36%; Fox News has Biden at 50% and Trump at 38%. These recent national polls have left Democrats almost giddy with anticipation. But before Democrats put the champagne on ice, they would be wise to remember the prophetic words of an authentically wise Texan. Former Gov. Ann Richards said, on July 3, 1988, on CBS's "Face the Nation": "July does not a November election make."View
The most recent jobs report found that nine of the 10 states with unemployment rates above 14% are in liberal blue states. Ranked from highest to lowest, they are Nevada (25.3%), Hawaii (22.6%), Michigan (21.2%), California (16.3%), Rhode Island (16.3%), Massachusetts (16.3%), Delaware (15.8%), Illinois (15.2%), New Jersey (15.2%) and Washington state (15.1%). I call this the "blue-state jobs depression." The states with the lowest unemployment rates are all conservative red states: Nebraska (5.2%), Utah (8.5 %), Wyoming 8.8%, Arizona (8.9%) and Idaho (8.9%).View
Maybe you have a loon pair nesting on your lake. You're hoping nothing befalls the nest, like black flies that drive the mom and dad away, or a motor boat wake that washes the egg or eggs off the nest and into the water.View
Some things never change, or at least change very slowly, and one of those things is the power of government bureaucracy.View
I've been a part of a lot of great teams personally, but a championship team is extremely rare, no matter what league you're in or age you are at. I'm going to take a trip down memory lane to championship glory.View
Under normal circumstances, running a tournament, or a series of tournaments, can be a big undertaking. This year we had a new twist to it all. As many know, I am the tournament director for the Wisconsin River Series. We usually have four qualifying tournaments and a two-day championship. Of course, our tournament in early May had to be cancelled due to the pandemic and the governor's Safer at Home order.View
The coronavirus shutdown has flattened multiple industries across America — everything from airlines and manufacturers to hospitals, retailers, oil and gas producers, and restaurants. Many of the 30 million small and large businesses in the country have reported a 30% reduction in revenues. Amid the carnage, one sector of the economy is thriving like never before in the history of the republic: the government.View
Cycling is a sport I'm not super familiar with, but one that I can relate to. I love to go biking. I love to feel the wind on my face and the thrill of a whole new adventure.View
In the nine presidential elections between the 1952 victory of Dwight D. Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush's 1988 win, just two Republicans won the White House: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.View
Mob rule has been a staple of America's leftist politics for a while now, and so it is hardly surprising the Left has now unleashed its version of it in the Northwoods, an uprising against honest debate and integrity that most assuredly will be countered and defeated.View
For my internet video this week, my staff showed me clips of violent cops.View
For years, sports have been one thing that has brought me peace, fun and a sort of an escape from any stresses or troubles in life. I look forward to the day when that happens again.View
It's the oddest thing. The more America's Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have contributed to keeping America's economy afloat during the coronavirus lockdown, the louder the voices get to break them up or to tie them up into regulatory knots.View
I attended the recent Vilas/Oneida County online boat inspection clinic. I learned a lot that's useful, even though I have no immediate plans to become a Clean Boats Clean Waters volunteer.View
How I miss baseball, and by baseball I'm specifically talking about the MLB or Major League Baseball. With the NHL, NBA and MLS all set to come back, I'm eagerly being patient.View
Here's the fail-safe test for whether a political party is growing and strengthening or shrinking in size and prospects: Is that party spending its time, energy and effort seeking, recruiting and welcoming converts to its ranks, or is that party instead hunting down heretics within its ranks and, in the name of political purity, banishing them to some outer darkness?View
While there are still social distancing best practices in place and things are not exactly as we remember them, we have learned, in large part, to take our meetings and trainings online. As I have said before, this has afforded many of us the opportunity to attend and to learn many things we otherwise would not have.View
Sports and heartbreak. As much as it hurts to write that, those two go hand-in-hand. There has been much jubilation over my years of watching sports. But sometimes there is sadness.View
In the coming time following the pandemic and its lockdowns, there is likely to be an intense debate about economic recovery, as millions of Americans and small businesses try to get on their feet after the fierce blows that have put so many on the canvas.View
The crisis of the coronavirus-induced economic lockdown and now the violent protests in the streets have unleashed a depression-level financial crisis and unprecedented human suffering — especially in our inner cities. These events have also exposed a Grand Canyon-sized chasm that now separates how the left and the right see America today. To wit:View
Deaths from COVID-19 are dropping, but we probably can't resume normal life until someone develops a vaccine. Experts say it will take at least 12 to 18 months.View
For years Eurasian water milfoil has been the biggest villain among invasive plants in our lakes. It's still far from beloved, but another actor is pushing toward center stage.View
The NBA is looking at a potential 22 team, eight game schedule to determine the champion of the season.View
Under ordinary circumstances, open dissent from high-ranking military officials, retired and active, against the actions of civilian political leaders would signal a danger familiar to other countries. Such rumblings from the military often indicate that constitutional freedoms are in jeopardy and that martial law, or even a coup d'etat, may be on the horizon.View
As we report in today's edition, Linda Conlon, Oneida County's public health officer, has apparently decided the economic hardships brought about by the Evers lockdown weren't dire enough, so she has now adopted a policy that will surely cause even more economic damage, that is, to name businesses that were visited by persons testing positive for COVID-19.View
The coronavirus has sidelined a lot of plans for meetings and conferences, and that's certainly true when it comes to lake matters. But there's a plus side to all this: Online meetings have made the sessions more accessible than ever before.View
The recovery stage for our economy is finally here, and now the policy priority has to shift to getting people back on the job and getting businesses up and running. The best incentive to get businesses hiring again and get workers off unemployment is to suspend the payroll tax for the rest of the year.View
"No justice, no peace!" they shout. Then they break windows.View
Soccer is and has always been my favorite sport to play. It's not a super popular sport in America, but is one that I really enjoy. It's fun and kept me active.View
I was lucky enough to attend the furbearer advisory committee meeting last week. One thing I have to say with all of this "social distancing" protocol is it truly has given me the opportunity to attend several things I may not have otherwise. Whether it is logistically not viable or there are two meetings at the same time, I will admit there have always been several things I wanted to check into, whether for my own personal edification or for the newspaper, that I just simply could not get to.View
Sports' movies have been a big hit in Hollywood. Whether fact, fiction or based on a real life event, they are fun to watch. Often inspirational, here are some of my favorites and what I take away from them.View
America is starting to reopen for business across the country — except for a handful of states where lockdown orders are expected to remain in place for weeks to come. With very few exceptions, the cities and states that have ordered their businesses to remain comatose and their millions of workers to go without paychecks are blue, blue, blue. This list includes New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and Oregon. They all have Democratic governors.View
This past week, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes made some curious and telling remarks at a task force meeting he was leading on climate change.View
When people ask me my favorite sport to watch, I usually say football or baseball. In terms of my favorite league, college football stands on top.View
We have a choice!View
As many know, the fight against terrestrial invasive species has been heating up across the Northwoods (and other areas, of course). The Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest (CNNF) recently came out with its update of the non-native plant plan from 2005, targeting non-native species and putting special emphasis on some species of concern.View
Lake associations generally have slim budgets for projects to sustain or improve water quality and lake ecosystems. It's even tougher for individual property owners to find money to take on lake enhancement projects, like a natural shoreline restorations.View
Usually, when a CEO severely underperforms peers, he or she is fired or handed a gold watch and given a quick retirement party. In the Democratic Party, a rotten performance is a qualification for the presidency.View
On Sunday, a very fun event took place in Florida between some of the all-time greats in two different sports.View
This weekend, as is customary for Memorial Day weekend, a steady stream of visitors and second-homeowners will be pouring in to the area.View
The government has closed most schools.View
This week, NASCAR returned for the first time since March 8. The sound of roaring engines and cars zooming by delighted me as I watched on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It made me happy for a number of reasons.View
For my next adventure, I decided to sign up to do some rare plant monitoring. I though that would be a fun way to spend a day outside and get to also learn some new things. (subscriber access)View
Imagine that for preaching forest fire prevention each state or county was on its own. They had to craft their own messages, create their own materials, handle distribution, and more, all at significant cost. (subscriber access)View
Growing up as a sports fan, lots of people understood why I liked the Packers and Boise State. But one team that I receive more flack than any other is the New York Yankees.View
The U.S. economy is at last moving into the recovery stage from the coronavirus, at least in most states.View
For years now, in the pages of this newspaper, we have warned about the dangers of the bureaucratic state.View
Like most sports fans, I have many great memories when it comes to my favorite players and teams. Many moments stand out as epic and celebratory, but there is one that stands out more than any.View
Every year I wonder why people do not go to the Wisconsin Conservation Congress (WCC) and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) spring hearings. Every year I wonder why people do not make their voices heard. Even when the option came about to fill out the questionnaire online, turn out was not what I would have expected from such a passionate group of people.View
Clean Boats, Clean Waters training sessions have become to some extent casualties of the coronavirus. There likely will be fewer of them, and in Vilas County, for example, attendance will be limited to eight people.View
"The Last Dance" documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls has been the topic of conversation among sports fans. Fans love a glimpse of what happens behind-the-scenes and I am one of them.View
Recently, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags.View
One team I keep saying repeatedly as my favorite team in college athletics is Boise State. I love my Broncos and bleed blue always. Of all my favorite teams, they just might be my most treasured.View
In the strongest terms we can, we endorse Tom Tiffany for Congress in next Tuesday's election, and urge voters to cast their vote for a representative who we believe will give the Lakeland area and northern Wisconsin a strong voice in Congress — a much more spirited and forceful voice than that of any representative in recent memory.View
Lakes and rivers seem to get a lot of "press," if you will. But wetlands do not get a lot of that attention. UW-Extension Lakes has a series of CLMN (Citizen Lake Monitoring Network) webinars on YouTube now, the most recent of which was all about those wetlands. The webinars are hour-long informational sessions about various aspects of water. (subscriber access)View
Your state has many lakes with multiple needs, but a limited amount of money. Where do you spend it? To revive lakes that have become severely impaired? Or to protect those still in excellent condition? Which provides more benefit for the dollar?View
In day three of the NFL Draft, the Packers picked six players in rounds 4-7 to finish their virtual draft experience. Here's what I thought of the picks:View
We need new drugs to fight COVID-19 and other diseases. But our government's approval process makes that too hard.View
We have finally figured out why Oneida County refuses to fire its corporation counsel, Brian Desmond, after all these years of flagrant incompetence.View
The 2020 Packers' NFL Draft class is one that will be looked upon with heavy interest. At the end of the day, did the Packers improve? Here's what I thought of day two, rounds two-three.View
As many who read the Outdoors section of The Lakeland Times are aware, the Lakes and Rivers Convention, originally slated to happen at the Holiday Inn and Conference Center in Stevens Point, was turned into an online event. It was still very widely attended, and there were so many great sessions that it was still hard to decide what to attend.View
Wednesday April 22 and it's still cold, like late winter, a pesky white sheet of ice covering the one-third of our lake from the windy point to the Birch Lake Bar, the recent days and nights too chilly to get rid of it.View
Jordan Love. The headline for the Draft that has Packers fans squabbling and shaking their heads. With so many different opinions on the pick, I'm here to assure you we're going to be OK.View
There will be no graduation festivities this spring at dozens of American colleges and universities, including Ohio State, Brigham Young, Howard, Swarthmore, Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA and Yale. That means this year's graduates and their closest relatives and friends will not have the benefit of sitting on hard chairs and listening to the commencement speaker.View
In our many years of reporting on and analyzing state government, it is hardly an understatement to say that the GOP lawsuit challenging the authority of the Evers administration to unilaterally lockdown this state for another month and contesting the sweeping powers the governor and his health services secretary claim is perhaps the most important of our lives.View
Living in Minnesota my whole life, I get a common question as a sports fan: Why are you a Packers fan? While I can answer this in a number of ways, I have one simple answer.View
It was with total shock, and then a heavy heart, that I read an email Monday morning from our general manager, Heather Holmes. She forwarded an email to me from Jacob Friede's mom letting us know Jacob's life had been taken in a boating accident last weekend. I sat, staring at the computer, unsure what to think or how to respond.View
We read and hear a lot of impervious surfaces on lake properties and why they are bad for our lakes. A paper from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Center for Land Use Education puts the concern in clear perspective.View
I've been in a mystery mood lately and decided to revisit one of my all-time favorite movies, "Clue," this past weekend.View
To say I love a good murder mystery would be an understatement. From the writings of Agatha Christie to modern authors, there's something alluring about the prospect of a mystery needing to be solved and finding the clues and piecing it together as you read.View
We start with the good news, which you can find here but not in many other media outlets: COVID-19 is not nearly as dangerous as we all thought it once was, nor increasingly does it seem to be so easily transmitted.View
It's no secret COVID-19 has changed the professional sports schedule. Usually there would be baseball, basketball and hockey on right now, in addition to NASCAR, the PGA Tour and other sporting events. Now, everything is different.View
The sports reporter who loves movies. Though it may seem like they are two different topics, but they are both something I am passionate about with some similarities.View
For those of us who live on lakes, ice-out is a date as important as almost any holiday.View
Before the season was suspended, the Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo was having a phenomenal season. But where does he rank among current NBA stars?View
Dogs use their amazing noses to help us in many ways. They can sniff our drugs being smuggled across our border, help track down and find missing children, locate people amid wreckage from storms, and do many other things we humans cannot.View
There's nothing quite like an old favorite to lift your spirits and bring some levity to an incredibly stressful. And so, as I was sitting at home looking through some of my favorite films to revisit and do just that, I came across a film I hadn't seen in years, but always loved.View
Clean Boat Clean Waters education is the cornerstone of aquatic invasive species prevention in our state. It's great as far as it goes. Does it go far enough?View
We've seen enough, and we think most of citizens have seen enough, too.View
This is a bewildering and stressful time around the world, but it was even more bewildering and stressful in Wisconsin this week as voters marched to the polls, or in many cases didn't, to cast ballots in the state's spring elections — elections that should have been postponed.View
No games to cover and no professional sports to watch. As sports reporter at The Lakeland Times, I miss the games and the action. But I've stayed busy in the day-to-day activities.View
Like many people, I have attended a variety of online meetings lately. What has been the most interesting, over the course of the last week, was participation.View
What would you do if one day, out of the blue, your best friend just ... disappeared? Without a trace, without so much as a message or a text?View
The NFL Draft is one of the last avenues to improvement of one's team in the offseason. The Packers will look to use their picks to fill in the gaps of their team.View
People are busy these days, rarely finding time to themselves. The short "By The Way" devotional radio segment, broadcast throughout the United States and beyond, changes that for those who chose to listen.View
Congress passed and the president signed a $2 trillion "stimulus" bill.View
"Heresy" by Melissa Lenhardt is a western. There will be mayhem, shootouts and standoffs. There will be horseback races, whiskey and tired cowboys at the end of the day. Cattlerustlers who need to be set straight. The only difference? Women get all the action in this novel.View
Throughout the history of film, there have been many movies that have meant a lot to a person, a movie that is special and brings out many emotions. For me, that movie is "How to Train Your Dragon."View
Last Friday afternoon I sat on the lakefront screen porch, needing only a fleece for warmth, and listened as the melt water from the roof hit the leaves on the ground below. It was a lovely sound after a snow melt that had been agonizingly slow, highs in the upper 30s, low 40s at best, and back to well below freezing overnight, the decline in snow all but imperceptible.View
With everything changing in our lives, seemingly by the day, it is comforting to know we can still do things to bring a touch of normalcy to our lives. As of this writing, and I for one expect it will continue, we can all still go fishing.View
The Packers' 2019 season had a little bit of everything — exciting games, fun players, close finishes and a playoff run. Now that free agency has mostly come and gone, have the Packers improved?View
With many Northwoods residents stuck inside, or staying home, we are all looking for more things to do at home and more ways to stay occupied. While I have always enjoyed gardening, I can say with a degree of confidence, that I am not the best at it. But I think that is part of the beauty of gardening. You do not really have to be "good" at it to enjoy it. My situation has changed over the years, meaning I have had different soil types to deal with, I have had to create gardens out of lawns and other areas, and I have, most recently, had to downsize quite a bit.View
When Americans are confronting the most threatening national crisis in a generation or more, it would be uplifting to offer a few encouraging words about the president of the United States. And a few is about as many as can be offered at this point. Not only is his performance to date far below what his country needs, but he also shows no sign of having learned the lessons that might allow him to improve.View
The evening sun dips into purple above the treetops, casting a mellow light across Birch Lake, where grandson Tucker and I, jig rods in hand, hunch over holes drilled in the ice. No one else is around. Earlier in the day, Tucker (7) walked around the edge of the lake with his mom and dad and dogs Bruce and Pizzy, while younger grandson Perrin (6) and I tended the jig rods.View
Some of the best movies find their roots in real life, and "Dark Waters" is no different.View
These are tough times, and in tough times Americans unite.View
For a day or two, it would be easy to pretend it was just too cold, or too rainy, and we did not want to go anywhere or do anything.View
My sainted mother was a public school teacher until she married my father and immediately, as a married woman, was forced by local Massachusetts rules then in force to leave the classroom.View
Of all the Sunshine Weeks we have covered, this is simultaneously one of the most discouraging ones and one of the best ones.View
It can be tricky getting a kid hooked on fishing. It's all about action — number of bites, not size of the fish. Take a kid out and catch nothing, the kid equates fishing with boredom.View
What's worse than a bureaucrat?View
Is Joe Biden president yet?View
We're hearing a lot as we approach the spring election about the importance of having nonpartisan redistricting after this year's census.View
I am like a kid in a candy store when I have a new field guide. I love them, and there are so many of them out there. Enthusiasts can find field guides dedicated to plants, animals, insects, fish and any other thing, truly, that may be of interest. A field guide to edible plants is always fun to flip through. But I have to say there are some I will likely never try. Mushrooming is huge with some people, but I do not know enough about it to feel safe just picking up a field guide and heading out into the woods.View
I should have written this column a month ago, since February 2 was World Wetlands Day. The topic is also timely because the Oneida County Board on February 18 voted to reduce the setback for grading near wetlands from 15 feet to 5 feet.View
I have never been one to understand it, to be honest. People are fond of saying, "we get an extra hour of daylight!" Or "we are losing an hour of daylight!" My question is: how many hours a day do you sleep? Are you awake at all in the morning or evening? Because there really is not that much difference in the amount of daylight we get that next day. It is adjusted — with time being a construct of humanity to keep things orderly.View
Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens of billions of tax dollars into little-used mass transit rail projects? In a digital age with increasingly popular and affordable door-to-door ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, universal use of cars by all income groups and the revolution of smart driverless vehicles around the corner, subway systems and light rail are as old-fashioned as the rotary phone. The federal government and urban planners in at least 25 cities are frantically spending money to lay down tracks that, in 10 or 20 years, they will have to rip right out of the ground.View
The recent decision by Oneida County circuit judge Michael Bloom to dismiss the walking quorum complaint against Rhinelander mayor Chris Frederickson and four city aldermen is a case study demonstrating both how good-old-boy politics still dominates in Oneida County and how the state's activist judges are, case by case, rewriting the state's open meetings and open records laws.View
As we report today, the Minocqua town board recently fired public works employee Mark Heil after only about a week as a full-time employee, though he had been employed part-time since last October. Specifically, Heil was fired for using a town front-end loader to plow a private driveway on Church Road, in violation of town policy.View
First, a confession: I really like presidential debates. Why, you ask? Because these debates give us voters the chance to watch and evaluate the candidates while they stand shoulder-to-shoulder and have to answer the same questions. Away from their carefully orchestrated campaign events, without their teleprompters or an audience of planted, friendly supporters, candidates in a debate are under pressure and facing criticism from both opponents and moderators.View
The power of the president to grant pardons as stated in the Constitution is unconditional, as President Donald Trump has observed. But as he prepares to bestow that favor on Roger Stone and perhaps other felons who have protected him, someone should advise him that a corrupt pardon is nevertheless a crime that can be prosecuted, if not overturned.View
There's an old saying about baseball and life that no one ever had a 1.000 batting average. It turns out that's not exactly true. At least when it comes to the Trump economy, anti-Trumpers defied the near-impossible statistical odds and somehow have batted 1.000 on their predictions. They managed to get it wrong every time.View
Bernie Sanders leads the race for the Democratic nomination. He may become America's first self-described "democratic socialist" president.View
At a recent county public hearing to consider a hotel project planned for Hwy. 51 where once stood the Bay View Inn and a laundromat, the project's developer, Glenn Schiffmann, who was obviously exasperated, said what many in the room must have been thinking: There's just too much government. We agree with Mr. Schiffmann and we are just as exasperated.View
In the seven presidential elections since 1992, the Republican presidential nominee has won the popular vote exactly once. The lone GOP candidate to receive a majority of the national vote was George W. Bush in 2004. Bush's election-day victory over Democrat John Kerry, who had, in most observers' views, "won" the debates between the two, was explained by the respected Democratic pollster Peter Hart: "Voters preferred I Like over IQ."View
As on the Republican side, the Democratic primary for the seventh congressional district this coming Tuesday — the winners will face each other in May to determine who replaces Republican Sean Duffy as our representative in Congress — offers a clear choice. That choice is Tricia Zunker, the president of the Wausau school board and an associate justice on the Ho-Chunk Nation Supreme Court.View
The Republican and Democratic primaries for the seventh congressional district are Tuesday — the winners will face each other in May to determine who replaces Republican Sean Duffy as our representative in Congress — and in both parties the choice is straightforward and clear. On the Republican side, we believe voters should nominate Northwoods state Sen. Tom Tiffany as the best candidate for northern Wisconsin.View
In a story in last Friday's edition, Minocqua town chairman Mark Hartzheim was quoted as saying he could not remember roads being in as poor a shape as they are right now. He's not alone. Everyone knows it. Everyone talks and complains about it. The problem is, no one is doing much about it.View
President Donald Trump rightly touts the economy-wide savings from his deregulation initiatives. But one federal agency didn't get the memo. Some members of the Surface Transportation Board, which has oversight over the nation's network of freight railroads, wants to resurrect price controls on the industry.View
After President Trump finished his triumphant State of the Union speech Tuesday night, House speaker Nancy Pelosi did something no one was anticipating: She stood up and ripped apart the printed copy of the speech, calling it a manifesto of untruths.View
After President Trump finished his triumphant State of the Union speech Tuesday night, House speaker Nancy Pelosi did something no one was anticipating: She stood up and ripped apart the printed copy of the speech, calling it a manifesto of untruths.View
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, President Donald Trump again talked positively about negative interest rates. That's not a very good idea considering negative interest rates are a warning signal of deflation, which can be as bad for an economy as runaway inflation.View
It's a rough start to the year 2020. Politically, the nation, at least its major media, seems to be consumed by ongoing attempts to remove President Trump from office, and, in general, political polarization has reached ever new heights around the world, from Brexit in Britain to Hong Kong protests.View
Almost all of us know (because President Trump boasts of it in nearly every speech) that our 3.5% unemployment rate has reached a 50-year low. But this official decline in joblessness doesn't tell the entire story of the improvement in the job market in the United States. And it doesn't fully capture the change in direction between what happened under President Barack Obama and Trump.View
For those who wanted Oneida County to borrow up to $2 million from the state Board of Commissioners of Public Lands (BCPL) to fund some pretty important capital improvement projects, Tuesday was a bitter blow to their big-government dreams.View
We have reached that time in every presidential nominating year when distinguished, national opinion leaders beat up on Iowa and that admirable state's influential role in determining the two major parties' eventual presidential nominees and, therefore, the next president.View
Over the holidays, I read Elton John's biography, "Me." He writes about his friendship with Freddie Mercury, the ultratalented lead singer of the rock group Queen. Mercury tragically died of AIDS at the age of 45 in 1991. Mercury was one of the last people to die of the disease in Britain during the epidemic years.View
People who want to work should be allowed to work. That includes people who once went to jail. With President Donald Trump's support, Congress spends your money giving ex-cons "employment assistance."View
It was a sweet and important win for the average person and for accountability when, as we report in today's edition, cable giant CNN agreed last week to settle a defamation suit filed by Kentucky high school student Nick Sandmann, who counterpunched against the network for painting him as a racist.View
What President Donald Trump said to the nation about the prospect of war with Iran impressed many listeners far less than the way he said it — or slurred it. Unlike the manipulated video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that made her appear drunk, Trump delivered a live speech that made him sound impaired.View
Is anyone here old enough to remember the urgent warning issued in a speech to the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August 2002 by an American vice president who had artfully avoided the military draft during wartime?View
Remember the good old days when politicians talked about policy? It seems like such a long time ago, but back in the day elections actually turned on what policy positions candidates took, and whether incumbents had lived up to their promises.View
The American president, in addition to serving as commander in chief, is expected to be this nation's consoler in chief, as well as the nation's teacher and even preacher. Who alive on Jan. 28, 1986, does not remember the words of then-President Ronald Reagan from the Oval Office following the explosion of the Challenger that killed all seven astronauts on board, seen live on television by millions?View
This past month we have been awash in various studies abut the efficacy of industrial clusters — those focused government efforts to provide tax breaks and other financial incentives sufficient to boost a particular industry in a particular place — so it's time to weigh in about the potential effects of these clusters on northern Wisconsin.View
If there is any lesson we have learned about the Federal Reserve system in the last few years, it is that the supposed oracles who run our central bank are anything but infallible.View
The spirit of goodwill can take us by surprise this season, without respect to religion (or even politics). And while such a moment may not quite become an epiphany, it can still make us think again about our lives and times. Which is what happened to me over the weekend before Christmas.View
Although I qualify for the senior discount at the movies, even I'm not old enough to have met Heraclitus, the wise Greek who lived some 25 centuries ago and whom we can thank for the timeless wisdom "Character is destiny." Here in Washington, one elected national leader commands the affection and the respect of her constituents.View
Actually, it's always the season for liberal folly, but these cheerless folks have given us a bounty during this holiday, for their single issue — impeachment — is a gift to conservatives that likely will keep on giving right through next November.View
Our sources are telling us that President Trump is nearing a decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. This proposed plan would create a reserve of domestically mined uranium stored in a "Federal Uranium Security Stockpile." One option on the table is for the Department of Defense to purchase uranium through the 1950 Defense Production Act.View
When President Donald Trump's defenders aren't simply lying about the House impeachment inquiry — it all happened in a Capitol Hill basement with no Republicans present, as one of his lawyers told National Public Radio — they complain about the lack of firsthand witnesses to presidential abuse. They assume nobody will notice that Trump himself forbid any testimony by those with the most direct knowledge of his attempts to extort Ukraine.View
Sen. Rand Paul just wrote a book, "The Case Against Socialism." I thought that case was already decided, since socialist countries failed so spectacularly. But the idea hasn't died, especially amongst the young.View
As we approach the new year, I have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season.
As you likely know, it is the mission of the Department of Tourism to inspire travelers to experience Wisconsin.View
It's almost — almost — hard to remember all the abuses enacted against the people of Wisconsin more than a decade ago by the administrative state during the regime of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle and his bureaucratic allies.View
Whenever President Donald Trump is caught doing wrong, he answers with categorical denial and a fervent claim that he was wronged. Almost since the day he won election in November 2016, that is how Trump and his minions in politics and media have sought to obscure the glaring and indecent fact that he was sponsored by a Russian dictator who remains deeply hostile to our country.View
The Trump administration reached a deal with House Democrats this week over a new trade agreement to replace the dreaded NAFTA, and, assuming the deal holds up and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is ratified, it deserves two cheers.View
Why are Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi teaming together to lobby for a tax bill that would provide about 80% of the benefits to Americans who make more than $100,000 a year?View
Congress and the media obsess endlessly over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached. Both ignore $23 trillion of bigger problems.View
Nobody on Capitol Hill rants more fervently about imaginary conspiracies than Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and devoted congressional promoter of Trumpian nonsense.View
Oneida County has a big decision to make, and taxpayers should look closely at what they choose to do.View
Washington do-goodism almost always fails to help the people it is supposed to because politicians ignore the Law of Unintended Consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than when it comes to a congressional plan to put payday lenders and other short-term lending institutions, such as the burgeoning online lenders, out of business.View
Hollywood is now obsessing about increasing ethnic and gender diversity. Good. There's been nasty racial and gender discrimination in the movie business. Unfortunately, Hollywood has no interest in one type of diversity: diversity of thought.View
Only a week ago we opined in these pages about the terrible state of open government in the Northwoods, in Wisconsin, and indeed across the entire country. We wrote then that open government was in trouble, with a capital T, and we still believe it is.View
In listening to the Democratic presidential debates, we might conclude that "Medicare for All" is a legislative possibility. It is not, and any presidential candidate with a scintilla of self-respect must admit that fact.View
"How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!" insisted teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction!"View
We begin this week by quoting the words of the immortal Harold Hill in "The Music Man": "Friend, either you're closing your eyes To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated …. Well, ya got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in River City." Well, to echo the fictional professor Hill, we've got big trouble in Wisconsin, and it's worse and later than most people think.View
Every single plausible Democratic candidate for president has endorsed tax increases as a centerpiece of their economic agenda. Think about what we are hearing from Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and the rest of the "Punch and Judy" show: new wealth taxes, carbon taxes, energy taxes, higher death and income taxes with rates up to 70%. Payroll taxes would rise to pay for Social Security benefit expansions and Medicare for All.View
Governments create problems. Then they complain about them.View
Instead of watching Fox News, which manufactures heroic propaganda about President Donald Trump, Republican voters could learn much more from seeing a few hours of Russian television. It is on shows broadcast from Moscow and St. Petersburg where the truth about the Trump administration can be heard.View
Oneida County approved a 2020 budget this week that, when it comes to the property tax levy, was pretty benign.View
First, a full admission about this article: I originally sent a version of it to The Washington Post for publication, but for reasons that will become obvious as you read on, they rejected it.View


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I did make a couple of blocks to contribute to the cause, but I also decided to finish a few quilts. Today, I would like to share my first #quiltsforqc finished quilt.
I just love those house blocks - I love how different they all are... some pretty modern and some more traditional. The variety of fabrics and patterns used just makes each house so unique. I had such a good time piecing the blocks together and then quilting and finishing it.
Some of the houses have cute little details such as this fun window:
And this fun tree:
I decided to keep the quilting simple and fast so went with my wavy horizontal lines. I really do love using this quilting design for a fast finish.
The Montreal MQG's April sew-in is this Saturday and we're having a basting party! So I'm pretty sure I'll be taking more quilt sandwiches home with me to finish.
Quilt Stats:
- Pattern: House blocks by various designers
- Size: 60" x 60"
- Fabrics: Various
- Thread: I pieced and quilted the top with Aurifil #2021 50 wt
- Recipient: #quiltsforqc initiative
I will linking up at Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday and at Celtic Thistle Stitches for TGIFF.
Also, if you're participating in the 2017 FAL, don't forget to link up your finishes here. While you're there, check out the tutorials the different FAL hosts put together for tutorial week.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is headed toward a significant milestone in which more of its residents are senior citizens than school-aged.
State Demographer Susan Brower told a panel of top legislators on Monday that Minnesota is on course to reach that point in 2020. It represents the point when those older than 65 years are a bigger share of the state population than those between 5 and 17 years old.
The demographic trends are important because they suggest where future budget pressures lie. Medical and long-term care costs the state subsidizes are already rising fast, crowding out available money for other things. And more retirees mean fewer income tax dollars will be coming in.
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For those who have been counting, this is the 140th post of the "In Transition: A Search For A New Home" blog. Thanks to WordPress and Posterous I have had the opportunity to touch all angles of what it takes to search for a new position in these difficult times while also hopefully providing some experiences and techniques that may assist others in finding their new employment opportunity.
I must admit that this blog has been therapeutic and cathartic. It has truly been a remarkable opportunity to share with all what has become a nearly daily chapter of my life. Though I have heard from numerous readers who have found value in what I have written, I must admit that I believe above all, that the 100,000 words have been personally beneficial because more often than not, this blog gave me the motivation to persevere.
What is so startling is the number of people who I actually heard from; prompted by these posts. I have interacted with numerous people who are in much worse states than any of us would like to admit exists in today's society. Individuals who have come to the point that though they are multi-talented have currently nowhere to turn. Individuals who not so long ago where at the peak of their game, now finding themselves worrying about where tomorrow is going to take them. Individuals who had everything going for themselves until a downturn in the economy made the journey so much more difficult.
I am sincerely overwhelmed if my words have assisted any of those individuals who find themselves in such a predicament. It is the least any of us can do during these trying times. I encourage others to provide a helping hand to those who aren't looking for a hand-out but encouragement and understanding for a condition that you too could be experiencing, but by the "Grace of God."
If I have learned anything during this transition, it has been perspective and humility. Perspective for what is important in life and the balance of work and family. It is absolutely amazing how simple things can make your day and how a phone call or a visit from friends and family can make your life so much better. Thankfully we aren't talking death or illness here, but having people around us who encourage and care can take us all a long way toward that ultimate goal post!
The reason why I am talking in the past tense is that I am pleased (who am I kidding, I am excited beyond belief!) to announce that starting next month I will be returning to my native Chicago for a new position with a dynamic and robust trade association. It will be great to once again roam the streets of Chicago (except those January days when you need to cross the Michigan Avenue Bridge) and to be able to work side-by-side with a creative and encouraging industry leadership and a very capable and professional staff who are yearning for a new energy that will result in an even greater organization and additional value-added benefits for the membership.
Though demands will certainly be placed upon me in the next few months in my new position, I look forward to continuing to write about the topics that seem to have found a home with so many readers. I thank you for your support and encouragement and this is far from saying goodbye but rather it's a first chapter in an entirely new book!
Dan Borschke is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) who has been a CEO for 3 distinct trade associations in his career. He is one of only 230 Association Executives worldwide who has been granted the prestigious designation of Fellow (FASAE) by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) since 1986. He currently is between positions and has taken the opportunity to author more than 100,000 words or 140 blog postings on the topics of job search, career transition and association management.