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...town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
Other American AIDS Rides include trips in California, Washington, D.C., Texas, and Wisconsin to Chicago...
Stories like Bellinger's are making minority businesses even more wary of hitching their success to the vagaries of government. For many, though, the prospect of snagging huge federal and municipal contracts is too tempting to pass up. For example, the Wisconsin state legislature authorized $160 million in public funds toward a new baseball stadium in Milwaukee, with 25% of the funds for development, construction and professional services earmarked for minority businesses and 5% for female-owned companies...
When Donna Shalala became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1988, the school's alumni and friends told her that in order to raise $400 million for a capital campaign, she would have to learn to play golf. There was no substitute, it seemed, for hitting up potential donors on the links. The university arranged for her to go to golf school for a week. "I had never had a golf club in my hand," says Shalala, now Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services--and one of the few Cabinet officers with...
...maybe there isn't a deeper correlation between living in Pittsburgh and depression. Jeers abound. Some wag posts something he found elsewhere online: a list of the Top 10 Reasons Why the Internet Makes You Depressed. "Reason No. 1: She was *really* a 14-year-old boy from Sheboygan, Wisconsin!" Ha ha--way to steal someone else's idea and get credit for it. Did I mention that I spend a lot of time online...