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Wauwatosa. The gift that keeps giving to conservative journalists.  Despite international mockery, the City of Wauwatosa has gone ahead and lit up City Hall in green and BLUE lights for Christmas to avoid offending people. Yes, it's for real. After seeing a tweet by the page @wokatosa on the topic, we had a Wauwatosa resident check it out for us to confirm the information, and it's true. Wauwatosa City Hall is lit up with green and blue lights. The front of City Hall remains light-free. However, it's the back of City Hall's government building, the one city workers use to enter the building, that now shines green and blue for Christmas. This follows the suggestion in an email Deputy City Administrator Melissa Weiss sent to city workers, imploring them to adopt inclusive and neutral Christmas colors such as green and blue. In that email, she suggested they avoid using red and green Christmas colors. She asked that departments “refrain from using religiou...

The PSC recently rejected MGE’s request to end net metering. MGE proposed to drastically reduce payments (credits) to property owners who installed new solar arrays - thereby making solar installations infeasible. (MGE claimed that they would maintain the same credit level to existing solar customers, but I wouldn’t have bet on that.) Net metering - that’s the term used to describe when the utility company provides a credit to property owners for solar energy delivered back to the electric company. Let me explain how this all works… The only way that installing solar arrays makes any financial sense is if the utility company credits solar customers at the same rate that the utility charges for electricity (and you also receive a tax credit to reduce upfront costs). Even with fully-funded solar credits and tax credits, the solar credits barely cover the cost of the monthly debt service payments on the loan used to acquire the solar equipment. Solar makes no sense in any Wisconsi...

Tony Evers has a secret state email account appropriating the name of a dead baseball legend, but he doesn't think the public has a right to know about it. Gov. Tony Evers has been communicating with state workers about public business using a secret government email account in the name of a deceased Milwaukee Braves baseball legend, and over 17,000 emails sent to and from the account exist on a government server, Wisconsin Right Now has exclusively documented. But the governor's office thinks the public has no right to know the account's name. We verified it, first through a source who saw communications between Evers and a state worker, and then through the open records request, which provided other details that verified it, even though the address was blacked out. We can reveal: Gov. Evers writes various state workers and cabinet secretaries using the account " warren.spahn@wisconsin.gov, " a state email account in the name of the Braves' legend....

The district has 200 languages spoken across the district. The Denver school district is among the first in the country to adopt a “language justice” policy as a "long term goal." The district would encourage non-English speaking students to be able to use their native language to learn as opposed to being educated in English, which advocates say is oppressive and rooted in racism. Denver schools had about 90,250 students in 2022 with 35,000 multilingual learners with home languages other than English. The district has 200 languages spoken across the district, with Spanish as the home language for the majority of those. The district included a draft of an equity document that includes a policy statement on "language justice." It was included in the Nov. 16 school board agenda . The document includes this definition for "language justice": "The notion of respecting every individual's fundamental language rights – to be able to communicat...

Wisconsin Right Now has learned from multiple sources that former Attorney General Brad Schimel will be running against left-wing Justice Ann Walsh-Bradley for state Supreme Court. Schimel is expected to make the announcement on November 30 in Waukesha, where he is a sitting circuit court judge. https://x.com/wisconsin_now/status/1728260568782639230?s=20 [caption id="attachment_156405" align="alignleft" width="233"] Brad Schimel[/caption] As a former state Attorney General and a former Waukesha County District Attorney, Schimel will bring immediate tough-on-crime public safety cred to the contest against an incumbent who has elevated the rights of criminal defendants over those of crime victims. Walsh Bradley was the ONLY justice to vote against a sweeping victims’ rights amendment known as Marsy’s Law. She would have invalidated the votes of more than 1.1 million Wisconsinites who authorized the sweeping victims’ rights amendment because she...

Here are some Black Friday deals that we want to buy for 2023. In no particular order. Deal 1: Uggs Boots We want these Uggs. Our kid wants them more. $64.98 for Uggs? Deal 2: iPhone fast charging block We always lose these. Deal 3: Ms. Pacman Arcade Game The 80s are calling. They want their Ms. Pacman game back. Or if you prefer... Deal 4: Ancestry DNA Kit One of us has already done this. The other one of us wants to. Deal 5: Gap Sweatshirt Looks comfy. Deal 6: Adidas tennis shoes These look nice. Or these! Deal 7: Women's hiding boots One of us would wear these. Or for men: Deal 8: Wine carafe. This is nifty Deal 9: Soda organizer Could definitely use this. Deal 10: TV In case you need a TV. Because everyone on Black Friday wants a TV. Deal 11: Drill We don't need this, but we kind of want it anyway. Deal 12: Christmas tree Yeah, it's better to cut it down, but... ...

It’s that time of year again, when Christmas decorations and lights go up, making things merry and bright everywhere. When you think of Christmas, what comes to mind? Holiday cheer, joy to the world, getting together with family, Christmas carols, hope, Jesus…Satan? If you thought that I meant to spell Santa and mixed up the letters, you would be wrong. Apparently, the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay felt it was necessary to have a tree representing the Satanic Temple of Wisconsin in their Festival of Trees display this year. In the current state of our society, where anything and everything must be accepted in order to be “inclusive” at the expense of exposing our children to inappropriate content, even Satan needs his own display at a “family friendly” event. So why was a Christmas tree for the Satanic Temple approved to be on display at the museum? Museum CEO Jacqueline Frank said in an interview with NBC 26 that “since the trees don't promote hate, violence, or dr...