WI Bank Repays TARP

According to the article, this is the first of the seventeen WI banks who took TARP money to repay it.

Or something like that, my brain is a little scrambled at the moment. In any case, congratulations to First Manitowoc Bancorp Inc. for being the first to pay off their TARP investment.

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Public meeting today on U.S. 41/Wisconsin 29 interchange

Be nice if there were some yea-sayers mixed in with the naysayers.

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Speciation

"calling a Chihuahua a wolf is like calling someone at the Discovery Institute a scientist"

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Government Transparency & Data

Uncle Sam just put a bunch of stuff online. I haven't had a chance to sift through it yet. There must be something useful in there.

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Useful Invisible Ink Pen?

Kinda cool if it works as advertised.

Property Taxes

IME, people really get in the faces of City and County officials when it comes to property taxes. This post is for those people. There are other lines on your property tax bills...

One of those line items just went up 3.3 percent and... "No one spoke at a public hearing that was held before the vote."

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Breathalyzer Source Code

I've heard about this trick where folks who get nabbed on DUIs and DWIs get the case thrown out by demanding to see the source code that the breathalyzer runs to measure the alcohol level. Companies usually refuse this request because source code is almost always a tightly held trade secret for proprietary applications. (As opposed to open source applications where the code is available so others can make adaptations and review the functionality.)

The code for the "DRAEGER ALCOTEST 7110 MKIII-C" device was submitted for analysis and the summary paragraph of the report says, "There is no doubt that the Supreme Court should declare this machine to be unreliable. If this happens, based on an agreement entered into over 4 years ago between the State and Draeger, the taxpayers of New Jersey can recover the almost $7 million spent on these machines."

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