NASA has it wrong?

"Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track"

He doesn't pull any punches... "The ­agency’s current Vision for Space Exploration will waste decades and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to reach the moon by 2020—a glorified rehash of what we did 40 years ago."

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Word Choice Matters

Dear Representative Hoekstra,

FYI, word choice matters.

Regards,

Dan

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Kids Day!

Happy Kids Day in Green Bay everyone!

Press Gannette Coverage

Channel 2 Coverage

A bunch more.

From free movies to free dental care to free lunch with the Packers there are all kinds free stuff for kids in our city today. Get your bracelets from your Neighborhood Association, Resource Center or Green Bay staff people stationed throughout the city.

Wish I could hit some events today but I'm working. Have a blast kids and adults alike!

AIDS Cure In Sight?

Since it's just in to the trails stage, one wonders if this headline isn't a bit optimistic. I hope not, it'd be so good to find a cure.

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Juneteenth

I'm trying to get to know my neighbors better, are you? Why not check out Juneteenth in Green Bay?

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Lost Neighborhoods

Scary. What a waste. Surely some of these homes could be put to use.

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Jobs in downtown Green Bay

Call center jobs aren't typically big money, but they do force the worker to learn people skills and often some technical knowledge. Both can be leveraged in to bigger and better opportunities. If you are still interested, APAC is hiring.

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People Supporting People...

...is coming to Green Bay November 4-6, 2009. I'm looking forward to it!

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Blacks abandon San Francisco

So says Michael B. Farrell of the CSM.

The perceptions, economic and other factors that cause people to locate or relocate are interesting to me.

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Cheffettas Out of Business

Dang. I liked Cheffettas.

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Electronic Voting Machines Fail Again

5K votes off in three precincts almost forces run off. I wonder what went wrong? Hardware error? Software error? Wetware error?

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Business, Tax Rates, and Jobs

How is it possible our trade agreements and tax policy failed to take this in to account? It's gotta be fixed.

Here's a brief, more general perspective with the same conclusion.

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Helping the Visually Impaired See Better

Some folks from Oz figured out how to regrow damaged corneas using stem cells.

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20 years since Tiananmen

Wil Wheaton says it well, I think.

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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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