U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will hold his first listening sessions of 2009 in Washington and Ozaukee Counties on Monday, January 5.

His Washington County listening session will be held at 7:45 a.m. at the Farmington Town Hall, 9422 State Road 144, Town of Farmington.

 His Ozaukee County listening session will be held at 9:45 a.m. at the Belgium Village Hall, 195 Commerce Street, Belgium.

Each meeting will last up to an hour.

Iraq Moratorium LogoJoin us for the Iraq Moratorium event in Menomonie,WI.  The event will run from 4 PM until 5 PM in the Veterans Memorial in front of the Menomonie Market Co-op.  Please bring signs.

 

Please contact Steve Hanson - shanson [at] uppitywis [dot] org.

Location

“Imagine a way to take cow manure and
turn it into electricity. Imagine taking a something we need to get
rid of on the farm and turning it into something that makes money.
Imagine a way to create manufacturing jobs in Western Wisconsin and
keep our environment clean.”

This is message I brought to several
hundred dairy farmers gathering in Madison this past week. I know it
sounds like science fiction, but it is a real world technology that
has a lot of people excited. It’s called anaerobic digestion.

We have a lot of cows in Wisconsin-
about 1.3 million of them and they generate a lot of manure.
Managing that manure is often a challenge for farmers. Some dairy
farmers have discovered installing anaerobic digesters on their farms
is a whole new way to deal with their cow manure.

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Cory Liebmann (formerly of One Wisconsin Now) blogs about politics and his own personal muse in Wisconsin.

Spencer Black is once again going to be the chair of the state Natural Resources committee .  Years of Republican control of politics in this state and in the nation have almost made me forget what it is like to put people in charge of the environment who actually know and care about it. 

I could get used to this.  I hope to have  a chance to do so.

12th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival, presented by Community Action on Latin America, at Monona Terrace.  The fair trade fair is a place to buy locally made and crafted holiday gifts. Also available - locally grown produce, pies and more.  Wis. Network for Peace and Justice will be selling holiday peace wreaths, too. 

An interesting article today from The Hill speculates that the new head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could be our own  senator, Russ Feingold. Sounds good to us.

This 2.5 day training, running from 2-9pm Friday, 9am-6pm Saturday, and 9am-3:30pm Sunday, combines lectures from highly experienced trainers, stimulating exercises, and interactive simulations. We're counting on you to organize around issues that matter, help build campaigns for the future, and elect progressive candidates to office.

Camp Wellstone is divided into three tracks:

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The polling place in Middleton was closed around 3 PM due to a bomb threat.  Voters were asked to vote at an alternative polling place, and we have heard that poll workers are seeking an extension of voting time for the poll.

Meanwhile, up here in Downsville, WI, my voting was totally straightforward, with short lines and no problems.

We'll be starting coverage of the election returns at 7 PM.  You can join in with live blogging and commenting then. We're still moving around the information and looking for new sources - you can see the preview here.  

Reports on voting waits are starting to come in, and so far things seem to be looking good. - Well, they'd be looking good if the votereport.org servers were actually working - it looks like they've been clobbered by load and our maps are not updating.  Sigh.