Check out today’s Wisconsin State Journal – Daybreak section – for an article about free wireless Internet access at the Madison Public Library’s Central branch. According to the article, the Central Library has offered access …
Month: February 2005
Google Uncle Sam for .GOV & .MIL sites
Not exactly news – it’s been around as long as Google itself. But did you know that Google Uncle Sam is a specialized tool for searching government (.gov) and military (.mil) web sites? Google Uncle …
Milwaukee County Court Statistics
The February issue of the MBA Messenger contains experts from a statistical report prepared by the Milwaukee County Clerk of Court Administrative Support Division staff. According to the report, Milwaukee Co. Circuit Court experienced a …
More Tales of Bloodshed from Wisconsin Law Makers
Not exactly your typical legislative history. Odd Wisconsin gives us another tale of bloodshed – this time from Wisconsin’s own territorial legislature. Frustration and animosity is said to be running high among legislators these days, …
Battles in Legal Publishing
It is an interesting time in the legal publishing industry – Big Guys (Lexis, Westlaw) v. Little Guys (Loislaw, Versuslaw, etc.) & Print v. Online. This month’s issue of Washington Lawyer has an excellent article …
Best Search Tools
How do the top search engines stack up? What type of content do they search? What are their features? Infopeople has recently updated its useful Best Search Tools Chart. In addition to providing information about …
Guides to Wisconsin Legislators
The Legislative Reference Bureau has recently published three guides to Wisconsin legislators in their Wisconsin Briefs series. Compensation of Wisconsin Legislators (Brief 05-2) Profile of the 2005 Wisconsin Legislature (Brief 05-3) Wisconsin Women Legislators – …
Free, Live Help for Government Information Questions
As anyone who has performed this type of research knows, searching for government information can be tricky. But thanks to Government Information Online (GIO), it just got a little easier. GIO is a national pilot …
WI State Officer List / Biographies & Elected Official Salaries
The Legislative Reference Bureau has prepared some information publications about Wisconsin officers and electronic officials. The first is a listing of state officers with contact information. The second offers brief biographical information about each state …
WI Judge/Congressman in Fist Fight on Floor of Congress
Today’s Odd Wisconsin reminds us that things sometimes got a bit heated – and bloody – on the floor of the U.S. Congress back in the 1800s. A bloody melee broke out on February 8, …