Year: 2005

According to the City of Milwaukee Web site, the Common Council’s legislative information program (Legistar) has been upgraded and has a new location. To look up Council Files, point your browser to legistar.milwaukee.gov/mattersearch. For an up-to-date list of Council and committee meetings, agendas and minutes, please visit legistar.milwaukee.gov/calendar. For information about the various boards and …

From JS Online: Inspired by the movie “Calendar Girls,” in which the members of a stuffy British women’s club pose semi-nude for a charity calendar, six Waupaca-area library administrators have produced “Desperate Librarians,” a sexy but tasteful calendar they’re selling to raise money for their libraries. Not sure what to say about this one, so …

What on the schedule for this fall’s legislative session? According to JS Online: Among the dozens of pieces of legislation are bills that would allow residents to carry concealed weapons; prevent University of Wisconsin System students from receiving emergency contraception; enable doctors and pharmacists to object on moral grounds to performing certain procedures; and create …

In the mood for a good laugh? Check out “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture,” a new book by UW Law School’s own professor Marc Galanter. From Channel3000: Galanter says lawyer jokes seem to be oddly American, and his book traces legal history trends back to the 1950s. “Law was seen as a …

The State Bar of Wisconsin has created a page offering guidance on how Wisconsin’s legal community can help those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Looks for updates to the page as more information becomes available.

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Adobe Acrobat is offering a handful of free e-books, some full content and some excerpted. The books are available for free download in PDF format. Selected fiction titles include Dracula, The Princess Diaries, Jane Eyre, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Goodbye Summer, and more. Nonfiction titles include The Million Dollar Crossword Dictionary and Tour …

Findlaw’s The Practice Paper notes that there are two new lawyer tv series on the schedule this season. The Rocky Mount Telegram offers details: “Head Cases,” starring onetime movie “It” boy Chris O’Donnell (“Batman Forever”) as an ambitious corporate attorney whose breakdown lands him in a treatment facility and then in a decidedly unglamorous practice …

If you’ve ever tried to locate one, you know that finding copies of TV and radio news transcripts and recordings can be fairly difficult. These three sources, however, may have just what you need. Vanderbilt TV News Archive Contains more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, …

Journal Sentinel state political reporters Steven Walters, Stacy Forster and Patrick Marley are blogging about happenings around the capitol at Capitol Bureau: State Politics. In the back-to-school spirit, they challenged readers to take a 2005-06 Wisconsin Blue Book quiz. Can you identify which legislator wore an Air Force bomber jacket for his official Blue Book …