Meet Gregory Peck
By GREG PECK - Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
Here's what it's like living with a famous name.
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Are Ryan, Feingold doing enough to focus on deficit?
By GREG PECK - Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
In the last few weeks, Congressman Paul Ryan and Sen. Russ Feingold
have unveiled their own plans to solve the mounting federal deficit. This
will the subject of the Gazette's editorial Sunday.
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Look out for dem der deer
By GINA DUWE - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
I can tell it's fall by the number of car-deer crashes in my daily Green County log.
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Should the city of Milton subsidize a taxi service?
By GREG PECK - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
The city of Milton has sent out a "request for proposals" to start a taxi service. An analysis estimates that city taxpayers would pay $15,000 in first-year costs. This is the subject of the Gazette's editorial Friday.
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This trade-in seems to be a real "clunker"
By GREG PECK - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
A story on Page 8B of today's Gazette about the Cash for Clunkers program was a real eye-opener.
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The Best Form of Defense?
By KENDRA BURNS - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Have any of you done this, or even thought about it in the middle of a store aisle?
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O, Autumn In Milton!
By JIM LYKE - Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
O, autumn in Milton/An amazing time!/The events of October/Presented in rhyme!
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Was Warner's flight really Wisconsin's first?
By GREG PECK - Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
Today, Beloit is marking 100 years since A.P. Warner of Beloit became the first person to fly an airplane in Wisconsin. But was he really the first?
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A message for Mother Nature
By GREG PECK - Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
For our editorial Thursday, we'll deliver a message to Mother Nature. It will urge her to turn off the spigot for a while and to have mercy on us this winter.
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Weapon of Choice
By BETH WHEELOCK - Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
There is only one thing to put me in a better mood.
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What can we learn from school district's computer mess?
By GREG PECK - Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
The Janesville School District’s former information technology manager is wanted on suspicion of buying computer software from companies that he or a friend owned. This will be the subject of the Gazette's editorial Wednesday.
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Now serving breakfast at Roosevelt School…
By GREG PECK - Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
Among those serving cereal and toast, milk and juice to kids at Janesville’s Roosevelt School with St. John Vianney Catholic Church volunteers this week is yours truly.
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Unleashing the power of youth on Janesville
By BETH WHEELOCK - Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
A shameless plug for Thursday's Young Professionals event. Shameless, I tell you!
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Do state lawmakers deserve a break?
By GREG PECK - Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
The Legislature’s “floor period” is scheduled to end Thursday. Unless Gov. Jim Doyle calls lawmakers back for a special session on education, the full Senate and Assembly aren’t scheduled to return until Jan. 19. That is the subject of Tuesday’s Gazette editorial.
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Neither snow nor rain nor ... budget cuts?
By GREG PECK - Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
It was interesting to read today’s Gazette story about changes at Janesville’s post office. At my house, we’ve noticed.
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Vanishing Halloween Candy: Is the Switch Witch to Blame?
By DANA PETERSEN MURPHY - Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
Tonight, the streets are empty of little ladybugs, dragons, ghosts, and vampires.The costumes have been put away and the mad rush of Halloween parties and trick or treating is over. Now comes the question: what to do with all the leftover candy? Before we ventured out onto the streets of ...
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Will economic development initiative help Rock County?
By GREG PECK - Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
Leaders in the private and public sectors have announced an initiative called Rock County 5.0. Will it be able to help return prosperity to our communities? This is the subject of Sunday's Gazette editorial.
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What smells? Something marmorated.
By CATHERINE IDZERDA - Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
A new pest might be heading our way, and it’s got a fabulous name: The brown marmorated stink bug. That's marmorated, not marmaladed, which is what you do to toast. Marmorated means “veined or streaked like marble,” according to Webster’s. The November Wisconsin Master Gardener Newsletter notes that the brown ...
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Is city's "urban forest" adequate?
By GREG PECK - Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
The Janesville Shade Tree Advisory Committee has issued a new report after surveying our community's "urban forest." It will be the subject of the Gazette's editorial Saturday.
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Brett Favre should shut his mouth.
By GREG PECK - Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
Here's hoping that Favre's words come back to haunt him Sunday, and that he's too weary to talk much after the game at Lambeau.
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