A series of national and local political figures attended President BARACK OBAMA’S Labor Day speech, including Dem gubernatorial candidate and Milwaukee Mayor TOM BARRETT, U.S. Transportation Secretary RAY LaHOOD, AFL-CIO President RICH TRUMKA, Labor Secretary HILDA SOLIS, U.S. Sen. HERB KOHL, D-Milwaukee, and U.S. Rep. GWEN MOORE, D-Milwaukee.
U.S. Rep. PAUL RYAN, R-Janesville, NIGER INNIS of the Congress of Racial Equality and Fox Business host JOHN STOSSEL will be among the speakers at a Racine Tea Party town hall event on the economy Saturday. See details: http://wispolitics.com/index.Iml?Article=209276
Former Milwaukee Mayor JOHN NORQUIST, president of the Congress for New Urbanism in Chicago, will deliver this year’s PAUL OFFNER Lecture on Sept. 23 at UW-Madison’s Pyle Center. He will address "Urbanism and the Value of Cities."
MARIA CADENAS, executive director of Milwaukee-based LGBT group Cream City Foundation, will be presented with the Young Alumni Award from Beloit College at a ceremony later this month. See the announcement: http://wispolitics.com/index.Iml?Article=209109
DPI Superintendent TONY EVERS has named CLAUDIA FELSKE, an English teacher at East Troy High School, as Wisconsin’s High School Teacher of the Year for 2010-11. As part of the award, Felske will receive $3,000 from the HERB KOHL Educational Foundation. See more: http://wispolitics.com/1006/100908_East_Troy.pdf
State Children and Families Secretary REGGIE BICHA has appointed RON HUNT to the position of deputy secretary. He will also serve as co-chairman of the Milwaukee Child Care Anti-Fraud Task Force. See more: http://wispolitics.com/index.Iml?Article=209088
Supreme Court Justice ANTONIN SCALIA spoke at Marquette University’s new law school building, urging law professors not to neglect teaching for getting papers published.
A Refocus Wisconsin luncheon sponsored by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Sept. 23 in Milwaukee will feature UW-Madison professor KEN GOLDSTEIN and AARON BROWN, a former TV reporter and now the Walter Cronkite professor of journalism at Arizona State University. See more: http://www.refocuswisconsin.org/reservations.
