Back in the day (the 1990’s), Wild Wings Way LLC published an all Rock County magazine called, ontheRock. The goal of the publication was to tell only good news, share the stories of the people and the small businesses of the area and to be the first publication to cover and deliver to all towns in the county. It was created by a handful of freelance folk, designed and published out of our farm house in Johnstown. Our company jumped into the wacky world of the web in 2007, expanding the same goals of the magazine, launching the DiscoverontheRock eNeighborhood www.discoverontherock.com, ambitiously setting a goal to bring all the 17 communities of the Rock River Basin together for the first time. This continues to be an exciting work in progress.
Even though the newspaper and print industry is rapidly declining under the pressure of the digital age, we’ve always believed that even though technology is cool and fun, people naturally love to touch stuff, have things laying around the house, and collect things. The problem with print is that it often focuses on bad news and it relies on dollars from advertisers, but rarely tells their stories.
We are honored and thrilled to bring our print theory to Whitewater! The pages of this first edition of The Whitewater Press share stories about ten local businesses we believe you’ll visit, now that you know about the people who own them. We’re also honored to host ten on-going columns by local celebrities and who’s who. Thanks so very much to everyone who has supported The Press. You so Rock!
Our first print edition was delivered all over the Greater Whitewater area the end of June. Our page turning digital edition went up the first part of July and all of our advertisers who added the web component, had their banner ads added to www.discoverwhitewaterwisconsin.com as of July 19th!
We encourage you to visit these amazing businesses. Enjoy! ~jer & Linda
www.thewhitewaterpress.com
Monday, July 19, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
WOW! The First Issue of The Whitewater Press!
WOW! Welcome to the Premier Issue of The Whitewater Press!
Summer / Fall 2010 ~ Volume 1 / Issue 1
Back in the day (the 1990’s), Wild Wings Way LLC published an all Rock County magazine called, ontheRock. The goal of the publication was to tell only good news, share the stories of the people and the small businesses of the area and to be the first publication to cover and deliver to all towns in the county. It was created by a handful of freelance folk, designed and published out of our farm house in Johnstown. Our company jumped into the wacky world of the web in 2007, expanding the same goals of the magazine, launching the DiscoverontheRock eNeighborhood www.discoverontherock.com, ambitiously setting a goal to bring all the 17 communities of the Rock River Basin together for the first time. This continues to be an exciting work in progress.
Even though the newspaper and print industry is rapidly declining under the pressure of the digital age, we’ve always believed that even though technology is cool and fun, people naturally love to touch stuff, have things laying around the house, and collect things. The problem with print is that it often focuses on bad news and it relies on dollars from advertisers, but rarely tells their stories.
We are honored and thrilled to bring our print theory to Whitewater! The pages of this first edition of The Whitewater Press share stories about ten local businesses we believe you’ll visit, now that you know about the people who own them. We’re also honored to host ten on-going columns by local celebrities and who’s who. Thanks so very much to everyone who has supported The Press. You so Rock! We’re anxious to hear from you, our readers. Please take the time to email or write us your impression of our first effort, send ideas and suggestions. Just hop on over to: www.thewhitewaterpress.com
We will launch the digital, turn page edition at this web location in July.
The digital edition will be updated with lots of new stuff each month, for your reading pleasure! Make sure you subscribe to our eNews service on the site above, to keep on top of all the new good news! If you need printed copies of our Summer / Fall 2010 Issue, just email or call us and we will make sure you get what you need. Look for Issue 2 of The Whitewater Press in November!
Friday, March 26, 2010
A common sense way to fix Congress
This makes sense to me, how about you???
Congressional Reform Act of 2010
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
2. No Tenure / No Pension:
A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work..
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work..
Congressional Reform Act of 2010
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
2. No Tenure / No Pension:
A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work..
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work..
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Wisconsin State Capitol
Click on the title for more info!
Speaking of birthdays, Jer and I had a birthday date Friday and decided to hop up to Madison and tour the capitol and go to dinner. We missed the last guided tour of the day, so set out with the self tour guide to discover the most prominent building in our state. We all see it in the distance when we go to Madison, we walk around it when we are in the city, but how many of us have actually toured the building??? We thought it was way past time for us!
I love how the Universe works, cuz the first hall we choose to go down, brought is right to Kim Hixson's office door! Kim is our 43rd District Assembly Rep, and when I opened the door, there sat Jim Stoa, Kim's second hand guy! Jim and I worked together in the last presidential campaign and it had been awhile since we had seen each other. That was cool, but even better is Jim gave us a personal tour of the capitol!
It's pretty quiet at the capitol late Friday afternoon, and even more so as the Badgers had just lost, so most folks were nursing their bruises. But we had an awesome tour! The building is amazing! The history is fascinating! The art is humbling! And being able to actually step behind the Supreme Court Bench, stand at the Senate Speaker's Table and look down from the Assembly Platform, is inspiring. (Most of this is probably not on the regular tour!)
We met Senator Robson's staff and enjoyed her office. Jim was a terrific guide and we are grateful we missed the 'regular' tour, although I'm sure we would have learned more details and plan on taking it on another day.
If you have not taken the time to tour your state capitol, you should. For us, it helped to bring our pride in our state and our country back to center. We needed that. We all need that, especially now.
And it's free! So jump in your car and go to Madison. I know you will be glad you did! ~always, linda
Speaking of birthdays, Jer and I had a birthday date Friday and decided to hop up to Madison and tour the capitol and go to dinner. We missed the last guided tour of the day, so set out with the self tour guide to discover the most prominent building in our state. We all see it in the distance when we go to Madison, we walk around it when we are in the city, but how many of us have actually toured the building??? We thought it was way past time for us!
I love how the Universe works, cuz the first hall we choose to go down, brought is right to Kim Hixson's office door! Kim is our 43rd District Assembly Rep, and when I opened the door, there sat Jim Stoa, Kim's second hand guy! Jim and I worked together in the last presidential campaign and it had been awhile since we had seen each other. That was cool, but even better is Jim gave us a personal tour of the capitol!
It's pretty quiet at the capitol late Friday afternoon, and even more so as the Badgers had just lost, so most folks were nursing their bruises. But we had an awesome tour! The building is amazing! The history is fascinating! The art is humbling! And being able to actually step behind the Supreme Court Bench, stand at the Senate Speaker's Table and look down from the Assembly Platform, is inspiring. (Most of this is probably not on the regular tour!)
We met Senator Robson's staff and enjoyed her office. Jim was a terrific guide and we are grateful we missed the 'regular' tour, although I'm sure we would have learned more details and plan on taking it on another day.
If you have not taken the time to tour your state capitol, you should. For us, it helped to bring our pride in our state and our country back to center. We needed that. We all need that, especially now.
And it's free! So jump in your car and go to Madison. I know you will be glad you did! ~always, linda
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