TommyLog – Oh @PostCrescent – The Storm You Started

Oh what a storm the @PostCrescent has started with what seemed like a harmless article in the Saturday edition of their newspaper. The president of the PC, Genia Lovett wrote a column titled “Post-Crescent journalists shouldn’t have signed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recall petitions” The piece really opens up a can of worms in my mind. This is such a polarizing article or editorial, not sure what to call it actually. The article leads with talk about journalistic integrity and transparency. The discussion about bias and what employees can and can’t do on their free time also touched upon. You MUST look at the comments.

I could not get enough of the comments, refreshing my browser several times a day to see the new ones. I spend a good part of the day calling and texting friends to see if they had seen the article and to get their take. I needed a second opinion to see if I was way off base thinking this was blowing up to be huge. Well I was not far off base at all.

All seemed well till I saw that this article written by Genia, was not really written by Genia. The same article showed up on the Green Bay and Fond du Lac newspapers also *facepalm*. OH NO!

I love the PC. I read it daily and have MANY great friends who work at the PC. I love what they do and how hard they work. This reflects so poorly on those great people!

Such food for thought about the constitutional rights of employees and then this…

What happened to transparency? Or is this the new transparency?

Sadly the message of the article is lost on the method in which it was distributed.

Read more here –> http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120324/APC0101/203240566/Genia-Lovett-column-Post-Crescent-journalists-shouldn-t-signed-Wisconsin-Governor-Scott-Walker-recall-petitions

 

TommyLog – I Support FVTC and TECHWORKS

If you know anything about me, you know that I’m passionate about so many things. Over the past few months, with my daughter exploring colleges, education is now one of my passions. Good schools are not hard to find, but good schools WHERE you need them are. In this day and age, we need to be surrounded by the best schools. New, well trained students are the lifeblood of our society and we need this expansion of Fox Valley Technical College.

Please VOTE YES on April 3rd

TommyLog – HUGE STORMS Hit Appleton, WI

WOW… it’s really amazing how a little wind can make such a big difference. Well the people of Appleton found out the hard way. I was watching the storms from my Green Bay local but knew it was bad when all my friend at the City Center were out of power. That’s pretty major stuff.

What I came home to, well you can see by the pics, not very pretty. THANKFULLY no losses of life or real damage other then some inconvenience. A power outage for a few hours and come tree cleanup, not a big deal. But our family is so blessed. Some families were out of power all weekend long. Make sure to thank the WE Energies guys for working so hard. They really pulled through this weekend for the peeps in Appleton.

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TommyLog – Fox Cities Future 15 @thrivewithsarah

Last night i was an invited guest of Sarah Schneider for the Fox Cities Future 15 Young professional awards night held at Outer Edge. What a great space for an awards banquet. it is a converted church now a small performance hall. Well the real reason I was there was to pay tribute to the Future 15 and Sarah. Little did I know that there was going to be one big winner of the night and IT WAS SARAH!!! How exciting. Sarah is such a rock star and all of you who know the know exactly what I’m talking about. CONGRATULATIONS SARAH!!

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Our Day in a 2011 Ford Explorer

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Greg and Tommytrc highball around Appleton in a new 2011 Ford Explorer lent to use by Kayser Automotive Group Stoughton. Win a chance to drive the baby for a week to see your own slice of Wisconsin. Check out the facebook page and twitter for more info. Follow-us at @KayserStoughton on twitter and Kayser Automotive Group Stoughton on facebook.

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