Sightings
Three Bedrooms, A Fireplace, Two or More Baths: 2011 Cost, $272,900
Jim Blandings as played by Cary Grant: "It's a conspiracy, I tell you. The minute you start they put you on the all-American sucker list. You start out to build a home and wind up in the poorhouse. And if it can happen to me, what about the guys who aren't making $15,000 a year?" more »
George Soros On the European Union: A “fantastic object” – unreal but immensely attractive
The authorities didn’t understand the nature of the euro crisis; they thought it is a fiscal problem while it is more of a banking problem and a problem of competitiveness. And they applied the wrong remedy: you cannot reduce the debt burden by shrinking the economy, only by growing your way out of it. more »
League of Women Voters of Florida v. Browning: Blocking Enforcement of A Restrictive Voting Law
The Justice Department will monitor elections on June 5th in the following jurisdictions to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes: Alameda, Fresno and Riverside Counties, CA.; Cibola and Sandoval Counties, NM; Shannon County, SD; and the city of Milwaukee. Complaints may be reported to the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division at 1-800-253-3931. more »
Oooh-La-La: Posters of Paris
Exhibition celebrates the art of Toulouse-Lautrec and the Paris Belle Époque. Posters of Paris resurrects the boulevards of nineteenth-century France
This summer, the Milwaukee Art Museum transports visitors to nineteenth-century Paris with its featur… more »