Posted on April 6, 2009 by Ryan
This was a response I posted in a different post, but I think it needs to be out in the open so everybody gets an idea as to what’s going on…
Thanks Marshall. You did a good job of summing that up… But I’ll break it down a bit more….
The only person who has given up [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by Ryan
Good question!
I have been working over the past week or so trying to figure out where our website went. It looks like our domain name went dead; but as to why is a complete mystery to me. While I’m working on this technical glitch, the site can still be accessed via the working URL, but [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009 by Ryan
Well, I won’t get into the semantics of the past weeks, but I will say that I am (thankfully) still employed despite a major bump in the road here at work. So now that things have stabilized a bit, I can get back to business – and I do sincerely apologize to everybody for not [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Ryan
Thanks to Reason TV, I have updated our site with a couple of new videos. The first can be found on the front page:
http://banthebanwisconsin.com/
The second is on the “rights” page:
http://banthebanwisconsin.com/privateproperty.aspx
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Posted on November 17, 2008 by Ryan
Now that the election is over, we have updated the Scorecard (special thanks to Amy for doing this!) to reflect the current state of affairs. We don’t have all of the information since current office holders aren’t always willing to talk to us about their stance on the smoking ban… So if any of you [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2008 by Joey
Well, we pulled it off! In less than five days, Shawn and Sheila from Ban the Ban Minnesota and I threw together a presentation for the Conservative Issues Fair in Bloomington, Minnesota, and it was a great success!
Nearly 90% of the folks we spoke with said that they didn’t smoke, but they recognized that smoking [...]
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Posted on September 8, 2008 by Ryan
Some of youi may have noticed the LiveFree Kenosha button pop up on this blog over the weekend, so now I would like to officially introduce it.
To prove that we here at BtBWI have a sense of humor once in a while, I bought the domain www.livefreekenosha.info and opened up a new page with the [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by Joey
Lisa Loring from The Daily Kenoshan was at the city council meeting last night, and here’s what she had to say:
Kudos to the 3 RESPONSIBLE AND CONSCIENTIOUS aldermen who voted to defer this proposal for 90 days; Kathy Carpenter,Steve Casey, and Jesse Downing. The lone dissenter was also a sponsor of the ordinance, Michael Orth, [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by Joey
Here’s the latest from our friends over at The Daily Kenoshan:
KENOSHA – The Kenosha City Council committee proposing the all-out ban on public smoking in Kenosha has set the matter aside until their November meeting in order to give Aldermen the chance to study the matter further. More than a hundred people showed up, most [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2008 by Joey
Ban the Ban Wisconsin has found a new friend in our fight for property rights and freedom in Wisconsin: The Daily Kenoshan,
Lisa Loring, News Editor for TDK, and John Norquist, Publisher, have become official sponsors of our endeavors here at BtBWI.
In case you missed Lisa’s comment in our first Kenosha post, we’ll post it [...]
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