» Milwaukee Rocks
(milwaukeerocks.com): Keep a beat on Milwaukee’s rising music scene with show schedules and band profiles.
» Miss Pronouncer
(misspronouncer.com): With all those German, Polish and Native American names, this state is a speech therapist’s nightmare. Check here for how to pronounce everything Wisconsin.
» Milwaukee Jobs
(milwaukeejobs.com): Recession or not, a great source for job searches. Just remember to leave that banking job off your resume.
» Wisconsin Circuit Court Access
(wcca.wicourts.gov): Is your landlord, tenant, sweetheart or boss a criminal? Check the court records and find out.
» Marquette Interchange Project
(mchange.org): A commuter’s bible for the concrete maze of endless construction on the not-so-freeway.
» Milwaukee Happy Hour
(milwaukeehappyhour.com): Forget your troubles, c’mon get happy. Find all the drink and snack specials you can handle at numerous local watering holes, then raise a glass to the Web site.
» Metro Milwaukee
(metromilwaukee.org): Pretty much anything positive ever written about this metro area can be found here. It would make you want to move here, if you weren’t already here. The site also has its own gift shop.
» Milwaukeepedia
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee): Encyclopedic local knowledge can be yours. Wow your friends with interesting facts such as this: In 1910, Milwaukee was tied with New York City for the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in America.
» Visit Milwaukee
(visitmilwaukee.org): Don’t feel like playing tour guide to your out-of-town relatives? Just send them to this site to discover all the hottest (and a few not-so-hot) sights.
» Milwaukee Public Library’s Journal Sentinel Database
(mpl.org/File/magsandnews_index.htm): Lets you get around the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s pesky practice of charging to find articles older than 14 days. Way to stick it to big media.
» OnMilwaukee
(onmilwaukee.com): Not very user friendly, but Milwaukee’s only daily magazine has lots of updates on local entertainment, sports and so on.
» Milwaukee Magazine
(milwaukeemagazine.com): All modesty aside, the town’s best site for dining information. Honest. Some other good stuff, too.
» Traffic Information
(dot.wisconsin.gov): Use this to avoid traffic jams on the way home Or, as gas prices continue their insane rise, find information on public transportation.
» Department of Natural Resources
(dnr.wi.gov): Camping reservations, hunting and fishing permits, parks, forests, wetlands and the always-popular “Spring Turkey Hunting Zones.”
» Wisconsin Weather
(wisconline.com/weather): Everybody talks about the weather, but this site does something about it. Up-to-date information on our ever-changing climate.
» Politics
(wispolitics.com): Indispensable for political junkies, with all the blow-by-blow of local and state politics. And its wisopinion.com offers blogs by every right-wing and left-wing bloviator in Badgerland.
» Sports
(insidewisconsinsports.com): Sports, sports and more sports, from high school to college to the pros. And if you want only the stuff – all the stuff – on high school sports, for boys and girls, in every sport, try the Wisconsin Sports Network (wissports.net).
