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Badgers are Big Ten Underdogs

July 27, 2009 By

The Wisconsin Badger football team will play the 2009 football season as an underdog in the Big Ten.

According to the Big Ten media at the conference's football media day, Ohio State is the team to beat, again!

The results were announced today with Penn State serving as runner-up and Michigan State third.  Media members are only asked to vote for the top 3 and the Badgers weren't among that group.

Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was selected as the preseason offensive player of the year and Michigan State linebacker Greg Jones was singled out on defense.  The Buckeyes will be searching for their 5th straight Big Ten Conference title.

 

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Badgers receive commitments from two in-state players

July 27, 2009 By

Two state players have committed to the Wisconsin Badgers 2010 football recruiting class.  Milwaukee Marquette safety Michael Trotter and Brookfield Central tailback Jeff Lewis committed to the Badgers making seven now, the number of in-state players for 2010.  That's two more than Wisconsin signed in its 2009 class from inside state lines.

 

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Day baseball is no sure thing for Brewers

July 27, 2009 By

There's that saying that the only things you can really count on is death and taxes.  I think you can add to that list by including a Milwaukee Brewers loss when they play a day game.

The Brewers fell to the Atlanta Braves 10-2 on Sunday afternoon at Miller Park, making it 12 losses in the last 13 day games and 22 losses in 33 day games this season.  Ken Macha's club fell back to .500 at 49-49.

Ryan Braun would like to blame it on the pitching and he'd be at least partially right.  But Braun and the rest of the offense need to take their part of the blame as well.  The Brewers are hitting .221 in day games, which ranks dead last in the National League.  Turn the lights on at night and the Brewers team batting average climbs to .276, which leads the league. 

Casey Kotchman clubbed a three-run homer to break things open against Brewers starter Braden Looper.  Brian McCann and Kelly Johnson also homered for the Braves.  The Brewers got a home run from Corey Hart.

The Brewers have now dropped 6-straight series and will try to end that drought when they open a 4-game set against Washington tonight at Miller Park.

 

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Nature deals big blow to crops

July 27, 2009 By

Farmers in southwest Wisconsin may not know for a while the total financial damage caused by weekend weather.  Thunderstorms and two tornadoes hit Lafayette County Friday night bringing baseball-sized hail driven by winds of up to 65-miles-an-hour. A snow-plow had to clear the roads of hail.

Sheriff Scott Pedley says he's never seen crop damage so bad in his 20 years in office. Pedley also says at least 50 homes were damaged, and the hail dented two squad cars. 

Ted Bay, UW Extension Ag Agent agrees the extent of the damage was massive.

"We've had severe storms like this in the past but they were fairly localized and this being the most severe for Lafayette County is possible," says Bay.

The crops expert says the harm to fields was "spotty" with some field suffering severe damage but other parts of the property only minimally so. Other farmers crops were 100-percent ruined while some producers may not know the total loss suffered until harvest.

Bay adds that dairy farmers, already facing a tough year of low prices, are facing yet another challenge from the storm. In some places the containers holding feed were damaged, a product that has to be replaced immediately.

The county wants federal disaster aid. County Board Chairman Jack Sauer says over 20-thousand acres of corn and soybeans were damaged in what he calls the most agriculture-dependent county in Wisconsin. Agriculture provides nealy 3,000 jobs for the county with with nearly $309 million in economic activity.

AUDIO: Brian Moon reports (MP3 :54)

Filed Under: Agriculture

Agree to disagree on tax reciprocity

July 27, 2009 By

At an event intended to show fiscal cooperation between Wisconsin and Minnesota, the states' governors agreed to disagree on a topic that could affect thousands of taxpayers. It was supposed to be a quick news conference and a little summer joyride on the St. Croix River but in Hudson Friday, the governors were asked about a soon-to-expire taxation reciprocity agreement affecting taxpayers who work on one side of the border but live on the other.

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has informed Wisconsin officials he wants to speed up the payments owed to Minnesota. He sent a letter last month to his Wisconsin counterpart suggesting the Badger State pay the current more than $100 million it owes Minnesota right now rather than wait the customary 17 months. Pawlenty says would help balance his state's budget. The Republican says if Wisconsin doesn't speed up its payments, he wouldn't be averse to ending the 40-year-old reciprocity agreement.

Doyle took issue with the term "delaying" on payments. He says Wisconsin has always paid on time and that state has been paying interest on those payments. The Democrat hopes an agreement can reached so both states' citizens can have the convenience of filing a single tax return.

However, Pawlenty is not as concerned noting modern methods of tax filing such as electronic options make the process easier and more efficient than decades ago when reciprocity was established.

Doyle adds the two states had a similar disagreement when Tommy Thompson was governor and both states had budget troubles not unlike they've been going through lately.

AUDIO: Jeff Petersen (MP3 :91)

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