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Wisconsin Workforce Development Secretary Robert Gassman agrees with Obama Administration officials that’s it’s going to take quite a while for unemployment numbers to drop.
Gassman says there are some encouraging economic signs, but it may be the end of 2010 before the unemployment numbers start coming down.
The latest figures put Wisconsin’s unemployment rate at 9.2-percent, the highest it’s been in more than 25 years.
A record low for traffic fatalities in Wisconsin. Last month was the safest July on record in Wisconsin since World War II, according to Dennis Hughes with the state Department of Transportation. Overall, 44 people were killed in traffic crashes last month, 18 fewer than July of 2008. It’s also 34 fewer than the state’s five year average.
Hughes says the drop is unusual, due to the large amount of travel that typically goes on this time of year. He says July and August are usually the peak months for traffic fatalities, with more people on the roads.
Hughes says the decrease is likely the result of more people buckling up due to Wisconsin’s new primary enforcement seatbelt law, and the cooler than usual summer weather. With colder temperatures in many parts of the state, he says fewer people were making those extra trips.
Through July 31, 296 people have been killed in Wisconsin traffic crashes this year.
While Tom Kingsbury rides across Wisconsin to raise funds for a Gulf War memorial at the The High Ground, Iraq War vet Tyler Boudreau’s cross country bike ride is not what you might expect, with a goal a little less concrete but every bit as worthwhile. From Boudreau’s website:
In its most fundamental sense, this project is about searching for what’s on “the other side” of the battlefield. It is very much about veterans who have found themselves hurled suddenly to the other side of a catastrophic injury, or Post-Traumatic Stress, or an inexplicably dysfunctional. life in the aftermath of war. But it is also about the nature of warfare itself. There is a great mythology associated with battle. Those of us who ride seek “the other side” of that mythology. We seek the other side of ourselves. We travel to “the other side” of the country to find it.
In many respects, this project is a fresh attempt at “Coming Home.” Veterans of the current wars and their communities have been struggling to find each other but are in so many ways blinded or blocked by political and cultural barriers. A major objective of this project is to get to “the other side” of those barriers and find home–possibly a better version of home…possibly as better versions of ourselves.
Boudreau is currently riding through Wisconsin.
It’s a ladies’ only event at Camp Randall tonight. Football 101 is a breast cancer fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, hosted by Badger Football Coach Brett Bielema.
“We’ll go through a tour of the facility, see every aspect of our program, the weight room, the training room, academic seminar, everything that touches our players’ lives beyond Camp Randall,” says Bielema, who says he and his staff will also brief the women attending the $60 event on “basic football elements.”
Coach Bielema’s mother, an 18 year breast cancer survivor, will also be at the event. And yes, Bucky Badger will be there as well.
Submitted by Chandra Lynn, WIBA
It's a ladies' only event at Camp Randall tonight. Football 101 is a breast cancer fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, hosted by Badger Football Coach Brett Bielema.
"We'll go through a tour of the facility, see every aspect of our program, the weight room, the training room, academic seminar, everything that touches our players' lives beyond Camp Randall," says Bielema, who says he and his staff will also brief the women attending the $60 event on "basic football elements."
Coach Bielema's mother, an 18 year breast cancer survivor, will also be at the event. And yes, Bucky Badger will be there as well.
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