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Favre supporters changing their minds

August 21, 2009 By

A year ago, the Brett Favre backers were not in the majority, but their voices were certainly heard.  Fast forward 12 months and trying to find somebody in Brett Favre’s corner is far more difficult.

Favre signed a 2-year, $25-million deal with the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday and that has apparently led many of the long-time Favre supporters to turn against him.  Some fans are even going to drastic measures (picture) to show their disappointment.Disgruntled Favre fan

Favre is a manipulator.  He’s become uncoachable.  Favre thinks he’s bigger than the game right now.  Brad Childress even picked him up at the airport on Tuesday himself.  When the head coach is picking up the player at the airport, how can he be coached. 

While in Green Bay, Favre had his own office and private dressing area.  He didn’t put himself with his teammates, he put himself above them.  While his teammates parked their vehicles every day in the player lot, Favre rolled his truck right inside the tunnels of Lambeau Field.  Yet the fans would only tell me he deserves it, for as much as he’s done for the Packers.  [Read more...]

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Disaster declarations requested for 45 counties

August 21, 2009 By

Another dry summer for northern Wisconsin, while other counties got too much rain. Donna Gilson with the state Department of Agriculture says it’s been a tough year for farmers in much of the state, so Governor Jim Doyle has requested the U.S. Department of Agriculture declare disasters in 45 counties. “This is the first step towards getting – we hope – some financial aid for farmers in Wisconsin,” explains Gilson.

Crawford, Grant, Lafayette and Monroe Counties were hammered by heavy rains, straight line winds and damaging hail in July — too late for farmers to replant. For the other 41 counties in northern Wisconsin, it’s a story of drought, at a time when costs are rising for the state’s dairy farmers. “Dairy farmers are getting pushed to the edge, and if they are having hay crops that are not doing well, or having to buy additional feed, it’s sort of one more stress on them, and actually is resulting in some farmers culling their herds,” says Gilson. “It is the third or fourth year running for some of these counties, that they have suffered drought conditions.”

A disaster declaration by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack would allow crop producers to qualify for assistance, generally in the form of low-interest loans.

Filed Under: Agriculture

Mercury Marine causing waves with contract

August 21, 2009 By

Mercury Marine officials and representatives of its employees union held separate press conferences on different ends of Fond du Lac Thursday and they were miles apart in more than geography. Mercury President Mark Schwabero laid out for the media just what Mercury was offering its hourly employees. He stressed that the marine industry has changed over the years and will never be the same.

AUDIO: Schwabero on state of industry (MP3 :10)

Russell Krings is a regional representative for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He says they represent current, layed off, and retired Mercury employees and have to look out for all those interests. He says the company wants too much.

AUDIO: Krings on contract changes (MP3 :14)

On Sunday about 830 union members will vote on the company’s proposed contract changes. If the changes are rejected it would send the company’s outboard engine making operations to Stillwater, Oklahoma. If the union approves the contract changes it could bring more jobs to Fond du Lac according to Schwabero.

Contributed by Bob Nelson-KFIZ

Filed Under: Business, Economy

Measuring the impact of alcohol on teens

August 21, 2009 By

State lawmakers are being urged to help keep alcohol out of the hands of teenagers.

Dr. Paul Grossberg of the UW School of Medicine says the younger teens are exposed to alcohol, the greater the risk they’ll develop lifelong problems. Grossberg says that’s because they’re brains are not developed enough to process the intoxicating effects.

Grossberg is part of a statewide coalition that’s urging lawmakers to pass a bill that would stop teens from drinking with their parents in public before they turn 18. State law currently allows it for children of any age. Even though some parents claim it allows them to introduce their kids to responsible drinking, Grossberg says it sends a confusing and unhealthy message.

Grossberg says allowing kids to drink at a young age will impact the rest of their lives. He says teen patients come to him every day who are suffering from the ill effects of alcohol abuse.

The bill is currently being considered by a Senate committee.

AUDIO: Andrew Beckett reports (MP3 1:08)

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