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A REAL thirty point buck

September 21, 2009 By

Did you see the thirty pointer? Wayne Schumacher of Fond du Lac still finds it hard to believe, but a 30-point buck walked under his tree stand while he was bow hunting. While registering the deer, he retold how he was able to bag it just before dusk Sunday. “I knew this was one time you don’t want to jerk the bow,” said Schumacher, whose aim was true, and brought down the buck west of Fond du Lac.
 

Shumacher says it took him a few minutes to get his composure before he was able to climb down and check out the trophy buck. For the record it weighed 225 pounds and had a spread of 20 ½ inches.

While Schumacher was gathering his gear, his tree his brother started counting points. Several counts later Schumacher says the official consensus is it was a 30-point buck. He says he wants to have it mounted, but may hold out to see if someone like Cabela’s would like to offer a full-body mount. Schumacher registered the buck at Dutch’s Trading Post in Fond du Lac on Monday.

AUDIO: Bob Hague reports (:65 MP3)

Bob Nelson, KFIZ, contributed this report

Filed Under: Environment & Conservation, Human Interest

Amendment could make mergers easier

September 21, 2009 By

A proposed amendment to the state constitution could pave the way for mergers and consolidations of municipalities and school districts in Wisconsin. State Representative Scott Newcomer says the amendment would allow local units of government considering a merger to blend their mill rates. “All this is, is a tool that allows them to do this,” Newcomer told the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security. “It’s not a mandate, doesn’t force them to do it. It give them that opportunity, if they so choose to merge a city, town or village together, they can blend that mill rate together over a 12 year period of time.”

Ed Huck with the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities says right now, there’s little incentive for mergers, if residents of one community have a much lower tax rate than the prospective merger partner. “We’ve go to do something different,” Huck told committee members. “This is out of the box thinking that would allow us to become more efficient and more effective than we are currently in the state of Wisconsin. We’ve got to get out of the 19th century. This will help us do it.”

Communities considering mergers include the Town and Village of Verona in Dane County, and the Village and City of Pewaukee in Waukesha County. The amendment would have to pass two consecutive sessions of the legislature, and a statewide voter referendum.

AUDIO: Bob Hague reports (:60 MP3)

Filed Under: Politics & Government

Packers offense searching for answers early

September 21, 2009 By

Six more sacks for the opposition and four more quarterback knockdowns.  That’s what the Green Bay Packers offense gave up in a 31-24 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday at Lambeau Field, and it has the Packers brass searching for answers.  It was the right side of the offensive line last week and the left side this week.  Five of the six sacks were recorded by one Bengals defender, (DE) Antoine Odom and Packers coach Mike McCarthy isn’t happy.  The 5 sacks by Odom is the most sacks every recorded by a single member of the opposition.

AUDIO: Mike McCarthy on his struggling offensive line. :21

The Packers have now allowed 10 sacks in their first two games, the most since 1992.  Rodgers has been knocked down 19 times in the first two games.  Last year, it took him 5-games to reach that total. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sports, Titletown Report Tagged With: ,

China likes WI way with water

September 21, 2009 By

Governor Doyle says China may do more tapping into Wisconsin’s water purification ability. Doyle has been meeting with Chinese leaders, including the mayor of Shanghai, about water technology from Wisconsin businesses and UW. He says there is has been interest from the local to national level as only 40-percent of China’s water is usable. This includes interest in making water clean, using the resource efficiently and returning it safely back into water ways.

On the final leg of his Asian tour Doyle met with the environmental protection department in Beijing and discussed alternative energy. The Governor also helped ink a deal in which Eau Claire based U-Fuel would sell oil tanks to China’s largest petroleum company.

Wisconsin may also play a larger role the food the Asian superpower consumes. Doyle says dairy use is on the rise in China as the culture become more urban, looking for sources of protein. Despite their local farms being able to produce dairy, the Chinese have been mainly limited to milk and powdered milk production. Doyle says the Chinese are very interested in developing more refined technology that Wisconsin could provide.

AUDIO: Brian Moon (MP3 :61)

Filed Under: Business, Politics & Government

Giving lawmakers longer terms

September 21, 2009 By

State lawmakers could soon be able to serve longer terms in office.

A proposed Constitutional Amendment would allow members of the Assembly to be elected to four-year terms and Senators to serve for six years.

State Representative Marlin Schneider (D-Wisconsin Rapids) says the change would keep lawmakers from always needing to be on the campaign trail, allowing them to focus more on legislative work.

Schneider believes adding two years to the term of each lawmaker would make them more willing to tackle difficult legislative issues by reducing their need to raise campaign funds and by not needing to rely as much on special interest groups.

The Wisconsin Rapids Democrat says the constant need to raise campaign funds has resulted in a corrupted Legislature. Schneider says the constant need to support the agendas of campaign donors impacts the legislative process.

The proposal is being considered by an Assembly committee.

AUDIO: Andrew Beckett reports (MP3 1:08)

Filed Under: Legislature
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