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The Green Bay Packers have signed veteran tackle Mark Tauscher and placed defensive back Will Blackmon on injured reserve.
Tauscher played his first nine NFL seasons (2000-08) with the Packers. He saw action in 122 games, including 120 starts. Tauscher is returning from off-season knee surgery and is expected to compete for the right tackle job with Allan Barbre immediately.
Blackmon saw action in 3-games in 2009 before suffering a major knee injury.
This is Money Smart Week in Wisconsin, an opportunity for consumers to become better informed about personal finances, family budgeting, and financial literacy.
Department of Financial Institutions Secretary Lorrie Keating Heinemann says topics for this week’s workshops, seminars and programs include budgeting, fighting fraud, protecting against identity theft, and job hunting skills. The bottom line, says Keating Heinemann, is getting people educated. You can find a complete list of topics and locations around Wisconsin this week at moneysmartwi.org.
There’s plenty of pushback on beer and booze tax hikes, being proposed at the state Capitol. Brandon Scholz with the Wisconsin Grocers Association says his members are crunching the numbers, and don’t like what they see from the combined impact of proposed beer and liquor tax hikes. Not only that, they’re skeptical the money raised will actually go to combat drunk driving.
AUDIO: Brandon Scholz (:11 MP3)
A state Senate committee last week recommended raising the tax on hard liquor 50 cents a liter to help pay for tougher drunk driving enforcement. And tomorrow, an Assembly committee takes public testimony on a proposal to raise the beer tax by 2.4 cents per bottle.
Indeed, it’s expected the beer tax increase would raise $58 million annually, and that the liquor tax increase would raise $25 million a year. Scholz says that adds up to higher costs for retailers and consumers – and maybe job losses.
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