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The Governor has vetoed legislation that would have stripped his office of the power to appoint the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.
Governor Doyle used his veto pen on the bill Friday, saying Wisconsin’s people and natural resources are best served by allowing his office to appoint the Secretary. The bill would have allowed the Natural Resources Board to appoint the Secretary, which supporters say is needed to get politics out of the agency. [Read more...]
The host of the Badget State Winter Games is pulling out after 2010.
The Wausau-Central Wisconsin Convention and Visitors Bureau won’t fund the games after their contract expires in 2010. The CVB’s Darien Schaefer says the expansion of the game throughout the entire state has diminished the value of being the primary host community. [Read more...]
A study commissioned by a conservative Wisconsin think tank has some dire warnings about recommendations from Governor Doyle’s Task Force on Global Warming. Researcher Paul Bachman, who did the report for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, says Wisconsin would lose about 50,000 jobs in the next decade, and disposable income would decline by nearly $10 billion.
Bachman, who’s with the Beacon Hill Institute in Boston, says the loss of jobs and income would be the result of stricter limits on carbon dioxide emissions and greater reliance on more expensive energy from solar and wind sources.
WIBA’s John Colbert submitted this report
UW-Milwaukee police have stepped up off-campus patrolling in a response to a recent string of nearby robberies and assaults. The partnership between the city’s police force and campus police has been augmented with UWM squad cars seen alongside MPD vehicles in surrounding neighborhoods.
UWM spokesman Tom Luljak says the area where the campus exists, Milwaukee’s east side, is very safe. Additionally the overall level of crime was down from last year except for the last three weeks, with several incidents occurring Tuesday. In one case, four robbers held a gun to a man who was walking home from work and let him go unharmed once they saw he was enlisted in the Army. Police say no one has been arrested for the crimes. The soldier lost only his keys.
Luljak believes efforts to deter crime are working; since stepping up patrols several days ago there have been no incidents in residential areas. “The bad guys simply are not welcome in this neighborhood,” he says.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn and university chancellor Carlos Santiago are planning to meet after Santiago returns to the US. He will be in Israel this week for a trade mission with Governor Jim Doyle.
The Milwaukee Brewers today declined the 2010 mutual option on right handed pitcher Braden Looper.
Looper went 14-7 in 2009, but he had a rather robust 5.22 ERA in 34 starts. He set a franchise record with 39 home runs allowed, which also led the majors. Looper also led the league in runs allowed (123) and earned runs allowed (113).
In other Brewers news, infielder Craig Counsell and pitcher David Weathers both elected free agency. The Brewers 40-man roster now stands at 35.
(UPI Photo / Bill Greenblatt)
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