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A Wisconsin labor official says break the grip of insurance companies from the health bill. David Newby, President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, speaking on his own behalf and not national body, believes the US Senate’s health care bill falls short and gives too much power to insurers.
“The insurance companies, very frankly, are the problem there are not the solution to the problem,” says Newby.
The loved ones of our country’s servicemen and women are among those feeling the rough times of the recession. An official with the Walmart Foundation says since the economy began to slump, more and more military families can barely make ends meet.
The Legislative Audit Bureau provides more troubling findings, from the second phase of a year long audit of the Wisconsin Shares program. As reported earlier, the audit revealed at least eight instances in which felons and other individuals with records of child abuse and neglect were either employed by or living in child care facilities, although officials at the Department of Children and Families believe that no children were harmed as the result of those situations.
The audit bureau also identified 317 individuals participating in Wisconsin Shares whose past criminal offenses require more investigation. And the report indicates that operators of 184 licensed and 20 certified child care facilities, more than forty percent of them in Milwaukee County, were overdue for criminal background checks as of June 30.
Seven Badgers will play for gold in the Vancouver Olympic Games. USA Hockey and head coach Mark Johnson (pictured) announced the 21 player U.S. Olympic squad at the Mall of America on Thursday.
The 2010 Olympians with Badger ties include goaltender Jessie Vetter, defensemen Kerry Weiland and Molly Engstrom, and forwards Erika Lawler, Hilary Knight, Meghan Duggan and Jinelle Zaugg-Siergej.
Engstrom is the only returning Olympian of the group; she won bronze in the 2006 Olympics, the same year former Badger Carla MacLeod won gold with Canada. Engstrom and MacLeod are the only two Badgers who have previously competed in the Olympic Games.
Marquette University granted freshman forward Jeronne Maymon his release from a scholarship in Thursday. Maymon won’t be able to go to any other Big East school, per conference rule. Maymon also can’t enroll at the University of Wisconsin and play basketball for the Badgers. Maymon grew up in Madison, playing high school basketball at local power Madison Memorial.
Maymon played a total of 9 games in his freshman season, averaging around 4-points and 4-rebounds a game. Coach Buzz Williams said Maymon and his family weren’t happy with the progress he was making at Marquette.
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Maymon was a two-time AP Player of the Year in Wisconsin and one of Buzz Williams’ first major signees after he took over for Tom Crean. [Read more...]
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