This year’s Hudson Hot Air Affair balloon festival is also a fundraiser for Haitian orphans. The event is Wisconsin’s largest wintertime balloon festival. Mass launches are planned for Saturday and Sunday nearly forty balloons hoping the weather is nice enough for flying. Balloon pilot Steve Jacobs of Stillwater, Minnesota took a media group on a half-hour flight. He’s been a licensed pilot for 20 years. His most difficult job is controlling the propane heater that keeps the balloon in the air. [Read more...]
Governor backs MPS plan
February 5, 2010 By
Governor Jim Doyle supports a plan to keep millions of dollars worth of federal funding from Milwaukee Public Schools.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers wants to withhold up to $175 million in funding from MPS, citing the district’s failure to improve academically. Governor Jim Doyle says it’s within the Superintendent’s powers, and it should send a clear message that changes need to be made. [Read more...]
Plan to regulate market may stamp out the “little guy”
February 5, 2010 By
A financial giant says a plan to regulate the market could hurt smaller investors. Edward Jones is sending representatives from all 50 states to the nation’s capitol to voice concerns about the Restoring American Financial Stability Act. The firm’s Wisconsin rep, Jeff Prebisch of Madison, calls it a “complex bill” but says a certain provision puts a “one size fits all” approach by charging an annual fee for investors rather than fees or commissions for individual transactions.” This could bar small investors from access to markets,” he says.
Booze buy led to fatal OWI
February 5, 2010 By
A western Wisconsin man faces up to five years in prison because he bought a bottle of vodka for his girlfriend, who then got behind the wheel and faces criminal charges in the death of a passenger.
Washingonton County, Minnesota, prosecutor Doug Johnson says survelliance video from a Stillwater liquor store shows 21 year-old Brandon Hedland of Somerset, Wisconsin, purchasing vodka. Johnson says the liquor ended up in the hands of 19 year-old Alicia Rae Haupert. Haupert allegedly drove drunk and crashed her vehicle at about 8:30 Sunday morning, January 29th, killing 20 year-old Andrea Zimmerman of Stillwater. Haupert and another passenger were injured. [Read more...]
Wisconsin’s Hughes is among Cousy Award finalists
February 5, 2010 By
Wisconsin senior guard Trevon Hughes is still in the running to win the Cousy Award, given annually to the top male point guard in the country. Hughes was named one of 11 finalists after the pool was trimmed from 20.
Hughes leads the Badgers in scoring (15.5) and steals (1.6). He also ranks second in assists (3.1) and is third in rebounds (4.8).
The list of 11 finalists is to be trimmed to five players by March 1. The winner of the 2010 Cousy Award is to be announced on April 5 in Indianapolis as part of the NCAA’s Final Four weekend.
The Badgers, fresh off of their win over Michigan State in Madison on Tuesday night, will travel to Ann Arbor on Saturday to face Michigan. Wisconsin won the first match-up this season, 54-48 at the Kohl Center on January 20.
