Jackson County Public Health Officials along with the Sheriff’s Department removed 17 sick and neglected cats from a Town of Northfield home. According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, the home was declared unlivable after inspections revealed a filthy house of animal feces. Chief Deputy Mark Moen says a search warrant turned up much more. “Through their search, they actually located…in the garage…a freezer that was not working at the time. When they looked into the freezer they found several dead cat carcasses. We secured them as evidence. And after counting them, there was over a 100 cat carcasses.” Gabriella Bernabei and Robert Grassi were referred to the District Attorney’s Office for mistreating animals and not meeting the cat’s sanitation standards.
Honoring the gift of life
Last year, over 200 people in Wisconsin donated organs and 340 received a life-saving transplant. Families of those touched by the process gathered Friday at the Governor’s residence in Madison to honor them.
Drew Stapleton of La Crosse received a kidney and a pancreas. He says every day he prays for the families of donors, and does what he can to honor their memories. [Read more...]
Milwaukee has more than meets the eye
The upcoming blockbuster Transformers 3 will feature a scene with a well known Milwaukee landmark. Dave Fantle of Film Wisconsin says they’ve been working with the studio since November. Director Michael Bay came to town in December and “fell in love” with the building. Despite Bay’s reputation for explosions and pyrotechnics, the museum, best known for its mobile wing-span sun breaker, will reportedly remain intact during the shooting.
Kind defends administration’s spill response
A Wisconsin congressman praises President Obama for pressuring BP into creating a $20 billion escrow fund to help pay for the clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico. La Crosse Democrat Ron Kind is a member of the House Environment and Natural Resources committee, which grilled BP executives earlier this week. Kind disagrees with Republican politicians who say Obama has not acted promptly on the oil spill. “He’s up against expectations,” said Kind. “All the criticism he’s come under, there wasn’t a whole lot this administration could do to plug this gusher. The federal government does just not have this type of technical expertise. That’s why we’ve got rely on the industry that’s involved in the drilling. And what’s so infuriating is it’s clear that their contingency emergency plans were inadequate. They had no plan to deal with this.” [Read more...]
Stem cell researchers in Wisconsin and California join forces
The state commits to collaborating with California on stem cell research.
Wisconsin signs an agreement with California to help scientists in both states to combine forces and more quickly discover better treatments for patients.
“It is very, very critical, in my judgment, that Wisconsin be a cooperating partner with all places in the world that are engaged in this very, very critical research.”
In signing the deal with California, Governor Jim Doyle was joined by two leading UW Madison stem-cell researchers — Dr. Tim Kamp and Dr. James Thomson. [Read more...]
