Residents of a Portage area neighborhood are expected to return home today, after they evacuated on Sunday when part of a levee broke on the Wisconsin River. Meanwhile, the state DNR says it will make a second effort to buy out more than 100 homes in Blackhawk Park area, and allow the levy to deteriorate.
Repeat drunken driving in just 24 hours
September 29, 2010 By
A Hayward man was arrested twice in just over 24 hours – once for his seventh drunken driving charge and then for violating bond hours after he appeared in court. The Lincoln County sheriff’s department arrested 42-year-old Ferdinand Humer Monday afternoon after eyewitnesses reported that he was driving recklessly on Highway 51. He failed field sobriety tests.
On the anti-war corner for Obama visit
September 29, 2010 By
On University and North Park PHOTO: WRN
On a corner in Madison Tuesday, there was dissatisfaction with the president’s peace policies. Sherry Caves of Middleton said she expected more from Barack Obama on the war in Afghanistan. “I guess I was optimistic that he . . . would look at the costs of this war, the financial costs, the cost in human lives, ours as well as theirs, the kind of wound it is in our society. That he would find a way to help us get out of there, and do it in a way so that we could go on with our lives and we could go on with theirs.
So what are disaffected Progressives and Democrats to do in November? “Hold their nose and vote for Democrat,” said Joe Weinburg, who stood at the corner of University Avenue and North Park Street, dressed in a Hello Kitty t-shirt and holding a large, densely written sign overhead. “Otherwise we get more of the same. We get people who joyfully gut the government. We get Vandals and Visigoths. The Democrats are just sort of boring.” [Read more...]
President rallies UW students (AUDIO)
September 28, 2010 By
President Obama speaks on the UW-Madison campus.
In a speech that focused heavily on voters who supported him in 2008, President Barack Obama urged students at UW-Madison to return to the polls again this November to keep fighting for change.
An estimated crowd of over 17,000 people packed into Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus Tuesday evening to hear the President speak. Obama spent most of his 40 minute speech talking about the battles he’s fought since taking office nearly two years ago, and how Republicans have opposed him every step of the way. [Read more...]
Feingold fires back
September 28, 2010 By
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Despite widespread reports that U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) would not be in Madison Tuesday for President Obama’s visit, the Wisconsin Democrat was able to make it back in time.
Feingold was expected to miss the rally on the UW-Madison campus due to votes going on in the Senate Tuesday. However, Feingold indicated late that afternoon through twitter that he was done voting and would make it back after all. [Read more...]
