A former state assemblyman from Chippewa County who has been arrested several times for impaired driving is now accused of altering a prescription. Police in Chippewa Falls say 41-year-old Jeff Wood was taken into custody Monday on a probation hold after he came in for an interview about the case. Chippewa Falls Police Captain John Liddell said they got a report from an investigator with the Veterans’ Affairs Administration, after Wood visited the Chippewa County Veterans’ Clinic. “He had attempted to pass an altered prescription for Schedule V narcotics at a local pharmacy,” said Lidell. “Altered means he legitimately had the prescription, he changed the number of pills on it.” [Read more...]
GOP can march in Labor Day parade
August 31, 2011 By
Everyone will get to march in Wausau’s Labor Day parade after all, after the Marathon County Labor Council dropped a policy that would have banned Republicans from participating.
The move comes after Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple threatened to pull city funding and resources for the parade. Tipple says it should be an inclusive event and limiting who can march when taxpayer dollars are being used to support the parade is bad public policy. [Read more...]
Janesville teachers won’t reopen negotiations
August 31, 2011 By
The Janesville Education Association believes the school district still has plenty of options to fill a $2.1 million budget gap — without teachers making economic concessions. “They absolutely can tax. They still have the tax levy to use, they still have the tax levy to use,” said JEA president Dave Parr. “They have not done that this year. They’ve had it for the past four years, they chose not to use it.” School board president Bill Sodemann said some local taxpayers believe the teachers should share the burden. “Some people think that the benefits and so forth, are out of balance with private sector, not just teachers but administrators as well, and other public employees too, and needs to be corrected, because the private sector has gone through some challenging times, and it shouldn’t just be them that needs to scale back,” said Sodermann. [Read more...]
Another push for emergency preparedness
August 31, 2011 By
Considering recent natural disasters on the east coast, emergency officials push preparedness.
An earthquake earlier this month and Hurricane Irene are examples of why it’s important for everyone to be prepared, so says Tod Pritchard with Wisconsin Emergency Management. He says one can’t always predict the severity, time, or location of a disaster. “This Hurricane Irene is the perfect example. You know there were predictions of what was going to happen but you never really know until it strikes. Now, of course, there’s massive flooding in Vermont, which I don’t think anyone predicted. You can’t pick your disaster, they pick you, unfortunately. You need to be ready for everything.” [Read more...]
Johnson details economic reform
August 31, 2011 By
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson is likely to draw some attention after an op-ed piece in the Washington Times Monday calling for the repeal of the Obama agenda. He says it was obvious when the president was trying to calm the markets after the S & P downgrade of the federal credit rating that he doesn’t know how to repair the economy and create jobs.
The Oshkosh Republican says the country needs to repeal Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform. He says Dodd-Frank is “starving small-to-medium sized businesses of capital” and “strangling” businesses with excessive regulations which prevents job creation. [Read more...]
