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Republicans are pushing hard for the open-pit mining bill to pass through the Wisconsin State Senate, claiming it will create jobs. Many citizens have pushed back because they know it will take years to see those jobs, there won’t be that many of them, and more importantly, they recognize the [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured a front page article on a South Korean who is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Jae “Jim” Park received one of South Korea’s highest honors for his work reclaiming polluted waterways in his home nation. An amazing and worthwhile endeavor on the part [...]
Continue Reading →Earlier today Steve noted there will be a public hearing in Hurley, WI tomorrow in regards to the proposal to start strip mining in the north woods, and thanks to Steve you can watch the hearing live right here.
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If you can’t get up north to the public hearing in Hurley tomorrow you can listen in or watch the hearing through a couple of different media outlets.
WOJB community radio will broadcast the hearing live, starting at 10:00 am, at http://www.wojb.org/ or 88.9 on your FM dial if you’re within 80 miles of Hayward, WI.
State Senator Frank Lasee ( R-Flatulence) seems determined to break wind. Wind power, that is.
Last October Lasee sought a moratorium on new construction of wind turbines until the Public Service Commission received a report from the Department of Health Services on the possible health effects of wind farms. To date there is no [...]
Continue Reading →There’s a very interesting paragraph in James Rowen’s January 4th post about the public hearing to be held on the Assembly mining bill in Hurley on January 11th.
An aide for Williams, Charlie Bellin, said the committee tried to locate the Jan. 11 hearing in Ashland County, closer to the proposed Gogebic Taconite mining site, [...]
Continue Reading →Every once in a while there are stories that, with all of the craziness, gets overlooked. While Steve has done a great job of writing about this, I and others have not given this important issue the attention it deserves. Instead of “re-inventing the wheel” I will just point people in the right [...]
Continue Reading →John Nichols writes in the Cap Times today that any attempt to recall northern Wisconsin state Senator Bob Jauch is a fool’s mission, and he’s right. Jauch, a Democrat from Poplar, has been representing northern Wisconsin in the state legislature for almost 30 years. His record of working with business leaders of every political [...]
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