Tom Tiffany wins ” Lie of the Week “

Hurley blogger and former Iron County district attorney Tony Stella has awarded tantrumesque Tom Tiffany his ” Lie of the Week ” designation for poor Tommy’s whiny insistence that the Environmental Protection Agency killed GTac’s always questionable and unlikely open pit iron mine in the Penokee Hills. Missing from Tiffany’s…

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Not a good week for Walker, Tiffany and GTAC.

Just when you thought the week couldn’t get any worse for Scott Walker, Tom Tiffany and Gogebic Taconite, it just got a whole lot worse. First it was the story on Monday about the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, headed by former DNR secretary and Tommy Thompson appointee George Meyer, calling for a repeal…

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Jauch, Cullen and Schultz rip Walker and GOP a new one

I can only imagine the conversation that must have privately occurred between State Senators Bob Jauch, Tim Cullen and Dale Schultz as they composed their recent letter to republican colleagues regarding the Army Corps of Engineers refusal to work with the WDNR on a joint environmental impact statement for GTAC’s…

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Ashland County board supervisors broaden call for repeal of Act 1.

A pair of northern Wisconsin elected officials, Ashland County board chairman Pete Russo and board supervisor Charles Ortman, took their case for a repeal of Act 1 to the airwaves on WOJB community radio on New Year’s Day. Russo and Ortman first called for a repeal of the new ferrous mining law, (passed…

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Wisconsin’s poet laureate: Tony Stella

This is absolutely hilarious. From Iron County resident Anthony Stella via ” Woodsperson ” SIGHTSEEING IN THE PENOKEES (With apologies to Robert Frost) Whose woods these are I think I know. Gogebic holds the leases though; They will not see me stopping here, To map the things their maps won’t…

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Tommy GTAC bites the dust

GTAC waterboy  and GOP state senator Tom Tiffany, ( R-Mine Guy) is having a bad evening. It seems even members of his own party can’t get behind his bill to close managed forest land to the public. Lisa Mux has the story over at Waukesha Wonk. What a pisser, Tommy….

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Six northern Wisconsin tribes ask Obama to stop G-TAC’s proposed open pit iron mine

WPR reports that six of Wisconsin’s northern tribes have written to president Obama asking him to have the Department of the Interior  prepare legal action to protect the ceded territories in accordance with the treaties of 1837, 1842 and 1854. The tribes maintain that iron mining in the Penokee Hills will…

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The Stella Report

If there’s anyone out there writing more consistently or in greater detail than Tony Stella about the shenanigans going on between Gogebic Taconite,  Iron County and the state GOP, I’d love to hear who it is. Check out his latest offering about who wrote the mining bill.  

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Iron County board refers LCO Harvest Camp matter back to forestry committee

The Iron County board decided last night to table a vote on recommendations from their forestry committee to evict LCO tribal members and their allies from the Harvest and Education Camp located at the edge of Gogebic Taconite’s proposed mine site.  The board referred the issue back to the Forestry Committee,…

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Corruption in Iron County?

Iron County attorney Tony Stella has some very interesting posts on his website, www.stellareport.com, regarding the history and composition of the current Iron County Mining Impact Committee. According to Stella the committee originally appointed by the Iron County board of supervisors, which was made up of a cross section of…

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