- Capitol damage cost claim based on 1 page of notebook paper – JSOnline
- State officials' controversial courtroom testimony that protesters did more than $7 million in damage to the Capitol …
An open records request by the Journal Sentinel on the damage estimate turned up only one page of notebook paper listing costs written before the courtroom testimony. Other e-mails from state officials listing areas to check for potential damage also were released, but there were no others with any dollar figures written before the court testimony.
The state has still not fixed a firm cost for cleanup and any needed restoration, and so far the most visible damage has been to the Capitol lawn.
- GOP proposes rollback of mandatory disinfection for drinking water
- "When I heard about this law being proposed, I thought, ‘You might as well legislate that the sun rises in the west," says Mark Borchardt, a leading infectious groundwater disease specialist and a staff member with the Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Board. He has done groundbreaking studies that showed that about 13 percent of acute gastro-intestinal illnesses in Wisconsin municipalities that don't disinfect their water supplies are tied to dirty drinking water.
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, in the Senate, and Rep. Erik Severson, R-Osceola, in the Assembly.
- Former Gov. Lucey Withdraws Support from Prosser
- Lucey released a statement to the media Thursday evening saying the campaign has revealed what he called "a disturbing distemper and lack of civility" in Prosser, though he did not cite specifics.
At the same time, Lucey says he has continued to be impressed by Kloppenburg, saying she has shown the proper judicial temperament.
- Pension Talks Near Collapse – The Bay Citizen
- The collaboration between labor unions and City Hall to solve San Francisco’s pension crisis may be close to collapse.
Union leaders are livid after learning that Mayor Edwin M. Lee has included the unions’ nemesis, Jeff Adachi, in what they called the mayor’s own “shadow” meetings on the issue. Adachi, the public defender, spearheaded a controversial and unsuccessful ballot measure on pension reform last fall.
- Back to the Ballot in 2012? | Survey – Equality California
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that they will not permit same-sex couples to marry while we wait for the California Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals to hear and consider the case. This announcement has sparked conversations about whether or not our state should wait for the courts to restore the freedom to marry for same-sex couples, or if we should overturn Prop. 8 at the ballot box.
Equality California is seeking input from the community and about the wisdom of moving forward with a ballot initiative. This survey is a first step in a process …
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