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Correction Due to an editing error, the photo caption in the April 11 story “ASM leaders face lawsuit” read “Former ASM Chair Tyler Junger consults with his legal counsel and predecessor as chair, Kurt Gosselin, at Sunday’s Student Judiciary hearing.” Gosselin was never chair of ASM and Junger was also legal counsel for AFTER. The caption should have read, “Former ASM Chair Tyler Junger and Kurt Gosselin worked as legal counsel for AFTER at Sunday’s Student Judiciary hearing.” We regret the error.
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CRIME in Brief DAYTON STREET Sexual Assault A Madison Police Department report said police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted, punched and choked an 18-year-old woman on the 300 block of West Dayton Street Sunday evening. When the victim turned down the man’s suggestions they engage in sexual acts, the suspect punched the victim in the arms and choked her, the report said. The report also said the man fondled the woman from outside her clothes. Police are looking for a 25- to 30-year-old white man with a medium build wearing a “skater’s hat,” the report said.
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February 2010. According to a UWPD statement, the man met the victim at the Church Key Bar on University Avenue and then assaulted her on Feb. 14, 2010. The victim reported the assault Courtesy of Madison Police Department April 7 and described Police are searching for a 27-year-old man who the suspect assaulted a woman in February 2010 in her car. as a 27-yearold white University of man who said he had Wisconsin Police said broken one of his right they are looking for fingers playing hockey. a man who sexually Anyone with assaulted and strangled information has been a woman while she was asked to call UWPD in her vehicle at a Lake Detective Peter Grimyser Street parking lot in at (608) 262-7752.
LAKE STREET Theft MPD officers helped foil a plot to scam a 21-year-old Hartford woman of $30 when her cell phone was stolen. Earlie Wilson, a 49-year-old Madison man, was arrested for receiving stolen property after he stole the woman’s cell phone from her purse Friday night, an MPD report said. The morning after the woman realized her phone was stolen while she was at downtown bars, Wilson called the woman saying he would return her phone if she paid him $30. The woman then called MPD, which sent officers to accompany the woman to a Park Street gas station. The officers then arrested Wilson and returned the woman’s
Steve Karnowski Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Republican head of the House Budget Committee has proposed cutting agriculture subsidies by $30 billion over the next 10 years as part of a broad effort to slash federal spending, but it remains to be seen whether his ideas will be incorporated in legislation that sets funding for agriculture programs. That legislation is handled by a different committee that’s dominated by lawmakers from states where farmers have historically received big government handouts. The $3.5 trillion budget plan put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has grabbed headlines because of its proposed
JOHN NOLEN, from 1 to think of these places as one big gathering area instead of separate entities?” Metcalfe said. Despite the association’s approval of the aesthetic appeal of the Nolen Centennial Project, Basset Neighborhood Association member Ken Gordon questioned the plan because of the additional expenses it might add for Madisonians. “In my experience, [these types of projects] always turn out to be three or four times more expensive than the original cost,” Gordon said. “Could we itemize the costs of each individual piece of glitter in there and keep that going in parallel
revamps of Medicare and Medicaid and its tax cuts, but it also would reduce spending on agriculture and a wide range of other federal programs. It awaits a floor vote in the House but has no chance in the Democratic controlled Senate. Still, it’s framing the budget debate and some of its proposals could make it into other legislation, including the 2012 farm bill. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, commended Ryan for “taking the first serious step in reining in our deficit” but was quick to add that the policy proposals “are simply suggestions. At the end of the day, members of the House Agriculture Committee and I will write the next farm bill.”
The Environmental Working Group, which contends subsidies are corporate welfare that foster ecologically unsound farming practices, welcomed the subsidy cuts while expressing reservations about what might happen to conservation programs, which the plan doesn’t address. “We think it’s a great start. It’s a real gift to the subsidy reform effort. ... Of course this is just his vision. There’s nothing compelling anyone to implement any of these changes,” EWG analyst David DeGennaro told The Associated Press. DeGenarro said the GOP plan would go farther in cutting farm subsidies than President Barack Obama’s deficit commission, which called for $10 billion in savings
as your designs and ideas increase?” Metcalfe said the project’s planners have been taking cost expenses into consideration, emphasizing the project is only in its beginning planning phase. Bassett Neighborhood Association member Judy Karofsky said Metcalfe also had to consider Madison’s typical weather cycle, suggesting the plans should take into account winter activities to accommodate for the cold weather. Board members also raised concerns that include making the park more accessible for all community members and preserving the historic elements of the area. Madison Police
Department officials also briefed neighborhood members about the area’s historic Mifflin Street Block Party, providing residents with preliminary details for the event’s preparation. MPD officer Christina Hill said the department is focusing on monitoring alcohol consumption by minors, lowering the noise level of houses on Mifflin Street and limiting the amount of students who will be allowed on the house porches at once. Hill said MPD officers canvassed the area and handed out fliers to residents that advertised the city’s expectations and provided guidelines for creating a safer atmosphere April 30.
from farm programs over 10 years. “It’s a real platform to work from,” he said. The 72-page report laying out Ryan’s plan said crop prices and deficits are both hitting new highs. It noted that net farm income this year is forecast to hit the second-highest total in 35 years, and that farmers’ five most profitable years in the last 35 have all been in the past decade. “The record-breaking prosperity of American farmers and farm communities is to be celebrated,” the report said. “But it also calls for a re-examination of federal agricultural programs that spend billions each year, to ensure that taxpayers aren’t funding support for a sector that is more than capable of thriving on its own.”
KOHL CENTER, from 1 The base expansion project would be funded as part of the 2011-12 budget approved by the UW Athletic Board, which calls for a $2 increase in prices for season men’s hockey tickets. Chadima said the additional $5 million required would come from private gifts, not state or university funds. Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Management Alan Fish said the increased cost of the project would save the department money in the long haul because officials had originally weighed a separate project to conduct renovations in the basement of the Kohl Center. Fish said pushing the project back until after the current project is completed would carry a large premium cost and because the
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Kloppenburg’s spokesperson Melissa Mulliken said no decision on whether to request a recount would be made until the campaign could gather more information on what happened in Waukesha. The campaign has been pouring over information received through an open records request, but
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Weapons Violation MPD community officers found a loaded handgun on Madison’s east side after foiling a drug deal in front of a gas station. According to an MPD report, the officers saw what they believed was a drug deal in the gas station’s parking lot. A black Jaguar involved in the deal sped away and was pulled over for speeding on Aberg Avenue. Police confiscated a loaded handgun, marijuana and cocaine and arrested Jamal Shaheed Grant, a 23-year-old Madison man, for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver.
Funds for national farms would go down $30B over 10 years under legislation; supporters say decrease important step to balancing deficit
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Ryan has proposed cutting $30 billion over 10 years by spending less on a crop subsidy program called direct payments and giving smaller subsidies to crop insurance. Direct payments were already expected to be a major target in the 2012 farm bill. Farmers who sign up for direct payments get them regardless of how much they grow or what happens to crop prices in any given year. The fixed per-acre payments are based on a farm’s historic production of eligible crops, such as corn or cotton, and don’t shrink when crop prices are high, as they are now. Lucas has been a strong defender of the program, which costs about $5 billion a year but is popular with Southern farmers. university already has an agreement with a contractor, the department would save money by conducting the project now. He added although the conversion of the existing Nicolas Suites is slated for completion this fall, the hockey arena for women’s competition and practice for both teams would not be finished until the fall of 2012. “We can’t control the bidding climate, which lead us to having a higher cost then anticipated,” Fish said. “There will be significant saving by combining the projects.” The proposal will be introduced to the Building Commission April 20. Fish said officials are optimistic about the outlook for the proposal before the commission and said members are hopeful the plan will be viewed favorably. has yet to conduct any analysis, Mulliken said. Mulliken agreed with Baldwin’s desire to find out what happened in Waukesha. “I think there are legitimate questions to be asked and answered here,” Mulliken said. “When you have an entire city that was missed, that is a significant error and we need to get to the bottom of it.”