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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
GOP Senators appointed to Joint Finance Committee By Patrick Tricker The Daily Cardinal
Incoming State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, announced the six Republican senators that will serve on the Joint Finance Committee Monday. The committee will be co-chaired by state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and vice-chaired by state Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon. Fitzgerald also named state Sens. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, Joseph Leibham, R-Sheboygan, Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, to the committee, which will include two yet-to-be-named senate Democrats. “The Senate Republican team is ready to get to work balancing our budget and reining in government spending while preserving the core functions of government,”
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By Ariel Shapiro
SSFC decides WSL, PAVE budgets
After days of silence on the topic, Gov. Jim Doyle addressed his choice to halt production on the high-speed rail line Monday, saying he would leave the decisions on the rail project to his successor, Governor-elect Scott Walker. “While I could force the issue, I believe that this project will only be successful in the long run if the State of Wisconsin and the U.S. Department of Transportation are strong partners,” Doyle said in a statement. Doyle praised the project and said not moving forward with construction would have serious economic ramifications, including potential job losses and the state having to return $14 million to the federal government. Walker was an ardent critic of the rail project throughout his campaign, calling it a
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The Student Services Finance Committee voted to increase funding to the proposed budgets of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment and decrease funding for Wisconsin Student Lobby Monday. The committee also heard budget proposals from Supporting Peers in Laid-back Listening (SPILL), Adventure Learning Programs (ALPS) and the Campus Women’s Center. The PAVE 2011-’12 budget increased to $82,457. Despite being significantly lower than it was in previous years, the SSFC cut WSL’s proposed budget from $61,811 to $47,999. SSFC member Cale Plamann, who worked extensively with WSL on its budget, made multiple motions to strike funds from and shift hours between WSL’s salaried administrative positions. Plamann said he had “grave concerns” about the group. SSFC Secretary Jason Smathers said he supported cuts to WSL administrative funding but opposed “screwing with” the group’s direct services. Overall, the committee cut $13,812
from WSL’s proposed budget by a vote of four in favor and two, including Plamann, abstaining. SPILL, a group providing anonymous, peer-based online support for students, requested a decreased 2011-’12 budget, while team-building organization ALPS requested a budget increase. The newly re-eligible CWC proposed an increased budget for 2011-’12, requesting an additional $7,000 for programming. The CWC was denied funding for the 2010-’11 fiscal year due to inadequate records and insufficient direct services, according to the SSFC ruling. For 2011-’12, CWC Finance Intern Mirabel Rouze said much of the increased funding would go toward compensating for last year’s cuts, as well as advertising and speakers’ fees. “A lot of our programs have been depleted this year because of our lack of funding,” Rouze said. The SSFC will determine budgets for the CWC, as well as ALPS and SPILL, at their meeting Thursday. The committee will also hear budget proposals from Sex Out Loud, the Working Class Student Union and Badger Catholic.
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Doyle explains decision to stop rail
The SSFC voted to increase Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment’s funding and to decrease Wisconsin Student Lobby’s funding Monday night.
By Alison Bauter
Fitzgerald said in a statement. The Joint Finance Committee makes changes to the governor’s recommended budget before introducing it into the legislature, and all bills requiring funding must be referred to the committee. The committee is considered the most powerful in the Legislature because of their role in the budget process. Hopper, who was DARLING elected in 2008, will be the first legislator to sit on the committee in his first term. Although the assembly members of the Joint Finance Committee have yet
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“boondoggle” and saying he would reject the nearly $810 million in federal funding for it and stop construction altogether. Doyle said if the money is turned away, the U.S. DOT has made it clear they would hand it over to another state. “There has been talk that this money could be used for roads. That is pure fiction,” Doyle said in a statement. “There are already states lined up with rail projects waiting for us to turn back this money.” New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo recently wrote to the U.S. DOT to request the funding Wisconsin and Ohio are likely to turn away in order to enhance New York’s own upstate rail lines. Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich has opposed a high-speed rail system that would link Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Wallet taken in State Street robbery Saturday A 20-year-old Madison man was robbed of his wallet on State Street Saturday morning around 12:13 a.m. The victim told Madison police he was walking down the 500 block of State Street when five men approached him. Authorities said one of the five men pushed the victim against a sign post and told him to empty his pockets. The victim gave the alleged thief his cell phone
and wallet. The suspect returned the phone, but kept the wallet, Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement. The suspect is said to be a 20-yearold black man with cornrows or braids in his hair, around 5'2" with a heavy build. At the time of the robbery he was said to be wearing a blue and white checkered shirt.
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About 140 people attended Slow Food UW’s “Family Dinner Night” Monday, which featured an appearance from L’Etoile executive chef Tory Miller.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”