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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Board of Estimates discusses city budget By Joo-Hyun Kim THE DAILY CARDINAL
The city’s Board of Estimates met at the Madison Municipal Building Monday to vote on the city’s budget and discuss its implications. Agenda items included the appropriation of funds for Freakfest 2009, approval of the firefighter union’s contract for next year and discussing the use of federal stimulus funds. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz was not in attendance. The majority of items on the agenda were passed without much objection, though city alders raised concerns about some concerns. Representatives of the Madison Police Department were present to request funds for establishing a program that would allow police officers to acquire individually fitted rifles for
their use. Although the MPD sought to implement this program several years ago, they were unsuccessful and had to use one size of rifles for all police officers due to budget constraints. Many alders raised concerns about public safety and whether the program was a necessity. MPD officials argued that allowing police officers to use rifles that are specifically fitted for their body frames would result in a more effective use of firearms. The MPD also assured the Board that all new rifles would be safely stored in district stations. The Board voted to approve the program. The alders were also updated on meeting page 3
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Chancellor Biddy Martin spoke with UW System employees at a ceremony and question-and-answer session Monday to celebrate the creation of domestic partner health insurance benefits.
Ceremony honors new benefits for employees By Kayla Torgerson THE DAILY CARDINAL
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The Madison Board of Estimates discussed the use of federal stimulus funds and funds for Freakfest 2009 at their meeting Monday.
Sen. Coggs to run for lieutenant gov. State Sen. Spencer Coggs, DMilwaukee, confirmed in an exclusive interview with The Daily Cardinal that he will run for lieutenant governor in the 2010 election Monday. Coggs has not made a formal announcement but said he has formed an exploratory committee. He said he will make a formal announcement within the next two weeks. COGGS Upon hearing current Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton had plans to run for governor, Coggs discussed the possibility of running for lieutenant governor with several friends. “I began to think about it, and again, it makes sense to me.
I’ve been in office for 26 years,” he said. He said the lieutenant governor position would allow him to continue economic initiatives and small business developments Lawton is currently focusing on. Coggs said being from Milwaukee will positively affect his campaign. He said though no elected governor has been from Milwaukee, LAWTON several lieutenant governors, including Martin Schreiber who was elected in 1970 and James Flynn who was elected in 1982, are from the Milwaukee area. coggs page 3
Chancellor Biddy Martin hosted a reception Monday to mark the expansion of domestic partner benefits for UW System employees. Martin said both same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners within the UW System have been fighting for these benefits for over a decade. “This community has argued for a very long time, that it’s essential to students, staff, faculty and the rest of the community to have domestic partner benefits because it’s the right thing and because we can’t recruit and retain quality people or keep a quality institution without what’s fair and right,” she said. Steve Stern, UW-Madison vice provost for faculty and staff and
chair of Domestic Partners Health Insurance Task Force, said the new policies will close the gap between same-sex and opposite-sex healthcare benefits. “Domestic partner health insurance matters a lot,” he said. “It’s an issue of fairness and it’s an issue of competitiveness and it’s also a human issue.” During the ceremony, Stern read a letter of appreciation from a UW System doctor thanking him for his efforts to make these benefits a reality. “Domestic partnership success is truly outstanding and a testament to tireless and dedicated work. So many people around the state are appreciative and will have immeasurable enrichment in their lives because of this, including us. For the first time now, my partner can be on my family health
insurance plan with the kids,” the letter said. Kate Siberine, a UW-Madison junior and employee at the LGBT Campus Center, said the new benefits will make the UW System more competitive against other schools in the Big Ten who already have domestic partner benefits. “It will help us as far as professor retention and recruiting professors that really are the best in their field,” Siberine said. According to Ingrid Rothe, an academic staff researcher at the Institute of Research on Poverty, the new benefits will have positive impacts on everyone on campus, not just the LGBT community. “[The benefits] make a huge difference in terms of making the campus an appealing place for all people to come to work here,” she said.
Glover, Taylor formally charged with burglary By Kelsey Gunderson THE DAILY CARDINAL
Former UW-Madison men’s basketball freshmen Jeremy Glover and Diamond Taylor were officially charged with two counts of burglary Monday, according to a complaint filed at the Dane County Circuit Court. Glover, a walk-on from Haymarket, Va., and Taylor, a scholarship recruit from Bolingbrook, Ill., were arrested Sep. 6 for burglarizing money and possessions from Sellery Hall and the Evans Scholars private dormitory on Langdon Street. According to the complaint, Glover and Taylor told Madison
Police Department officials they had been drinking alcohol at a party and later decided to enter several open dorm rooms in Sellery Hall and take anything that was readily available. When Taylor was asked why he decided to burglarize the dorm, he said, “I don’t really know. We were drinking and stuff. I knew it was wrong and stuff. We were just being dumb.” The complaint said MPD officials received a call reporting a break-in at Sellery Hall around 5:30 a.m. on Sep. 6. They later used surveillance cameras to identify Glover and Taylor as the intruders.
The complaint said Glover and Taylor reportedly stole iPods, an iPod case and almost $500 in cash, and entered up to 13 dorm rooms in the building. MPD officials were later dispatched to the Evans scholar building at 7:40 a.m., where Glover and Taylor stole more iPods and a cell phone from two rooms while the residents were asleep. They were caught leaving the rooms and putting liquid soap on the doorknobs by another resident on the floor. According to the complaint, Glover and Taylor will face a plea hearing Thursday. —Ryan Hebel contributed to this report.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”