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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Plans for WI wind farm called off
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Current Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. former Mayor Paul Soglin, state Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, and Dane County Board Supervisor Eileen Bruskewitz held a debate at the Barrymore Theater to discuss their plans for immigration and dealing with Gov. Scott Walker.
Mayor, Dane Co. Exec candidates hold joint debate on local issues By Patrick Tricker The Daily Cardinal
The two respective contenders for Madison mayor and Dane County executive debated local issues ranging from recycling to immigration Tuesday at the Barrymore Theater. While listening to candidates discuss fixing the economy, reducing racial disparities and protecting the environment, community members enjoyed beer in the lobby, a childcare service for parents and an interpreter for Spanish speakers. “It’s about making Madison bet-
ter for everyone,” former mayor Paul Soglin said. “It’s the concept that we not only have a vision, but how we get there is important, how we participate together.” Current Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Soglin and state Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, took turns lambasting Gov. Scott Walker and discussing how they would handle the impending aid cuts and tax restrictions. “When Governor Walker said that he would create 250,000 jobs, who knew that all of them would be at Ian’s Pizza,” Cieslewicz said. “I
think we’ve shown in the last eight years that you can progress but also be pro-economic development.” Despite reminding the audience she was not Walker, Dane County Board Supervisor Eileen Bruskewitz faced repeated jeers for expressing support for the governor, and the moderator needed to step in so she could continue speaking. “I felt he was the only candidate that was going to face the economic and fiscal problems that this state faces,” Bruskewitz said. “He wasn’t going to kick the can into the future.”
On the topic of racial disparities in the prison population, Parisi said it is “completely unacceptable” and promised he would use public services to prevent crime at its root. “We need to make sure that people, when they’re looking for a second chance, are able to get a house, are able to get job,” Parisi said. Discussing illegal immigration, Cieslewicz and Soglin said they would do everything they could to not cooperate with state deportation authorities, debate page 3
UW professors address Japan nuclear disaster
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By Erin McGlynn The Daily Cardinal
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The Hua MuLan Dance Group performed at the sixth annual Greenbush Day, an event meant to commerate the historic neighborhood.
Three UW-Madison science professors explained technical and public health aspects of Japan’s current nuclear crisis resulting from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that recently devastated the country as part of a panel at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Tuesday. The March 11 earthquake seriously damaged the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. After the subsequent tsunami hit, flood waters caused three nuclear reactors to fail and melt down, which ultimately led to the explosion of four of the plant’s six nuclear reactors. Bryan Bednarz, an associate professor in the Engineering Physics Department, said while some areas north of the plant measured significantly higher radiation
levels than the rest of the country, “the risk to the general population is extremely low.” Concerning the long-term risks on health for the population at the current radiation levels, “It would take about one month of exposure for residents to experience the same risk they would receive from a common X-ray exam,” Bednarz said. Chair of UW-Madison’s Engineering Physics Department Michael Corradini said the mechanisms and design of the plant’s reactors contributed to the extent of the explosions. In addition, members of the panel said the nuclear facility was only built to withstand an 8.2-magnitude earthquake and a 20-foot tsunami, which this disaster’s tsunami exceeded by a factor of two. japan page 3
A wind energy company is canceling its plans to build a wind farm in Brown County because of what Democrats and environmental groups are calling poor environmental decisions by Gov. Scott Walker. Invenergy LLC said in a statement it did not make sense to proceed with the wind farm “while uncertainty persists regarding relevant project regulations.” State Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, accused Walker of creating a hostile environment for green businesses. “Governor Walker’s math is to talk about jobs but kill good, clean energy jobs,” state Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, said in a statement. “We should be promoting homegrown clean energy, not Walker’s plan to sell state power plants for no-bid contracts.” Clean Wisconsin spokesperson Keith Reopelle criticized Walker’s decisions that have lead to this point and his “war on wind energy is killing good Wisconsin jobs.” “We urge the Legislature to reverse this course of action, and embrace the job-creating potential of wind power in Wisconsin,” Reopelle said in a statement.
UW limnologist to receive prize from Swedish king UW-Madison Limnologist Stephen Carpenter will receive $150,000 and a crystal sculpture from the King of Sweden in recognition of winning the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize. The prize, which will be CARPENTER presented in August, recognizes “outstanding achievement in water-related activities.” It specifically honors individuals or groups whose work aids the “conservation and protection of water resources and to improved health of the planet’s inhabitants and ecosystem,” according to the Stockholm International Water Institute website. A professor of limnology and zoology at UW-Madison, Carpenter was recognized for his research of how people’s actions affect lake ecosystems. He is recognized as one of the world’s most influential ecological environmental scientists. Carpenter, former president of the Ecological Society of America and the current director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, has written five books and nearly 300 scientific papers on various ecological topics.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”