MADD President Urges Lawmakers To Hear Drunken Driving Bill
Submitted: 03/10/2010
MADISON - The national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is urging Wisconsin lawmakers to hold a hearing on a bill that would toughen drunken driving penalties in the state.
The proposal would legalize sobriety checkpoints and make a first-offense drunken driving arrest a crime instead of just a traffic violation.
MADD President Laura Dean-Mooney asked the co-chairs of the Legislature's budget committee in a letter dated Tuesday to hold a hearing on the bill.
A spokesman for committee co-chair Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, says it doesn't make sense to move ahead with the costly bill before another proposal toughening drunken driving penalties passed last year takes effect.
Also, the budget committee generally doesn't hold hearings on bills.
RHINELANDER / SUGAR CAMP - If ice fishing is your thing, you've got some time before you need to put your auger away. But if you're an avid snowmobiler, you may be in for a rough ride.
Not long ago, the snowmobile trails looked like this. And now, they look like this...patches of standing water and mud...and don't forget the sun that's making it all possible.
Three Lakes Trails Officer Jeff Smith groomed the trails one week ago for the last time. "It's a short season as it is, it starts around Christmas time and this year it ended a little early. It'd be nice to go a couple more weeks into March."
RHINELANDER - Business and community leaders gathered in Rhinelander Tuesday for this month's Leadership Oneida County daylong seminar. The day's topic? Local Industry.
Committee Member Mel Davidson set up today's tours.
The group visited five different industrial firms including: Superior Diesel, ABX, Oldenburg Group, Printpack and ending at Ponsse.
2010 Winter Olympics Inspire Young Athletes In The Northwoods
Submitted: 03/09/2010
RHINELANDER - The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games may be over, but as Newswatch 12's James Fillmore reports that's not stopping three local athletes from following their Olympic dreams.
10-year-old Daleigh Neveaux loves figure skating and the Olympics.
She says, "I would love to be an Olympics athlete because I work hard, and if I work even harder I could push myself to be in the Olympics someday."
Doyle Signs Bill Requiring Health Price Disclosure
Submitted: 03/09/2010
WAUWATOSA - Patients would get more information about how much it costs to receive treatment under a bill that has been signed into law.
Under the new law signed Tuesday by Gov. Jim Doyle, doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, pharmacists and other health care providers will have to supply the median-billed charge for a service upon request.
MILWAUKEE - ``American Idol'' finalist Danny Gokey made his eyewear a signature during the show.
Now the Milwaukee native has signed a two-year marketing agreement with a New Berlin optical company to promote their glasses.
The contract with Wisconsin Vision calls for Gokey to wear up to 60 pairs of the company's glasses, be featured in television and outdoor advertising in Wisconsin and make personal in-store appearances.
WI Supreme Court Reinstates Lawyer After Jail Time
Submitted: 03/09/2010
MILWAUKEE - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of a Milwaukee attorney who served prison time forhis role in a scam to defraud a home-building company.
The court's reinstatement of attorney Michael Gral came over the objections of his former law firm, Michael Best & Friedrich.
Justices say Gral has satisfied the requirements to resume practicing law, but they imposed conditions to ensure he does not repeat the criminal behavior of his past.
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