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FEATURED STORY
 Abusers hike cost of disabled parkingProposed state law change would plug enforcement loopholeJoe Tarr on Thursday 03/11/2010When Steve Pribbenow moved to Baraboo about 20 years ago, he had an awfully hard time finding parking spaces. Pribbenow and his wife at the time were both disabled and needed the reserved spots for their wheelchair lift. But it seemed like the handicap-accessible spaces were always taken. There couldn't possibly be that many disabled people in town, he thought. >More
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 A bad time for broadcast newsMore local news folk leave the field before it leaves themBill Lueders on Thursday 03/11/2010Carl Agnelly started planning to leave broadcasting last August, while making (and reporting on) the 300-mile Wisconsin AIDS Ride. "You spend four days on a bicycle and you have lots of time to think," says Agnelly, who started at WKOW 27 in September 2004 as a general-assignment reporter and was moving up the ranks, including a weekend anchor gig. "I was thinking: If I'm laid off, what would I do with a communications degree?" >More  Wiley shines light on Brothers caseBill Lueders on Thursday 03/11/2010The deposition was taken Feb. 16 as part of a lawsuit filed by the owners of Brothers Bar & Grill against the UW Board of Regents. The owners, Marc and Eric Fortney, are trying to block the regents' attempt to seize their property through condemnation; the UW wants to use the property for a future School of Music. >MoreMUSIC
OPINION & COMMENTARY
 Raise taxes to save schoolsEducation is hurting, but reform's off the tableRuth Conniff on Thursday 03/11/2010, (1) RecommendationBack when Obama was running for president and Wisconsin Democrats were poised to take over the state Legislature, I went to a fundraiser filled with fired-up activists at Ground Zero coffeehouse on Willy Street. The issue was schools, and Democratic lawmakers Sondy Pope-Roberts of Middleton and Mark Pocan of Madison were on hand to explain how things could really begin to change once the Dems took over the Legislature. >More |
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 More teams, less thrillingJason Joyce on Thursday 03/11/2010Currently, the NCAA Division I men's college basketball tournament fields 65 teams, accommodating 31 conference champions and 34 at-large bids. The whole thing lasts three weeks, with two rounds played each weekend. It is, aside from the Super Bowl, the nation's biggest sporting event, with diehard fans pitting their picks against those from people who don't know a screen-and-roll from a box-and-one. >More |
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