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Friday, March 12, 2010 |  Madison, WI: 44.0° F  
The Paper
Friday, March 12, 2010 | Vol. 35, No. 11

FEATURED STORY

Abusers hike cost of disabled parking
Proposed state law change would plug enforcement loophole

When 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

NEWS

A bad time for broadcast news
More local news folk leave the field before it leaves them

Carl 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 case

The 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. >More

MUSIC

OPINION & COMMENTARY

Raise taxes to save schools
Education is hurting, but reform's off the table

Back 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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SPORTS & RECREATION

More teams, less thrilling

Currently, 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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