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Mayor Says Zero Tax Hike Sends Important Message

postdateiconWednesday, 15 December 2010 09:58 | PDF | Print | E-mail
In the end, not many property tax bills in the city of La Crosse are going to stagnate this year. But there is that one line that reads, zero percent increase. That's the city's portion of tax bills. And that zero hike in property taxes has been a priority for mayor Matt Harter since he took office. Make it two years in a row that the mayor's delivered.   More than anything, he says, the lack of a levy increase sends a message that city hall is on the same side with the taxpayers in La Crosse.   He also says the zero percent property tax levy hike is not an accomplishment of his, necessarily, but one of the city council for working towards a zero increase.
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Sheriff's Captain Not Surprised by Level of State Drinking

postdateiconWednesday, 15 December 2010 09:54 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Week-ends are for letting down your hair a little. Having a good time. Knocking back a few. Driving drunk. Or, at least that appears to be the case in Wisconsin. A national report recently found the state to have the highest percentage of people who reported driving drunk.   No shocker for La Crosse county sheriff's captain Mike Horstman.   He says the study shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in the state.   And, he says, until the public decides they need to make better decisions drinking and celebrating, there's going to be little improvement in the drunk driving rate.   Horstman says it's no longer unusual to arrest someone with a sixth, seventh or eighth OWI on their record. And typically, he says, blood alcohol level is way above the legal limit.
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Art's Afire At UWL

postdateiconTuesday, 14 December 2010 21:23 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Things got a little hot yesterday when somebody was working on metal in the art department at U-W-La Crosse.

Some metal started on fire inside a kiln on the first floor of the Center for the Arts. The fire did not spread outside the kiln, but firefighters evacuated the building just in case. The building's ventilation system dispersed most of the smoke. The arts building had to be evacuated for almost two hours.

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UW-L Graduation Sunday

postdateiconWednesday, 15 December 2010 09:28 | PDF | Print | E-mail

The UW-Lacrosse holds its 46th annual Mid-year Commencement Sunday. A total of 626 students are expected to graduate, including 470 receiving undergraduate degrees and 156 receiving graduate degrees. Three ceremonies are planned for Mitchell Hall Gymnasium.

The ceremonies include:

11 a.m. College of Liberal Studies — Speaker: three-time Grammy award winner Bill Miller.

2 p.m. College of Business Administration — Speaker: Jessica Karis, '05, a recruiter and an agent for Works for Northwestern Mutual Life.

3:30 p.m. College of Science and Health — Speaker: Brian Soller, '96, Vice President Corporate Development and Sales at Lightpath Technologies.

All graduation ceremonies are also cablecast live on Charter Cable Channel 989, as well as on Channel 96 in La Crosse. Graduation ceremonies also are live available on Channel 6 on UW-L campus cable TV in classrooms and residence halls.

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Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010

postdateiconTuesday, 14 December 2010 13:09 | PDF | Print | E-mail

For those of us who have stepped onto a school campus or into a school cafeteria in the United States, it is hard not to notice the abundance of bad food choices. Greasy pizza, fried snacks
and flavored milks are some of the unhealthy lunch choices out there. This is probably not anything shocking or new. The dilemma has been how to remedy the situation.

One of the combative efforts has been the Child Nutrition Act. For some time, first Lady Michelle Obama has championed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Although this program has been met with opposition President Obama Monday signed the bill that turned the child nutrition bill into law.
The bill will cost $4.5 billion dollars.

The money will be used to increase the number of children in school lunch programs. In addition, unhealthy food choices will be replaced with better options. Lacrosse School Nutritionist, Joni Ralph, says she likes what she has seen so far.....what happens down to the road.....well that remains to be seen.

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