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Thursday In Madison Is LazichFest, In A Round About Way

October 5, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
Ah, State Sen. Mary Lazich, (R-New Berlin) - - Wisconsin's gift to political theater that keeps on giving.

On Thursday morning she's scheduled a hearing on the state's use of traffic roundabouts - - that foreign roadway import that calms traffic, and saves on stoplight costs, but which Lazich finds overwhelmingly baffling.

City of Milwaukee Mark Belling fears a New Berlin roundabout, too.

Even though all turns are to the right.

Some other true-fact items from the Lazich archives:

*  She proposed criminalizing prank phone calls. This came after Scott Walker was embarrassed spilling the beans to the fake David Koch and earned her a shout out on "The Colbert Report."

* Led opposition to the Great Lakes Compact of 2008 even though it was making it possible for her home town to get the Great Lakes water supply it sought, because she believed it would destroy Wisconsin's sovereignty.

Lake Michigan Advocate Foresaw National Report On Declining Great Lakes Fisheries

October 5, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
I see that the National Wildlife Federation is out with a very important report on the worrisome state of the Great Lakes' fisheries.

Hat's off to Grafton observer and lake advocate Jim Te Selle, who had been alerting the DNR to this issue. I had posted last week his communication to the Department.

Lake Michigan Should Not Suffer A Daily Dose Of Tons Of Coal Ash

October 2, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
The routine dumping of coal ash into Lake Michigan every day during the shipping season from the boilers of the Manitowoc, WI-to-Ludington, MI steam-powered ferry gets Sunday, page-one exposure in the Chicago Tribune.

Boaters who throw their garbage into the lake would and should get cited, but the Badger gets a pass for burning 55 tons a day and discharging overboard 3.8 tons of coal ash - - and, in fact, the pollution that comes out of the smokestack even has a separate legislative exemption from Wisconsin lawmakers.

How big a dose of pollution is this?

The Trib says..".the Badger dumps nearly 4 tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan — waste concentrated with arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxic metals. During its spring-to-fall season, federal records show, the amount far exceeds the coal, iron and limestone waste jettisoned by all 125 other big ships on the Great Lakes combined."

In the name of nostalgia for the last steamer working Lake Michigan?

Free Water Conference Wednesday In Milwaukee: Schedule Below

October 2, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
Public Forum to Focus on Regional Water Conservation and Stormwater Management
Clean Wisconsin, Alliance for the Great Lakes and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

Lifelong Lake Michigan Advocate Sounds Fresh Alarm Over Disappearing Fish

September 29, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
(First posted, 8:31 p.m., Thursday, September 29) 
There have been media reports and concerns expressed about the invasive Quagga Mussel and its destructive presence in Lake Michigan, but Jim Te Selle, a shoreline property owner and President of the 30,000-member Coalition of Wisconsin Great Lakes, has raised a fresh alarm with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over the future of Lake Michigan trout and salmon fishing.
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