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UPDATE: Ashland Cty Board Ad Hoc Committee on Mining Rescinds Support
March 4, 2015 UPDATE: Gogebic Taconite (GTac) allegedly closed their Hurley office on March 1, 2015. With the price of iron ore crashing, GTac said it was the proliferation of wetlands in the Penokees Hills that made the area un-mineable. However, the power of the people coming together to protect the water also gave the seeds of justice a chance to prevail. This blog, originally published […]
Dear Shirl LaBarre, Why do you want to destroy me and my neighbors?
December 19, 2011 by Barbara With Dear Ms. LaBarre, I was recently at the mining hearing in West Allis where we both had a chance to speak. Isn’t democracy great that we can both drive down from the north (albeit I had a few more hours on the road from Madeline Island than you did […]
Voigt Decision Trumps Mining in Northern Wisconsin
December 19, 2011 by Barbara With On December 14, I attended a 10-hour pubic hearing in Milwaukee on the proposed mines in Northern Wisconsin. To be clear, my home of Madeline Island would be tremendously and adversely affected both environmentally and economically by a 4-mile or more open pit iron ore mine in the Penokee […]
Tuesday, December 20
Committee on Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce, and Government Operations 10:30 AM 201 Southeast Assembly Bill 100 Relating to: evidentiary recordings of persons under the age of 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct and certain sex offenses against children and providing penalties. Senate Bill 56 Relating to: evidentiary recordings of persons under the age of 18 engaging […]
Monday, December 19
Special committee on Review of Emergency Detention and Admission of Minors Under Chapter 51 10:00AM LC Conference Room, One East Main St., Suite 401
Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative 