Daily Globe (Newspaper) - February 9, 2005, Ironwood, Michigan ILLINI ROLL Win over Wolverines continues feet season Pg 10 FEBRUARY 9 2005 DAILY G GOOD DAY Zachary Daniels Ironwood Happy 14th birthday Love Mom Dad and Brett INSIDE MICHIGAN EDITIONS LEGEND ON LEFT Local radio talk show host meets a couple of his ers heroes Pg 3 ASH WEDNESDAY Pope John Paul II remains in hospital misses first Ash Wednesday prayers Briefs THURSDAY PROGRESS 2005 Two editions look at school business in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties the Globe WEATHER INDEX HigH Low High Low Last 24 hours 18 3 Last year this date 24 14 Records 1991 1933 Precipitation Last 24 hours 0.01 Snow Last 24 hours 1.5 Snowfall to Last year at this time 142.2 On the details Page 2 INDEX Business 6 Comics 14 Obituaries 8 Opinion 4 Sports Tidbits Wisconsin 11 50 CENTS Granholm issues call for action to spur Michigan's economy Hw i By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN Associated Press Writer LANSING Mich Michigan must take drastic action or risk being permanently left behind ly in the 21st century Gov Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday in her third annual State of the State address The Democratic governor wants to create tens of thousands of jobs in coming years by speeding up the investment of million in roads low-income housing and other She also would have the state sell billion in bonds over the next decade to encourage research in life sciences advance automotive design and homeland security To get that billion two-thirds of both the House and the Senate would have to approve putting the proposal on the Nov 8 ballot and a majority of Michigan voters would have to approve selling the bonds Because the bonds would be sold in increments over the next decade the state would see its payments See GRANHOLM Page 2 Press Wisconsin Gov Jim Doyle waves to the gallery before addressing a joint session of the Legislature on his budget at the State Capitol in Madison on Tuesday Associated Press Michigan Gov Jennifer Granholm acknowledges the joint session ol the Michigan before her State of the State address in Lansing on Tuesday At right is Lt Gov John Cherry More on the State of Our States proposes to restore the state's commitment cover two-thirds of public school costs other education perks PAGE 11 MICHIGAN'S holm wants Ine creating and engineering motor vehicles medical technologies and ty systems of the future to stat in the slate PAGE 4 Doyle proposes million more for K-12 Republican legislature vows freeze on property taxes By JR ROSS Associated Press Writer MADISON Democratic Gov Jim Doyle borrowed a theme in unveiling c budget proposal that he said would freeze local property taxes but compensate million into education helping local governments hold spending down Majority Republicans in the ture were quick to dismiss the plan as a sham They vowed to rework the budget to impose tighter restrictions on the taxes levied by local governments schools and technical colleges Assembly Speaker John Card Peshtigo said Doyle's plan would not estly limit property taxes and would con- tribute to the burden on homeowners in the long run He's hoping that people don't do their homework and allow the phony packaging to become Card said The reality is we'll see if he wants to hold line on property taxes Because we're going to give him a freeze presenting his two-year budget to the Legislature Tuesday night touted his property tax proposal as a sonable way to ease the growing burden on homeowners without cutting education funding or services governments Most of all this budget protects our schools and the quality of local services while freezing property Doyle said Doyle has vetoed Republican efforts to limit property taxes deriding the als over the past two years as bumper sticker politics rather than solution to Wisconsin's property tax bills His budget also details how he wants to fix the state's deficit To make up the shortfall Doyle proposed a series of spending cuts and accounting maneuvers but did not advocate raising income stiles or corporate Wisconsin faces the shortfall for the period through June 30 2007 because expected revenue doesn't cover requested spending by state agencies The state con- requires a balanced budget meaning the deficit has to be made up through spending cuts tax increases or both The two-year budget covers n wide See DOYLE 2 Governor's plan would give break to Hurley district By RALPH Globe News Editor HURLEY Gov James Doyle's Tuesday pledge to fund school districts at 67 percent state aid becomes a ty it would mean a big break for payers in the Hurley School District If it goes that way amen for tho Hurley School District Chris said this ing said the Hurley district presently receives about 57 percent state funding Since the school district budget is around million this year nn Sce HUHLEY Page 2 Montreal makes plans for new hall Bl looks ahead lo new Iruck which won't fit in old fire hall By MARGARET LEVRA Globe Staff Writer MONTREAL Wis Mayor Robert presented his plans for financing a new fire in the City of Montreal at Tuesday's city council ing The current building con- in 1940 is in need of and is not handicap sible It's a historic building a nice but no longer adequate for the city's needs said The city needs a new fire truck within the next three to four years said We arc not going In have a place to put it A new truck will not fit in tho current fire hall He said the city has about in its fire fund for the purchase of a new vehicle We could use the to put toward a new fire hall and then build up the fund again over the next three to four years The Montreal Fire ment provides fire services to the towns of Pence Iron Belt and Upson Payments received for those services are placed in the fire fund Council member Mitch Koski presented two drawings of Sce MONTREAL Page 3 School insurer continue talk over fire payments WAUSAU Wis The Hurley School Board made some progress toward an insurance settlement regarding the 2003 K-12 school fire but didn't come to a final agreement Tuesday At a special closed session in Wausau board members reached common grounds with on some insurance issues district administrator Chris said this morning The district has been paid lo a certain point for damage that resulted from the Nov 12 fire but hasn't settled on a final number Potrittosaid We do have money ho said said the next step in the negotiating process will be for him to send inventory information to the insurance company We're not done yet and will continue to he said See Page 3 BESSEMER'S QUIGLEY BACK IN THE GAME Bessemer senior Lane drives against Hancock's Shane Wheeler during Tuesday night's game at Johnston High School It was Quigley's first action since he broke his jaw in a game on Dec 17 The center played 22 minutes f with nine points and a eight rebounds ON PAGE 9 FACTORY CUSTOM CABINETS LAMINATE COUNTER TOPS VANITY TOPS CABINET HARDWARE FIREPLACES g STOVES CARPETING VINYL FLOORING CERAMIC TILE LAMINATE 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