Debate Over Fair Share Arouses School Union Talks
La Crosse discussions between the La Crosse Area Public School District Board of Education and the La Crosse Association of Auxiliary Personnel fail to reach agreement on a fair share clause requiring nonmembers to pay union dues. Negotiations also touch involuntary transfers and binding arbitration, with public sessions planned for January.
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la Crosse Area Public School District Board of Education
la Crosse Association of Auxiliary Personnel
LAAP
Robert Kuechmann
Kuechmann
Charles Garnier
Wisconsin
Freeway Plans Routed Into State Computer
La Crosse leaders vote to let computer analysis pick among four freeway routes for 1995 traffic, including a Front Street in-city option. Four plans from Alternate 1 to 3 and the new in-city corridor will be studied in Madison with results due in January.
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Front Street
Madison
la Crosse
Medary
Ronald Bracegirdle
la Crosse River
City Well
Lang Drive
la Crosse Street
City
6Th Street
7Th Street
King and
Cass Streets
South Avenue
Gorder Road
Sixth Street
Cass Street
Grove Street
Chicago North Western Railroad
2Nd Street
King Street
3Rd Street
Department of Natural Resources
Bracegirdle
Logan Junior Choir Size Shrinks Amid Scheduling Clash
Logan Junior High faces a shrinking eighth grade choir from 50 to 22 and ninth grade from 75 to 59 as a scheduling impasse limits participation. Music staff object to contracts tied to public performances, prompting a debate over an eight period day and possible before after school rehearsals.
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Logan Junior High
Kathryn Johnson
Theresa Myers
Myers
Nancy Gerrard
Logan
Louise Claflin
Johnson
Wisconsin assessors halt clash with Revenue Department
A Wisconsin association of assessors paused its public battle with the Revenue Department after a briefing by spokesman Eugene Hafner. He outlined planned changes including staff realignment before May 1, audits of personal property, and exploring a computer method for valuing new construction.
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Milwaukee
The
Revenue Department
Vernon Weitz
Wisconsin Association of Assessing Officers
WAAO
Eugene Hafner
Association
Hafner
WAAC
Frank Spoden
Janesville
Ice Catches Another Ship To Freeze River Traffic
A Liberian cargo ship Unimar ran aground in the icy St Marys River near Sault Ste Marie halting traffic after the Stewart Cort had cleared the Soo Locks earlier. Coast Guard said 25 ships waited as ice kept passage dangerous with dawn the reassessment time.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
St. Mary's River
Sault Ste. Marie
Unimar
Stewart Cort
Soo Locks
Cort
Coast Guard
Unimal
Great Lakes
Mackinac
St. Lawrence Seaway
No Flu Epidemic From Brodhead Likely
Wisconsin health officials said the swine flu case in Don Harris of Brodhead is an isolated incident with no evidence of spread to others in Green County. Investigators from the CDC found no wider transmission after testing contacts. Harris, a hog farmer, fell ill around Thanksgiving, with high fever and headache, the first swine flu case since the nationwide immunization program began.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Don Harris
Stanley Inhorn
State Health Department
Harris
Inhorn
Federal Center For Disease Control
Green County
Ers
Atlanta
Wisconsin Governor Urges Fed Aid for Drought Hit Farmers
Gov. Patrick J. Lucey asks President Ford to provide emergency feed grain aid to about 1,800 Wisconsin farmers. He cites $623 million losses in forage and feed crops due to drought and urges use of disaster funds to buy feed grain after the USDA program ended.
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Madison
Wis
Ford Administration
Patrick J. Lucey
Wisconsin
U.S. Department of Agriculure
Ford
USDA
Faribault loses state aid over yearlong teacher strike
The Faribault School District failed to meet the 175 school day requirement, state aid of 122000 was denied. The Minnesota Board of Education upheld the penalty after closures during a 23 day teachers strike. The case reflects penalties for yearlong disruption of classes.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Faribault
Minnesota Board of Education
Howard Casmey
Fairbanlt
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John Majewski
Duke
LaCrosse Tribune
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Isle Ln Plume
Municipal Service Building
Green Island
Onalaska
Ash
la Crosse Area
Evan Lowrey
Howard Voss
Lowrey
Voss
Plains
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy
Billy
Minnesota
Minnesota Supreme Court
Donald E. Anderson
6Th District Court
Duluth
Minnesota Commission On Judicial Standards
Anderson
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