Today's Milwaukee Wisconsin Headlines...
Doyle drops plan on school funding
Gov. Jim Doyle has quietly dropped a wide-ranging school funding reform proposal that he has been talking about for more than a year.
State equal-rights official suffered discrimination, court rules
Johnny Kimble spent a career helping others address employment discrimination at the state's Equal Rights Division in Milwaukee. But it didn't save him from becoming a victim of illegal race and gender bias within that very agency.
EPA official says agency will act soon on BPA
Responding to criticism that the Environmental Protection Agency delayed action on regulating the chemical bisphenol A, the agency is planning to "finalize an action plan on BPA in the very near future."
Companies ready to do some hiring
At least one leading indicator in metro Milwaukee, which hemorrhaged jobs in the last two years, suggests that employers are prepared to begin hiring.
Waukesha residents express wariness of lake water plan
Just one month before the Common Council will be asked to approve an application for Lake Michigan water, about two dozen city residents at a public hearing Monday asked officials why they need to look beyond Waukesha County for drinking water.
5 face voter fraud charges
Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Monday.
Two of those charged - Maria Miles, 36, of Milwaukee, and Kevin Clancy, 26, of Racine - worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community organizing group.
"The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN," the Van Hollen news release says.
