“This time, I’m confident, I’m willing, I’m able and I want the sobriety,” says Andrew MacGillis, currently in Fox Lake Correctional Institution on his seventh drunken driving offense. But treatment may prove elusive for MacGillis, who says he has not been offered rehabilitation programs at Fox Lake. Others face a delay or are found noncompliant with court-ordered interviews that qualify them for treatment.
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Posted inEnvironment, Murky Waters, Water Watch Wisconsin
Manure digesters seen as best hope for curbing lake pollution, but drawbacks remain
Since 2001, manure digesters have been popping up across the state. Wisconsin now has 34, the most in the nation, with two more scheduled to begin operating by 2015. In all these digesters, bacteria eat biomass like manure, food scraps or whey and emit energy in the form of methane gas.
Posted inMoney & Politics Column
Walker is state fundraising champ
Gov. Scott. Walker has been keen on painting the recall campaign against him as driven by out-of-state money and special interests, particularly organized labor. But in the race for governor it’s been Walker who has been raking in boatloads of out-of-state cash.