A recent traffic crash in Fitchburg claimed the lives of four young men, and the driver has been tentatively charged with four counts of homicide by drunken driving. According to a national survey, Wisconsin leads the nation in drunken driving.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Municipal ordinances at your fingertips
Featured: The Wisconsin Law Library’s compilation of links to village, town, city and county ordinances across Wisconsin.
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Twisters in history, on Wisconsin InfoLink
Compared to the devastating tornadoes that have ripped through Joplin and Tuscaloosa and other southern communities, Wisconsin has managed to avoid the high fatalities. But the Barneveld tornado killed nine and injured more than 200 on June 8, 1984. Learn more about Wisconsin twisters at InfoLink.
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Mississippi River resources on Wisconsin InfoLink
Mississippi River resources covering a wide-range of topics from flooding to recreation are available on Wisconsin InfoLink.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Silver screens of the Midwest
Wisconsin is hardly the Hollywood of the Midwest, but there are a few film resources here worth checking out this Oscar season.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: The joy (and danger) of snowmobiles
Trails, maps, snow reports, safety tips and statistics for snowmobilers, from librarian-blogger Ron Larson.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Check for icy roads before you go
It’s that time of year where traveling even a short distance can become a major adventure due to bad weather. Wisconsin InfoLink can help you prepare for or avoid those hassles with its links to driving and weather conditions.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Century-old newspapers — online!
For the third post in a series on online newspaper research, serials expert Ron Larson introduces us to the Wisconsin Historical Society news archives.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Gannett pulls 10 dailies from free PDF archive; using NewsLibrary.com
Gannett pulled its dailies from the Wisconsin Newspaper Archive because it had another archive contract. Also, details on the pay-per-story archive service at NewsLibrary.com.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Another way to go back in time
Serials librarian Ron Larson introduces us to an archive of newspapers, most of which are out of print.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: A new online collection of Wisconsin newspapers
BadgerLink — the state’s online full-text library collections — now has access to five years of complete PDF pages from more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers, dailies and weeklies. This is a major breakthrough for those of you who need to search back issues of newspapers, as very few weeklies have any searchable archives and most dailies have extremely poor ones.
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Wisconsin InfoLink: Be the watchdog
As elections draw nigh, librarian and WisconsinWatch blogger Ron Larson provides some tips on how to follow Wisconsin political money and keep tabs on the candidates.