tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91684862947659153062024-03-05T14:26:35.872-08:00Environment AgencyThe Environment Agency (Welsh: Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd) is a British non-departmental public body of the Department for Environmentaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comBlogger1436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-88759594812523756332012-10-06T05:07:00.001-07:002012-10-06T05:07:54.355-07:00A Breastfeeding Organization is an Organization of Mercy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are many famous quotes explaining the goodness and pain with which the medical team treat sufferers. While these the medical team are undoubtedly amazing individuals, the way they come to offer sufferers with care is a process similar to how alternative instructors are appointed.<br /><br />Gathering a Breastfeeding Workforce<br /><br />Nurses join a employment agency called a nursing agency, or personal computer, that arranges their employment force at various medical care features. After joining one of these organizations, the wellness professional will be approached about features which have openings in need of filling.<br /><br />The nursing agency will arrange a short-term agreement for the care provider. Usually, this kind of business is little and private. However, these organizations have come to take advantage of opportunities presented by the world wide web.<br /><br />A Contract Position<br /><br />Nursing organizations help offer the medical team perform at wellness care features per diem. This means that the wellness professional works at a service for a contract length of your energy and energy or at a location when regular team are missing. A nursing agency may need to contact their the medical team day, evening, and even on vacations.<br /><br />Most medical centers pay their team extra time on major vacations but despite this motivation, there is still a lot of demand for the nurses’ solutions. Many medical center employees take vacations in the summer, which creates a vacuum.<br /><br />If there is a shortage of the medical team, there is a greater chance of poor patient outcomes – strokes, pneumonia, bladder infections, and bedsores – according to a report from the U. s. Declares Department of Health & Human Services in 2004.<br /><br />Ideally, the medical center will pay the company as soon as the solutions are finished and then money will be immediately passed on to the nursing employees. Unfortunately, there is no exact rule set for relationships so the wellness care service or medical center might not pay the personal computer until several weeks or months later.<br /><br />The Regulating Board<br /><br />In the U. s. Declares, nursing organizations are usually little companies that are private. English nursing registries are controlled by the Care Excellent Percentage. The Care Excellent Percentage began operating in Apr 2009. Their objective is to ensure better care stages.<br /><br />Therefore, nursing organizations must register with the Care Excellent Percentage to confirm that the stages of safety and quality being provided meet control requirements. This eliminates indecisiveness about whether or not the nursing agency is providing comprehensive and effective solutions.<br /><br />Finding an Organization Online<br /><br />Websites now offer relationships to wellness professional registries. A quick google search results in several nursing agency sites that are willing to offer medical care features and private clients with skilled the medical team for hire. There are even sites about how to create a wellness professional employment agency website.<br /><br />As much as the medical team are considered walking angels, they are still people. They need to eat, pay the rent, and take a evening off every now and then. By being paid for greatly needed solutions, they can engage in their desired total well being. These organizations of whim allow the medical team to offer their unique top quality of care and still survive in the world.aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-84130608544460352302012-10-06T05:05:00.001-07:002012-10-06T05:05:23.148-07:00The Atmosphere Organization Informs Organizations Not to Waver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With many professionals indicating that depressive disorders and economic downturn are growing, some might recommend that ecological plan should not be top of the plan for businesses treating the depressive disorders.<br /><br />The Atmosphere Organization creates no such recommendations.<br /><br />In fact, after the book of its 'Spotlight on Organization's review, it is encouraging exactly the opposite; that - despite struggling financial times - businesses should not give up in their dedication to the environment.<br /><br />The alerts were made on the back of what creates amazing studying on the enhancement of ecological problems in the company market. This, the 'Spotlight on Organization's review shows:<br /><br />"Industry areas that have revealed to us since 1998 have:<br /><br />1) Enhanced air quality by reducing sulphur oxides (SOx) by 69 %, excellent contaminants (PM10) by 53 %, nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 12 %.<br /><br />2) Decreased spend by 14 %.<br /><br />3) Cut the number of serious contamination occurrences by almost half from 884 to 462 since 2000."<br /><br />The review points out some significant discounts, and information the success of its charges and danger assesment system:<br /><br />"As a result of Atmosphere Organization beliefs the legal courts passed out £3 thousand in charges as well as almost 8 years behind cafes and more than 170 days of group service.<br /><br />Businesses have gained from our risk-based strategy to control and we will always perform with with them later on to develop on these achievements."<br /><br />But the Environmental Organization - despite the upgrades - does not believe that financial recession should be used as an reason for a recession in ecological change. It considers that company should function on the same legislature, with the same dedication level.<br /><br />Indeed many of the Environmental Company's followers weblink good ecological plan with a powerful economy; it is considered that long lasting balance can be assured with the release of maintainable and electricity, which cost less to run and sustain than the present non-renewable petrol systems.<br /><br />This is also the thinking behind the recently suggested 'Green New Deal', which will look to deal with control with the development of tasks in a new, greatly extended 'green receiver worker' tasks market.<br /><br />The plan suggests that a wide ecological change program, creating a prosperity of new maintainable power vegetation, and making an investment in Natural Building, could make several tasks for the jobless, treating a problem on the economic system.<br /><br />Certainly, the Envrionmental Organization has no programs for calming its control regarding businesses. In the review, they summarize their ideas for the long run :<br /><br />"1) We are now seeing the effects of global warming and must adjust to it as well as trying to minimize the causes. Using sources like water and power more effectively, and reducing spend are just three ways we can do this.<br /><br />2) Much has been done to restrict point resource contamination. We need to proceed this perform as well as treating calm contamination. There are still too many dangerous substances in the environment, and damage is still being brought on by nutritional value coming from products like soaps and fertilisers."<br /><br />Perhaps most of all, though, is their concept to those in the company market who keep neglect ecological legislature:<br /><br />"We need to deal with non-compliance and the businesses that purposely crack the law to make a quick benefit. They damage the environment, jeopardize individuals health, and damage the popularity of genuine industry".<br /><br />What the Environmental Organization creates clear, then, is that - even with control - envrionmental plan must always stay main to company.<br /><br />Companies looking for a crack better start looking elsewhere.aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-30662752772809398192012-10-05T22:00:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.831-07:00When It Comes To Endangered Species, What Does Glenn Grothman Think<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/state-proposes-taking-16-species-off-protected-list-adding-8-cb73n32-172740491.html">Changes are coming</a>, but has anyone recently asked<a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2011/11/top-dnr-officials-shocked-shocked-at.html"> West Bend's GOP State Senator and Rare Species' Expert Glenn Grothman</a> what the science says?aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-9596740720865083672012-10-05T20:54:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.886-07:00GOP Dissonance Vote fraud data, solid. Job data, fraud!aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-62340526945268350612012-10-05T14:00:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.857-07:00Job Growth Numbers Disappoint Pro-Growth RepublicansHoping for more unemployment, compassionate and conservatives Republicans reacted today with dismay, even <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/october-surprise-jobless-rate-falls-gop-questions-numbers/story?id=17404003#.UG8NoBgtdT4">doubt</a>, at news the the economy had created 114,000 new jobs last month, and that joblessness falling below 8%.<br /><br />I mean - - how is Mitt supposed to win if they take away his issues <i>and</i> voter suppression laws? <br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-52339165251077381652012-10-05T11:30:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.848-07:00Janesville Documentary Set For Labor Fundraiser Saturday In MilwaukeeThe Milwaukee premiere of <a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=pKDtP66GoEvMPYT71mHDP9wjR3zcgMY3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>As Goes Janesville</i></a>, a film by Brad Lichtenstein which documents working people and the Janesville community in the wake of the GM plant closure is scheduled for:<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b>5:00 p.m., </b><b>Saturday, October 6, 2012<br />Oriental Movie Theater, 2230 North Farwell Avenue</b></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b><br /></b></div><i>As Goes Janesville </i>has won three Best Documentary awards in the last six weeks as well as a Best Director and an Audience award.<br /><br />Following the screening, at 7:00 p.m., there will be a Premiere Party fundraiser at Alterra's Back Room, 2211 North Prospect Avenue. <br /><br /><b>Tickets for the screening are $10. Learn more at the </b><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=LINeROo8tN3RPj6Qmyk0z9wjR3zcgMY3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1349384840_0">Premiere Event Face Book Page</span></b></a><b> or </b><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=4PaR3uyeSPalyS8o1ASRoNwjR3zcgMY3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1349384840_1">click here to purchase Tickets</span></b></a><b>.</b><br /><br /><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=DmiBGyqIp7S3mzDr%2BWFR5NwjR3zcgMY3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>As Goes Janesville</i></a> is a cautionary tale for a polarized country falling short of the American Dream.<br /><br />The film follows three years in the lives of laid-off workers struggling to survive, business leaders trying to reinvent their local economy and a state senator caught in the middle, trying to negotiate a peace for his warring state while protecting workers’ rights. <br /><br />As Goes Janesville, so goes America. A co-production between 371 Productions, Kartemquin Films and Independent Television Service (ITVS), As Goes Janesville will air nationally beginning October 8 on the PBS series Independent Lens.<br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-64189356888048095012012-10-05T08:14:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.859-07:00Romney's 'Kill Big Bird Funding' Rates As Definite Gaffe...If Charlie Sykes cuts off a worried pro-Romney caller with "just shut up."<br /><br />About at the 9:55 a.m. mark, when<a href="http://www.620wtmj.com/podcasts/talk/charliesykes/index.rss"> the podcast</a> gets posted.aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-86747831844062118452012-10-05T07:45:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.879-07:00Romney's Biggest Flip Is A 100% FlopYou can't collect $50,000 a head from people paying to hear your red-meat, Tea Party-inspired attack on half the country as dependent moochers,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/romney-47-percent-remarks-were-completely-wrong/2012/10/05/a346beaa-0ed8-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_story.html?hpid=z2"> then say you got it wrong</a>.<br /><br />That one you own, whether Obama hung it on you in the debate or not.<br /><br />He's flipped on abortion rights, climate change, and health care.<br /><br />Enough. aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-68342492178766641882012-10-05T06:47:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.864-07:00Oak Creek Says PSC Ruling "Destroys" Water Deal With WaukeshaWhat's the impact of <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/information-leaking-out-about-oak-creek.html">a state regulatory ruling Wednesday </a>that cuts how Oak Creek can bill a wholesale customer like Waukesha for water service?<br /><br />On a deal for Lake Michigan water 18 months in the making on which Waukesha, after years of researching and politicking, had bet the farm?<br /><br />"It destroys it," Oak Creek's water manager tells the <a href="http://waukesha.patch.com/articles/waukesha-water-deal-on-the-rocks-after-state-commission-ruling">Waukesha Patch</a>.aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-44447403489403546812012-10-04T17:18:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.839-07:00Information Leaking Out About Oak Creek-Waukesha Water Deal TroublesI am appreciating Journal Sentinel reporter Don Behm's continuing coverage of agreements that the cities of Oak Creek and Waukesha <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/all-signs-point-to-waukesha-oak-creek-water-deal-vs7303t-172350121.html">signed on Tuesday</a> to bring Lake Michigan water to Waukesha.<br /><br />Behm reported the next day that there is a separate water agreement already in place between seller Oak Creek and wholesale customers Franklin and Caledonia; the state Public Service Commission had been looking at an issue related to that agreement since last year, and Wednesday issued an order that slashed the amount of money Oak Creek could recover when serving those municipalities.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/psc-ruling-casts-doubt-on-waukesha-oak-creek-water-pact-tg73ljl-172565251.html">Behm reported Wednesday </a>that Oak Creek was now balking at signing its letter of intent to sell the Lake Michigan water to Waukesha, fearing they'd face in that deal same shortfall of cost recovery their deal with Franklin was producing at the hands of the PSC - - so the Oak Creek- - Waukesha deal stalled in flight before barely getting off the ground.<br /><br />Without a signed letter of intent from a selling community, Waukesha's application for diverted Lake Michigan water cannot be considered complete, thus cannot be fully reviewed by the Wisconsin DNR, let alone by the other seven Great Lakes states that must give unanimous approval before the $183 million Oak Creek-to-Waukesha pipeline construction could begin.<br /><br />The Oak Creek-to-Waukesha deal could last from 40-80 years. <br /><br />I<a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/after-just-24-hours-oak-creek-waukesha.html">'d wondered earlier today how</a> Waukesha and Oak Creek could have held 18 months of water sale negotiations, and brought forward agreements to sign Tuesday at their respective Common Councils with the cost recovery case and a pending decision hanging over Oak Creek's head.<br /><br />Turns out that at least Oak Creek saw it coming. <br /><br />Behm said in <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/waukesha-waits-as-oak-creek-seeks-to-overturn-water-ruling-sm745ql-172742291.html">an updated story Thursday evening</a> that Oak Creek officials had anticipated this problem prior to the fanfare with which it and Waukesha signed documents about their intended sale:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The [Oak Creek] Water & Sewer Commission had given him [its general manager] authority last month to initiate a lawsuit against the PSC in the advent of an order deemed unfavorable to its resident ratepayers, he said. </blockquote>So it's clear that Oak Creek had a plan to deal with an unfavorable ruling - - it is further asking the PSC to review its order at a hearing - - but it's not clear if Waukesha knew, or was blind-sided.<br /><br />One of those 'what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it questions. <br /><br />Either way, Waukesha water users surely had no clue that the water sale deal they had been anticipating ever since the diversion application drafting began years ago could he headed for the shoals - - with a drop-dead supply deadline of June 30, 2018 - - if Oak Creek got side-tracked almost immediately as the seller.<br /><br />Makes you wonder if Milwaukee is really out of the picture?aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-64947670821335871932012-10-04T16:03:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.862-07:00Wisconsin GOP Legislator Dismayed To Discover UW, Madison In USState Rep. Steve Nass, the GOP legislator and chief Wisconsin higher education opponent, is upset that the UW campus in Madison would actually host the President of the United States.<br /><br />Nass' comments are found in <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/on-heels-of-debate-obama-heads-to-madison-lc73qg9-172637631.html">paragraph 30 of this 31-graf story.</a> aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-20164671303307587142012-10-04T14:36:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.821-07:00Tommy Thompson Denies Disappearing Act, And...Also says <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328875/tommy-thompson-trudges-robert-costa">he does not live in a silo</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6621691715090523319"> down by the river:</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6621691715090523319">“People in this campaign are always trying to, you know, put me in a silo. Well, I will never be put in a silo.</a> </blockquote>The back story here is that for weeks, pols have been saying that Tommy is not making very many public appearances - - something which <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/thompson-campaign-slow-on-providing-details-of-stops-qi73rho-172678151.html">Tommy's people deny</a>, too.<br /><br />Though his schedulers count <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/cash-strapped-tommy-enjouing-long-free.html">interviews</a> as events. aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-21433701206185227832012-10-04T13:47:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.824-07:00Return-Flow Trouble May Be Root Of Waukesha Water PlanRoot of the problem?<br /><br />Well, perhaps one of many.<br /><br />Read on.<br /><br />The City of Waukesha would be required by a governing multi-state Compact to return as treated wastewater a diversion of water from Lake Michigan - - with the return point as close as possible to the point of origin.<br /><br />Waukesha's <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/after-just-24-hours-oak-creek-waukesha.html">already-troubled decision this week to buy diverted Lake Michigan water from Oak Creek</a> - - a small city south of Milwaukee - - again raises the possibility that Waukesha will propose discharging the wastewater into the Root River, through Racine and back into the lake.<br /><br />State Rep. Cory Mason, (D-Racine), reminded Waukesha that he <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/waukesha-and-root-river-new-wastewater.html">continues to oppose that idea.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/mason/pressreleases/Pages/Rep.%20Mason%20on%20Waukesha-Oak%20Creek%20Water%20Agreement.aspx">"Racine's is not Waukesha's toilet,"</a> he said.<br /><br />Waukesha's preferred return-flow route to Lake Michigan had been via Wauwatosa's Underwood Creek, then downstream to the Menomonee River and out into the lake in Milwaukee.<br /><br />But that plan has been <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2010/05/walker-veto-ploy-foiled-by-county-board.html">opposed by the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors</a>, and could be moot altogether after Waukesha declined to negotiate a water deal with Milwaukee, and hence, also stick with the Milwaukee discharge return point.<br /><br />Waukesha has balked at piping the wastewater to the region's sewage treatment facility - - too expensive, it has said - - so wants to find a tributary to carry the discharge back to the lake. It is unknown whether that return-flow plan will pass muster with the Wisconsin DNR and the other Great Lakes states which must unanimously approve all aspects of Waukesha's precedent-setting, out-of-basin diversion application.<br /><br /><a href="http://wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=5308">I've been wondering since 2006</a> if the Root River is a good place for Waukesha to do its daily discharge of millions of gallons of treated wastewater:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Waukesha Studying Sending Wastewater Through a Major State Fish Hatchery and Other Communities' Backyards</b><br /><br />By James Rowen<br /><br /><i>The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. </i><br /><br />The city of Waukesha has frequently balked at the costs of having to return Lake Michigan water to the Great Lakes basin as the price of getting a diversion of Lake Michigan water <br /><br />But Waukesha has begun studying various ways it might meet the return flow requirement -- including one scenario that would have treated Waukesha wastewater sent into several rivers and streams, including the Root River, in Racine, where the state runs its major Lake Michigan fish restocking operation, records show. <br /><br />Waukesha has also also objected to having to return diverted water to the Great Lakes basin by citing possible harm resulting to the Fox River/Vernon Marsh watershed, where the city currently dumps its treated wellwater waste for disposal. <br /><br />The Fox River flows into the Mississippi River and not towards the Great Lakes basin. <br /><br />Waukesha is west of the sub-continental divide -- the Great Lakes basin boundary most easily visible as the hill at Sunny Slope Rd. west of the Milwaukee County line on Interstate Highway 94. <br /><br />But Waukesha knows that a U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Compact requires return flow to the basin of water diverted from Lake Michigan because return flow contributes to the sound management of the Great Lakes' priceless and finite waters. <br /><br />Facing up to that reality, Waukesha has quietly asked the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources "for an initial reaction" to possible return flows into "the Menominee (sic) River, Honey Creek, Dousman Ditch or the Root river (sic)," according to records obtained from the Waukesha Water Utility under the Wisconsin Open Records law. <br /><br />Those bodies of water run through many southeastern Wisconsin communities, including Brookfield, Greenfield, Hales Corners, Racine, Wauwatosa, and Milwaukee, just to name a few. <br /><br />Consider the Root River, a popular fishing and canoeing tributary that empties into Lake Michigan in Racine. <br /><br />Before it reaches Lake Michigan, the Root River serves another major function: feeding the hatchery and study complex in Racine's Lincoln Park that the DNR completed in 1993, records show. <br /><br />The DNR says on one of its websites that the Root River Steelhead Facility helps the department "more effectively manage Lake Michigan's trout and salmon fishery." <br /><br />The site, at <a href="http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/lakemich/rootriver.htm">http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/lakemich/rootriver.htm</a><br />further calls the facility "Wisconsin's primary source of steelhead eggs and brood (parent) stock, and is the backup facility for the collection of eggs of other trout and salmon species. Each year, approximately 500,000 steelhead are stocked in Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan," says the site. <br /><br />So it's worth asking: Is this a good disposal route for Waukesha's wastewater? Do the downstream communities, along with many southeastern Wisconsin anglers and boaters, know this idea is being floated in discussions with DNR, or that the DNR offered "marketing" suggestions to help the idea move forward? <br /><br />And has anyone told the Wisconsin Department of Tourism about the Root River discussion? <br /><br />The tourism department's official "Wisconsin: Life's So Good" website over at <a href="http://www.travelwisconsin.com/">www.travelwisconsin.com</a> doesn't mention Waukesha wastewater as one of the Root River's premier values. Instead it says: <br /><br />"Each spring, the Root, the Milwaukee and two dozen other Wisconsin tributaries from Marinette to Kenosha call anglers from throughout the Midwest to participate in world class fishing for the Great Lakes rainbow trout. In winter (provided the water remains open) in spring, and in fall, the rivers hold rainbows thanks to the Lake Michigan Steelhead Management Plan adopted Wisconsin two decades ago." <br /><br />Information about Waukesha's return flow inquiry is contained in a July 16th, 2006 email from a DNR manager, Charles Ledin, to four other DNR officials, including its administrator, Todd Ambs. <br /><br />Ledin, who is bureau director of the DNR's Office of the Great Lakes, said in the e-mail that he and another DNR official had received return flow inquiries the previous day in a meeting with Waukesha representatives. <br /><br />Ledin outlined in the e-mail the scientific and marketing advice he gave in return to Waukesha: <br /><br />"I said the science would be about the same -- water quality standards would establish limitations but from a marketing perspective they should think about things like ......... Adding treated effluent to supplement base flow would help solve the low flow problem in the Root and would help promote more fish coming into the egg collection facility which would help us to stock more fish to benefit the aquatic community in Lake Michigan etc. etc. Jeff Edstrom [a Waukesha consultant] will follow up with us with projected effluent flows and USGS [United States Geological Survey] flow gaging data in the proposed rivers." <br /><br />Waukesha Water Utility General Manager Daniel Duchniak has said that Waukesha is considering a variety of possible new water supply sources, such as a Lake Michigan diversion, and additional shallow wells. He has also said Waukesha was studying discharge scenarios that include in-basin and out-of-basin disposal. <br /><br />A March 2006 diversion proposal that Waukesha sent to Gov. Jim Doyle through Godfrey & Kahn S.C.attorney Arthur Harrington (and <a href="http://wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=5113">previously posted through an Open Records disclosure on WisOpinion com</a>) argued that Waukesha was entitled to a Lake Michigan surface water diversion without the application procedures of the U.S.-Canada Compact. <br /><br />The proposal, which was not answered by either Doyle or the DNR, also argued that Waukesha was not required by the compact to return diverted water to the Great Lakes basin. <br /> <br /><br /></blockquote><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-27894413071706707402012-10-04T12:52:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.828-07:00Team Obama Out With Post-Debate AdsAbout that $5 trillion tax cut last night that Mitt Romney denied he's been pushing.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV5m1NxffEs">This is a start</a>.</b><br /><br />Next we need ads about secret deduction cuts, killing Wall Street reforms, repealing Obamacare, etc.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-48160768498962244892012-10-04T09:44:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.842-07:00Funniest Part Of Tommy's Talk Radio Spiel: Does He Owe Apology To Paul Ryan?Tommy had his anti-Tammy Baldwin talking points down pat this morning <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/cash-strapped-tommy-enjouing-long-free.html">during a half-hour freebie on Charlie Sykes' show</a>, even claiming that Baldwin got only three bills passed during her time in Congress - - one of which renamed a post office in Madison.<br /><br />If that's fair game, then how about <a href="http://thepaulryanwatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/big-talker-ryan-has-long-record-of-non.html">this?</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Paul Ryan, the new right-wing fiscal hero, is a smooth talker who's been a total failure as a doer in Congress.<br /><br />Elected in 1998, here's what he has to show for his first six terms -- 12 years! -- in Congress. Two bills he authored have become law. Count 'em, two. <br /><br />One named the post office in Janesville after the late congressman Les Aspin, the Democrat who represented Ryan's district and went on to serve as Secretary of Defense. (HR 4241, introduced 4/11/2000; Public Law 106-242)<br /><br />Getting Congress to agree to name a post office for one of its former members doesn't require a legislative genius at the helm.<br /><br />The other was to modify the tax code regarding arrow components<br />(HR 5394, introduced 11/19/2004; Public Law 108-493. Yes, arrow components. </blockquote>aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-61167608587239827012012-10-04T09:25:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.854-07:00Cash-Strapped Tommy Enjoying Long Free Appearance On WTMJ Talk RadioGOP Senate candidate Tommy Thompson, running behind Democrat Tammy Baldwin, is live in the studio on righty talker Charlie Sykes' show for what appears to be the 11-11:30 a.m. time block, perhaps more.<br /><br />He said he was running behind Baldwin because he was out of money to get on the air, while the better-financed Baldwin was running her anti-Tommy adds - - a theme reprised earlier this week when Sykes' companion righty taker Jeff Wagner attacked Baldwin's spending, too.<br /><br />So the radio station allows its talkers to pick up the slack with free time that would cost Tommy a fortune if he had to purchase it.<br /><br />Update: Tommy is done at 11:30. Ends by saying he's cautiously optimistic though being misrepresented by "outright" lies and out-spent 3:1 (translation: send money, please!).<br /><br />Sykes tells him he can come back anytime. aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-3042803425505376962012-10-04T08:04:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.830-07:00After Just 24 Hours, Oak Creek-Waukesha Water Deal In DoubtWhat does it say about the due diligence performed by water negotiating teams from the cities of Oak Creek (the seller) and Waukesha (the buyer) that they would: <br /><br />* Meet for 18 months discussing whether Oak Creek could handle Waukesha's desire to obtain, on average, almost 11 million gallons of water everyday - - a deal with Milwaukee that Waukesha could not negotiate with Milwaukee because Milwaukee saw it subsidizing development sprawling to an expanionist Waukesha;<br /><br />* With great fanfare, sign documents Tuesday authorizing an eventual 40-80-year deal, with Waukesha spending $183 million to pipe it in;<br /><br /> * And then watch as the state Public Service Commission released a ruling the very next day - - Wednesday - - in a separate Oak Creek case under study since last year that Oak Creek couldn't bill another municipal buyer for certain water supply expenses - - a ruling that meant everyday Oak Creek retail customers would have to bear those costs.<br /><br />The ruling by the PSC involved infrastructure and other expenses that Oak Creek wanted to recover from the municipalities of Caledonia and Franklin that Oak Creek supplies with water.<br /><br />The PSC reduced by about 15% the money Oak Creek could get back from those wholesale customers, thus adding another roadblock to Waukesha's slow-moving application for permission under a multi-state agreement to acquire diverted water from Lake Michigan,<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/psc-ruling-casts-doubt-on-waukesha-oak-creek-water-pact-tg73ljl-172565251.html"> as the Journal Sentinel explained:</a> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">As a consequence...retail customers of the utility, will have to pay a greater share of costs, [Oak Creek water manager] Yttri said...<br /><br />"If you're losing money, why would you sell more of it and lose more money," Yttri said, referring to the looming deal with Waukesha.</blockquote>What? <i>A deal where the seller subsidizes Waukesha?</i> <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/clock-ticking-on-starting-waukesha-milwaukee-water-talks-kb5u6j5-160968855.html">Where have I heard that before</a>?<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says a map of Waukesha's future water service area reveals its intention to double in size. Selling Waukesha water for all of that area would fuel unbridled suburban growth at Milwaukee's expense, said Barrett. </blockquote>The application is in the hands of the Wisconsin DNR.<br /><br />That agency cannot complete its analysis of the proposed diversion project, and its environmental impact statement, or send it as a complete application for separate reviews to the seven other Great Lakes states whose unanimous approvals are needed for the diversion project to begin until a potential seller for Waukesha is nailed down. <br /><br />Oak Creek now says it will put the deal with Waukesha on hold and study the PSC ruling.<br /><br />1:37 p.m. update: <a href="http://www.wuwm.com/news/wuwm_news.php?articleid=11257">An Oak Creek alderman</a> wonders if a deal with Milwaukee is still possible:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <strong>[Oak Creek Ald. Ken] Gehl says it's possible Milwaukee could still negotiate with Waukesha at the last minute</strong>: </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <em>"They’re (the cost of the plan with Oak Creek is $8 million more than that of importing water from Milwaukee) reasonably close, for the folks in Waukesha to weigh whether or not they want to be entangled with the political process in Milwaukee, or if they want to make an agreement with Oak Creek, with very few strings attached.” </em><br /></blockquote>aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-1414298111299984512012-10-03T20:41:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.818-07:00Debate Analysis: Short-Term Romney Boost, Until The Ads BeginMitt Romney was energetic and well-prepared in Wednesday's debate with President Obama, and it may move the polling needle Romney's way in the next few days.<br /><br />Give him credit for a good performance, and grade Obama down for thinking that appearing Presidential was enough to cut it.<br /><br />But Romney said some things that will bounce back hard against him in the ads to come, too, such as:<br /><br />* Repealing Wall Street regulations, known as Dodd-Frank.<br /><br />* Denying he supports his signature $5 trillion tax cut.<br /><br />* Repealing ObamaCare.<br /><br />* Voucherizing Medicare.<br /><br />* Not listing loopholes, or individuals' deductions he says he will eliminate, but talking vaguely about a bucket-list a taxpayer might claim as a bottom-line...'make up a number, $25,000, $50,000...'<br /><br />I assume the second debate will be different.<br /><br />Cross-posted at <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/purple-wisconsin/the-political-environment.html">Purple Wisconsin</a>. aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-21822766252004547592012-10-03T17:51:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.825-07:00Live Blogging The Debate; Comments Will Be PostedJust keep your comments libel and cuss-word free.<br /><br />Here we go at 8:00 p.m...<br /><br />We'll see who's the hand-shake aggressor. Handlers want their candidate to be the assertive and taking charge at that point.<br /><br />8:03 - - Glad there is a more open format than that awful Tammy/Tommy 'debate' last Friday.<br /><br />Effusive handshake. Slight nod to the Prez.<br /><br />8:04 - - Q. on job creation. Obama on his talking points. 5,000,000 jobs created, more work to do. Comprehensive answer. Take war savings and invest in the domestic economy. "Embrace new economic patriotism."<br /><br />8:07 - - Romney. He's on his talking points. Focus on small business creation. <b>Zinger alert!</b> Says Obama believes in "trickle-down government."<br /><br />Obama responding to Romney: Obama talking green energy. Says Romney will put us on the hook for another $8 trillion.<br /><br />8:11 - - <b>Zinger alert</b>: Romney says middle class being crushed by "an economy tax." Romney brings up his end to deductions, but no specifics.<br /><br />8:13 - - Uh, oh. Romney says he likes coal. Will drill in ANWR and off-shore.<br /><br />He pledges that no tax cut will add to the deficit. I doubt that.<br /><br />8:14 - - Obama says he has cut middle-class taxes. Finally nails Romney on which deductions he will close. Romney on the spot. "Top-down economics."<br /><br />8:15 - - Romney wants to respond. Says Obama misrepresenting the Romney plan. Romney says he will not raise middle-class families or support a $5 trillion tax cut. Calling the fact-checkers...<br /><br />8:17 - - Obama says Romney's "big bold idea [after 18 months] is, never mind." Obama is for increased taxes on earners over $250,000. Obama hitting a stride here.<br /><br />8:20 - - Romney in detailed tax answer. Sounds like he knows what he's talking about, but fact-checkers will have to check his data.<br /><br />8:23 - - Obama looking at camera. "Math, common sense and our history" show it's not workable. A reference to Bush 2000-08.<br /><br />8:25 - - Romney again says he is not for a $5 trillion tax cut. Again he says his priority is jobs. Oh, now he's off attacking food stamp growth. Ruined his effect with that talking point junk.<br /><br />8:27 - - Segment now on the deficit and deficit reduction. Romney says it's a moral issue. Also wants to cut Public TV, Obamacare and anything that requires borrowing money from China to run them. Talking points.<br /><br />8:29 - - Reminds people about debt run up by Bush, two wars on the credit card. Lists the programs he's cut. Medical fraud. Wasteful military projects. Says he's proposed another $4 trillion in cuts. Has also asked for tax revenues from the wealthy. Romney has said no. Says Romney's approach is "unbalanced."<br /><br />8:31 - - Romney on Simpson-Bowles. Obama interrupts Romney on the deficit. Romney again explaining why he won't raise taxes on the wealthy. Says these are small business owners. Says Obama will kill 700,000 jobs.<br /><br />8:33 - - This is a useful discussion. Romney is against raising revenue from the wealthy, or on anyone, period. Wants more workers paying in. A real difference between the two.<br /><br />8:34 - - Obama now on corporate tax breaks? How about eliminating breaks on corporate jets, too? Second reminder that Romney will not ID his deductions. Says Romney's plans will create real hardships.<br /><br />8:36 - - Romney says the oil break is small and has been around 100 years. Obama says "let's end it." Romney blasts Obama's green energy breaks. <b>Zinger alert. Says</b> Obams is not just picking winners and losers, he's picking losers." Then Romney says he's been in biz for 25 years and knows nothing of the alleged tax break for shipping jobs overseas. Obama raises his eyebrows.<br /><br />8:40 - - Q. now to Social Security. Obama on the principles behind Soc. Sec. and Medicare. Story-telling and philosophical. He's talking directly to seniors. Unpacking the language of entitlements. Professorial here. Explaining the $716 billion in Medicare savings. Not for major change in Soc. Sec. Structurally sound.<br /><br />8:42 - - Romney back on the $716 billion attack.<br /><br />8:44 - - Says Romney is for voucherizing Medicare for those 55 or under. Romney agrees. Over time, Obama says, the traditional Soc. Sec. program will collapse. Obama: "I don't think that's the way to go."<br /><br />the halfway point-----------<br /><br />8:46 - - Obama says the primary beneficiary of voucherizing is the private insurance sector.<br /><br />8:48 - - Obama says AARP says Romney's plan will weaken Medicare.<br /><br />8:50 - - They all agree this is an issue with a genuine choice for voters.<br /><br />Topic is regulation.<br /><br />8:51 -- Romney says some regulation is excessive. Dodd-Frank, for example. Says it made some banks too big to fail. Says he'd repeal and replace.<br /><br />Obama says this is a great example of why we're in a crisis - - reckless behavior, etc. - - and Romney wants to reduce the changes.<b> I think this is the first flub by either candidate.</b><br /><br />Obama on a roll here, reprising the financial crisis, but now Romney says he wants to repeal the change, which was Dodd-Frank.<br /><br />Does anybody out there think that's the answer?<br /><br />Romney objects. But then goes back at it and has another reason to repeal. <b>I predict you'll see 'repeal Dodd-Frank' in an Obama ad by tomorrow.</b><br /><br />Leher says "this is another clear difference between the two of you." The candidates agree.<br /><br />8:56 - - Romney for repealing Obamacare. Obama explaining why it came about. Strong Obama answer. Pre-existing conditions, rebates from private companes. Model works well in MA. "Gov. Romney did a good thing."<br /><br />Obama laughs and smiles more authentically.<br /><br />9:00 - - Romney says his MA plan was approved with Dem. support - - but remember the GOP opposed it in the Congress. Romney says his plan was different.<br /><br />9:03 - - Obama reminding people Obamacare born w/ Romneycare. Obama stresses his plan helps insure the uninsured, more cost-effectively. Getting wonky here, if people can absorb it. Predicts costs are going to come down. Rate increases slowed. Rebates are being paid. Leave it to the states? 50 million people will lose their insurance if Obamacare is repealed.<br /><br />9:07 - - Candidates distracted by something falling off-stage.<br /><br />9:08 - - Romney objects to some sort of board making efficiency policies. Romney wants it in the hands of the docs and insurance. A takeover of health care.<br /><br />9:09 - - Obama corrects Romney's statement about the power of this board. Criticizes Romney for not being specific enough enough on health care reform. Just like his rforms to Dodd-Frank and deductions. A theme developing. Is Romney keeping these plans secret because they're too good?<br /><br />9:11 - - Romney says he will get this done with Democrats. Then says on deductions, maybe the bucket list "make up a number, $25,000, $50,000." <b>Another flub: Make up a number.</b><br /><br />9:12 - - Q. is role of government. Romney on talking points. Pure Tea Party rhetoric. Food stamps, etc. Lehr wants specifics for both. On fed. role in Education:<br /><br />9:18 - - Romney likes Race to the Top, but praises Arne Duncan, not Obama. Romney for School choice.<br /><br />9:19 - - Budgets matter. Cuts in his budget will hurt education. Ryan, too. He didn't provide many specifics. "This seems to be a trend." <b>Obama zinger alert.</b><br /><br />9:20 - - Obama now on student loans. Get rid of paying the middle-man. Provided more $$, lowered interest rates. "Our priorities make a difference." "Borrow money from your parents." <b>Obama Zinger.</b><br /><br />9:22 - - Says Obama is entitled to his own house and plane, not your own facts. <b>Zing! Fail.</b> Romney has gone from student loans to green job subsidies, etc. A bit of a flail here. Sounds peeved.<br /><br />The back and forth and loosened format has been great.<br /><br />9:24 - - Romney pledging collaboration with Dems when he's elected, on day one.<br /><br />9:25 - - Obama joke. He's going to be busy on Day One, since he pledged to do that too, and it won't be too popular with the Democrats you'll be sitting down with.<br /><br />Also means doing unpopular things, and saying what you'll do and before and being willing to say no.<br /><br />Obama got the best of the last answer, using it as a summary.<br /><br />He goes first in the closing statements, Romney gets last word.<br /><br />Praising Americans. Reminiscent of his convention 'you did that' theme. Fair share, fair shake. Asks for votes.<br /><br />Romney: Repeats his 12 million new job pledge. Pledges end to Obamacare, then 50 state plans. Repeating that $716 billion medicare cut. Pledges no cuts to military spending.<br /><br />-30-<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-32841059835282116042012-10-03T14:33:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.832-07:00Romney Could Win Wisconsin Voters With Tailored ZingersThey say Mitt is working hard on his debate zingers, so what would happen if he tailored one or two for our swing state?<br /><br />"There you go again, once."<br /><br />Or, "are you better off now than you were four years ago, aina?"<br /><br />He could chat up Paul Ryan for tips down by the bubbler near the auditorium, hey, and then explain them to the 30%, 47% or 99% out there also baffled by his<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/03/obama-romney-jockey-for-edge-ahead-first-debate/"> bucket list</a>.<br /><br />For sure. <br /><br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-72033307299773344852012-10-03T13:02:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.868-07:00Talk Radio Failed To Bully Marquette Poll: Dems Ahead, AgainRemember a couple of weeks ago when right-wing talk radio in Milwaukee had a collective breakdown because the same Marquette polling operation they loved when it showed Scott Walker ahead in the recall election he won was indicating Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin leading Republican Tommy Thompson?<br /><br />This is how AM<a href="http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/jeffwagner/170509446.html"> 620 WTMJ's Jeff Wagner</a> put it when he went after the poll: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="hgroup"><h2 class="headline"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When A Good Poll Goes Horribly Bad</span></span></h2><div class="byline"><span class="timestamp">Sep. 20, 2012</span> </div></div><div id="postSponsor"><div class="odd pos_false block ad id_124723084 Yahoo size120x60"></div></div><br />...There's no nice way to say this. I believe the poll is embarrassingly inaccurate and it makes me wonder what's going on at Marquette...<br /><br />The real question to me is why Marquette put out these obviously bogus numbers.</blockquote>Well, the latest Marquette poll is out and the right-wing beat-down appears to have been wasted hot air:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/mu-poll-baldwin-still-leads-thompson-margin-narrows-ri73lrj-172503731.html">Baldwin is still in the lead and Obama is up by 11%</a>.<br /><br />The right nationally is blasting polls and pollsters as biased, creating a talking point and rallying cry for the base, but not much more than that.<br /><br />Like I said: wasted hot air.<br /><br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-48694016277999412992012-10-03T09:26:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.843-07:00The Endless Self-Parody That Is Milwaukee Talk RadioRighty talker Charlie Sykes on AM 620 WTMJ is criticizing a Tweet by a US track star he says is known for making "snarky" remarks.<br /><br />This is about three or four minutes after having accused the media of pro-Obama "lick-spittle."aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-87401075287604819882012-10-03T04:30:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.881-07:00Romney, Ryan Tapes Show Divide-And-Conquer StrategyPaul Ryan <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/paul-ryan-30-percent-welfare-state_n_1933730.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003">was taped</a> saying 30% of Americans are lazy moochers who yearn for a welfare state and dependency on Government.<br /><br />Mitt Romney was more dismissive, saying the figure was 47%.<br /><br />Both are fabricating numbers to foment resentment against the poor and the needy - - which in this weak economy means millions of middle-class Americans hurt by the Great Recession - - Romney and Ryan are aiming their nasty numbers at white working voters conditioned by years of George Wallace/Richard Nixon/Tea Party/Karl Rovian-divide-and-conquer southern strategies and racialized fear-mongering.<br /><br />Newt Gingrich got the ball rolling in the primaries with his attacks on Barack Obama as "the food stamp president," and the Republican Romney-Ryan ticket is channeling it. <br /><br /><br />aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-73867247450768331752012-10-02T20:50:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.869-07:00Waukesha-Oak Creek Water Deal: $183 MillionSo much for that earlier $261 million construction cost estimate in <a href="http://waukesha.patch.com/articles/183m-water-pipeline-planned-to-oak-creek">the Waukesha diversion application </a>for a water deal with Oak Creek.<br /><br />Was that designed to push a deal to Milwaukee, Waukesha's once-preferred seller, for a mere $164 million - - a deal <a href="http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2012/10/waukesha-costs-other-water-deal-details.html">which Waukesha chose not to negotiate</a>.<br /><br />The deal - - Waukesha and Oak Creek's Common Councils approved letters of intent in separate meetings Tuesday night - - becomes part of Waukesha's pending application for a Lake Michigan diversion.<br /><br />The Wisconsin DNR is reviewing the application, and it needs the approval of all eight Great Lakes state governors before the project would begin.<br /><br />Waukesha must offer its customers a new water supply by June 30, 2018. aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168486294765915306.post-52387450699915950482012-10-02T20:01:00.000-07:002012-10-06T03:51:15.850-07:00Dubious I-794 Extension Needs $207 Million; Tolling Opportunity?In this era of down-sizing Big Government and cutting spending, maybe South side County Board Supervisor Pat Jursik could make <a href="http://oakcreek.patch.com/articles/lake-parkway-extension-faces-funding-challenge">the expensive I-794 extension she wants</a> a toll or user fee experiment?<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"That corridor is extremely important in the South Shore communities," Jursik said. "That is the corridor that moves folks through our communities." </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">But the project has an estimated price tag of $207 million — a major hurdle and concern of the DOT. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The largest concern (the DOT) is going to have is with regard to finding the funding to do it," Jursik said.<br /></blockquote>aminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070084857121732037noreply@blogger.com