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2/3/2012
Two nationally recognized marketing professors from UW-Eau Claire have been studying superbowl advertisements for over a decade, and will be sharing their thoughts on this Sundays ads via twitter. Dr. Rama Yelkur and Dr. Chuck Tomkovick have done numerous research studies on the effectiveness of the ads, and the advertisers themselves go to them for strategy. The two professors will tweet during the game and for 30 minutes after on the account @UWEauClaire and the hashtag #superbowlads. Details about the professors studies can be found here: http://www.uwec.edu/COB/info/news/2012_1_20.htm
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2/3/2012
Waukesha County Judge Mac Davis last month ordered the Government Accountability Board to take steps to remove potentially false and duplicative signatures from the recall petitions against Governor Scott Walker, the lieutenant governor, and four Republican state Senators.But the appeals court rules that Davis erred in barring the committees seeking those recalls from participating in the case. The decision by the three judge appeals panel sends the decision back to Davis, whose original decision stemmed from a suit from the state Republican Party, which said it was the GAB's responsibility - and not that of the candidates - to weed out the suspect signatures.
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2/3/2012
WEAU: After 28 years of service, an Eau Claire Police Department Deputy Chief is retiring.
The department says Eric Larsen began his career as a patrol officer for the Hallie Police Department from March 1983 until December 1983. He was then hired as a police officer with the Eau Claire Police Department.
During his career, Deputy Chief Larsen worked in the Patrol Division, Special Operations Section, Detective Division and Drug Unit. He was promoted through the ranks of sergeant and lieutenant prior to being promoted to Deputy Chief on May 26, 2006.
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2/3/2012
Wisconsin officials say they've increased their efforts to look for fraud in the state's food stamp program. The Legislative Audit Bureau said today that about $33 million in Food-Share benefits were spent by Wisconsinites at locations outside the state last year. And around $324,000 of the spending was suspicious. Health Services spokeswoman Stephanie Smiley says the Walker administration has put more resources into keeping track of Food-Share fraud -- and they're reviewing every case and taking appropriate actions. Auditors said most of the out-of-state spending was done by residents living near the state's borders, or taking trips somewhere. But auditors found 731 people in the state's program who don't live in Wisconsin. And there were 334 cases last year in which a Food-Share account number was used in Wisconsin the same day it was used in another state. Purchases were made in every state and Guam. Jon Peacock of the Wisconsin Council on Children-and-Families says he was glad the fraud involved less than one-tenth of one-percent of Food-Share clients. He said the state should be able to root out the fraud without scaling back benefits for law-abiding residents.
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2/3/2012
The Susan G. Komen charity reversed itself this morning, and said it would not cut-off breast cancer screening grants to Planned Parenthood. A statement from the group apologized for quote, "recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives." Planned Parenthood officials in Wisconsin were among those who thought Komen had bowed to political pressure from pro-lifers. But the charity said it was only following its criteria for not funding groups under government investigations, specifically a probe of Planned Parenthood launched in Congress at the urging of pro-life organizations. Komen said it would change its criteria so it would not apply to such investigations. Wisconsin's Planned Parenthood said it was not affected by Komen's original cut-off. It stopped Komen funds a few years ago.
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