Sunday, February 27, 2011

Scott Walker Returns to Marquette

In February, 1988, Walker admitted violating Marquette campaign rules during his run for student government president and the Marquette Tribune deemed him "unfit" for office after finding Walker's campaign guilty of "mudslinging," and after reports that his campaign was throwing out copies of the paper that contained information damaging to Walker.

Walker left the university not long afterward.

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3 Board Members critical of Boone County deputies’ raises

The following editorial was submitted and published by both the Rockford Register Star and the Boone County Journal.  Below is the RR Star publication.  Click on the photocopy to enlarge.

guest editorial 2-27-2011

State audit rips archaic accounting systems - Courier News

263 different systems for tracking money, including many that are old and incompatible, according to a report Thursday.

What private company with revenues of $33 billion wouldn’t have a unified accounting system?”

report did not estimate how much the financial systems cost the state because of errors or confusion. But auditors did note that 17 percent of agencies provided figures on what it costs to enter duplicate data in different systems. The cost just for that portion of state government was $11.3 million

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