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No safety net: How one disabled veteran fears losing Janesville home over $15K bill after city sewer line filled her basement
January 10, 2021 7:06 PM Naomi Kowles
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JANESVILLE, Wis. There’s few headaches for homeowners that can match the stress of a sewage backup. For Maggie Haffrey in Janesville, however, the headache has dragged on now for nearly four months and threatens her ability to ever live in her home again.
There’s nothing she could have done on her own property to prevent a sewage backup that destroyed her basement in September. Roots from a different property grew into the city’s main line and created a blockage on Frederick Street, causing water and sewage to back into her home according to city documents.
Milwaukee County’s census data currently is being tabulated by the U.S. Census Bureau for its end-of-December scheduled delivery to the President, who in turn delivers the count to Congress. In March 2020 COVID-19 protocols disrupted and replaced years of 2020 census planning – extending collection timelines and shifting collection processes that, in turn, were suddenly abbreviated by presidential order in September.
On December 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a census-related decision – just thirteen days before the census was scheduled to be delivered to the president. The Court reviewed a July 2020 presidential order directing the Census Bureau to present two sets of data: 1)the total census, and 2) the full census minus the total number of undocumented persons. The presidential intent is that Congress use the immigrant-purged data for Congressional reapportionment and state taxation purposes.
Mason
Mayor Cory Mason presented the âCity of Racine Police Reform Reportâ to the City Council on Tuesday.
That report is the result of monthslong analysis and discussions led by the Mayorâs Task Force on Police Reform, which was formed in June as Mason answered a call from former President Barack Obama for mayors nationwide to look into law enforcement reforms on a local level.
Most of the reform the city intended to undertake was put into place during budget discussions, before the report had been completed.
No new oversight board
The report detailed four areas of recommendations that came from public surveys and conversations.