Dane County Studies La Crosse Jail Alternatives
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jan. 31--Two dozen Dane County officials took a field trip Tuesday to learn how La Crosse County closed its Huber work-release jail.
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GARY, Ind. - The small windows on Gary City Jail cell doors are just the right size for a tray of food to slide in or a skinny inmate to squeeze out, police learned on Saturday.
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By Kate Schott, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 21--The Alcohol Oversight Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the La Crosse Common Council for another 30 days to refine a proposed server ordinance.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 14--A La Crosse County Circuit Court Judge elected to the bench 23 years ago announced his retirement effective at the end of his current term in a brief letter to the La Crosse County Bar on Wednesday.
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WISCASSET -- The new Two Bridges Regional Jail will open soon - but the first night's jailbirds won't be inmates.  The Lincoln/Sagadahoc Jail Authority is planning a fundraiser on Oct. 28.
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By Dan Springer, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 6--A Hudson, Wis., man who pleaded guilty in August to charges he helped his wife burglarize 22 churches in western Wisconsin was given the same sentence Tuesday that his wife received a year ago.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 5--A couple times in this space I've wondered aloud why La Crosse doesn't have a taxpayer watchdog group if taxes are really as high as people say.   Well, ask and ye shall receive.
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By Kent, Joan  A proposal to have the city's engineer prepare alternative plans and estimates for the levee entrances at Riverside Park won approval Tuesday from the La Crosse Plan Commission.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Sheboygan County prosecutors hope to add imprisonment to injury. They charged a 31-year-old man Monday with being a felon in possession of a firearm after he shot himself in the foot Friday. Patrick R. Hupf Jr.
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By Rindi White, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 9--PALMER -- South Palmer residents were ecstatic Friday when word went out that a gravel pit three miles south of the quaint farming town was no longer being considered a potential spot for the largest prison in Alaska.
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By Terry Rindfleisch, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 4--Fans win. Artists win. Poverty loses.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 8--La Crosse plans to cast a wider net for developers to construct housing at the downtown transit center to be built along Jay Street.
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By THOMAS CONTENT and LEE BERGQUIST  In a setback for the state's largest utility, a Dane County circuit judge has ruled that a water permit for the $2.2 billion power plant under construction in Oak Creek does not comply with a recent federal appeals court decision.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 6--La Crosse County is moving slowly toward preserving farmland by buying development rights.   Monday, the county board voted to start work on a pilot program for 2008.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 4--As the viewpoints expressed elsewhere on this page show, not everyone believes a public intoxication ordinance would be a good idea for La Crosse.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 9--The La Crosse Common Council voted Thursday to delay a final decision on the proposed public intoxication ordinance for 30 days.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Mar. 8--The fate of the $1.7 million Grand Forks County Old Jail renovation project and the future of the Public Safety Answering Point's relocation to the facility may well rest with the North Dakota Legislature and House Bill 1051.