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Wabeno School District Goes to Referendum
Submitted: 03/26/2013
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- In February, taxpayers voted to give three local school districts enough money to keep their programs going.
Next week, for the first time ever, Wabeno will ask their taxpayers to do the same.
The district has asked for more money for building referendums.
But up until this point, they've been able to maintain their programs by making $1 million dollars in cuts over the past 10 years.
Now, superindent Kim Odekirk says any further cuts will jeopardize the quality of education Wabeno can offer.
Mary Propson teaches her first grade class wearing a microphone. That's because she has seven special education students in her class of 17. One is hearing impaired.
Wabeno is asking taxpayers for $3.85 million dollars over the next three years. If the district doesn't get it, chances are even more students will be packed into Propson's class.
"I would lose personal contact with every student. Even 17 is a large amount of students to work with every student sufficiently," Propson said. " If it goes up more, students that are quiet and not as demanding are going to get less of my attention, and they deserve my attention like all of the other students."
You probably remember class sizes much larger than 17 kids. But Odekirk says education has changed.
"The amount of mandates and the kinds of things that we need to accomplish with kids in the classroom now are very different from what they were 25 or even 30 years ago," she said. "In order to meet the needs of all our learners, we cannot have those large class sizes."
"Education is getting harder and harder, there are more demands to meet," Propson said. "If you look back as an older adult, you'd say "I can't believe they're learning that in first grade now." We are learning a lot of things as the students grow at younger ages, and the demands of the world are greater."
Without that $3.85 million, the district faces more than just bigger class sizes. The board would look at cutting electives like music, art, and tech ed. But why should taxpayers have to pay for those extras?
"The extras are their basic education. Life isn't just reading a book," Propson said. "Sports are important, students learn life skills in sports, how to get along, how to work as a team, what to do if you lose. Because those are all learning experiences."
Odekirk says if this referendum fails, the district will hold an election again next year. If it fails again, the district would likely be shut down by the state within a year, and students would go to surrounding districts.
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Submitted: 09/02/2014
- A family in Florence County needed help finding their three-year-old after he disappeared in the woods Monday.
The boy was missing for nearly two hours Monday morning.
The family was packing up to head home when the boy wandered away around 9:15.
He had walked about a half mile into the woods.
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Watch out for kids as school resumes
Submitted: 09/02/2014
- Students went back to class in many districts across Wisconsin Tuesday morning.
The Wisconsin State Patrol wants drivers to watch out for them.
Some kids might get to and from school on their bikes.
It's the law to give bikers three feet of space when you're passing them.
You also need to stay 20 feet away from stopped school buses.
Parents should make sure their kids know how to stay safe on their way to and from school.
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Merrill businesses find counterfeit bills
Submitted: 09/01/2014
- Someone might be making counterfeit bills in the Merrill area.
Several businesses told Merrill Police they were paid with counterfeit money in the last few weeks.
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Locals get a good seat waving goodbye to visitors
Submitted: 09/01/2014
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People stood outside of Whitman's Bar and Grill just off of Highway 51 in Hazelhurst to wave goodbye. The bar has marked this occasion for 44 years.
One of the owners says this isn't just a party for the tourists, but for locals as well.
"It's also a Goodbye Summer party for a lot of the locals. Most of the people that come, I know," said Whitman's Bar and Grill co-owner, Mary Whitman. "They may be tourists that come up for a week or weekends, but it's a party. We give away free street corn, free sloppy joes, and it's just a thank you.
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Special chair offers people with disabilities new opportunities
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"I used to love to hunt and fish," he said.
But when Simon, who is from Rhinelander, lost his legs during a work accident in 2008, he didn't know if he'd be able to enjoy the outdoors again.
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One person injured in Rhinelander crash Monday evening
Submitted: 09/01/2014
- A person got hurt during a one car crash near Rhinelander today.
The crash happened on North Shore Drive east of Rhinelander around 4 p.m.
Only one person was in the car.
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office, Town of Pelican Fire Department and the Oneida County EMS were at the crash.
We don't know the cause of the crash yet.
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State seeks feedback on unemployment insurance system
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After dismantling land programs, Scott now wants funds for them08/31/14Environment
When Gov. Rick Scott unveiled a proposal this month to revive Florida's popular environmental land-buying program, to the tune of $150 million a year, the news caught Greg Brock off guard.
"I was kind of shocked," said Brock, who recently retired from the Division of State Lands.
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam this week provided the most detail yet on his hunting trips to King Ranch in Texas, saying he did not discuss state business, such as water policy, while visiting hunting land leased by U.S. Sugar.
However, Putnam still won't answer key questions about his trips to King Ranch, where he and other top Florida Republican elected officials have visited since U.S. Sugar leased land there in 2011....
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TALLAHASSEE — Standing alongside Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and representatives from business groups, U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland on Monday touted federal legislation to block federal oversight of waterways and wetlands in favor of state and local government agencies.
"If the big government bullies are successful, it will mean higher costs for doing business, more uncertainty in the workplace, and fewer jobs," the Panama City Republican said during a news conference in the state Capitol. "States and local governments are sometimes better able to manage waters within their boundaries than the D.C. bureaucrats a thousand miles away."...
With close ties to sugar, next House speaker admits King Ranch trip08/17/14 State Roundup
To say that Steve Crisafulli is comfortable working with the sugar industry is an understatement.
Crisafulli, who becomes the most powerful man in the Florida House of Representatives this fall, has been a major beneficiary of the state's sugar industry. During the last two election cycles, agricultural interests have contributed at least $200,000 to Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island, and his political action committees. U.S. Sugar contributed nearly half of that total, $94,500....
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One in every five jobs in the Tampa Bay watershed depends on keeping the bay itself healthy, according to a new study unveiled Tuesday.
A clean bay also contributes about $22 billion to the bay area's total economic activity over the larger, six-county region, according to the study conducted by the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council and the Tampa Bay Estuary Program.
The survey — the first look at the bay's economic impact since 1999 — looked at employment, real estate, food services and lodging in an area that includes all or parts of counties from Hernando to Sarasota. The two agencies also sent a detailed survey to 76 professionals working in industries affiliated with the bay....
Shark Week's biggest critic sharpening his Twitter harpoon08/08/14Environment
Cue the theme song. You know the one — the one with all that foreboding bass, the one that kids who haven't seen the movie like to hum when they're splashing at the beach and pretending there's a deadly predator nearby.
Shark Week, by far the most popular week of programming on the Discovery Channel, is lurking, ready to chomp down on the nation's TV screens again this week.
And that means David Shiffman is sharpening his harpoon....
Gov. Scott's environmental plan promises big bucks, lacks details08/04/14Environment
Amid mounting criticism of his stance on climate change and his secret hunting trip to Texas with sugar industry officials, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday unveiled an eight-page plan for how he will improve Florida's environment if the voters give him four more years in office.
Scott, speaking before the Martin County Chamber of Commerce and the Loxahatchee River Environmental Center in Jupiter, pledged to spend $1 billion on restoring the Everglades, cleaning up the polluted Indian River Lagoon, saving the state's declining springs and providing more water for the state's continued growth....
King Ranch Trivia: Who is Mitch Hutchcraft?08/01/14 Blog
A month after Gov. Rick Scott took a secret hunting trip to the King Ranch in Texas last year, he faced a big decision.
A seat had come open on the board that oversees Florida's efforts on the multibillion-dollar project to repair damage to the Everglades caused by agriculture. To fill that position, Scott picked a corporate executive named Mitchel A. "Mitch" Hutchcraft....
After Scott's secret trip to King Ranch, he tapped ranch employee for state regulatory board07/31/14Gubernatorial
TALLAHASSEE — A month after Gov. Rick Scott took a secret hunting trip to the King Ranch in Texas last year, he faced a big decision.
A seat had come open on the board that oversees Florida's efforts on the multibillion-dollar project to repair damage to the Everglades caused by agriculture. To fill that position, Scott picked a corporate executive named Mitchel A. "Mitch" Hutchcraft. ...
U.S. Sugar support no longer "disgusting" to Scott07/30/14 Blog
Before he was governor, Rick Scott attacked another Florida politician for accepting campaign funds from U.S. Sugar. He even said Bill McCollum, his opponent in the 2010 Republican primary, had been "bought and paid for.''
Four years later, Scott has received at least $534,000 for his reelection campaign from the corporate giant, and went on a 2013 hunting trip to its hunting lodge at King Ranch in Texas....
Once a U.S. Sugar foe, Scott now accepts its contributions, hunting hospitality07/30/14Gubernatorial
TALLAHASSEE — Before he was governor, Rick Scott attacked another Florida politician for accepting campaign funding from U.S. Sugar. He even said Bill McCollum, his opponent in the 2010 Republican primary, had been "bought and paid for.''
Four years later, Scott has received at least $534,000 for his re-election campaign from the corporate giant and went on a 2013 hunting trip to its lodge at King Ranch in Texas....
Why won't the Florida GOP talk about King Ranch?07/27/14 Blog
On a Friday in February 2013, Gov. Rick Scott stepped aboard a Texas-bound plane to take part in a secret ritual for Florida's power elite.
As other politicians had done before and would do after, Scott was departing for historic King Ranch, one of North America's premier hunting grounds. The trips, records indicate, were financed all or in part with contributions from Florida's sugar industry, right down to the hunting licenses....
A history of Florida's gift ban: Scandal. Reform. Repeat.07/25/14 State Roundup
TALLAHASSEE — Free hunting trips, whether to King Ranch in Texas or destinations closer to home, are a fixture of Florida politics.
It was nearly 25 years ago that details emerged about lawmakers hunting and fishing with lobbyists. Their crime: not reporting the trips, which was a violation of a 1970 law.
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How many culinary stereotypes do you believe in? It's true, Southerners drink sweet tea like Greek gods drink nectar. Italian weddings do consist of 40 million pasta dishes, and policeman do knock back circular breakfast foods like nobody's business.
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Saturday, August 9th, 2014 • Filed under Robberies
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Imagine if you loved a dining establishment so much that nothing could stop you from being a patron there. This is the case of a nearly 30 year old man in California who robbed an El Pollo Loco. A few hours after the committing the crime, he came back and attempted to order dinner. According to HP, the employees recognized him from the security footage of the robbery, as he hadn't changed his outfit at all. Sounds like this is one crazy chicken.
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Y2K--a Pivotal Year in the NFL
Super Bowl XXXIV (Rams-Titans) was more than another Super Bowl for me as it seemed to mark an end of an era. Almost every Super Bowl champion after this seemed significantly inferior to almost every Super Bowl champion that preceded them. The latter seemed way more talented and far more balanced. For example, the great 49er teams in the 80s were known for their offense, but their defenses were pretty dang good as well. Slowing down the offense didn't guarantee a win, as the defense could keep the Niners in the game, if not win it. They were good in all phases of the game, and this type of balance extended to both sides of the ball as well. Some of those Niner defenses were terrific at the front and back end, and if they were better at defending the pass, they weren't slouches at stopping the run. Additionally, the defense could attempt to neutralize a strength of their opponent without leaving themselves extremely vulnerable in another way. Similarly, while the Niner offense was known for their passing attack, they could and would willing run the ball effectively against opponents. Trying to take away the passing attack wasn't a surefire strategy to beat them. Now, I could say this about almost every Super Bowl champion prior to Super Bowl XXXIV, but I couldn't say the same for almost every Super Bowl champion afterward.
Take the Patriot teams in the early part of the 2000s. In Super Bowl XXXVIII, the Patriots employed a game plan that shut down the Panther's running game, but that plan left them vulnerable to the pass--so much so that the normally conservative Panther offense almost won by letting Jake Delhomme run around and fling the ball as if he were playing street football. (If not for a terrible kick after a late TD pass by Delhomme, that pass could have been the game winner.) In Super Bowl XXXVI, instead of taking away the run, the Patriots devised a plan to neutralize the Ram's explosive attack. My feeling is that the game plan, more than the greatness of the defense, won that game for them. (And the fact that the Rams didn't run more.) Whether this claim is true or not, the point I'd make is that I've never felt that way about previous Super Bowl champions. Coaching and strategy were important, but I never felt it was the primary reason a team won the Super Bowl. The eventual winners seemed to win because of superior talent or execution, but not necessarily because of a clever game plan. The Super Bowl champions starting around the year 2000 just didn't seem as talented overall or balanced; and if they were balanced, they didn't seem really exceptional like previous Super Bowls champions. Let me put it this way: if I were to list the best teams of all time, none would have played after 2000. In this post, I want to lay out some of theories I've developed over time to explain this, including my observations and theories on the way teams became Super Bowl champions since 2000 and how this differed from the past.
Before I do, I want to be clear from the start about my attitude toward this post: I do NOT think I am an authority on the subject--my opinions are based simply on watching games and reading articles (since the late 70s), not extensive research or data analysis; certainly not an inside information. Indeed, I'm sure there are errors and gaps in my understanding, and I'd be surprised if that turns out be to untrue. At times, the tone of the post may suggest confidence or certainty, but that would be misleading. The purpose for writing is to get feedback about my observations and theories about the way teams have changed since 2000. My hope is others will provide feedback--confirming, correcting or even expanding upon the views I'm about to share--which will hopefully lead to an interesting discussion.
With that said, here we go.
My Understanding of How the NFL Changed after the year 2000
Why did Super Bowl champions after 2000 seem inferior to previous champions? My guess is that rules involving the salary cap are the main reason for this. Around the year 2000, my sense is that the NFL decided to prevent teams from hoarding the best players--with the intention of creating parity and preventing dynasties, allowing more teams to have a chance at winning the Super Bowl. In the past, teams could hoard many good-to-great players, and I would say the teams with the most money and willingness to spend it would have a distinct advantage. As a result, a small group of teams could win over a long period of time, while other teams could spend years without any realistic hope of even making the playoffs. That all seemed to change around the year 2000.
Teams still could secure good players, but if they weren't careful--especially in the contracts they signed--they could get in trouble. In the short term, teams could also end up with quite a few awful players on their roster if they signed too many good (read: expensive) playersl. My sense is that this would commonly happen when a team would (over)emphasize one side of the ball. For example, Altanta might try to emphasize the offense, aggressively pursuing good offensive weapons, but the result would be a bare cupboard for the defense. In the long term, bad contracts could cripple a team's chances for getting and keeping good players in the future. The effect could last for several years, destroying any hope for post-season play during that time. Basically, there seemed to be two options for teams:
- Being really good on one side of the ball, while being fairly weak on the other or;
- Being balanced, but not outstanding in any phase of the game.
Teams could not be good-to-great in all phases of the game; they could not have many good-to-great players in all three phases. The salary cap seemed to make this all but impossible. Again, this was not the case prior to 2000. Teams could be very good, if not great, in all phases, having much more good players on one team than they can now. There weren't many teams like this, but every year there were a few, and one of them would win the Super Bowl. In 2000, the NFL seemed to have decided to end this, creating a whole new set of conditions to prevent it.
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My sense is that many teams didn't fully understand all the ramifications of these new conditions, and most struggled as a result. The one exception, to my mind, was the Patriots. I'm not sure if crediting the Patriots with the actions I'm about to describe is fair--I'm pretty sure they weren't the only team doing these things--but my sense is that they were one of the first to really understand the implications of the new rules. With that said, here are are some the things I associate with the Patriots:
- The amoeba approach. As I mentioned, there were no truly dominant team, i.e.--a team with so much talent they would be good-to-great in almost every phase. Instead, many of the best teams had some glaring weakness that could be exploited. The Patriots seemed to respond by building a team with versatility and flexibility, allowing them to morph, amoeba-like, into whatever style that could exploit the weaknesses of any given opponent, while masking their own. For example, they could run the ball with power against a team with a weak run defense or employ a finesse passing attack against a team that would have trouble against that offense. They were a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none type of team. (And they still have this capability.) They didn't have to be great in any area or style, merely competent because the opponent's weakness was so substantial that's all it required. To me, it was a brilliant approach, especially since Belichick was a great scheme/gameplan tinkerer that could make this work. (Note: I do not believe this approach would have allowed a team to win a Super Bowl prior to 2000.)
- Letting go of good, but expensive players. The Patriots seemed like one of the first teams to let go quite a bit of good players, instead of resigning them. (Richard Seymour comes to mind.) At the time, I remember these moves as being somewhat controversial--and at some point I heard the call this a sign of Belichick's arrogance (i.e., he felt he didn't need great players to win). With hindsight, the moves seem like decisions that came from the hard realities of the cap, more than arrogance. Team could not obtain or keep too many good-to-great players--they would only be able to keep a few, so the good teams had to prioritize and choose wisely. Whether the Patriots always chose wisely is up for debate, but the fact that they seemed to do this--while other teams did not--suggests they fully understood the new hard realities.
- Getting more draft picks. I'm even less sure they did this first, but I feel like they were at least one of few to operate this way early on. The approach made sense on two levels. One, it could spread out risk by not putting all the eggs in one basket, so to speak; two, rookies are cheaper, so by getting more younger players, a team could potentially get good players at a low price tag.
- Valuing intangibles (slightly) over talent. Additionally, they seemed to place intangible slightly ahead of talent. If the player didn't possess the right attitude and character (later called "the Patriot way"), the team wouldn't hesitate to release or pass on the player. A team-first attitude that manifested itself in accepting a little less money, rather than attempting to milk the team for every dollar, was a big part of the Patriot Way. And it suggested not so much that the team was stingy or trying to take advantage of players, but that the team, once again, understood the new reality of the salary cap era. If the Patriots were indeed the first team to really do this, the move was ahead of its time.
- Valuing intangibles, part 2. But the Patriots also put a higher priority on other character traits to a degree that many organizations did not, even if they valued these traits on some level. In a way, the approach reminded me more of a great high school or college coach than an NFL one. My sense is that NFL coaches often chose talent slightly over character--because they had to for winning. But since the year 2000, the talent differential between teams--at least the top teams--wasn't as significant. As a result, putting character traits that would lead to a more unified team could provide a competitive advantage.
By understanding the new NFL, the Patriots adjusted their approach to personnel, culture and even on-field strategy, and these adjustments lead them to dominate the early part of the 2000s, as well as create sustainable success afterward. My sense is that over time teams starting catching up, adopting many of the points I described above. Still, the Patriots and the other good teams that adopted similar a approach were still not as good as the teams prior to 2000.
Getting Around the Salary Cap
While the Patriots and other teams managed the salary cap constraints, they never really fully got around them. I want to pause for a moment to consider if getting around the constraints is even possible--i.e., if teams can stockpile good-to-great players like teams did prior to 2000? And if this is possible, how would teams do this now? To understand this, let's look at one key premise of the salary cap--namely, that the quality of a player and the cost of that player would be directly proportional. That is, the better a player, the higher his salary. That's basically true--with two possible exceptions: good FAs with red flags (e.g., age, injuries, off field issues) or draft picks. Both could provide a team with really good players at a bargain price. Theoretically, if a team got enough of these type of players, they could circumvent the salary cap rules.
However, there are problems with these players. The FAs I have in mind are limited in number. Plus, these players have risks, and to manage those risks teams would generally have to sign them to short term deals; therefore, the players could fill a roster temporarily, supplementing a roster, but not much more than that. On the other hand, the draft--and undrafted free agents (UDFAs) could address a sizable portion of a roster, especially if that team was willing to trade away high draft picks for many lower ones. Additionally, teams could have these players at a relatively low cost for a few years, while also having the first crack and signing some to a longer term deal. However, the problem with this approach is the low success rate for finding good players, not to mention great players, in these later rounds. If the success rate was better and more reliable, I expect more teams would use this strategy. But let's suppose the success rate was higher, would it be high enough to provide the team with enough good players to create a roster of good-to-great players? Using a more conventional perspective towards a roster, I don't think this would approach would work--not to the point where a team could have vastly more talented players than an opponent. By "conventional perspective" I'm talking about an approach that defines success by emphasizing whether a player is among the top players at his position. Another facet of this perspective is undervaluing a draft pick that turns into a competent player, but not much more than that. This last point is important, and if it's true it could a significant flaw in this perspective.
To understand this important point, let's compare the nature of NFL rosters before and after 2000. Prior to 2000, my sense is that the best teams had the most players from the top tiers--e.g. all-pros or players within the top five of their position. But I'm wondering if there is one detail that is overlooked: the best teams also didn't have very many awful players that they had to rely on, if at all. Maybe filling roster spots with serviceable players wasn't difficult, whom, while not outstanding, weren't significant liabilities as well. (This might have been even truer prior to expansion as well.) If teams didn't have trouble securing these players, that would mean that the best teams would separate themselves by concentrating on securing as many top-tiered players as possible.
My sense is that this is no longer the case. I don't think teams have great difficulty securing a few top tiered players (except for the QB), but the challenge seems to be filling out the rest of the roster with the best players possible. How could a team do this, given that better players are usually more expensive? Actually, I think the more critical question is, how could the team avoid really bad players in the remaining spots? The first question is closer to the more conventional perspective I referred to earlier, while the second question represents what I think is an important re-framing of the challenge.
Think about it. A team can have many great players, but if the team also has to play really bad ones, the bad players could almost negate any of the positive contributions of the great players. Opponents could and would focus on exploiting these weak players, and that approach alone could decide the game in their favor. The adage that you're only as good as your weakest link seems truer than ever (at least since 2000). Therefore, if a team could eliminate all of these players--even just replacing them with serviceable ones--that would eliminate a huge vulnerability. Of course, if these players were more than serviceable, that would be even better, but my point is that they don't necessarily have to be to make a significant difference.
It's also important to note that what I'm saying applies to the bench players as well as the starters. Injuries to starters are inevitable--and a significant number of starters losing time to injuries is not uncommon. Teams will rely on their bench. Because of this, teams not only need to eliminate awful players from their starting lineup, but they must also try to remove these players from their bench. If a team never has to bring in an awful player, that's a huge advantage. It might even separate the best teams from everyone else. If this is true, then the merely competent players have become more valuable than one would think.(What's interesting to me is that the roster is superior not in the sense of having better players so much as not having any terrible ones.)
This brings us back to the viability of building a superior roster from lower-round draft picks. A team couldn't reasonably expect to turn many of these picks into elite players, but they could reasonably expect to turn many into competent ones. If that's true, using lower round picks could become a key way to build a dominant roster.
To summarize, the major roster challenge I would say teams have to face is a) eliminate players who are liabilities on the field; b) make the non-elite players on the team as good as possible. Building a roster off of later round picks can address the first issue--although success isn't a given--but less so with the second issue. But if a team did find a way to turn late round picks into very good, if not great, players, the team would take a big step toward building the type of rosters that existed prior to 2000. Normally, I would say that proposition is unrealistic, but there's evidence to suggest that Seattle might have figured out a way successfully draft and develop later round picks. It's too early to tell at this point, but if they have, then they could be on their way to building a legitimate dynasty.
(Note: I originally planned to speculate about Seattle's approach to developing later round picks--or just players in general--but this post is getting to long. My plan is to write about this in a second part.)


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Climate Interest, But No Action in the 113th Congress
The 113th Congress (2013-2014) is on track to be one of the least productive and most divided in history. No legislation explicitly mentioning climate change has been enacted into law, but more bills and resolutions related to climate change have been introduced in this Congress than in the previous one. (For brevity, we refer to all legislative proposals, including resolutions, and amendments, and draft bills, as "bills.")
Only two bills loosely related to climate change (though not directly referencing it) have been passed and signed into law: the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act and the Hurricane Sandy Relief bill, which provided $17 billion and $9.7 billion, respectively, to cope with Sandy's aftermath.
Of the 221 bills introduced that explicitly reference climate change or related terms, such as greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide, the majority support climate action. These focus primarily on building resilience to a changing climate, supporting the deployment of clean energy, and improving energy efficiency. A number would use some form of carbon pricing to reduce emissions.
Other bills introduced in the current Congress would impede climate action, for instance, by restricting or eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The president has said that he would veto any bill impeding the Clean Power Plan, EPA's proposal to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants.
While members of Congress are back in their districts for summer recess, here is a by-the-numbers look at what they have proposed so far this term in the climate arena:
- 221 climate-specific bills have been introduced, surpassing the 113 introduced during the entire 112th Congress (2011-2012), and perhaps on track to match the 263 of the 111th Congress (2009-2010).
- 134 of the bills (61 percent) support climate action in some way.
- 45 bills are intended to build resilience to climate impacts, compared with nine introduced in the previous Congress.
- 22 bills supporting climate action have bipartisan co-sponsorship. Nine of them promote energy efficiency.
- 56 bills, 11 of them bipartisan, would block or hinder EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Four such bills have passed the House, but none in the Senate.
- 16 bills supporting climate action were written by Republicans, while 9 bills opposing climate action were written by Democrats, showing that while there are exceptions, climate issues continue to largely fall along partisan lines.
- 16 bills would block or hinder federal agencies from using the social cost of carbon in federal rulemaking.
- 3 bills seek to reduce short-lived climate pollutants.
Congress has voted on 18 of these bills, most of which have passed the House of Representatives. The bipartisan Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill had the broadest base of support of any energy measure in this Congress. Yet, in May 2014, the bill fell five votes short of the 60 needed to bring it to a final vote in the Senate – a casualty of disagreements over whether to consider amendments to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and prohibit EPA's carbon dioxide regulations.
Since the Senate's failure to advance the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill in 2010, few bills have been introduced to put a price on carbon. There were only two carbon pricing proposals introduced last Congress. However, this Congress so far has seen six carbon pricing proposals. Five would establish a carbon tax (also called a "carbon pollution fee") and one would establish a cap-and-dividend program (a cap-and-trade program that would rebate program revenues to consumers).
These ideas, however, are unlikely to gain traction in this Congress. Of the two Senate bills that would establish a carbon tax, one failed 33-66 when it was offered as an amendment to the Senate budget bill. In addition, nine bills opposing pricing carbon have been introduced this Congress. One passed out of the House of Representatives by a strong majority, 237-176, when it was offered as an amendment to a House regulatory reform bill.
When lawmakers return in September for a few weeks before hitting the campaign trail, the most pressing issue they face is passing a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government before the October 1 start of the new fiscal year. House Republican leaders have said they will press to include an amendment blocking EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions – a provision Senate Democratic leadership and the president would oppose.
It would be refreshing to see Congress pass a clean CR, bring Shaheen-Portman for another vote, and consider other bipartisan measures that can help address our climate and energy challenges before the end of the session, when all unpassed bills will expire. But it's clear there is no near-term prospect of major climate legislation, which is why it is so critical that EPA continue to work closely with states, power companies, local governments, and other stakeholders, on its Clean Power Plan to allow implementation, innovation, and flexibility.
Extreme Weather and Resilience: An Ounce of Prevention
A recent Senate hearing highlighted some of the progress U.S. communities are making, and the major challenges they face, in better coping with costly extreme weather events — including those, such as heat waves and coastal flooding, whose risks are heightened by climate change.
Sen. Tom Carper, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, noted that the "frequency and intensity of these extreme weather events are costing our country a lot - not just in lives impacted – but in economic costs, as well." Nearly 130 weather-related events in 2013 caused more than $20 billion in losses in the United States.
Extreme weather is costly, not only to federal, state, and local governments, but also to businesses and individuals.
Much of the Senate testimony echoed key findings in our report, "Weathering the Storm, Building Business Resilience to Climate Change." Three key points made at the hearing were:
The federal climate: A look back and ahead
A year ago, the path ahead for climate action at the federal level was murky. Congress clearly had little appetite for climate and energy legislation, and while President Obama had declared that climate change would be a priority in his second term, the details were hazy.
Heading into 2014, there is a clear direction and a credible and comprehensive plan for action. The Climate Action Plan the president announced in June outlines a wide array of steps his administration plans to take using existing authorities to reduce carbon emissions, increase energy efficiency, expand renewable and other low-carbon energy sources, and strengthen resilience to extreme weather and other climate impacts.
Given congressional paralysis, this plan is likely to be the blueprint for U.S. climate action for at least the next three years. The reaction at the United Nations climate conference last month in Warsaw showed that other countries have noticed, and are encouraged to see stronger U.S. action.
A key step in implementing the plan was the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal in September to limit carbon emissions from new power plants. Other elements of the plan that have already seen movement include:
Climate change bills in the 113th Congress
The first year of the 113th Congress (2013-2014) draws to a close with no passage of climate-specific legislation, but signs that some in Congress understand the importance of addressing this issue. More bills were introduced that support climate action than oppose it. (For brevity, we refer to all legislative proposals as "bills.")
Here's a by-the-numbers look at what Congress has done so far this term explicitly referencing climate change or related terms, such as greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide:
- 131 climate-specific bills have been introduced, surpassing the 113 introduced during the entire 112th Congress (2011-2012), and perhaps on track to match the 263 of the 111th Congress (2009-2010).
- 81 of the bills (62 percent) support climate action in some way.
- 31 bills are intended to build resilience to a changing climate, compared with nine introduced in the previous Congress.
- 30 bills have bipartisan co-sponsorship. Of these, 16 support climate action in some way.
- 25 bills, five of them bipartisan, would block or hinder the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Two such bills have passed the House, though are unlikely to be passed by the Senate and signed into law.
- 12 of the bills supporting climate action were written by Republicans, while eight bills opposing climate action were written by Democrats, showing that climate issues don't always fall neatly along partisan lines.
- 7 of the 16 bipartisan bills that support climate action promote energy efficiency. The bipartisan Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill is considered to have the best chance of enactment of any energy measure in this Congress.
- 3 bills would block or hinder federal agencies from using the social cost of carbon in federal rulemaking.
- 2 bills seek to reduce short-lived climate pollutants.
Conservatives debate a carbon tax
The discussion of a carbon tax continues. Conservatives met recently in Washington, D.C., to debate the mertis of a carbon taxt at an event hosted by the R Street Institute and the Heartland Institute, featuring representatives with opposing viewpoints from four conservative think tanks.
A 2013 C2ES brief found that a carbon tax was one way to put a price on carbon emissions, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and raise significant revenue for the federal government. A tax starting at about $16 per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2014 and rising 4 percent over inflation per year would raise more than $1.1 trillion in the first 10 years, and more than $2.7 trillion over a 20-year period. This revenue could fund a wide range of things, including deficit reduction, a reduction in statutory corporate income tax rates from 35 percent to 28 percent (often cited as a goal by both conservatives and liberals), and research and development into low-emitting technology. Importantly, such a carbon tax could also reduce CO2 emissions by 9.3 billion tons over 20 years.


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