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Microsoft buys more land near Racine County data center development. Totals $27 million

From JSOnline:

Tom Daykin

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Microsoft's data center is under construction near County Highway KR and 90th Street in Mount Pleasant.  Karl Ebert/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Microsoft Corp. has spent $27.2 million buying more land near its $3.3 billion data center development in Racine County.

The software developer has purchased 69 acres along Louis Sorenson Road, in Mount Pleasant, for $12.4 million, according to Wisconsin Department of Revenue property records. The seller was Audrey L. Schaefer Family LLC.

Also, Microsoft has purchased a 10-acre tract on that same road for $800,000, according to those land records. The seller was John A. Holmes.

Finally, the company bought a combined 64 acres, from an affiliate of Robert Funk Farms Inc. and a trust linked to Bruce Funk and Vicki Funk, for $14.04 million.

Those purchases come after Microsoft in May bought 32.1 acres at 12721 Louis Sorenson Road for $8.8 million. The seller was an affiliate of development firm Wangard Partners Inc.

A company representative couldn't be immediately reached Friday for information about Microsoft's plans for the land.

The company in December bought just over 1,000 acres of nearby farm land that's being developed for data centers. The three transactions totaled nearly $176 million.

The company paid the Village of Mount Pleasant $63.2 million for 400 acres on Braun Road and Durand Avenue. Also, Microsoft paid the village $36.5 million for 241 acres on County Highway H.

Finally, the company bought 407 acres on Braun Road and Durand Avenue from Creuziger Farms Inc. for $76 million, according to state land records.

Microsoft says it will spend $3.3 billion by 2026 to build the initial phase of its data center development.

But that's merely the architecture for success, Microsoft President Brad Smith told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in May.

Equally important, Smith said, is an investment in training that is expected to help more than 100,000 workers learn cutting-edge AI-related skills, STEM programming for middle school students, summer job opportunities for high school students and tools for business leaders to learn how to most successfully tap the power of artificial intelligence in their operations.

Tom Daykin can be emailed at tdaykin@jrn.com and followed on Instagram, X and Facebook.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/real-estate/commercial/2024/07/29/microsoft-buys-more-land-near-milwaukee-area-data-center-development/74557810007/

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From JSOnline:

Zoe Jaeger

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This story is published as part of the series Highly Legal, in partnership with The Examination, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates global health threats, AL.com, PennLive and USA TODAY. Our team is continuing to report on new cannabis products, and we want to hear from you. Share your experience or questions with us here.

Marijuana alternatives like delta-8 flooded Wisconsin and other states after Congress passed a bill to help farmers. But did lawmakers and legal experts know the implications of the bill?

Interviews by the Journal Sentinel suggest that no, the people who helped legalize them had no idea delta-8 and similar products were scientifically possible.

The products are created with hemp, a variety of the cannabis plant that can be processed to yield a potent extract that delivers a similar high as traditional marijuana.

“None of this was part of the plan,” said Jonathan Miller, general counsel to the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, who helped craft the federal law that legalized hemp. 

Now, he said, "It's impossible to put the toothpaste back into the tube."

Today, delta-8 and other hemp-derived intoxicants make up a $28 billion industry with little to no government oversight.

The industry was born after the 2018 Farm Bill legalized the sale of hemp and products extracted from it. Soon, manufacturers figured out how to derive highly intoxicating chemicals from hemp. The subsequent blizzard of products include not just delta-8, but newer and more powerful compounds with names like HHC and THCA.

Miller worked with U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other hemp supporters on the 2018 Farm Bill. When asked if he knew that hemp could create intoxicating products, he said, “I did not. And I know that the members of Congress that we were working with did not.” 

Miller said that, at the time, lawmakers distinguished between hemp and marijuana by the level of intoxication. Hemp should not be intoxicating at all, he said. The 2018 Farm Bill specifically set a threshold that hemp cannot have more than 0.3% THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana that makes users high.

But there is no verification that manufacturers' claims are accurate. And some have invented new products that test at the allowable federal limit, but convert to high-potency THC when burned.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin was an original pioneer of legal hemp and a supporter of the Farm Bill.

“When we talked about hemp at that time, we talked about hemp that would have very low amounts of THC,” Grothman said.

When asked if he knew that hemp-derived products could become intoxicating, Grothman said: "No, no, no, no."

Grothman said the legislation was meant to encourage industrial hemp production, in which hemp fiber, grain and seed are used to produce renewable resources. 

U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Getty Images

Courtney Moran, an attorney and strategist for two Oregon-based hemp lobbying groups, worked with Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon to draft the hemp-related portion of the 2018 Farm Bill.

In 2019, Wyden said the country "would not have hemp legalization without Courtney."

Moran, who is from Germantown and graduated from Marquette University, told the Journal Sentinel she did not learn about delta-8 until 2020, two years after the Farm Bill legalized it.

"Could we have foreseen these intoxicating products?" Moran asked. "I didn't. I did not know about these... and how they could be manufactured in a lab." 

When the bill removed hemp’s designation as a controlled substance, it removed the Drug Enforcement Administration's authority to regulate the products.  

Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration says it has limited power to regulate the products. 

In a statement to the Journal Sentinel, the FDA said it “will remain diligent in monitoring the marketplace, identifying products that pose risks, and acting, within our authorities.”

That includes warning consumers about the dangers of delta-8 products and "issuing warning letters to companies illegally selling CBD and delta-8 THC products," the agency said.

Lawmakers are now scrambling to regulate the industry. An amendment to the latest House draft of the Farm Bill threatens to ban all intoxicating products derived from hemp and "all products with a quantifiable amount of THC."

Miller calls the proposal a “disaster for the industry" and said it places unnecessary restrictions on farmers, who would then be responsible for ensuring sometimes unnaturally low levels of THC in hemp. 

Instead, Miller is calling on the FDA to regulate the goods. Last year, he even testified before Congress demanding it.

"We are the rare industry that's coming to Congress to say, 'Please regulate us,'" he said.

Zoe Jaeger is an investigative intern for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact her at zjaeger@gannett.com.

John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel contributed to this story.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2024/07/22/lawmakers-who-opened-doors-to-delta-8-hemp-products-had-no-idea/74269933007/

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From The Journal Times.com:

Scott Williams

Yard signs turned up in Racine County earlier this year in support of a recall effort targeting Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.

Scott Williams

UNION GROVE — The group behind a recall effort targeting Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has missed a deadline for reporting who financially backed the failed campaign.

The Wisconsin Ethics Commission said the recall group will receive a warning and possibly a $100 fine for missing the reporting deadline, which passed at midnight Monday.

Under state law, the Union Grove-based group is required to report who has donated money and how the money was spent.

Recall organizer Matthew Snorek said he was aware of the deadline, but he said others in the group were responsible for campaign finance reporting.

Snorek referred questions about the missed deadline to Conrad Reynolds, a Republican from Arkansas who traveled to Wisconsin to help run the recall petition drive. Reynolds could not be reached for comment.

Reynolds was working on the campaign finance report, Snorek said, but there was some confusion about when it was due.

“I have no idea how that stuff works at all,” he said.

Vos, a Republican who is seeking re-election in November, said the missed deadline is an example of the recall group’s disregard for laws and rules.

“Their lack of reporting is especially concerning given we’re probably talking about at least a million dollars in spending from out-of-state special interests,” Vos said. “Everyone in Racine County deserves to know who funded this effort.”

The recall effort sought to remove Vos from his state legislative seat after the Assembly speaker refused calls to decertify President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election.

The group registered with the state ethics commission in January under the name “Recall Vos,” and again in March under the name “Racine Recall Committee.”

In two separate efforts, the group fell short of the number of signatures needed on a petition calling for a recall election in Vos’ legislative district.

Both groups were required to file campaign finance reports by Monday.

A candidate or committee can claim an exemption from the reporting requirement if they collect and spend less than $2,500. The deadline for claiming the exemption was June 30.

Under the ethics commission rules, the missed deadline will count as a “first strike” against the group. If future reporting deadlines are missed, the penalties could become more severe.

From: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/government-politics/recall-vos-campaign-missed-reporting-deadline/article_e9fe7d18-438e-11ef-9d17-f34e7d4e1696.html

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From JSOnline:

Daniel Bice

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MARINETTE – Want to see a veteran politician dance on the hottest issue of the moment?

Here is U.S. Sen Tammy Baldwin on Friday at A Place for Coffee, a Marinette eatery nearly 200 miles away from the capital city of Madison, where President Joe Biden was simultaneously speaking to supporters.

Biden was telling his crowd that he had no plans to drop his reelection bid, despite his disastrous debate performance against former Republican President Donald Trump last week.

"They're trying to push me out of the race," Biden said. "Let me say this clearly as I can: I'm staying in the race."

For her part, Baldwin — a Democrat, like Biden — spent 20 minutes telling 50 or so adoring supporters about her childhood, her political history, her most important pieces of legislation and her opponent, Republican millionaire Eric Hovde.

About everything, it seemed, except Biden.

Afterward, she met with TV and print reporters for a little more than two minutes.

But still, no Biden talk.

"I will tell you that I am focused on my own campaign," she said.

Told that Hovde had accused her of hiding behind her staff when asked about Biden, the second-term senator still ducked the question: "It's not my decision."

The Biden campaign announced Friday that it is going to be airing $50 million in ads this month in Wisconsin and other battleground states, but Baldwin declined to say if the TV spots will be a help or a hindrance to her campaign.

"I've been putting up my own political advertising," she countered. "I'm focused on traveling the state (and) meeting people where they are. And that's my focus."

I then pointed out that we've known each other for more than 30 years, going back to when she was my Dane County supervisor in the early '90s. Mostly, Baldwin has been straightforward and forthright in her comments over the years.

So for old times' sake, would Baldwin just express some opinion — any opinion — on whether Biden should run for reelection or step aside? Her response: "It is his decision."

So Baldwin's political dance continues.

Contact Daniel Bice at (414) 313-6684 or dbice@jrn.com. Follow him on X at @DanielBice or on Facebook at fb.me/daniel.bice.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/05/sen-tammy-baldwin-dodges-question-of-biden-remaining-in-the-elections/74292682007/

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Biden refuses to say whether he'd take independent cognitive test and make results public

From JSOnline:

Elizabeth BeyerMichael Collins

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden insisted Friday he doesn’t need a cognitive or neurological test and appeared to dismiss reports that he has suffered mental lapses.

In a 22-minute interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Biden refused to say whether he would be willing to take an independent cognitive or neurological exam and release the results to the public.

The job of the presidency and running for re-election are their own sort of cognitive test, he said.

“I have a cognitive test every day,” he said.

Biden did not directly address reports that claimed his mental lapses were increasing. “Can I run 110 flat? No," he said. "But I’m still in good shape.”

The interview was Biden's first with a television network since his disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump last week. During that faceoff, Biden spoke in a raspy voice and at times was unable to complete his thoughts or finish sentences. His performance has raised concerns among some Democrats that he will lose to Trump in November and is not mentally fit to serve another four years in office.

Pressed by Stephanopoulos on whether he would take a cognitive test or neurological assessment to reassure the American people of his ability to serve another term if he were reelected to the White House, Biden said Americans should watch him at work and on the campaign trail.

“So, the answer is no,” Stepanopoulos said.

“I’ve already done it,” Biden responded.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/05/joe-biden-cognitive-neurological-test/74314621007/

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From JSOnline:

Lawrence Andrea

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden in a Milwaukee radio interview on Wednesday said he “screwed up” during the debate with former President Donald Trump last week — marking some of the first public comments from the president since the event.

“I had a bad night," Biden told Milwaukee radio host Earl Ingram in a pre-recorded interview set to air Thursday morning. "And the fact of the matter is that I screwed up. I made a mistake. That’s 90 minutes onstage, look at what I’ve done in 3.5 years.”

The comments, made during an interview with Ingram Wednesday, are among the first from the president following a shaky debate performance that highlighted questions about Biden's age and led some Democrats to call to replace him at the top of the ticket. Biden has said he plans to stay in the race.

About one minute of select clips from Biden's interview was provided to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Ingram, a longtime Biden supporter, told the Journal Sentinel he spoke with the president for 20 minutes. The full interview will air 8 a.m. Thursday on WAUK-AM(540).

During the interview, Biden also touted his efforts to engage minority communities and noted his work appointing Black judges, according to the short clips.

"I picked a Black woman to be my vice president. I've appointed the first Black woman to be a Supreme Court justice," Biden said. "I've appointed more Black judges, more Black women judges, than every other president in American history combined."

He attacked Trump for recent comments the presumptive Republican nominee made about Black workers.

"I'm sorry to get so worked up," Biden said. "But he is just — he's terrible things in the community, and he has about as much interest and concern for Black, minority communities as the man on the moon does."

Biden is set to visit Madison Friday.

The interview was recorded the same day Biden met with 24 Democratic governors from across the country as he sought to tamp down concerns from within the party about his place at the top of the ticket. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was the only Democratic governor to miss the meeting.

"(Evers) didn’t attend the meeting because he’s focused on moving forward and winning Wisconsin," Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback wrote on X. "He supports President Biden - his comments in support of the president over the last week speak for themselves, and he looks forward to campaigning with the President on Friday."

Several governors after the meeting indicated they remained behind Biden.

“He has had out backs through COVID, through all of the recovery, all of the things that have happened,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told reporters. “The governors have his back.”

“A path to victory in November is the No. 1 priority,” Walz added. “And that’s the No. 1 priority of the president. So that’s what we’re trying to get done.”

Milwaukee is set to host the Republican National Convention starting July 15.

Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed from Milwaukee.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/03/joe-biden-addresses-debate-performance-with-milwaukee-radio-host/74298805007/

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From JSOnline:

Hope Karnopp

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn campaigned in Milwaukee Monday in support of President Joe Biden's reelection as many Democratic voters worry about the president's age and ability to inspire enthusiasm after a rough debate performance last week.

Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat whose endorsement of Biden in 2020 was instrumental to his campaign, met with faith leaders, voting rights activists and local officials for a roundtable discussion at Coffee Makes You Black, a Black-owned business and community space.

Clyburn, a top Biden ally, has stood behind the president after the debate, as have local officials like Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson. Clyburn has said he recognized "preparation overload" as soon as Biden answered the first debate question.

"Nothing is wrong with his brain. The people who looked at those answers from both (candidates) came to the conclusion that on substance, Joe Biden was the winner far and away," Clyburn said. "Joe Biden has never been a show horse, he's always been a work horse. Just the opposite is true with his opponent."

Clyburn said he has not spoken to Biden since the debate but will speak with him "in the next day or two" and tell him to "stay the course."

NBC News included Clyburn in a list of senior Democrats in Congress who have privately expressed concerns about Biden's viability, despite all publicly backing the president. A spokeswoman for Clyburn said any reports alleging Clyburn "has expressed anything other than firm support of President Biden are completely untrue."

Clyburn's visit comes days after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore visited Wisconsin with similar goals, including rallying Black voters in Milwaukee who have expressed little enthusiasm for a rematch of the 2020 election between Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Like Moore, Clyburn and County Executive David Crowley sought to draw a contrast between what Biden has delivered for Black voters and Trump's tone during the debate, including his comment about undocumented immigrants taking "Black jobs" or "Hispanic jobs."

Crowley called out Trump's comment at the beginning of the roundtable, saying his "Black job" allowed him to open new pickleball courts for the county earlier in the morning. He also backed Biden during the roundtable conversation.

"The appearance does not matter when you look at the substance of what was being talked about," Crowley said. "There's a stark contrast related to governing under Trump and governing under Biden ... (Biden is) speaking to the future. He's speaking to the soul and spirit of America."

Leaders at the roundtable said voters need to understand the connection between Biden's presidency and policies that affect them, like reduced insulin costs and funding for construction projects and lead service line replacement.

In a statement, Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesman Matt Fisher suggested voters will instead be thinking about inflation and immigration. Republicans have also been taking steps to engage Black voters in Milwaukee, including opening a new office in the Harambee neighborhood to boost outreach.

“Jim Clyburn’s coronation of Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primaries opened the door to four years of rising prices and open border policies. This November, Wisconsinites will close that door and restore American prosperity and security," Fisher said.

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis found that turnout among Black voters in Milwaukee has significantly lagged white voter turnout during presidential contests, with the exception of 2012 — when then-President Barack Obama's reelection bid triggered unprecedented levels of voting in the city.

Black voter turnout fell in 2016 to around 58%, and then again to around 51% in 2020. Black voters carry the voting power to deny Democratic victories if turnout in the city's Black neighborhoods is down. And voters interviewed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this cycle didn't express broad enthusiasm for Biden.

Enthusiasm could be a key problem for Biden, according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll released before the debate last week. Biden and Trump were tied at 50% among registered voters in Wisconsin, but voter enthusiasm benefitted Trump.

"Here's a path for Joe Biden to lose this election pretty badly, is that he's failed to inspire his supporters," poll director Charles Franklin said. "They're unenthusiastic about him and his campaign, and they're much less likely to vote than those who are very enthusiastic, who overwhelmingly are for Trump."

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/01/biden-ally-clyburn-seeks-to-reassure-milwaukee-voters-after-debate/74262414007/