Homeland Security on Monday June 29, 2009

WI: Immigrant groups seek driver's card, tuition break in Wisconsin budget
By The Associated Press, Green Bay Press-Gazette
Advocates are making a final push to convince Wisconsin lawmakers to cut tuition rates and create a new driver's card for illegal immigrants.
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SD: State turns to counties' homeland security funds to upgrade radio system
By Andrea J. Cook, Rapid City Journal
Every day, and especially during an emergency, Bennett County Sheriff Lindell Adair's most reliable tool for contacting his staff or other emergency personnel is a radio connected to South Dakota's digital radio network. "Our phones only work in about half the county," Adair said. "Without good digital communication, we're out of contact with everybody."
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CA: Turf wars loom as services retooled
By Michael Gardner, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Overshadowed by the more immediate budget crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers are crafting separate plans to restructure state fire protection and water-delivery services across California.
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FL: New state laws take effect July 1
By Josh Hafenbrack, The Sun-Sentinel (South Florida)
On July 1, a yearly ritual takes place in Florida: a crop of new laws passed by legislators and signed by the governor takes effect.
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GA: Georgia to overhaul health and social service agencies
By Craig Schneider, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For years, Georgia's health and social service agencies have lurched from crisis to crisis. People wait months, if not years, for something as simple as a copy of their birth certificate.
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LA: LSU researchers -- coastal restoration projects doomed to fail
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Even under best-case scenarios for building massive engineering projects to restore Louisiana's dying coastline, the Mississippi River can't possibly feed enough sediment into the marshes to prevent ongoing catastraphic catastrophic land loss, two Louisiana State University geologists conclude in a scientific paper being published today.
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MO: Guard training -- 'As real as possible' for Missouri soldiers
By Silas Allen, The News Tribune (Tacoma)
CUSTER STATE PARK, S.D. -- A Missouri National Guard unit practiced on basic convoy operations during a training exercise in the Black Hills of South Dakota on June 14.
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OK: Military funds to promote prosthetics in Oklahoma
By Staff Reporters, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)
Eight million dollars of a $10 million request was approved to create an Oklahoma City prosthetics technology center.
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TX: Carona files SB 1 for special
By Mike Ward, The Austin American-Statesman
Sen. John Carona, the Dallas Republican who chairs the Senate's Transportation and Homeland Security Committee, said this afternoon he has filed legislation for next Wednesday's start of a special legislative session.
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UT: Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and friend share views on Israel, I.D. theft
By Cathy Mckitrick, The Salt Lake Tribune
When not inadvertently twittering his plans to run for U.S. Senate, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff waxes philosophical in patriotic and prayerful 140-character tweets during his recent visit to Israel.
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WI: State budget deal reached
By Scott Bauer, The Associated Press, La Crosse Tribune
Oil companies would not face a new tax and illegal immigrants would not be issued special cards so they could drive legally on Wisconsin roads under a budget deal reached privately by Democratic lawmakers and released Thursday.
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