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Racine County's Daily Newspaper Racine Elmwood Park Wind Point Mount Pleasant Caledonia Franksville Sturtevant North Bay Husher rrnji VISIT RACINE COUNTY'S 24-HOUR NEWS SOURCE AT: www.Journal tlmes.com WL1 Out About Chicago museums offer wide variety of attractions PAGE IB SportsPlus Marion Jones, left, aims for five gold medals PAGE1D Pro Football Weekly section features profile on Packers rookie Mark Tauscher INSIDE Ikjoimi.il limes Field Museum's 'Star Wars' exhibit IT hp Mm jL Lid THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2000 HOME DELIVERY: 634-3333 50 CENTS RACINE COUNTY, WISCONSIN Bob Harlan, right, president of the preen Bay Packer1' "talks with the media City panel pares list of grant recipients Wustum's request is among survivors Wednesday about ite nnminn nf Tiarrlntro V. BY JOE BUTTWE1LER Journal Times .9 T- 1 Lambeai(Field referendunThe team's vicepresJtientof' administadon, John.N it 1 Jones, iff hiside. 1 MIKEROEMER if J' Associated fress about $6.6 million. The committee pared the list to about $2.72 million last month, but had to trim the remaining $222,878 Wednesday to get down to $2.5 million. The biggest amount cut Wednesday was $50,000 from a project to resurface Racine Street next year from 21st Street to Washington Avenue.

The Department of Public Works had requested $170,000 to resurface the street; the committee trimmed it to $150,000 last month, then to $100,000 Wednesday. Commissioner of Public Works Rick Jones said the project is a stopgap measure, intended to improve the street until the state resurfaces it in several years. As a major entryway into the city it needs improvement, said Director of City Development Dick More on GRANTS, Page HA RACINE Projects to build a grocery store on State Street, convert the Bank building Downtown into a Wustum Museum, and to increase home ownership on the south side all escaped further cuts Wednesday by the city's Community Development Committee. In a session fraught with anxiety, the panel cut $222,878 from a list of needy programs seeking federal aid through the city. "It looks like everyone is going to feel some of the pain tonight," Mayor Jim Smith said as the committee chopped its way down the grants list.

The city received 73 requests for Community Development Block Grant funds. The city expects to receive $2.5 million, and the total amount sought was i. -V 1f 'Oprah' show films scenes to spotlight Racine officer Packers must heal wounds fans suffered over stadium BY MARCI LAEHR TENUTA Journal Times BY TODD RICHMOND Associated Press "The community is split," said Edith Valentine, co-chair of Brown County Citizens for Sensible Taxation. "These people have long memories. Especially with a vote this close, it's going to fester a long time.

It was very emotional." Harlan said he would work to repair the rift, suggesting parts of the project could be scaled down to cut costs. He also said taxpayer expense could be mitigated through the sale of special license plates and commemorative bricks, and selling naming rights to Lambeau Field. The county begins collecting the tax Nov. 1. It is estimated to generate at least $16 million annually.

Voters turned down a plan to give excess tax revenue to the county. That money will now go to retire the stadium debt earlier, perhaps within 13 years, which could save millions of dollars in interest. Still ahead for the Packers is getting the state Legislature to budget $9.1 million for rebuilding roads and utilities around the stadium. "It would be very, very serious if we were not able to achieve that," said John Jones, Packers vice president of More on FANS, Page UA Burney RACINE Camera crews for the "Oprah Winfrey Show" filmed a 2 p.m. roll call at the Racine Police Department and other scenes around the city Wednesday for an upcoming show expected to feature Officer Julia Burney.

Producers of the show and Burney wouldn't comment on the contents of the segment Wednesday, except to say it would be a surprise to the community. The anticipated feature on the nationally televised talk show is the latest in a series of local, state and national honors for the Racine native and 16-year-veteran officer who started the Cops 'N Kids reading program here The program, in which officers distribute donated books to inner-city children out of their squad cars, will eventually have a home office where volunteers will work with children on their reading. Burney founded the Cops 'N Kids reading program a little more than two years ago. She has since GREEN BAY The fight over a half-percent sales tax to rebuild Lambeau Field has bruised the legendary love affair between the community and the Green Bay Packers, team president Bob Harlan said Wednesday. "What I want to do is reach out to those folks who disagreed with us and say we understand," Harlan said.

Brown County residents voted Tuesday for the sales tax to repay $160 million in construction loans for the Packers' $295 million renovation of Lambeau Field. The referendum passed with 53 percent of the vote. 1 Winfrey More on OPRAH, Page UA Meuler has worked up Milwaukee's ladder mm BY MARCI LAEHR TENUTA Journal Times Choosing Kenneth J. Meuler Youth duck hunt planned as part of nationwide celebration. In Outdoors.

Age: 44 Current position: Captain in Milwaukee Police Department Education: Bachelor's degree in law enforcement from Marquette University in Milwaukee; master's degree in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Family: Married, three children would be a growth for me." With one son in college, another son on his way to college and a daughter beginning high school, Meuler said his family life would not be as disrupted by the move "Personally, its a good time in my life," he said. "It's a time in my life when I could make a comfortable change" Meuler said he didn't feel comfortable discussing his philosophy or what he would do if hired as police chief. He said he wanted the chance to discuss those with members of Police and Fire Commission members in his interview first. All of the candidates were scheduled to be interviewed here this week.

More on MEULER, Page UA RACINE FTor more than half his life, Kenneth J. Meuler has worked as a law enforcement officer with the Milwaukee Police Department. Twenty-six years ago he was hired as a police aide, and today he serves as a captain in the department's Criminal Investigations Bureau, Persons Division. Although he has lived most of his life in Milwaukee, Meuler said the time is right for him personally and professionally to make a change and move to Racine. He is one of seven candidates up for the Racine Police Department's police chief position.

"Professionally it's a step up," he said. "It Fifth in a series Each day this week The Journal Times will profile one of the candidates for chief of police in Racine: Hissing Inaction As scientist released, judge apologizes for errors in case IndexWeather Ann Landers 2A Bridge IOC Business 8A Classified 8C Comics 7B Crosswords 9C, 10C Dr. Gott 6B Out About IB Horoscope 7B Legal Notices 5C-7C Movies 6B Obituaries 2C Opinion 10A People 2A Racine County 1C Records 2C Sports ID Stock listings Today 3C TV listings 6B Wisconsin 4C Showers possible early. Highs In the 60s. BY RICHARD BENKE Associated Press Students from The Prairie School discovered this six-foot python, bottom of photo, which was sunning itself on the bridge on Campus Drive crossing the Prairie Pond on Wednesday.

A member of the janitorial staff captured the snake. i yji i I Minimi essentially the time served since his arrest last December. Lee had been charged with 59 counts of breaching national security and faced life in prison if convicted. Fifty-eight of those counts were dropped. "I sincerely apologize to you, Dr.

Lee, for the unfair manner in which you were held in custody by the executive branch," U.S. District Judge James Parker said. Parker said the Departments of Justice and Energy "have embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen of it." Lee, a Taiwanese-born naturalized U.S. citizen, read a statement in court in which he admitted using an unsecure computer to download a national-defense document onto a tape. He said he knew his possession of the tape outside of the topsecret area where he worked was unauthorized.

Mora on LEE, Pag ilA ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Nine months after he was branded a threat to national security and put in solitary confinement, Wen Ho Lee was set free Wednesday with an apology from a judge who said the government's actions "embarrassed our entire nation." Supporters cheered as a smiling Lee left the courthouse alongside his family and attorneys. He thanked his supporters and said, "I'm very happy to go home with my wife and children today." With a chuckle, he added: "The next few days, I'm going fishing." Lee, 60, pleaded guilty to a single count of mishandling nuclear secrets as the government all but abandoned its crumbling case against the former Los Alamos scientist. Under the terms of the plea bargain, he was sentenced to 278 days page editor: Mike Moore DR. FRANK OSANKA For The Journal Times 18134-01500 7.