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Fee is highest in state, fee, which will be the highest in “Budgets require tough choices, prefer to raise property taxes or Council members voted 11-8 to will raise $7.9M a year Wisconsin and take eff ect Feb. 1. and we can’t do everything that we enact a city income tax, but state adopt the $40 wheel tax during Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway want to do,” Rhodes-Conway told laws prevent her from doing so. Tuesday’s special session. EMILY HAMER and DEAN MOSIMAN said she proposed the vehicle reg- council members. “I do not want The state has enacted strict levy The council had to hold a spe- Wisconsin State Journal istration fee, also called a wheel to have to do a vehicle registration limits for property taxes, and the cial meeting to pass the fee by the Despite options to lower a ve- tax, in her 2020 operating budget fee. It’s not my fi rst choice — not city is already almost at the limit end of October to prevent losing hicle registration fee on Madi- because the city faced an $11 mil- by a long shot. It’s not my second in this year’s operating budget. $550,000 in projected February son residents to $35 or make the lion budget hole. She said without choice, it’s not my fi fth choice, it’s Other revenue options prohibited tax temporary, the Madison City the fee, layoff s of city staff may not even my 10th choice.” by the state include a city sales tax Please see WHEEL TAX, Page A2 UW failed to share prof’s record Madison officials knew of ‘abusive’ conduct when NSF hired him KELLY MEYERHOFER [email protected] UW-Madison failed to dis- close to the National Science Foundation problems in an “abusive” professor’s “toxic” laboratory, including the sui- cide of a graduate student, until months after the agency hired the professor. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL University records paint a portrait of College of Engineer- WINTRY WONDERLAND ing professor After the area’s fi rst accumulating snowfall of the season, Futima Marawan, left, and Khaddauj Baji, who are visiting the area from their home in Akbar Sayeed’s Morocco, are greeted by a winter-like display Tuesday at the UW Arboretum. According to the National Weather Service, the region saw between 1 lab as harmful and 3 inches of snow Monday night into Tuesday morning. More snow forecast to begin Wednesday night and continue into Halloween night could to UW-Madi- bring around 2 to 4 inches to south-central and east-central Wisconsin, and 1 to 2 inches in the far southeast. son students’ well-being — information that was available but not passed along Sayeed by UW-Madison NSC officer says he raised concerns to NSF when the agency hired Sayeed in the fall of 2017. Donald Trump’s Alexander Vindman, a lieu- ing image at the Capitol as the College leadership was largely Colonel testifies he National Security tenant colonel who served in impeachment inquiry reached unaware of the problems in Say- heard Trump’s July 25 Council testifi ed Iraq and later as a diplomat, is deeper into the White House. eed’s lab until a graduate student to impeachment the fi rst offi cial to testify who “I was concerned by the call,” in the lab, John Brady, died by call with Ukraine leader investigators actually heard Trump’s July 25 Vindman said, according to suicide in the fall of 2016. Brady’s Tuesday that he call with new Ukrainian Presi- his testimony obtained by The LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE twice raised con- dent Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He Please see PROFESSOR, Page A7 JALONICK and COLLEEN LONG cerns over the reported his concerns to the Please see INQUIRY, Page A7 Associated Press Vindman administration’s NSC’s lead counsel, he said in WASHINGTON — Defying push to have his prepared remarks. Backlash: Sean Duff y takes Need help? White House orders, an Army Ukraine investigate Democrats His arrival in military blue, fl ak over questioning witness’s offi cer serving with President and Joe Biden. with medals, created a strik- motive. A7 If you are a UW–Madison stu- dent who is thinking about suicide, or if you’re concerned for the well-being of a student you know, call the University Health Services 24-hour crisis NCAA to allow college athletes to cash in line: (608) 265-5600, option 9. SilverCloud is an online, self- RALPH D. RUSSO The nation’s largest governing of Governors, meeting at Emory president of Ohio State Univer- guided, interactive mental Associated Press body for college sports and its University in Atlanta, directed sity, said the NCAA must em- health resource that provides The NCAA took a major step member schools now must fi g- each of the NCAA’s three di- brace change and modernize “to UW-Madison students with Tuesday toward allowing college ure out how to allow athletes to visions to create the necessary provide the best possible experi- accessible treatment options athletes to cash in on their fame, profi t — something they fought new rules immediately and have ence for college athletes.” 24 hours a day, without a re- voting to permit them to “benefi t against doing for years — while them in place no later than Jan- But such changes will come ferral. 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[email protected] ceived the Purple tributor to CNN’s “State of the Associated Press. “I did not think But the line of attack was rejected Former Wisconsin Congress- Heart after be- Nation,” later tried to walk back it was proper to demand that a by some Republicans, including man Sean Duffy faced a wave of ing injured by a the comments in a Twitter post. foreign government investigate Rep. Liz Cheney, who said it was backlash on social media Tuesday roadside bomb. “Lt. Col. Vindman is an Ameri- a U.S. citizen, and I was worried “shameful” to criticize his patri- after he appeared to question the He serves on the can war hero,” Duffy tweeted. “As about the implications for the otism. allegiance of Lt. Col. Alexander National Secu- I said clearly this morning on air, U.S. government’s support of Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Vindman during an interview on rity Council and ‘I salute Mr. Vindman’s service.’ Ukraine.” called the slams on Vindman “ab- CNN. Duffy on Tuesday pro- My point is that Mr. Vindman is Vindman, a 20-year military surd, disgusting and way off the “It seems very clear that he vided testimony an unelected advisor; he gives officer, added to the mounting mark. This is a decorated Amer- is incredibly concerned about in the ongoing impeachment ADVICE. President Trump sets evidence from other witnesses ican soldier, and he should be Ukrainian defense. I don’t know inquiry the House is conducting the policy.” — diplomats, defense and former given the respect that his service that he’s concerned about Amer- into President Donald Trump. Duffy, 47, a former lumberjack administration officials — who are to our country demands.” ican policy,” Duffy said in the in- By Tuesday morning, #Fire- and MTV reality show star, was corroborating the initial whis- The testimony came the day terview. “I understand that we all SeanDuffy was trending nation- first elected to the seat in 2010. tleblower’s complaint against after Speaker Nancy Pelosi an- have an affinity to our homeland ally on Twitter, with many social He announced in August that he Trump and providing new details nounced the House would vote on … I’m sure Vindman has the same media users and liberal organi- would not finish out his fifth term ahead of a House vote in the im- a resolution to set rules for pub- affinity.” zations taking aim at the former because his ninth child, who was peachment inquiry.