What we’re reading on this Friday morning.
- The planned Downtown streetcar is expected to cost about $1.8 million a year to operate, according to the city comptroller, Martin Matson, and the Journal Sentinel.
- Milwaukee police were not included in the 24 Wisconsin departments that received tank-like “mine resistant” vehicles from a Department of Defense military surplus program, according to the State Journal.
- Bill Cosby is now claiming, in court, that one of the women he’s accused of assaulting attempted to extort him.
- Something called the “European Extremely Large Telescope” will be completed by 2024 and is expected to study “Earth mass” planets in greater detail. Space.com has declared the E-ELT the world’s largest telescope.
- An unprecedented split between Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a longtime Walker friend and ally, and the freshly reelected governor over right to work legislation continues to deepen.
