Mining hearing raises jobs and environmental issues

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A bill that could help a company open a proposed iron ore mine in Northern Wisconsin brought hundreds of people to a Southern Wisconsin hearing room yesterday. Chuck Quirmbach reports that critics of the bill outnumbered supporters by a ratio oftwo to one.

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