Whitefish Bay Week in Review: March 6 to March 12

In case you missed it, these are the top headlines from this week on Whitefish Bay Patch.

Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed into a law a bill that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employees. The Assembly after a Senate committee it Wednesday night without the 14 missing Senate Democrats. Click for a video inside the Assembly chambers, or click for a photo gallery of protesters inside and outside the Capitol.

The Blue Dukes boys basketball team will head to state after a nail-biting 51-50 overtime victory over Wisconsin Lutheran in the WIAA Division 2 Sectional Final Saturday afternoon. Senior forward Ron Patten hit the game-winning shot in the lane with 25 seconds left on the clock.

Lindsey Agnew scored a game-high nine points Saturday to lead the Whitefish Bay girls to a 30-29 victory over Brown Deer in a WIAA Division 2 Regional Final on Saturday. Bay will play again Thursday night in the first round of the sectional.

Revenue cuts in the proposed state budget will cost the Whitefish Bay School District more than $2 million, but district officials are waiting to see how the budget repair bill impacts their ability to offset those losses.

The passage of an amended budget repair bill emboldened the effort to recall Republican Sen. Alberta Darling, according to the organizer of the effort. The number of volunteers gathering signatures for a recall effort has doubled to "well over 1,000", organizer Kristopher Rowe said. He also dismissed from Darling and State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald that his volunteers are paid and that he is tied to President Barack Obama's administration.

With tens of thousands of protesters at the Capitol, and national and international attention focused on Wisconsin’s budget battle, a Whitefish Bay man has taken the helm of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Brad Courtney was selected to succeed Reince Priebus as state party chairman after Priebus left the job to become chairman of the Republican National Committee.

A Whitefish Bay man who asked an off-duty cop to fix his home computer is facing child pornography charges after the cop found photos of partially nude children on the machine.