'BOOT' GETS ANOTHER DAY IN COURT

BOB "BOOT" SCHUH will be back in Madison next week. Currently living in a
federal prison in Michigan, Schuh will be here Wednesday for resentencing
by U.S. Judge John Shabaz, whose original 19-year sentencing of Schuh - the
former Jocko's owner - on drug charges was partially vacated by a federal
appellate court last month in Chicago.

The appellate court tossed the portion of Schuh's sentence asserting he had
a leadership role in the drug dealing at Jocko's.

Schuh's appellate lawyer, Robert Henak of Milwaukee, said Schuh was very
pleased by the ruling. "We both were," Henak said Wednesday. Henak said
that federal guidelines dictate Schuh's new sentence at somewhere between
10 and 12 years. "He's also eligible for a 16 percent reduction in sentence
each year - after the first year - for good behavior," Henak said. That
works out to between 51 and 53 days a year. Along with receiving a revised
presentence report, Shabaz on Wednesday will hear arguments from
prosecutors and Henak before pronouncing the new sentence. Since his
incarceration Schuh has been active in the November Coalition, an
organization devoted to rethinking the wisdom of lengthy prison terms for
nonviolent drug offenders. ...

JEFF RICHGELS' front page Cap Times feature earlier this month about a
Belleville firm's long T-shirt - designed to cover "plumber's butt" - was
picked up by the Associated Press and exploded worldwide, the shirt's PR
guy told Richgels in a letter this week. "I have done interviews with the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
a rock radio station in Dublin, Ireland, and two interviews with the
British Broadcasting Corporation." ... The Harmony Bar's annual golf
tourney to benefit the Atwood Community Center will be Sunday at the
Bridges, but you can bid on the silent auction items all this week at the
Harmony. Among the cool auction items: 10 clubhouse passes to this year's
Western Open golf tournament. Tiger Woods will likely be in the field for
the tournament, which begins July 4. ...

Speaking of the golf tour, Madison's Jerry Kelly talked to the New York
Times Tuesday about his decision to buy a time share in a private jet: "I
arrived at a tournament once and had half an 8-iron," Kelly said of the bad
old days of flying commercial. ... The lone media star at the recent mayors
shindig, David Broder, took note of Monona Terrace in the last of his
syndicated dispatches. Citing Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley's comments on
the importance of good architecture in public buildings - security be
damned - Broder noted that Monona Terrace "was designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright. ... It has sparked a commercial boom and construction of new
lakeside condominiums, one of which will soon be the home of Madison Mayor
Susan Bauman." Actually, Bauman will be across the Square. ... One last
mayors bit: Milwaukee banker Dennis Kuester, whose M&I bank just bought St.
Louis' Southwest Bank, heard that St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was in
Madison Friday, drove over, bought Slay dinner here and told the mayor what
a good community citizen M&I bank is. ...

With Oprah Winfrey's book club now a closed chapter, author and former
Madisonian Ann Packer got the next best thing last week when Diane Sawyer
launched a book club on ABC's "Good Morning, America," and tabbed Packer's
"The Dive from Clausen's Pier" - much of it set in Madison - as the first
selection. ... Another former townie, Richard Woychik, a world-famous
geneticist who got both his undergrad and graduate degrees from UW-Madison,
was just named director of the world's largest mammalian genetics research
institution - the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. ...

MOE KNOWS: UW-Madison research psychologist Seth Pollack was on NPR's "All
Things Considered" Tuesday, interviewed by reporter Michelle Trudeau on the
impact of early physical abuse on children and how those children develop a
striking ability to detect anger in others.