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Wisconsin
April 03,2017
by Louis Weisberg
A 23-year-old man has been charged with the stabbing death of Andrew G. Nesbitt in his downtown Madison apartment.
Nesbitt had moved to Madison after surviving a previous attack outside an Oshkosh gay bar. His roommate found his body on March 27, Nesbitt’s 46th birthday.
Darrick E. Anderson, of Columbus, was charged April 3 with first-degree intentional homicide, as well as two counts of m....
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Tracking Trump
April 03,2017
by WiG Wire
Democrats on April 3 amassed enough support to block a U.S. Senate confirmation vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, but Republicans vowed to change the Senate rules to ensure the conservative judge gets the lifetime job.
As the Judiciary Committee moved to send Gorsuch's nomination to the full Senate, Sen. Christopher Coons became the 41st Democrat to announc....
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April 03,2017
by Associated Press
A new initiative launched by Black Lives Matter activists seeks to re-focus the movement’s efforts on state capitols, building on momentum at the national level to push back against Donald Trump’s political agenda on issues such as policing and immigration.
The online platform OurStates.org is the latest indication that Democrats and left-leaning groups are turning their attention to stateh....
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Wisconsin
April 03,2017
by Lisa Neff
A grassroots shareholder group has filed a resolution that calls for Madison Gas & Electric to lead in the transition to electrified transportation.
The resolution offered by MGE Shareholders for Clean Energy is included in MGE’s 2017 Proxy Statement and votes will be tallied on May 16 at MGE’s annual shareholder meeting in Middleton.
The shareholders, in a statement, said they b....
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April 03,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
Ellen DeGeneres is by far the No. 1 celebrity home-flipper, leaving competitors such as Jennifer Aniston, Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton in the construction dust.
DeGeneres' and wife Portia de Rossi’s latest real estate offering and a predominant subject in DeGeneres' book, Home, is an expansive house and grounds on a Montecito, California, hill overlooking the ocean and mountains.
Known a....
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April 03,2017
by Lisa Neff
A respected Russian newspaper says it has uncovered information that police in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya rounded up more than 100 men suspected of homosexuality and that at least three have been killed.
The report over the weekend in Novaya Gazeta said it had confirmed the information with sources in the Chechen police and government, but gave no details.
The report was denie....
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April 03,2017
by Associated Press
As Salvador Rendon was being arraigned last year on charges he had engaged for years in sexual intercourse with dogs, animal-rights activists descended on Warren, Ohio, to make their case: The state needed an anti-bestiality law.
The group had endured years of chiding: giggles about farm animals, Deliverance jokes, barks during a legislative hearing, questions of, “If the animal’s not inju....
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April 02,2017
by Louis Weisberg
Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Jiménez and her husband, Manuel, 36, used to do the grocery shopping together. They would take the kids and make a day of it. But, lately, Manuel goes alone.
“Imagine if they (immigration authorities) picked us up there. I won’t take the risk of them taking my children,” Jiménez says, bursting into tears as she sits in her kitchen on a recent afternoon.
The c....
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April 02,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
North Carolina’s infamous HB2 (House Bill 2) created a worldwide stir by banning trans citizens from using public restrooms corresponding to their gender expression. It also forbade municipalities from enacting policies to protect LGBT people from discrimination.
HB2’s impact on the state’s politics and economy was swift. The law prompted some businesses to halt expansions. Entertainers ....
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April 01,2017
by Associated Press
Environmental groups are making good on their vow to fight Donald Trump’s intent to dispose of rules that protect U.S. citizens from pollution and curb global warming.
On March 29, they teamed up with an American Indian tribe to ask a federal court to block an order that lifts restrictions on coal sales from federal lands.
The Interior Department last year placed a moratorium on new coa....
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