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March 03,2017
by Louis Weisberg
An attack on a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, is the latest in an avalanche of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, including bomb threats at more than 90 Jewish community centers and schools around the country since the year began.
The Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay, a northern suburb of Milwaukee, was one of those threatened.
As many as 16 headstones were toppled....
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March 03,2017
by Reuters
Parents who fear deportation under the Trump administration are seeking help securing care for their children in the event they are removed from the United States.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles advocacy group has been receiving about 10 requests a day from parents who want to put in place temporary guardianships for their children, said spokesman Jorge-Mario Cabrera.....
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Wisconsin
March 02,2017
by Louis Weisberg
Environmental, civil rights and social justice groups jointly have filed a federal lawsuit in challenging the expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee.
The litigation focuses specifically on plans to widen — by one lane in each direction — a 3.5-mile stretch of the interstate highway between 16th Street and 70th Street.
The plaintiffs in NAACP Milwaukee Chapter v Ross (case number Case 2:17-CV-297....
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March 02,2017
by Associated Press
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources board has approved writing rules to remove an exotic dove from the state's protected species list.
The Eurasian collared dove has spread throughout North America since the 1970s.
The bird is a protected species in Wisconsin by default because it's not listed as anything else.
Removing their protected status would allow hunters to kill them.
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March 02,2017
by WiG Wire
Individuals and institutions from across the country representing a diverse and extraordinary cross-section of interests, perspectives and concerns filed friend-of-court briefs today in support of Gavin Grimm, a 17-year-old high school student from Virginia.
The case is over a school board's refusal to allow him access to the boys’ restroom because he is transgender. The dispute will be ....
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February 28,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order to make it easier to destroy and pollute thousands of wetlands, especially in the interior western states.
“Trump just put millions of acres of wetlands on the chopping block and our wildlife and waters will suffer,” said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “This order is a gift to Trump’s frie....
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February 28,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
Young environmentalists will be marching March 4 in Whitewater to demonstrate against a proposed pipeline expansion.
Wisconsin already is bisected by five pipelines.
Now Canada-based Enbridge Energy has plans — announced via shareholder letters — to construct Line 66, a pipeline that would run parallel to the existing Line 61.
These pipelines would carry 2 million barrels of oil pe....
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February 28,2017
by Associated Press
Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup.
The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled “scorpion” robot was sent into the Unit 2 reactor’s containment vessel to investigate the area around the core that had melted six years ago, but its crawling ....
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February 27,2017
by Michael Muckian
In 1971, the Milwaukee Bucks stunned the basketball world by winning the NBA championship in only its third season of professional play. At the center of this upstart team stood 24-year-old Lew Alcindor, a 7’2” draft pick from UCLA.
The basketball world was about to be further startled.
The day after the Bucks swept a four-game championship over the Baltimore Bullets and he earned the NBA’....
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February 24,2017
by Associated Press
The United States does not have a way to measure how well walls or fencing work to deter illegal crossings from Mexico, according to a report released by Congress’ main watchdog.
The Government Accountability Office said the government spent $2.3 billion from 2007 to 2015 to extend fences to 654 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile border and more to repair them.
Despite those investments, the ....
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