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November 03,2016
by Associated Press
The city clerk in Green Bay refused to set up an early voting site on a college campus in part because she feared the site would help Democrats, according to emails obtained by a liberal advocacy group.
The emails show that City Clerk Kris Teske cited the potential partisan advantage, along with concerns about ballot security, costs and staffing issues, in refusing to establish the early voting s....
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November 03,2016
by Lisa Neff
The Ho-Chunk Nation and the Sierra Club-John Muir Chapter are lead petitioners asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to object to an air pollution permit approved by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for expanding a frac sand mining operation.
Midwest Environmental Advocates filed the petition in late October.
The petitioners say the permit allows the Superior Silica Sands ....
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November 02,2016
by Associated Press
Officials say botulism is suspected in the deaths of hundreds of birds recently along Lake Michigan.
Dan Ray, botulism monitoring project lead for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, counted a large number of dead birds last week.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports he joined a team of volunteers over the weekend in burying 250 birds at Michigan's Good Harbor Bay Beach.
Ray says t....
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October 26,2016
by Associated Press
One way to realize just how long it’s been since the Chicago Cubs last reached the World Series is to look at how much the game has changed since then, on and off the field.
The Cubs are making their first appearance since 1945 and chasing their first title since 1908.
Some of the ways the game has changed since the Cubs lost Game 7 to the Detroit Tigers some 71 years ago:
INTEGRATION: ....
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October 21,2016
by Associated Press
The Chicago Cubs are trying to do something that hasn’t happened in the lifetime of anyone born in the last 108 years: win a World Series.
So naturally, the chance to be part of that history has prompted people who live in Chicago, once lived in Chicago or just rooted for the Cubs from miles away to descend on Wrigley Field or tune in on television.
If you didn’t know Chicago was once ho....
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October 03,2016
by Associated Press
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's order blocking Indiana Gov. Mike Pence from barring state agencies from helping Syrian refugees resettle in the state.
A three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Monday agreed with an injunction a federal judge issued in February.
The judge found Pence's directive "clearly discriminates" against refugees from the....
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September 28,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
A transgender man prohibited from changing his legal name because of his immigration classification is suing Indiana state officials, including Gov. Mike Pence.
Pence is Donald Trump's running mate.
The lawsuit, filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Transgender Law Center on behalf of a 31-year-old Indiana resident, alleges that a 2010 state law requiring pro....
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September 23,2016
by Associated Press
An analysis of data shows that under Iowa's forfeiture, private property is seized from at least 1,000 people a year without proof the property was acquired as a result of a crime or was being used to help people commit crimes.
The seizures of cash, vehicles and other private property have increased markedly since the 1980s, when state and local governments reported fewer than two dozen such ca....
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August 31,2016
by Associated Press
The elderly newcomer wanted to make friends, so he took off his pants and waved hello.
Gloria Wright was going about her morning, talking with her neighbors outside their trailers, when this gray-haired visitor drove inside the nudist camp, stepped out of his truck and stood in the hot sunshine before them wearing nothing but a red T-shirt and flip-flops, the Detroit Free Press reported. And ev....
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August 29,2016
by Reuters
The governor of Minnesota has ordered the broadest restrictions yet in a U.S. state on the use of agricultural pesticides that have been blamed for hurting bees.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton issued an executive order that requires farmers to verify that they face "an imminent threat of significant crop loss" before using the chemicals, called neonicotinoids.
Details of how farmers would prov....
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