News Archive for July 26, 2012
Combating Islamophobia: At last, a sense of decency
By CHARLES C. HAYNES - Thursday, July 26, 2012
It was John McCain—a leader of his party and a war hero—who may finally have done to the anti-Muslim crusade of the 2000s what Joseph Welch did to the Red Scare of the 1950s.
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Panel backs allowing beer, wine in Janesville parks
By MARCIA NELESEN - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The issue of allowing beer and wine in Janesville parks has bubbled up again. The city's leisure services committee recommended this week that residents be allowed to purchase permits for specific pavilions at three parks.
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Cullen feeling heat after bolting caucus
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Sen. Tim Cullen of Janesville was bashed from the left and the right after he announced Tuesday that he is leaving the state Senate Democratic Caucus.
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Mercy Health System gets another chance in Illinois
By JIM LEUTE - Thursday, July 26, 2012
BOLINGBROOK, ILL --
Shot down twice, Mercy Health System officials will get a third chance to make their case for building a new hospital and clinic in Crystal Lake, Ill.
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City golf tournament starts Friday
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Will the 2012 Men’s City Golf Tournament be a two-man race between Matt Behm and Sam Van Galder, or will a darkhorse candidate emerge?
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Eight to be inducted in UW-Whitewater Hall
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
WHITEWATER --
Induction ceremony scheduled Oct. 20
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Bugs push county radios back to analog
By ANN MARIE AMES - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Most Rock County emergency and law enforcement agencies have taken a technological step backward while experts try to work out the bugs in the county's new digital radio communications system.
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News veterans sign off at radio stations
By JIM LEUTE - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Listeners of WCLO radio and WJVL radio will soon notice a void of familiar voices with the departure of three veteran staffers.
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McCann leads Janesville to opening win
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
GENOA CITY --
Sam McCann and the Janesville American Legion baseball team got the AAA district tournament off to a good start here Wednesday.
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Group wraps up audit of recall, finds no problems
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The Rock County Clerk's office reports that a group of citizens has wrapped up an audit of ballots from the gubernatorial recall election.
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Koch, Wheeler spark Beloit Snappers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
BURLINGTON, IOWA --
The Beloit Snappers began a six-game road trip in impressive fashion Wednesday night.
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Love INC school supply events set
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Love INC will host two back-to-school events for all families in Janesville and Beloit.
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Project 16:49 to receive $5,000 AT&T award
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
The Project 16:49 initiative will receive a $5,000 AT&T Wisconsin Innovation and Investment Award at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 26, at YWCA Rock County, 1735 S. Washington St.
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Missing boa constrictor found in Whitewater
By STAN MILAM - Thursday, July 26, 2012
WHITEWATER --
Jane Wagner, a Whitewater city employee on vacation, was enjoying her walk Wednesday morning when she came upon a 6-foot 7-inch boa constrictor that had been released July 5 from a Whitewater residence.
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Man pleads guilty to bank robberies
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
ELKHORN --
A Genoa City man, Joshua Barrigar, pleaded guilty Wednesday to bank robberies in Lake Geneva and Kenosha.
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Public record for July 26, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
Temperature falls short of record at Rock County 4-H Fair
By RYAN BROEGE - Thursday, July 26, 2012
JANESVILLE --
Though Wednesday temperatures were high enough to break into triple digits, they were not high enough to break records—or spirits—at the Rock County 4-H Fair.
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Board OKs $202,500 offer for Newark school
By GINA DUWE - Thursday, July 26, 2012
ORFORDVILLE --
The Parkview School Board voted 4-0 Wednesday night to approve a counteroffer to sell Newark Elementary School for $202,500 plus closing costs to a farmer who wants to turn the rural school into an assisted living facility.
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Pro: Allowing tax cuts to expire would push economy off cliff
By R. BRUCE JOSTEN - Thursday, July 26, 2012
WASHINGTON --
President Obama and many from his party say that the 2001 and 2003 tax rates should not be extended for those earning $250,000 or more—the so-called wealthy. But nearly a million successful small and family-owned businesses that file their taxes as pass-through entities will get swept up in the tax hike.
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Con: End tax-cuts for super-rich only and spend new revenues on job creation
By MARK WEISBROT - Thursday, July 26, 2012
WASHINGTON --
This is a no-brainer in terms of fairness: allowing the Bush tax-cuts to expire for the richest 1 percent of Americans would reverse some of the vast upward redistribution of income that has taken place since the late 1970s.
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Bielema won't recruit Penn St players
By RICK GANO - Thursday, July 26, 2012
CHICAGO --
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema says he has no plans to recruit the players at Penn State.
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Gun violence shifts to forefront of campaign
By JULIE PACE - Thursday, July 26, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Days after the mass shootings in Colorado, guns shifted to the forefront of the presidential campaign.
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Expectations high once again for Packers
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
GREEN BAY --
McCarthy is anxious as the Packers strive to make amends for what happened at the end of the 2011 season.
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Ripken’s mother abducted, found
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, July 26, 2012
ABERDEEN, MD. --
Cal Ripken Jr.’s 74-year-old mother was found with her hands bound in the back seat of her car Wednesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint a day earlier at her home outside Baltimore and driven around blindfolded by her abductor, police and neighbors said.
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Death notices for July 26, 2012
By GAZETTE STAFF - Thursday, July 26, 2012
Scouts are only buying time
By ESTHER J. CEPEDA - Thursday, July 26, 2012
CHICAGO --
It’s obvious that the decision to treat gays as unfit for membership in an organization that seeks to instill loyalty, friendliness and bravery in their young charges is far from, in the words of the Boy Scout oath, “morally straight.” But it’s their rope, and it’s up to the Scouts to decide whether to use it as a lifeline or a noose.
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