News Archive for January 25, 2013
Votes upcoming on Brodhead fire district
By GINA DUWE - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
BRODHEAD --
After a year of negotiation, elected officials will vote in the coming weeks on a proposal to merge the Brodhead Fire Department and the Brodhead Rural Fire Association into a fire district.
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Washington Seminar growing, reaching out
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
A longstanding program that demands college-like work from high school students is booming after its expansion last year.
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Public record for Jan. 25, 2013
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
Students recall H. Russell ‘Coach’ Carter, beloved Janesville teacher
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
H. Russell Carter was 79 when he died Jan. 19 in St. Louis, the city of his birth. A memorial service is planned in Janesville on Feb. 17. It will ring with songs from the musical theater.
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Janesville City Council to consider permits for alcohol in parks
By MARCIA NELESEN - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
Janesville City Council members Monday will decide whether to allow drinking in designated city parks and how much to charge residents to do so.
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Class offers tips on nutrition when cooking small meals
By SHELLY BIRKELO - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
JANESVILLE --
If you have an elderly parent or grandparent who lives alone, you know they don’t tend to eat healthy meals.
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Court: Obama appointments are unconstitutional
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WASHINGTON --
In an embarrassing setback for President Barack Obama, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that he violated the Constitution in making certain recess appointments and moved to curtail a chief executive's ability in the future to circumvent the Senate in such scenarios.
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Second inauguration shows Obama unbound
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Jan. 25, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Barack Obama’s inaugural address served to disabuse the fantasists of any interest by the president in fiscal reform or debt reduction. This speech was spectacularly devoid of any acknowledgment of the central threat to the post-industrial democracies -- the crisis of an increasingly insolvent entitlement state.
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