News Archive for August 21, 2010
Business group plans block party
By MARCIA NELESEN - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
JANESVILLE --
The Westgate Corridor business group is throwing a block party in Bond Park on Saturday, Aug. 28, that will include the fireworks, music and children’s games.
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Coroner candidate resigns from VA post
By TED SULLIVAN - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
Rock County coroner candidate Terry Holder has resigned from her job at William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison.
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West side group throws party
By MARCIA NELESEN - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
JANESVILLE --
When the Westgate Corridor business group decides to promote its neighborhood, the group doesn’t fool around.
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Should sports equal phy ed class?
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville School Board is considering whether to support a plan to give academic credit to students who participate on high school sports teams.
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Janesville schools get $1.8 million in stimulus money to help keep staff
By JASON SMATHERS - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
JANESVILLE --
The Janesville Schol District will receive $1.8 million in federal stimulus money to help retain or hire new teachers and staff.
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Storm blows through area
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
JANESVILLE --
A short but violent storm that tore down trees and power lines across parts of the county Friday afternoon also tore the pumpkin from its moorings atop a silo at Meyer’s Farm Market north of Janesville.
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Old silent films speak for Milton College
By NEIL JOHNSON - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
MILTON --
The Milton College Preservation Society recently released a DVD, titled “Vintage Silent Films of Milton College: 1930s and 1950s.” The DVD is snippets from silent films shot at the former Milton College in the 1930s and 1950s
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Fatal Rock County motorcycle crash under investigation
By STAN STRICKER - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
Authorities say force of crash spun car around
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McGehee lifts Brewers over first-place Padres 10-6
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
MILWAUKEE --
Casey McGehee homered and drove in four runs, and the Milwaukee Brewers piled up 15 hits against baseball's top pitching staff to snap San Diego's five-game winning streak, 10-6 on Friday night.
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New guidelines could rule out many oil claims
By CURT ANDERSON - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
MIAMI --
The latest guidelines for BP's $20 billion victims compensation fund say the nearer you are geographically to the oil spill and the more closely you depend on the Gulf of Mexico's natural resources, the better chance you have of getting a share of the money
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Timid surge, rampant corruption make U.S. troops sitting ducks
By JOHN B. QUIGLEY - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
COLUMBUS, OHIO --
The July vote in the House of Representatives on funding the war in Afghanistan should have come as a wakeup call to the Obama administration.
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Defending First Amendment rights is different from endorsing the message
By GENE POLICINSKI - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
Those 45 words in the Bill of Rights prevent government from interfering with our most basic rights – religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Defending those rights does not mean endorsing either the construction of the Islamic center or approving the Westboro Baptist Church’s protests.
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New strategy can overcome old, failed policies
By JAMES JAY CARAFANO - Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010
WASHINGTON --
It would be a shame to abandon the new, reality-based strategy before it has a chance to succeed. It would be dangerous, as well.
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