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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Fired After Discovery of Porn Videos
28Dec By adminNo Comments
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Fired After Discovery of Porn Videos

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 3:25 pm ETThe University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents fired a university chancellor who appeared in pornographic videos with his wife. The university system’s board of regents voted unanimously to terminate University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow during a closed session Wednesday evening. UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan will serve as interim chancellor following Gow’s dismissal, university system leaders said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Keep Trump Off Primary Ballot
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Keep Trump Off Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 10:08 am ETDonald Trump can appear on Michigan’s 2024 presidential primary ballot, the state’s top court ruled Wednesday. The Michigan Supreme Court declined to take up the question of Trump’s eligibility under the state’s election laws. In a one-paragraph ruling, the majority wrote the court was “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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How Parents Beat the Left on School Choice in Wisconsin
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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How Parents Beat the Left on School Choice in Wisconsin

Despite having a new liberal majority, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused this month to hear a challenge to the state’s school-choice programs. The lawsuit, supported by the Minocqua Brewing Co.’s progressive super PAC, would have deprived more than 60,000 students of funding. The episode carries a lesson for advocates of education freedom.The lawsuit challenged Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded voucher programs. While teachers unions hailed it, Democratic politicians refused to endorse it. Gov. Tony Evers’s administration filed a brief asking the court to reject the case. The Legislature’s Democratic leaders kept silent. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, running for re-election in 2024, appears not to have said a word.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5e...
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court Stages a Gerrymander Coup
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court Stages a Gerrymander Coup

Progressive state judges are on a partisan political roll. Fresh off the 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court’s banishment of Donald Trump from the ballot, a 4-3 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday overturned precedent and tossed the state’s legislative maps. The four progressive justices ordered the maps redrawn because they violate the state constitution’s requirement that legislative districts be contiguous. Yet the legislative “islands” they fret about contain so few voters that they have no discernible impact on elections. The justices used their existence as a legal excuse.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Fog at Chicago’s Midway Airport Is a Blip in Otherwise Smooth Christmas Travel Weekend
24Dec By adminNo Comments
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Fog at Chicago’s Midway Airport Is a Blip in Otherwise Smooth Christmas Travel Weekend

Updated Dec. 24, 2023 6:48 pm ETAn overall smooth weekend of holiday travel ran into a hiccup as dense fog made it harder for flights to reach Chicago’s Midway International Airport before Christmas Eve. Southwest Airlines accounts for over 90% of Midway’s passengers and was the hardest hit as the Federal Aviation Administration stopped or slowed Midway-bound flights Saturday night and throughout much of Sunday. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden Administration Puts New Emphasis on Fighting Violent Crime 
24Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden Administration Puts New Emphasis on Fighting Violent Crime 

INDIANAPOLIS—The Biden administration is walking a tightrope on law enforcement, raising its support for local police fighting violent crime without abandoning its longtime goal of curbing misconduct in some departments.In the past month alone, the Justice Department announced it would flood federal agents and racketeering prosecutors into Memphis, Tenn.; charged 20 people in South Carolina with trafficking guns and drugs; and seized a cache of machine guns, rifles and silencers in Rhode Island. The top federal prosecutor in Washington said he would try more teenage carjacking suspects as adults, blasting what he described as overly lenient criminal-justice laws that had “swung too far” in the nation’s capital.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe8568...
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The Great Blue to Red State Migration Continues
23Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Great Blue to Red State Migration Continues

The migrant border mess is benefiting progressive states like New York, California and Illinois in one respect: It’s offsetting some of their population loss from droves of taxpayers fleeing to lower-cost and low-tax states. That’s one lesson from new Census Bureau state population data released this week.The U.S. population increased by 1.6 million between July 2022 and July 2023, with states in the South accounting for about 1.4 million of the growth. Leading the boom were Texas (473,453), Florida (365,205), Georgia (116,077), South Carolina (90,600) and Tennessee (77,512). Driving their growth was migration from other states.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Greg Abel Is the Next Big Name at Berkshire Hathaway
23Dec By adminNo Comments
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Greg Abel Is the Next Big Name at Berkshire Hathaway

Listen to article(1 minute)Berkshire Hathaway’s future chief executive officer is no Warren Buffett. Fortunately for Greg Abel, he doesn’t have to be. Buffett, the 93-year-old chairman and CEO, unwrapped one of corporate America’s longest-running mysteries in 2021 when he confirmed that Abel was his pick to succeed him in the role as CEO.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win

New YorkJoe Biden is asking voters to let him field the nuclear football until he’s 86, which is an obvious political vulnerability. Yet many Democrats fear that acknowledging this in a voice louder than a library whisper would help Donald Trump and damage their inevitable 2024 nominee. Rep. Dean Phillips has no qualms about weakening Mr. Biden. “He’s going to lose anyway,” the Minnesota Democrat says. “I don’t see any way for Biden to beat Trump in any circumstance whatsoever.” The people truly undermining Mr. Biden are the ones “propagating this delusion that he can be the next president.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Josh Hawley Loves Lina Khan
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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Josh Hawley Loves Lina Khan

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley doesn’t hide his disdain for Mitch McConnell. But does he have to take Republican administrative agency appointees hostage to spite the Senate Minority leader?Mr. Hawley on Wednesday told Mr. McConnell in a letter that he would deny unanimous consent this week to confirm Republicans Andrew Ferguson to the Federal Trade Commission and Todd Inman to the National Transportation Safety Board. The Senate left town for the year without voting on the nominees. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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