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Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Trout opening day, coho, browns, steelhead, largemouth, (smelt?)

The opening of Illinois’ trout season leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus there’s coho, brown trout and steelhead on southern Lake Michigan with largemouth bass and crappie bites building inland.

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These PACs are the best fundraisers in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin politics, non-candidate political action committees (PACs) have received $22.6 million in total donations between January 1, 2021, and January 31, 2022. The top 10 PACs raised more than $15.6 million, or 69 percent of all donations made to state-level PACs.

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‘January 6 was a real wake-up call’: US unions fight to save democracy

Labor leaders view this year’s elections – and 2024’s – with special urgency, as a goal-line stand to preserve America’s democracy

The Guardian - US

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Commentary: Schools are better off without police

When a fight broke out among middle school students in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in early March, a security guard intervened. The guard, an off-duty police officer, was filmed pushing the head of a 12-year-old girl of color into the ground, placing his knee on her neck for about half a minute…

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Brickbat: Pinned Down

Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Shawn Guetschow has resigned from an off-duty security job at Lincoln Middle School after video showed him kneeling on a 12-year-old girl's neck. Guetschow was restraining her while trying to break up a lunchroom fight. He remains employed by the Kenosha police department, which says it…

Reason

The Republican takeover of Wisconsin

After launching a baseless election audit, Republicans are refusing to turn over documents relating to the recount

Salon

Wisconsin Gov. Evers receives $10.4 million, with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin as top donor

In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers is the number one fundraiser in state politics in the 2022 election cycle so far. According to the most recent campaign finance reports made to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, the governor received $10,383,804 in total contributions and spent $3,257,858 between January 1, 2021 and January…

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Supreme court ruling on Wisconsin maps highlights its hostility to voting rights

It’s no secret the court has been hostile to voting rights recently – but what has changed is the ‘velocity’ that it is acting with

The Guardian - US

The US supreme court’s assault on voting rights hits a new low

Ruling throws out Wisconsin’s redrawn electoral map, which included a new district to account for Black population growth

The Guardian - US

Man Sent To Buy Hot Dogs Scoops Up $107,000 Lottery Win

The retiree says he'll spend part of the money on home repairs and put the rest into savings.

Zenger

Redistricting news from Maryland to Wyoming and more

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Researchers thought they knew how PFAS get into the Great Lakes. Then they made a discovery

DETROIT — PFAS pollutants ride rivers across the Midwest and Canada to get to the Great Lakes. But not in the way a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers studying the forever chemicals expected, and that could impact how environmental officials regulate the chemicals.

Tribune News Service

Video shows herd of deer crashing into Wisconsin bar and shattering window

‘Poor deer. Poor window. Bravo to the videographer,’ commented one Facebook user

The Independent UK

Trial delayed for man accused in violent Wisconsin protests

A judge has delayed the trial for a man accused of firing off a “warning shot” on the night two people were killed in Wisconsin during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake

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How 'Famous Dave' Anderson earned his accidental moniker — and became America's Rib King

MINNEAPOLIS — The man known as America's Rib King has held a prestigious presidential appointment, appeared on "Oprah," and seen his name on a stock ticker (Nasdaq: DAVE). But "Famous Dave" Anderson was once plain-old Dave Anderson, son of a Choctaw from Oklahoma and an Ojibwe from Wisconsin, who struggled…

The Independent UK

Biscuits or bratwurst: GOP weighs its convention choices

Republicans are deciding whether to hold their presidential nominating convention in 2024 in Milwaukee, the largest Democratic stronghold in battleground Wisconsin, or in Nashville, Tennessee, a Democratic city in a GOP-controlled state

USA Today Sports Media Group

A sad highway accident, and a caution for motorists

A bald eagle struck and killed by a vehicle Friday in Wisconsin should serve as a reminder to motorists everywhere to exercise caution.

The Independent UK

GOP push for state election reviews mixed, but sows distrust

The push by Republicans to conduct partisan ballot reviews like the one that unfolded last year in Arizona has spread beyond battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump

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U.S. Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin state legislative maps

The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision on March 23 adopting Gov. Tony Evers’ (D) state house and senate redistricting maps and remanded the case for further proceedings. The Supreme Court found that the Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in its analysis of precedent on how the U.S.…

Salon

Another SCOTUS attack on voting rights

The court's "shadow docket" ruling is "unprecedented," "extraordinary" and "unnecessary," liberal justices say

Roll Call

At the Races: KBJ OK TBD - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

The Independent UK

Wisconsin governor asks for swift action on redistricting

Wisconsin's Democratic governor is telling the state Supreme Court that it should allow him to submit additional evidence defending his legislative district boundary map that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected

The Guardian - US

US state legislatures threaten citizens’ rights. We ignore them at our peril

The bodies have become the engines of policymaking, behind Georgia’s voting restrictions and Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill

The Guardian - US

How gerrymandering allows a purple state to promote Trump’s big lie

Wisconsin Republicans emboldened by untouchable majority in state legislature are promoting extreme antidemocratic laws

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to overturn Wisconsin congressional map

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an effort by Wisconsin Republicans to overturn a court-chosen congressional map in the state.

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