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President-elect Donald Trump visited West Allis Tuesday as part of his “Thank You Tour” Jill Stein’s recount resulted in an additional 131 votes for Trump.
STATE NEWS

President-elect Donald Trump visits Milwaukee County on 'Thank You Tour'

By Lilly Price | Dec. 14, 2016

WEST ALLIS, Wis.—Dressed in matching black “Make America Great Again hats,” Trump pins and white Trump t-shirts, Juliana McMan and her three sisters stood together, eagerly waiting to see President-elect Donald Trump Tuesday night. McMan, a day-one Trump supporter and a recent DePaul University graduate, traveled two hours from her home in western Illinois to the State Fairgrounds where she was one in a crowd of thousands that attended Trump’s “Thank You Tour.” “The Chicago rally got shut down because crazy protesters and stuff,” McMan said.

NEWS

Student Council, SSFC struggle with low meeting attendance

By Maggie Chandler | Dec. 11, 2016

Although elected and appointed representatives for the Associated Students of Madison make commitments to advocate for students at weekly meetings, two groups within the larger organization have been dealing with low attendance this year. While attendance has always been a slight problem for both the Student Council and the Student Services Finance Committee, it has grown into a bigger issue that could potentially affect the groups’ abilities to accomplish their duties. ASM’s Nominations Board has had to fill eight vacant Council seats this semester, for example—four of which have been filled, one is in the process of being filled and three still remain empty.

Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval said Sunday that local law enforcement will continue its current inclusive immigration policies, though the city is not formally a sanctuary city.
CITY NEWS

Madison police chief says city has no plans to tighten immigration policies under Trump

By Gina Heeb | Dec. 11, 2016

Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval said Sunday on a Wisconsin talk show that city law enforcement will uphold its current inclusive immigration policies in months to come, despite not being a formal sanctuary city. “We will not be using our local authority to sort of hunt down folks based on immigration or documentation issues,” Koval said on a WISN news program.

The state Department of Natural Resources, which operates state park sites and sets environmental regulations throughout Wisconsin, announced controversial new permit acquisition rules last month.
STATE NEWS

DNR shifts government control over farm regulations

By Hannah J. Olson | Dec. 11, 2016

Split between university-centered cities and vast dairyland, state leaders are moving to re-format environmental regulations, which protection-minded activists said they find troubling. Last month, the state Department of Natural Resources moved to privatize permit acquisition, proposing what DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp, in an opinion editorial on the agency’s website, called “assurance programs” which she explained would increase independent information sourcing, relieving the agency until the final step. While staff rates dwindle, the DNR is crafting methods to deal with budget cuts, redirecting positions and reorienting systematic structures, inducing environmentalist’s anxieties. Since her appointment by Gov. Scott Walker in 2011, Stepp’s actions drew criticism from conservationist groups.

NEWS

UW-Madison student hit by alleged drunk driver

By Gina Heeb | Dec. 11, 2016

A 19-year-old UW-Madison student faces significant injuries after being hit by the car of an intoxicated driver while trying to cross an intersection near campus early Saturday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.

A panel of journalists and professors discussed the media’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election Thursday night at the Overture Center.
STATE NEWS

Journalists, professors discuss future of political reporting after tumultuous 2016

By Andy Goldstein | Dec. 9, 2016

November’s election left not only both major political parties in a crisis of identity, but political journalism as well, a panel of journalists and experts said Thursday at the Overture Center. The event, organized by UW-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics, discussed the role of political journalism in presidential elections and the relationship between news media and the electorate. Following a general election where few pollsters, pundits or journalists accurately predicted the result, public distrust of the media is at an all time high, panelists said. Michael Wagner, an associate professor in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said he thought this was relatively unfair. “I’m not sure we should have expected an easy Clinton victory in the first place,” Wagner said.

Suspended UW-Madison junior Alec Cook is being charged with the alleged sexual assault of ten women.
CITY NEWS

Cook’s lawyers request for his release from jail

By Miller Jozwiak | Dec. 8, 2016

The lawyers of Alec Cook, who is being charged with the alleged sexual assault of five women, are requesting he be released on signature bond rather than the the $200,000 bail on which he is currently in jail. He should be released because prosecutors haven't shown that bail is required to assure that Cook will appear in court, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Cook’s attorneys, Chris Van Wagner and Jessa Nicholson, wrote in a bail motion that prosecutors are citing the seriousness of the charges for the bail being so high. Cook’s preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 27, but prosecutors requested the date be moved back due to case detectives not being able to make the hearing. Cook’s lawyers agreed to the delay, Assistant District Attorney Colette Sampson said when she made the request.

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