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Streetcarmageddon Politics, Koch opposition and backward thinking conspire to derail Milwaukee’s streetcar. page 12 January 29, 2015 | Vol. 6 No.5 4 Bullets over Wisconsin The Wisconsin Public Radio tallies the miseries of gun violence in science the state. of love 26 Fresh from Sun Prairie Salvatore’s famous tomato pies What studies finally find a home in Madison. The diverse line of pizzas are a tell us page 8 perfect fit for the city. 36 Rep’s ‘Good People’ a hit Longtime Rep actor Laura Gor- don reaches career high as a working mother at the end of her rope in ‘Good People.’ 38 Parlez vous cinema? Latest iteration of UWM French film festival covers multiple cul- tural issues. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | January 29, 2015 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff, Louis Weisberg & Matthew Reddin BANNED BIRTH CONTROL: International mick has long drawn pro- based on religion because NO SNOW A “patriot” restau- FOR THE BIRDS Society of Aes- tests from feminists. But she refused to add an anti- A prominent Saudi Ara- rant owner in Wyoming, Officials in Wayne thetic Plastic don’t look for complaints gay message to his Bible- bian cleric stirred a flurry Michigan — a town that County, Ohio, plan to Surgery said an to end. One recent issue’s shaped cake. The customer of controversy by issuing appears to suffer from iden- spike birdseed with “birth estimated 2,786 Page 3 showed model Rosie wanted Silva, owner of Azu- a religious rule forbidding tity issues — has banned control chemicals” in an such procedures Huntington-Whitely wear- car Bakery, to decorate a the building of snowmen, Michael Moore and Seth bird control effort. Officials were performed there last ing a bra. cake with two men hold- because they’re anti-Islam- Rogen from his Brann’s want to decrease the popu- year out of an estimated ing hands and an X on top ic. Asked on a religious web- Steakhouse and Grille for lation of pigeons despoil- 15,414 worldwide, which SEX ED VIDEO of them, plus what Silva site if it was permissible for their outspoken criticism ing the 19th-century court- comes out to one in five. RAISES EYEBROWS — described as “hateful words fathers to build snowmen of the Oscar-nominated house and its decorative AND EYELASHES about gays.” She told the for their children after a movie American Sniper. Our statues. Officials said they CAPTIVE BREEDING In Sweden, an customer she’d make the snowstorm in the country’s hunch is the two well-fed could reduce the flock with The pope’s comment educational video for cake and provide him the north, Sheikh Mohammed celebrities can find else- just one application. that Catholics don’t have children featuring dancing icing and pastry bag to add Saleh al-Munajjid replied: where to chow. to breed “like rabbits” has genitals has become an his message. Instead, he “It is not permitted to make HOLY HEROIN caused offense, especially online hit. Producers say filed a complaint with the a statue out of snow, even BUTCHER THAN MILEY The sheriff’s office in among Germany’s rabbit many parents have found state, alleging he was “dis- by way of play and fun.” Justin Bieber unknow- Hamilton County, Ohio, breeders. The president of it’s a great way to explain criminated against by the ingly crashed a meeting says officers arrested two Germany’s central coun- private parts to children. bakery based on my creed.” NOT THE of the Log Cabin Republi- people attempting to smug- cil of rabbit breeders told While some called it PERFECT CRIME cans’ Los Angeles chapter gle heroin into the county news agency dpa that only inappropriate for a program NO MERCI Two men arrested in in West Hollywood. Bieber judicial center — packed rabbits living in the wild are aimed at children ages 3-6, Paris Mayor Anne Hidal- Houston are accused of turned up at State Social in a Bible. A K-9 caught a sexually overactive. Captive others complained that it’s go said she intends to sue stealing an iPad and using House restaurant and was scent from the book and rabbits, he said, have tamer not progressive because it Fox News in the wake of it to take selfies that they given his usual table, not then a deputy noticed a repro habits. portrays the penis with a the channel’s coverage of unknowingly uploaded to realizing it was located coffee-like stain. Turns out mustache and the vagina supposed “no-go zones” for the owner’s iCloud account. within a private area that the stain contained about NIPPLES NIXED? with long eyelashes. Critics non-Muslims. Hidalgo said The men appeared in the had been sectioned off for 40 units of the drug. The Sun, the British said the video reinforced the channel “insulted” her photos displaying money the gay GOP group’s event. tabloid owned by Rupert gender stereotypes. city. A Fox News executive they are accused of taking “He looked like kind of a BIG DEAL IN GERMANY Murdoch, apparently has called the warning about from the victim. The pho- butcher version of Miley Germany tops the world ceased featuring the top- WON’T TAKE THE CAKE a lawsuit “misplaced” and tos ended up online, help- Cyrus,” group member Ben when it comes to a penis less models known as the A man is accusing Den- numerous retractions were ing authorities identify the Coleman said in an audio enlargement procedure Page 3 girls. The offensive ver baker Marjorie Silva of issued on the network. suspects. from TMZ. known as penoplasty. The newspaper-peddling gim- discriminating against him WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | January 29, 2015 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | January 29, 2015 Bullets exact terrible toll on children, African Americans Wisconsin Public Radio tally tracks a sorrowful but ordinary year with more than 100 deaths By Bill Lueders from the street. He was hit Investigative Journalism Wisconsin Center for Investiga- in the lower torso and died analysis of the homicide tive Journalism at a hospital soon after- tally and other data shows: Lt. Mark Stanmeyer’s son ward. It was the third death • African Americans, wanted to know why his dad of a child from stray gunfire who make up 6.5 percent was going into work on a in Milwaukee last year. of the state’s popula- Sunday. And although the Stanmeyer thought he tion, accounted for about boy is only 9, Stanmeyer, should be honest with his two-thirds of its firearm spokesman for the Milwau- son: “I want my children to homicide victims. Blacks in kee Police Department, grow up knowing that there Wisconsin were more than decided to tell him. are bad people in the world 30 times as likely as non- “A little boy was in his and how to avoid them.” Hispanic whites to die in home and someone shot The need of parents to gun homicides. From 2008 bullets into it and he was explain such realities to to 2012, federal statistics PHOTO: MARK HOFFMAN/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL killed,” Stanmeyer related their children is one facet show, this ratio was 20 to Robert Petersen holds a photo of his 5-year-old daughter, Laylah, who was killed Nov. 6 of the incident. He found it of the vast impact of gun 1 for Wisconsin and 10 to 1 in Milwaukee while sitting indoors on her grandfather’s lap. difficult: “How do you look violence. In Wisconsin last for the nation. your child in the face and year, 111 people were victims • Of the 111 victims, 89 tell him that?” of gun homicides, accord- were male, which is com- occurred in 15 of the state’s cides, at 76. Beloit had the shows that guns are by far Bill Thao, 13 months old, ing to a preliminary tally parable with past state 72 counties and were con- second-highest total, with the most common cause. was killed Dec. 27, when by Wisconsin Public Radio, and national averages. The centrated in urban areas. six, followed by Racine, According to the Milwaukee his mother took him to visit part of a yearlong project by average age for all victims The city of Milwaukee, with four. Journal Sentinel’s “Homicide relatives at a house on Mil- reporters Chuck Quirmbach was 32, which is in line with with just over 10 percent of While WPR did not track Database,” firearms were waukee’s northwest side. A and Gilman Halsted. past national averages. the state’s population, had all state homicides, the fusillade of gunfire erupted A Wisconsin Center for • Gun homicides two-thirds of its gun homi- experience of Milwaukee BULLETS next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | January 29, 2015 5 were armed robberies. she said. “But because system is too lenient on technology will help police BULLETS from prior page Twenty of the year’s gun it’s guns, we say this is an people who commit “gate- crack down on people who Wisconsin Center for used to commit 87 percent homicides fall into the cat- acceptable price to pay for way crimes” like auto theft discharge weapons on city Investigative Journalism of that city’s homicides last egory of “domestic,” most somebody’s notion of free- and armed robbery. “There streets. reporter Kate Golden year. Nationally and in Wis- involving spouses or domes- dom.” is no deterrent until you Walker added that what contributed to this report, consin from 2008 to 2012, tic partners. In four cases, WAVE supports manda- actually do something like amazed him, as much as the which was supported by about two-thirds of homi- the killer then committed tory background checks on shoot a 13-month old.” technology itself, was the The Joyce Foundation.

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