Save the date As PrideFest wraps up, the rest of Wisconsin’s summer festivals prepare to have their time in the sun. page 26 June 16, 2016 | Vol. 7 No. 16 We are Orlando page 4 PHoto: JOSHUA LIM/ORLANDO SENTINEL VIA AP Brett Morian, from Daytona Beach, hugs an attendee during the candlelight vigil at Ember in Orlando, Florida, on June 12. 6 Wisconsin responds 28 Find tranquility in Traverse City to massacre This vacation spot in Michigan is Flags flew at half best known for its cherry season, but mast and vigils if you go outside the tourism peak throughout the in early July, you can find a beautiful state mourned and peaceful respite. the victims of the Orlando 12 Polluter impunity? slaughter. Attorneys general bank 43 Farmers market tips & tricks dollars from some of the The Dane County Farmers Market nation’s largest polluters.. is a Madison gem — but it can be a stressful day without this advice. | June 16, 2016 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff and Louis Weisberg Gouda. No milk. No hand. Authorities say the man WHEN WILL HE LEARN? ing the company to remove the dairy — period. The was urinating in the street and Donald Trump used a random unflattering images. MVP quarterback says opened fire on another man who photo of an African-American cutting out dairy can asked him to stop. family on Twitter to showcase Yellow BRICK RoAD reduce inflammation in certain his African-American supporters. The Land of Oz theme park in parts of your body. And Rodgers X FILES DONATED Except the people in the picture North Carolina opened for Fri- now weighs in at 218, the lightest Ralph Kennedy Johnston’s aren’t his supporters. Eddie Perry, days in June and tickets for the he’s been since 2007. “truth” is out there in Roswell, the father shown in the image, first date quickly sold out. The By Lisa Neff and Louis WeisbergNew Mexico. The former consul- told BuzzFeed News that Trump’s park was open year-round in its DIM FUTURE? WHAT’S WRONG WITH tant to the National Aeronautics use of the photo was “mislead- heyday — 1970 to 1980. But it’s In a Facebook message, for- THIS LAWSUIT? and Space Administration claims ing” and “political propaganda.” only been open for limited runs mer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin A Florida woman is suing Ellen NASA staff painted out evidence the past three years. Given the acknowledged the marriage of DeGeneres after the talk show of extraterrestrial activity on the FACE IT state’s anti-LGBT climate, we her 25-year-old daughter Bris- host featured one of her real moon in photos and film from Research published in Scientific doubt Friends of Dorothy bought tol to the father of her second estate advertisements on a seg- NASA’s Apollo missions. He Reports found archerfish, a tropi- all tickets. child. Palin wrote the newlywed’s ment called “What’s Wrong With recently donated his files to the cal species, can learn to recog- “future is as bright as Alaska’s These Signs?” The ad included International UFO Museum and nize human faces with ‘striking PUT A CAP ON IT midnight sun.” The sun is visible the woman’s name, Titi Pierce, Research Center in Roswell. accuracy.” That ability requires a It takes a lot of beers to col- for 24 hours in much of Alaska which DeGeneres pronounced as high level of cognitive functioning lect 10 million bottle caps. But during the weeks before and after “Titty.” But Pierce says she pro- DIG THIS that used to be attributed only to Austria’s Hans Heiland didn’t the Summer Solstice, but it’s not nounces her name as “Tee Tee,” A contest was held in Debre- humans and primates. But sci- drink them alone. Most of them, very bright. In fact, in most of the and no one has mispronounced cen, Hungary, to crown a two- entists now know many animals, he said, have come from oth- state, the sun remains visible just it before. She’s suing for defa- person team of gravediggers. including birds, can develop facial ers, many of them by mail, after over the horizon. Maybe that’s all mation, false light invasion of Eighteen teams competed in the recognition skills. his passion for collecting beer the light Palin needs to see Russia privacy, misappropriation of like- regional contest, judged for speed bottle caps became known. After from her living room, but for most ness, and intentional infliction of and also the look of the finished IMAGE coNTROL five years at the hobby, Heiland of us it’s all pretty dim. emotional distress. grave mounds. A father-son team Axl Rose suggests Google is decided to sell his 18-ton col- won the top title just before dad’s engaged in fat-shaming by post- lection and give the money to a LIGHTER ON HIS FEET DRUNK AND DISORDERLY retirement. Contestants used ing pictures taken of him in 2010, needy family in the region, which Aaron Rodgers has trimmed Law enforcement in Pearl, Mis- shovels, rakes, axes and pickaxes when he was at his heftiest. The is near Vienna. his diet of a food category that’s sissippi, were searching for a man to dig a grave measuring 2 feet 7 Guns N’ Roses (and new AC/DC) somewhat sacred in “America’s seen with a gun in one hand and, inches wide, 6 feet 6 inches long frontman sent a cease-and-desist Dairyland.” No cheddar. No well, something else in the other and 5 feet 3 inches deep. letter to the internet giant ask- WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 16, 2016 3 | June 16, 2016 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM Terror in the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ By Lisa Neff ing as a security guard at the club respond- Mateen. In May 2013, the bureau began must come together as a nation to affirm Staff writer ed to the gunfire. More officers arrived and investigating him after co-workers said the that love conquers hate.” An act of terror. Mateen retreated deeper into the club, then contract security guard made inflammatory An act of hate. into a bathroom. comments and claimed a family connection MEMORIALS AND MOBILIZING The world responded with love and com- At 2:09 a.m. an alert was posted on to al-Qaida. He was interviewed twice but Vigils took place as early as June 12 and passion, fury and fight. Pulse’s Facebook page: “Everyone get out of the case was closed. continued for days after the shooting. Early on the morning of June 12, a gun- pulse and keep running.” Two months later, Mateen’s name came Many of the observances included a man armed with an assault rifle and a hand- Dozens of people ran from the club, and up as a casual acquaintance of a Florida moment of silence and a reading of the gun went on a rampage at the gay night- more than 100 police officers responded to man who blew himself up in Syria. victims’ names (see “The slain, next page). club Pulse in Orlando, Florida. He killed 49 what became a standoff. “Our investigation turned up no ties Many vigils ended with candleholders sing- people and wounded more than 50 others Police believe Mateen killed most of of any consequence between the two of ing “Over the Rainbow.” — some gravely. his victims in the first 30 minutes. Those them,” Comey said. “We will continue to Hundreds sang, “If happy little bluebirds The 29-year-old killer was an Ameri- remaining in the bar were either hostages look forward in this investigation and back- fly/Beyond the rainbow why, oh, why can’t can who pledged allegiance to the Islamic or in hiding. ward. We will leave no stone unturned.” I?” at the end of a vigil June 13 in Sarasota, State, abused his wife, used slurs against At 2:39 a.m., Eddie Justice texted his According to AP, the investigation found Florida, the hometown of Edward Soto- blacks, Jewish people, women and gays — mother from the bathroom in the club: that Mateen, the son of an Afghan immi- mayor Jr., who recently helped to organize although he himself was a regular patron of “Call them mommy” grant, was a body builder who attended a the first LGBT cruise from Florida to Cuba. Pulse. He went on to terrorize LGBT people “Now” mosque in Fort Pierce, Florida, and wanted Sotomayor was shot while trying to get his in that place that existed to celebrate Pride “I’m still in the bathroom” to become a police officer. boyfriend to safety. and provide sanctuary. “Hes coming” AP also reported there were questions Many at the Sarasota vigil called the Orlando — famously known as the “Hap- “Im going to die.” emerging about whether Mateen was con- mass shooting a hate crime and, though piest Place on Earth” — became the site of Justice did die. His last text from the club flicted about his sexuality. He allegedly there were demands for stricter gun con- the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. was at 2:50 a.m. cased Gay Days at Disney World about a trol, the focus was on anti-LGBT violence. history, a massacre that left Americans At about 5 a.m., police used a controlled week before the shooting and was seen “This attack was with guns, but our peo- mourning the many lost and struggling explosion and an armored vehicle with a regularly at Pulse. He apparently used gay ple have been killed with knives and bombs to address extremism, prejudice and gun battering ram to clear a way for people dating apps as well.