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Voters go AWOL
in Tuesday elections
Given the turnout at the polls this week it would appear Racine County has decided to go the route of non-participatory democracy. Less than 6 percent of the county's eligible voters turned out to cast a ballot Tuesday and they didn't even have the excuse of bad weather. No, there weren't that many races going on, but still 6 percent? That was even lower than the statewide average of 7 percent. That's an insult to those candidates who did put themselves and their views on the line. Let's gear up for the April elections. Mark your calendars now, please. April 3.
Much has been said and written
in the past week about the rape of a six-year-old boy at Red Apple School last week as the community has wrestled with outrage over the incident itself and the safety issues surrounding the attack. There has been some passing praise of the police work, but we'd like to underscore it again: Good work. Fingerprints taken from the bathroom stall were quickly processed by police and an arrest was made within two days. The accused, Joshua Dyess, 20, now awaits trial. We can only imagine how inflamed this situation would have become for city schools if there had been no immediate arrest and parents had been left to to their fears for days or weeks.
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There was good news
and a some bad news for working women this past week. A Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed women took on slightly more than half of U.S. jobs created in the first part of the decade - 52.5 percent. Not only that, they were getting the good jobs, the high-paying ones. According to the Wall Street Journal this week, women posted a net increase of 1.7 million jobs paying above the median salary, while men gained only 220,000 such positions. Still, the report said that a wage gap still exists and that median weekly pay for women in 2005 was $486, or 73 percent of the median wage of $663 earned by men.
and repairing their homes by night and on weekends has been the schedule of many of the New Orleans residents who have returned to rebuild their city since it was decimated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Fat Tuesday they took a deserved break and welcomed in the Lenten season with a festive and traditional celebration. Jazz great Pete Fountain was there marching down St. Charles Street with his Half Fast Marching Band as he has been for almost a half century now. And the crowds roared approval for the Zulu parade floats. Tourists were back, too. This year more than 30,000 hotel rooms were ready and most were booked. It's not easy, but the Big Easy is coming back.
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