Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Beverly Henry Ludwig (1931-2025) Warren High School class of 1949

 
Dragon yearbook

Peterson-Blick Funeral Home

1967 Warren City Directory

1983 Warren City Directory
  • Ludwig Keith L & Beverly L superintendent Borough Department of Public Works 8 Grant Street 

The popularity of Beverly as a baby name is graphed here.   Let's take a look at Terri.

Source:  Social Security Administration

Terri's 57 years on the baby names chart can best be described as 'meteoric'.  She debuted in 1941 and reached the top 100 in 1954, where she spent a total of 16 years, peaking at #49 in 1959.  By 1980, her popularity was in freefall, and she dropped off the chart in 1992.


Other class of 1949 obits (48):
2024

2024

2023
Harold Gnage.  (8/13)

2022
David Winans.  (1/10)

2021
Richard Scalise.  (4/23)

2020
Robert Blair.  (9/6)
Geoge Probst.  (7/25)

2019

2018
Gail Nelson.  (11/2)

2017

2016
Paul Mahan.  (7/17)
Paul Briggs. (7/11)

2015
Richard Sharp.  (3/22/2015)

2014

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David Engle (1947-2025) Warren Area High School class of 1965

 
1965 Dragon yearbook


1967 Warren City Directory

  • Engle David student 207 Orchard Street
  • Engle Robert E (Jean A) shipping Sylvania 207 Orchard Street
1983 Warren City Directory
  • Engle Jean A Mrs inspector Loranger's 207 Orchard Street  
  • Engle Robert E & Jean A; shipping GTE Sylvania 207 Orchard Street

The popularity of David was previously graphed 12 years ago, when it ranked #17.  Let's see how he's done since then.


Source:  Social Security Administration

Since 1900, David has never been ranked below #33 on the baby names chart, making him one of the most popular boy's names during the past 125 years.  Overall, he spent 57 years (1936-1992) in the top 10, peaking at #1 in 1960, his only appearance at the top spot.


Other members of the class of 1965 (38):
2025
Robert Hubert.  (5/2)
2024
Daryl Mong.  (8/28)

2023
Linda Jacobson.  (4.30)

2022
Ronald Engle.  (7/19)
John Laurence.  (1/16)

2021
Charles Brant. (12/14/)

2020






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DeForest Wisconsin Buc-ee's update

 
Photo by Retiring Guy
Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 7/16/2025

Barry Adams reports:
A DeForest Buc-ee’s, while significantly delayed, is not off the table. 
But more negotiations, state legislation and a new application from the Texas-based retailer will be needed before the first slabs of beef brisket are sliced and the first gallon of gas is pumped. 
The biennial state budget passed earlier this month includes $4 million to help pay for road improvements for the project to accommodate the high volume of traffic that will be created by the convenience store. The village and Buc-ee’s, however, had requested $6 million in state money to help pay for $16 million of roadwork at and near the Interstate 39/90/94 interchange at Highway V.

Village of DeForest administrator Bill Chang says Buc-ee's has not lost interest in the project. 

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Meet the all-white, all-male executive committee of the Jefferson Council of the University of Virginia

 
Photo credits:  Jefferson Council
Headline:  New York Times, 7/14/2025

The Jefferson Council, a band of conservative-leaning University of Virginia alumni, was impatient and fed up. 
For years, the group had railed against the university’s president, James E. Ryan, for his robust promotion of campus diversity initiatives. 
They had counted on Glenn Youngkin, the state’s Republican governor who vocally opposed D.E.I., to force a new direction at one of the country’s most prestigious public universities. But as 2025, the final year of Mr. Youngkin’s term, began, the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion apparatus was still in place. And time was running out, with polls showing that the governor’s race would be an uphill battle for a Republican candidate. 
The Jefferson Council, however, had a new ally in its fight: President Trump.
Photo by Retiring Guy

In an world-turned-upside-down explanation, Joel Gardner compared the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to force the ouster of UV president James E. Ryan to Eisenhower's decision to send troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation decision.

That reasoning is just plain sick!

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Scam alert: Greetings from 156 17th Street in Brooklyn New York

 

And what's up with the California address?


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Apparently, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is too busy obsessing over the Epstein files to do her job

 
Headline:  Des Moines Register, 67/16/2025

Lee Rood reports:
Another obstacle emerged last year, when a majority ruling by Iowa’s Supreme Court essentially said survivors of child sex abuse must face their accused abusers in the courtroom. 
Previously, courts had allowed minor victims to testify via video. Petersen said that has a chilling effect on families who may decide not to put their children through the trauma of facing their alleged rapists in court. 
“I believe no other state has such a strict standard for children to seek justice,” she said. “The court left it unclear whether a two-way camera would be allowable under their interpretation.”  [emphasis added]
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has proposed a constitutional amendment to restore the ability of courts to accept video testimony from child victims. But it won't come before Iowa voters until 2027 at the earliest.

Other prostrating Brenna posts:
2025
There are 2,243,688 registered voters in the State of Iowa.  Attorney General Brenna Bird charges 6 with illegal voting during a 3-year period.  Why does the Des Moines Register think this is news?  (6/27)_

2024
Kimmi the Clown leads the troops in the GOP War on Women.  (4/12)

2023
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Just another GOP clown show: Greg Murphy (net worth $20.7 million) tells his constituents to STFU and take their medicine

 
Headline:  AlterNet, 7/15/2025

Ailia Zehra reports:
Speaking on NewsNation Tuesday, the North Carolina Republican [net worth citation] likened the economic pain to “tough love,” insisting such measures are essential for long-term gains in trade and national resilience. 
He admitted that tariffs are hurting small businesses in his district, but said, "This is parenting in a way," adding, "We have to take some really tough medicine."  
In February, Small Business Majority’s research found that 53% of small business owners feared tariffs would harm their own operations, while 77% worried they would have a negative impact on the U.S. economy overall. 
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Hello, Wisconsin, GOP gubernatorial candidate and rich white guy Bill Berrien has the Winklevoss twins (combined net worth $6 billion) on his side

 
Guess they bought the Musk playbook:  "How to Buy an Election in Wisconsin".  
 
Winklevoss twins photo credit:  Celebrity Net Worth
Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/15/2025

Anna Kleiber reports:
The twins each donated $500,000 to Berrien's PAC that he launched earlier this year, which at the time of its launch was characterized as a way to boost GOP candidates through tough election cycles. 
The donations accounted for the vast majority of Berrien's fundraising, which totaled $1.2 million, according to the records.
Anna, do your job!



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Free speech for me but not for thee — “thee” being 6 Duluth EPA employees

 
Top headline:  Associated Press
Bottom headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio

The letter, which now lists more than 600 anonymous signers, outlined five key concerns about the Trump administration’s decisions: undermining public trust with political messaging; ignoring scientific research to benefit polluters; canceling environmental justice programs; dismantling the agency’s Office of Research and Development; and sowing fear among workers. 

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Rusk County, WIsconsin: What happens when a place goes gaga for MAGA


Folks end up being a laughingstock
 
Source:  Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 27.1% of vote in 1992, 22.3% of vote in 1996, 5% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 12.3% of the vote in 1968)
Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio

Rich Kremer reports:
Thornapple’s town board passed a resolution to stop the use of electronic voting machines in June 2023. Court documents show the town’s former clerk Suzanne Pinnow cited “the controversial nature of electronic voting machines” as part of its justification. 
The DOJ sued Thornapple and the Rusk County Town of Lawrence for removing access to voting machines designed for people with disabilities. They said the decisions violated the federal Help America Vote Act, or HAVA. Officials in Lawrence negotiated a settlement and agreed to make at least one accessible machine available in future elections.


Source:  Wikipedia

Rusk is one of Wisconsin's least diverse counties.

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

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The Epstein Files: Trump doesn't understand, but everyone else does (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 3)

 
Excerpt and headline:  Daily Beast, 7/16/2025


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And no doubt for some very good reasons (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 2).  (7/15)

2024
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Missing the point @nytimes: Republicans engineered an election victory by targeting a most vulnerable population; a crime against humanity; no winners here; we should all be ashamed

 
Headline:  New York Times, 7/13/2025
Meme: Floating around on social media

Charles Homans reports, using the word 'vulnerable' only to describe Democratic candidates:
In Senate races last year, Republicans targeted vulnerable red- and purple-state incumbents with millions of dollars’ worth of often-misleading ads exploiting this disconnect, like one claiming that Montana’s Jon Tester had voted to allow “biological men to compete against our girls in their sports.”
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When it comes to political reporting, there's plenty that's wrong with the New York Times.
June 2025
Malpractice in Journalism, starring the New York Times: Omitting the name of Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget AND co-author of Project 2025.  (6/22)

May 2025

March 2025
The Right is riding high with Trump because US corporate media is not doing its job. They’re paving the road to authoritarianism.  (3/25)

January-February 2025
New York Times goes all in to normalize latest round of Trump chaos and confusion.  (2/5)Trump administration unleashes first volley in Project 2025 attack on public broadcasting and the New York Times is asleep at the wheel. (1/31)

November 2024
The election is over and they're still searching out and cataloging disengaged (NOT undecided) voters.  (11/13)
Getting back to the business of normalizing the Trump Cult.  (11/7)

October 2024
Jess Bidgood struggles to find her mojo as contributor to "On Politics" newsletter.  (10/21)
Trump goes bonkers in campaign's final stretch.  (10/19)
Headline sanewashes Trump's Nazi rhetoric.  (10/10)
Framing its political coverage with stale, silly sports metaphors.  (10/10)
Sanewashing Demented Donald Trump rallies.  (10/9)
New York Times headlines mash-up of VP debate:  Vance 'made Trumpism sound polite, calm and coherent' with a cascade of false and misleading statements. (10/6/2024) 
Majority of 13 writers charmed by the smarm of JD Vance.  (10/2)

September 2024

July-August 2024

June 2024

May 2024

January 2024

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2019

2018


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Apparently the Crypto Masters is a white man’s club

 
Headline (print edition):  New York Times, 7/9/2025

David Yaffe-Bellany and Kenneth P. Vogel report:
The proposed language was included at the bottom of a bullet-pointed meeting agenda, according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Trump said he would “consider it,” Mr. Bailey, who runs the digital currency firm BTC Inc., recalled in an interview. “We had no idea if that was going to happen.” 
That night, Mr. Trump fired off a Truth Social post containing the exact message proposed by the executives: “We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!! It will help us be ENERGY DOMINANT!!!” 
The post was one of the earliest successes in a high-stakes lobbying campaign by the crypto industry that has put huge sums of money behind Mr. Trump and reaped enormous rewards.

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GET ME REWRITE: Former North Carolina GOP House Speaker has a death wish for the planet

 
He's now a member of the US House of Representatives, where he voted for Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is a disaster for environmental protections.

Headline:  Governing, 7/14/2025

This November, residents of Charlotte, N.C., and surrounding Mecklenburg County are likely to be voting on a referendum to increase the local sales tax from 7.25 percent to 8.25 percent, raising nearly $10 billion for transit projects over the next 30 years. Predictions are risky, but the consensus among local leaders is that it will pass.A 
1-point tax increase isn’t exactly remarkable. What’s remarkable is that if it takes effect, the change will mark a turning point in a war between Charlotte and the state that has been going on for nearly 30 years.
All the way back in 1997, the city asked for new taxing authority, and the state legislature balked. This was still going on in 2020, when a local task force called for a 1-cent increase, and the legislature proclaimed the idea dead on arrival. 
These are key events in a seemingly endless city vs. state transportation war, but the war involved other issues as well. In 2013, the legislature tried to take control of the Charlotte airport out of the city’s hands and turn it over to a state-created commission. That ploy failed when a Superior Court judge ruled it out of order. But the rocky relationship continued. 
An effort in 2023 to raise the local sales tax to fund new transit projects got nowhere in Raleigh. The Republican House speaker, Tim Moore, complained that too much money was already being spent on transit and said the city “needs to be focused on road capacity.” A local news publication, Carolina Forward, accused Moore and other legislative Republicans of harboring “a long-running resentment of Charlotte.” It was hard to dispute that.

More roads = more congestion.


The next time a Republican tries to sell this principle, just laugh in his face.


FYI.  WisGOP abandoned it years ago.

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