Retiring Guy's Digest

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Black homicide vicitimization rate nearly 4 times higher than overall national rate

Source (above and below): Violence Policy Center

Excerpt from Missouri Ranks #1 in Nation for Black Homicide Victimization. (Violence Policy Center)

Wisconsin ranks #2

Related reading:
Deadly disparities: African-Americans increasingly targeted as gun homicides spike. (Capital Times, 6/27/2018)

Of the 15 people killed by gunfire in a two-year spike starting in 2016, nine were black men. That’s 60 percent of the gun deaths in a city where blacks comprise just 7 percent of the population.

In those two years, not a single white man in Madison was killed by gunfire.

Wisconsin 2018 elections: Who's running in the 37th Assembly District?

Just John Jagler

Sources include Wisconsin Elections Commission

Jagler's margin of victory in last 2 elections:

unopposed in the 2014 general election; no primary challenger
23.7 percentage points in the 2016 general election; no primary challenger

One of the most shameless examples
of WIGOP gerrymandering

Source: Ballotpedia

(which does the best job of outlining

The Art of the Wisconsin Gerrymander)

Related links:
John Jagler
Charisse Daniels for Assembly

Related articles:
First-time legislative candidate touted on CNN may not make it on Wisconsin ballot. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/4/2018)
Watertown police investigating allegations of fraud with Assembly candidate's nomination papers. (Capital Times, 6/5/2018)
Elections Commission boots Democratic Assembly candidate from ballot over faked signatures. (Fox6Now, 6/11/2018)

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Mes Amis says 'au revoir' to Hilldale, 'bonjour' to Middleton Center

The storefront with the yellow awning. There's a lot less foot traffic here than at Hilldale.

Photos by Retiring Guy

Hilldale dress shop heads to downtown Middleton. (Madison.com, 6/13/2018)

Plasch had inquired about a larger space at Hilldale Shopping Center, where she opened her 1,400-square-foot Mes Amis Boutique in 2015, but the shopping center's management said she wasn't meeting sales goals and terminated her lease two years early after she rejected a smaller, temporary location in the shopping center next to Macy's.