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THOMAS BARRETT (D) District 5 (Northern Milwaukee, Milwaukee County suburbs; southeast Waukesha County...
...most notorious recent use of an assault weapon occurred late last month in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where two bank robbers tumbled out of their getaway car and shot to death a veteran police captain through the windshield of his vehicle with M1-A1 assault rifles. "He didn't have a chance," said a colleague, Captain Terry Martorano. "They executed...
...Waukesha, Wisconsin...
Koepp has applied his inquisitive mind to the news since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock...
...wait! Historically -- one learns just in the nick of time -- balance is what nearly every account of this yearly meeting has begged. It is not all weirdness going down. It is, in the words of Dale Brown, a ventriloquist from Waukesha, Wis., "a family affair aimed at educating young and amateur ventriloquists, promoting the art of ventriloquism, and providing a spotlight for some of the country's best-known professionals." Further, according to Brown and other organizers of the event, the vents (for that is what they call one another) are a little ticked off at being picked...