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Sensing the shift at ground level, a few black leaders are getting onboard. Seven years ago, Polly Williams, a Democratic state legislator in Wisconsin, set in motion the process that brought Milwaukee the nation's first publicly financed voucher system. Earlier this year, when the Texas state legislature came within one vote of establishing a publicly funded voucher program, the supporters included Ron Wilson, a black Democratic legislator from Houston. In Philadelphia, the logic of vouchers has hit Dwight Evans, a black state legislator who plans to run for mayor in 1999 and who has his own poll that shows...
...center, on 30-seat Embraer turboprops. It now has six flights a day to Appleton, five of which use 50-seat jets. Says Michael Fletcher, a service engineer with Voith Sulzer PaperTechnology who travels frequently to Appleton: "This flight puts me in the heart of the papermaking industry in Wisconsin in minimal time." Given a choice, Fletcher prefers to fly on a jet. "When I get off the plane, I'm in much better shape," he says. "The difference is night and day. There's no debate about whether it's better." (Although the jets are more comfortable, there...
...Lost to Mississippi 36-21 18. lowa 4-2 Lost to Michigan 28-24 19. Virginia Tech 5-1 Did not play 20. Texas A&M 5-1 Lost to Kansas St. 36-17 21. West Virginia 5-1 Did not play 22. Purdue 5-1 Beat Wisconsin 45-24 23. Arizona St. 5-2 Beat Stanford 31-14 24. Toledo 6-0 Beat N.Illinois 41-14 25. Mississippi 4-2 Beat...
University of Wisconsin police cite 134 students for underage drinking and disorderly conduct at a Sigma Pi fraternity, reported a May 12 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...Wednesday, all states are supposed to have moved 75 percent of their two-parent welfare families into jobs. While some states have successfully cut welfare rolls ? Wisconsin welfare cases have plummeted more than 55 percent in the past decade ? they don't know whether that has been driven by reforms or by the booming economy. Cohen notes some homeless advocates say they've witnessed a big upswing in shelter customers, but such anecdotal evidence does little to determine the true effects of the reforms...