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AIDS Resource Center opens on Willy Street By Anna Kaldjian THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Dane County typically approves about 100 refugees each year, though during the 2014-’15 fiscal year, the county had a sharp decline when it received only 47 refugees from around the world.
The AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin opened an HIV medical home in Madison Tuesday, coinciding with World AIDS Day. The facility offers integrated medical and mental health care to HIV patients without regard for ability to pay, ARCW Vice President of Government and Public Relations Bill Keeton said. The facility, located on Williamson Street, will rely heavily on a partnership with UW Health, which will provide physicians who will work with the home’s own staff nurses and nurse practitioners. Drs. Ryan Westergaard and
Robert Striker, both from UW Health, have been particularly crucial to the partnership and to the establishment of the home, Keeton said. In addition to treatments for HIV-positive patients, the home will offer pre-exposure prophylaxis to individuals at high risk of contracting HIV. Pre-exposure prophylaxis is a treatment that seeks to protect individuals, usually the partners of HIV-positive individuals, against the virus. While pre-exposure prophylaxis can be seen as controversial due to the imperfect efficacy of any medical treatment, Keeton
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Soglin, Common Council welcome Syrian refugees By Negassi Tesfamichael THE DAILY CARDINAL
On the heels of increased rhetoric on immigration issues nationwide, Madison officials have reaffirmed their support for Syrian refugees, many of whom will settle in Dane County. The Common Council approved a resolution, which
does not have any legal standing, in its Tuesday meeting. Early last week, Mayor Paul Soglin met with a group of former refugees and immigrants from around the world to discuss ways to improve the dialogue locally. “There is a great concern about the dialogue in the presidential
campaign, particularly the baiting and antagonism by many of the campaigns,” Soglin said after meeting with refugees Nov. 24. According to Public Health Supervisor Kate Louther, Dane County receives approximately 100 refugees each fiscal year,
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State Supreme Court ends Walker probe By Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL
The state Supreme Court moved Wednesday to deny a request to restart an investigation of alleged violations committed by Gov. Scott Walker in the 2011 recall elections.
“What a mess this court has wrought!” Shirley Abrahamson justice Wisconsin Supreme Court
In a 4-1 ruling, the high court upheld a July decision ending the John Doe probe into whether Walker’s campaign violated campaign finance laws in working with conservative groups. The court also ruled special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, who filed the petition, was
improperly appointed, meaning he lacked legal basis to reopen the investigation. In the ruling, the justices said Schmitz could still handle certain duties in the case but that his appointment “has the potential to create problems with respect to who may act on behalf of the prosecution in this court or elsewhere going forward.” In a statement, Schmitz panned the decision and said that he would appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. “I am disappointed with the decision issued today and, if I have the resources, intend to pursue an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court,” Schmitz said in the statement, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. “I continue to believe that the investigation was justified. The voters of Wisconsin have a right to know the identity of large donors, corporate and individual, which coordinate with campaign committees.”
Justice Shirley Abrahamson was the lone jurist to oppose the ruling, with Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Bradley abstaining. In her dissent, Abrahamson said her colleagues neglected to address several key issues and that there is now no one to represent prosecutors on the investigation. “Although professing to be even-handed in its treatment of the Special Prosecutor ... the [ruling] is anything but even-handed,” Abrahamson wrote. “What a mess this court has wrought!” Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm launched the John Doe probe in 2012 to determine whether Walker’s campaign had coordinated fundraising efforts with the Wisconsin Club for Growth, a practice the state election board had previously ruled illegal. In July, the state Supreme Court ruled 4-2 that most coordination between interest groups and campaigns was legal.
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Wheelhouse Studios hosted the first of two knitting workshops for making beanies Wednesday. Participants will have a finished hat after the second workshop. + Photo by Leah Voskuil
County plans to provide free tampons By Johanna Lepro-Green THE DAILY CARDINAL
A pilot program that would provide free feminine hygiene products in Dane County is set to be approved Thursday. When passed, the county program set to begin in 2016 will provide free tampons and pads in eight locations where low-income or homeless women would most benefit from access. The program, developed by Dane County Supervisor Heidi Wegleitner,
District 2, was first created after she read about a similar initiative taking place in New York City. “Last year we had an advance to put money in the budget to set up private lactation rooms in county buildings,” Wegleitner said. “And it made me realize that we can use these buildings in a multitude of ways to make women’s lives easier.” Because feminine hygiene
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”