Month: October 2020

Where are they going in 2013-14? http://mnguillotine.com/highsch/wheregoing/wherego2013.htm The Guillotine Wrestler Files Cole Sladek, Saint Michael-Albertville 2012 USA Wrestling Nationals FS Junior 132 DNP 2012 MN/USA Wrestling State FS Junior 138 2nd 2012 MN HS State Tournament 3A 11th 120 4th 41-5 2011 MN Christmas Tournament AAA 11th 126 1st 2011 USA Wrestling Nationals FS Cadet…

Another day, another extreme bill attacking women’s rights. With Republican Gov. Gary Herbert’s signature on a controversial law Monday evening, Utah became the first state in the nation to require doctors to give anesthesia to women having an abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later. As the Associated Press pointed out, the measure “is…

Months after news of the lead crisis broke and years after the water poisoning began, U.S. President Barack Obama visited the embattled city of Flint, Michigan on Wednesday. After meeting with state and local officials, hearing from residents, and sipping the (filtered) water, Obama blasted the austerity government that brought about the “man-made disaster” and…

The Paris climate agreement, hammered out at last December’s COP21 talks and signed Friday by close to 170 nations, is alternately being hailed as “a turning point for humanity” and denounced as “a dangerous distraction.” There’s no doubt that the deal “is the capstone of years and years of hard work,” as Union of Concerned…

Unencumbered by much in the way of campaign finance regulation, Wall Street mega-donors are on pace to eclipse even their own “exorbitant precedents” during the 2016 election cycle, according to a new report from national watchdog group Public Citizen. The analysis, which uses data from the Center for Responsive Politics and the Federal Election Commission,…

Fighting back against the notion, put forth by American academics, that isolated tribes must be forced into contact with the modern world, Amazonian Indians are warning of another potential Indigenous “genocide” if such ideas come to pass. U.S. anthropologists Kim Hill, a professor at Arizona State University, and University of Missouri associate professor Robert Walker,…

As the contentious Democratic Party platform drafting committee negotiations come to an end, many Bernie Sanders surrogates have watched in disbelief as core progressive principles have been waylaid—largely by Hillary Clinton supporters. “Congratulations everyone! We have just written half of the GOP Platform tonight, Democrats!”—Nomiki Konst, progressive commentator The trend continued on the second-to-last day of platform…

Former President Obama and his advisers are reportedly urging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) to run for president in 2020, according to Politico Magazine.  Obama, a personal friend of Patrick, has privately encouraged him to consider a 2020 bid, the magazine said. Meanwhile, Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser to the former president, said that Patrick being…

EDMOND, Okla. – Augustana wrestling opens the season ranked 16th in the first Division II Wrestling Coaches Association poll of the 2012-13 season. The Vikings earned 46 points in the coaches’ poll and are one of four teams in the NSIC that were ranked in the top 20. Defending national champion Nebraska-Kearney is the preseason…

The historic and scandal-prone Buenos Aires zoo is set to close and all animals transitioned to nature preserves because, as the city’s Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta put simply on Friday, “Captivity is degrading.” The 140-year-old zoo in Buenos Aires’ Palermo neighborhood will be turned into an “ecopark” when it reopens later this year after its…