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County's Daily Newspaper 10 Racine nrnn Ilk TVQTyrCT is ii A Horlick High's radio' station is on the cyberspace instead of the air PAGE 9A 1 Round manager set to restaurant PAGE IB receives at-large bid Division III tournament DELIVERY: 634 WISCONSIN TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2004 I WhTOMta Local Can you speed through construction zones when no one's working there? PAGE 1B RACINE COUNTY, i A lijrK Wl; ffipXMi fa, Is the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling still making a difference? CRAIG SCHREINER Lee Newspapers State Sen. Gwendolynne Moore, D-Milwaukee, asks a question about the proposed concealed carry bill during an Oct. 21 meeting of the Joint Finance Committee at the Capitol in Madison. She's a finite from Marine Vying to represent Milwaukee in Congress, Gwen Moore has always regarded the Belle City as her spiritual home mm resent a lot of voiceless people." Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, has known Moore for more than a decade.

He described her as someone willing to fight for her beliefs. "Gwen and I believe a lot of different things," Gard said. "But she believes in what she's saying and what she's trying to do." Moore was born in Racine and lived here until she was 4. That's when her family moved to Milwaukee. But Moore never really left Racine behind.

Besides spending eighth grade here, she also spent summer vacations in Racine. "I come back a lot. I still have family here. My brother Raymond and lots of cousins, all my father's people," Moore said. "Sometimes I come down, just to be here.

I call Racine the center of the universe." Amid the waiting air of the after-school quiet at Jerstad-Agerholm, Moore studied a wall of photos for a picture of her German teacher, Niel Boone. She remembered the girl who More GWEN MOORE, Page 7 A included a reply card asking friends and family to attend when gay marriage is legal in Wisconsin. "So many people know and have friends and family that are gay or lesbian," Briggs said. "Many of them may not realize how this is affecting their friends or family member's life." Wisconsin statutes already define marriage as a contract between a husband and a wife and do not recognize gay marriage. But the amendment's supporters fear a judge could overrule the statute and force the state to recognize gay marriages.

A statewide poll has shown Wis-consinites support an amendment banning gay marriage. More SAT MARHAGE, Page 7A THIS WEEK IN TKE Uirilria Wednesday Mike Moore: A FEEL-GOOD COLUMN Local 1 Local Ex-Ground reopen Baseball Carthage to NCAA PAGE 1C HOME VISIT RACINE COUNTY'S 24-HOUR NEWS SOURCE AT: www.journaltlmci.com Times 3118 3333 50 CENTS Imanl Sankofa listens to a program honoring the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling Monday in Indianapolis. Sankofa held a poster in her lap which expressed her view that the fight for equality in public schools is ongoing. TOM STRATTMAN Associated Press I Debatable Debatabes portray different sides of an issue to encourage debate around the news of the day.

What do you think about today's topic? Send your opinions to Debatable, 212 Fourth Racine, Wl 53403 or via e-mail to: debatablejournaltimes. com To vote on today's Debatable, go to: www.journaltimes. com Southern schools remained segregated for almost a decade after the Brown decision, largely because the Supreme Court let them. The Supreme Court's 1957 decision, popularly known as Brown II, ordered schools to desegregate "with all deliberate speed" not immediately. Furthermore, white flight the movement of middle-class whites from cities to suburbs is effectively undoing much of what Brown sought to do More on DEBATABLE, Page 7 A Newslracker WHAT WE KNEW: Mary Laney, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, was pulled over for speeding in Racine County on April 24.

She says she was treated unfairly and she warns Illinois drivers they could get pulled over unfairly. THE LATEST. She says she has been gathering e-mails and letters with similar complaints from others in Illinois since she first wrote about this. WHAT'S NEXT: She says if "scary" to drive through Racine County again but says she'll show up for her May 28 initial appearance at the Law Enforcement Center. deputy treated her and, in a second column that ran Monday, she vowed to fight her "bogus" fines in local courts.

Though she has written two More COLUMNIST, Page 7A Friday THE SPRING TURKEY HUNT OltooorsX Cut 1 BY JEFF WILFORD Journal Times Fifty years and one day ago, the S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation in American schools with its landmark ruling in the Brown vs. Board of Education case. Three years after that, the Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate as quickly as possible. Fifty years and one day after Brown, however, many schools across the United States are resegregating.

Black students make up a disproportionate share of the student population at many inner city public schools, while white students enroll in increasing numbers at private schools and suburban public schools. The result is an imbalance in the education they receive, with some public schools with minority-heavy populations having less money and fewer resources than the private schools. Is Brown vs. Board of Education still making a difference? FindLaw columnist Edward Lazarus, in a special report to CNN.com, spelled out the case of those who say no. Chicago columnist calls fines she got here 'bogus' MARK HERTZBERG Journal Times State Sen.

Gwendolynne Moore, who attended Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School, greets her older brother, Raymond, at the school on April 8. Looking back, Moore remem- way home because she was the bered herself as the eighth-grader new girl: "I guess that's why I'm who had to fight every day on the such a fighter now and why I rep BY PHYLLIS SIDES Journal Times RACINE Gwen Moore came home for a visit a little while ago. On a sunny April afternoon, the 53-year-old state senator from Milwaukee and her brother, Raymond Moore, went on a meandering tour of their hometown. Down the hill on Spring Street. Past the house where Aunt Marguerite lived.

Onto Domanik Drive, to their favorite childhood fishing spot on the Root River. They talked about the places from their childhood and the memories. They talked of Moore's political ambitions. Moore, a Democrat, wants to succeed U.S. Rep.

Jerry Kleczka, who recently announced he would not seek re-election in the 4th Congressional District this fall. The first stop on their tour of Racine: Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School. Moore went to school there in 1965. She was living in Racine that year because she had had a disagreement with her mother. She stayed with her aunt, Marguerite Ammons.

State gays use BY JENNY PRICE Associated Press MADISON Some gay couples in Wisconsin are sending out engagement announcements, but not because they plan to travel to Massachusetts where same-sex marriage is legal. They're trying to build support for defeating a proposed amend- ment to the Wisconsin Constitution outlawing gay marriage and civil unions. The new strategy comes as gay couples begin exchanging marriage vows in Massachusetts, the first time a state has granted gays and lesbians the right to legally wed. "The overall goal is to personalize this," said Chris Ott, executive director of the statewide gay engagement announcements to raise awareness BY ROB GOLUB Journal Times A Chicago newspaper columnist says she has been gathering e-mails and letters complaining about arrests of Illinois drivers in Racine County and she even says she heard from a suburban Chicago mayor who wants to file a Lane suit. She has warned Illinois residents to think twice about visiting Wisconsin and Racine County in particular.

Mary Laney, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, was pulled over for speeding by a Racine County Sheriffs deputy on April 24. "I was over the limit," she wrote in her newspaper column. "But so, too, were the cars right in front of me. In her column she criticized the way the Racine County JO'JBKAL Tl.VES 7 Thursday Countryside humane society comes to the rescue rights organization Action Wisconsin. "It's great what is happening in Massachusetts today, but we have just a very different situation in Wisconsin." The group is encouraging gay and lesbian couples to print templates for the fa- Massachu- engagement setts ushers in a announce-newera-SA.

Jjf and distribute them to friends and family. So far, at least three couples are planning to send the cards, Ott said. The cards, which come in four different designs, read "engaged till it's legal across the top and ask recipients for their presence to "celebrate our wedding as soon as it becomes legal in the state of Wisconsin. They also encourage Your Paper On The Net Acton Wisconsin: wm.actionwisconsin.org The Family Research nstiMe of Wisconsin: www.frHM.org people to return enclosed reply cards to Action Wisconsin to find out how they can help defeat the amendment. 1 The idea came from Al Poliar-co, 40, and Bill Briggs, 33, who have been together nine years and have three children.

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