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00 1 FEW LIGHT MIXED SHOWERS 39 28 FORECAST, A14 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2018 COMICS B6 LOCAL STATE A3 NATION WORLD A10 OBITUARIES A5 OPINION A13 SPORTS C1 STOCKS A9 TAKE FIVE B5 TELEVISION B7 180th year, No. 19 Copyright 2018 Follow us online: facebook.com/WisconsinStateJournal twitter.com@WiStateJournal instagram.com/wistatejournal Who has the edge when Wisconsin Badgers take on Miami Hurricanes in Pinstripe Bowl? MADISON.COM DISCOVER DIGITAL PASSING THE BATON AT UW Phil Badgers poster salutes longtime UW-Madison band director Mike Leckrone as our seventh of 12 gifts to our readers PAGE A6 Badgers get signatures Wisconsin football team adds all 19 of its scholarship recruits for 2019 SPORTS. C1 No government shutdown Senate approves the legislation after President Trump backs on border wall A10 in MARK SOMMERHAUSER and RILEY VETTERKIND Wisconsin State Journal MILWAUKEE Democratic Tony Evers has named his rst four picks to lead state agencies, including a Natural Resources secretary whose ap- pointment drew praise from outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker. But the fact that rst four Cabinet appointees are from Milwaukee drew criticism from GOP legislative leaders.

Evers announced the follow- ing Cabinet secretary appointees Wednesday, subject to r- mation by a majority vote of the state Senate: Department of Natural Resources: Preston Cole, a member of the Natural Resources Board who was its rst African-American chairman, and a Milwaukee city cial. Department of Admin- istration: Joel Brennan, CEO of Discovery World science and technology museum and a former campaign manager for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Bar- rett. Department of Correc- tions: Kevin Carr, a U.S. marshal and onetime top aide to former CHRIS RICKERT Three years and $372,000 into an exhaustive review of the Mad- ison Police Department, a call for the input has largely resulted in 77 pages of recommendations submitted by one prominent local police critic and a form-letter campaign or- chestrated by one prominent lo- cal police supporter. And the 22 people or groups whose input was solicited by name including local chapters of the NAACP and Urban League, and other social justice organiza- tions only one has responded.

The Madison Police Depart- ment Policy and Procedure Review Ad Hoc Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday to consider the feedback after spending a year plowing through the 146 rec- ommendations in a 258-page, $372,000 report that deemed the department from Department in and described its use of force as in volume and primarily minor in The committee has also taken up 13 policing-related penned by a City Council committee in May 2017. Committee co-chairman Keith Findley said he surprised at what was generated by the call for rec- ommendations, saying the con- report extraordi- narily thoughtful and wanted to give all a chance to be heard but did not expect that most would add to what has already been a very thorough he said. Of the 142 pages of commu- nity input, 77 of them contain Evers: seeking Few oer ideas for police changes LOLITA C. BALDOR, SUSANNAH GEORGE and CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, cials announced Wednesday as the president suddenly declared victory over the Islamic State, contradicting his own as- sessments and sparking surprise and outrage from his law- makers who called his action rash and dangerous.

The U.S. began airstrikes in Syria in 2014, and ground troops moved in the following year to battle the Islamic State, or ISIS, and train Syrian rebels in a coun- try torn apart by civil war. Trump abruptly declared their mission accomplished in a tweet. have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump he said as Vice President Mike Pence met with top leaders at the Penta- gon. U.S.

cials said many de- tails of the troop withdrawal had not yet been nalized, but they expect American forces to be out by mid-January. A senior administration cial, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, said Trump made the decision based on his belief that U.S. troops have no role in Syria beyond combatting the Is- lamic State, whose ghters are now believed to hold about 1 per- cent of the territory they did at the peak of their power. The president informed Turk- ish President Recep Tayyip Er- dogan of his decision in a tele- phone call, the cial said. Tur- key has recently warned that it would launch combat operations across its southern border into Trump to pull all US troops MIKE STOBBE Associated Press NEW YORK You need to hang the mistletoe higher but you might want to skip the holi- day cookies.

A new report released Thurs- day shows U.S. adults get- ting any taller but they are still getting fatter. The average U.S. adult is over- weight and just a few pounds from obese, because of average weight increases in all groups but particularly whites and Hispanics. Overall, the average height for men actually fell very slightly over the past decade.

There was no change for women. One factor may be the shift in the population. a growing number of Mexican-Americans, and that group tends to be a little shorter, said one of the authors, Average weight of US adults ticks up Please see WEIGHT, Page A2 SYRIA WAR AGAINST ISIS But some in Congress demand more info Trump Please see SYRIA, Page A8 GOVERNOR-ELECT FIRST CHOICES FOR CABINET Assembly speaker disappointed all from Milwaukee MICHAEL SEARS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Tony Evers announces his rst Cabinet appointments Wednesday at MacDowell Montessori School in Milwaukee. From left are: Sara Meaney, Department of Tourism; Kevin Carr, Department of Corrections; Evers; Joel Brennan, Department of Administration; and Preston Cole, Department of Natural Resources. Please see CABINET, Page A2 Please see POLICE, Page A11 UWBADGERS.COM 1.800.go.badgers Friday, Dec.

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