Midwest
Tim Walz boasts about having support of Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Taylor Swift during Wisconsin rally
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz held a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Monday to shore up support just three weeks before the presidential election.
While warning the crowd about what he said is at stake if former President Trump were to take back the White House, the vice presidential candidate bragged about the unorthodox trio of supporters backing the Harris-Walz ticket.
“The road to the Super Bowl, the road to control of the Senate, and the road to the White House, goes right through the NFC North, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Look, you had a Lions fan, a Packers fan and a Vikings fan up here,” Walz said, referring to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Ivers, and himself. “The only thing more amazing is we got Bernie Sanders, Dick Cheney and Taylor Swift on the same ticket.”
Cheney, who was vice president to former President George W. Bush, was vilified by Democrats for his hawkish defense of the Iraq War. But last month, Cheney made the stunning announcement that he planned to vote for Kamala Harris as president.
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Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a campaign event on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Taylor Swift also announced her endorsement of Harris last month, just minutes after the presidential debate between the two candidates.
Walz used his speech in Green Bay on Monday to hash out a list of grievances against Trump and his running mate JD Vance, who he debated earlier this month.
Taylor Swift arrives before the start of an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New Orleans Saints on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Walz attacked Trump’s mental acuity and age, alleging that the former commander-in-chief has “been forgetting things.”
“He’s confused. He’s a nearly 80-year-old man. He’s ranting and rambling until people get bored and leave his rallies,” Walz said.
Tim Walz slammed Donald Trump for his age. (Reuters)
Walz appealed to men who were on the fence about who they planned to vote for.
“I’m going to make a message to the guys here. You got any women you love in your life? Your wives, your daughters, your mothers, and friends? Let’s not forget their lives are literally at stake in this election,” Walz said, invoking Trump’s appointment of three Supreme Court Justices who were instrumentally in overturning Roe v. Wade.
“He brags about it. He’s glad my daughter Hope now has fewer rights than her mother had,” Walz said. “That’s what he’s bragging about.”
Walz ended his speech by imploring the crowd to vote for Harris, likening them to the “underdogs.”
“For Christ’s sake, I’m a Vikings fan,” Walz quipped. “We’re always the underdogs.”
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Wisconsin
While Minnesota’s cannabis industry wades through regulations, Wisconsin’s accelerates without many
Store manager Nathan Taylor at Highnorth Dispensary in Hudson, Wis., on Thursday, Oct. 03, 2024. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
That summer, the owners had to pull many of their products from shelves to comply with Minnesota’s low-dose edible regulations. And when they opened an Uptown Minneapolis location in 2023, regulators eventually nixed their THCA flower and vapes for similar reasons.
State regulators have destroyed more than 190 pounds of cannabis flower taken from retail stores, about $578,000 worth, according to Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM).
Those run-ins led Thompson and Johnson to open their 200-square-foot location in Hudson, Wis. Because of the lack of rules there, they can sell many of the same products they used to offer in Minnesota, including cannabis flower, high-dose edibles, THC vapes and pre-rolls. According to Johnson, the Wisconsin location outperforms its other two stores with about 30% more revenue since it opened in April 2024.
“It was a way for us to service this customer base that we had earned their trust for a long time,” Thompson said, “and give them a place they can still come get product that’s safe, that’s tested, that they can be comfortable buying and that they’re familiar with.”
If hemp-derived THC products were a pre-legalization loophole in Minnesota, THCA is an exercise in interpretation in Wisconsin. Technically, labs should test TCHA for that 0.3% threshold only after it has converted to delta-9 from heating. But that’s not completely clear in the farm bill, meaning people can purchase TCHA products in Wisconsin, for example, that are way stronger than the 0.3% threshold after heating.
“I suppose it’s a gray-area industry, and I guess it has been since the farm bill passed,” Thompson said. “But all we’re going to do is make sure that we’re providing the best quality products that we can within the market that’s being serviced.”
What it means: Lions’ average rushing yards per game, which ranks fourth in the NFL
Twentyman: What’s making Detroit so dangerous offensively right now is the way Goff is playing in the passing game, and also how the Lions have rushed the football consistently all season. Only Baltimore (205.3), Green Bay (167.2) and San Francisco (158.0) average more rushing yards per game than the Lions. Detroit’s averaging at least four-plus-yards per run on 50.3 percent of their rushes, which also ranks fourth in the NFL, and their 24 runs of 10-plus yards is Top 10 in the league.
What it means: Opponent passer rating inside the 30-yard line
Twentyman: The three most important statistics in football are turnovers, third-down percentage and red-zone efficiency. Opponents are finding it tougher and tougher in the passing game the closer they get to Detroit’s end zone. When inside the 30-yard line, opposing passers have completed just 18-of-39 attempts with three touchdowns and four interceptions with that 41.6 rating, which is the lowest in the NFL.
The Lions rank in the Top 10 in the NFL in red-zone efficiency with opponents scoring a touchdown less than half of the time (46.7 percent).
Milwaukee, WI
The Mitchell Airport Park playground is over 25 years old. It’s finally getting new equipment
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Construction on the new Mitchell Airport Park playground kicked off on Monday with the removal of existing equipment dating back more than 25 years.
Located at 446 S. Logan Ave. in Milwaukee, the Mitchell Airport Park playground was first installed in 1995 and is one of the oldest playgrounds in the Milwaukee County park system, according the Milwaukee County Parks website.
The new playground features ADA-accessible equipment and includes play areas for children ages 5-12 and 2-5. The design also includes new area surfacing with a combination of poured-in-place rubber and engineered wood fiber.
Approved in 2020, the project’s budget is $291,984 and includes the removal of the 1995 equipment, design and installation of the new playground and new benches.
“I’m very grateful to our hard-working County Parks staff for bringing this much needed upgrade to this playground, which has been part of our park system for nearly 30 years. This new design will create a more welcoming and fun spot for families in the neighborhood,” said Milwaukee County Supervisor Jack Eckblad in a statement.
Construction will start in the fall and most of the work will be completed by winter, with final elements installed in the spring. The park is scheduled to open in spring 2025.
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You can find more information on the Mitchell Airport Park playground project here.
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