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MADISON — Sean Kedzie says he couldn’t breathe. His vision was quickly dimming. Just before he passed out, Kedzie said one of his two male attackers released him from a chokehold in his own front yard. “It was right at the last second. Who knows … I have no clue what they were capable of,” the 22-year-old Whitewater resident told Wisconsin Reporter Tuesday. “Those guys don’t realize I could have been put in a coma, I could have been killed. Things have been taken to whole new level,” he added. BATTLE SCARS: Sean Kedzie, son of state Sen. Neal Kedzie,...

At stake is nothing less than the survival of human civilisation By Al Gore, the former American Vice President Last Updated: 12:28am GMT 19/11/2006 We have the opportunity to become the Greatest Generation, responding to our climate debate – but only if we take urgent action to limit global warming. Al Gore: 'There is a reason why new scientific research is peer-reviewed' A former colleague of mine in the US Senate, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once said: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts." I was reminded of this upon...

<p>In January 1999, state Sen. Don Perata's 26-year-old son, Nick, launched a political direct mail firm based at his father's Alameda home.</p> <p>Within months, the son's firm, Exit Strategies, was receiving tens of thousands of dollars in revenue from the father's Senate campaign committee. At the same time, Exit Strategies began paying consulting fees and rent to the senator, state records and interviews show.</p>

SACRAMENTO — The son of a state senator billed water agencies and cities thousands of dollars last year for work that included writing speeches, organizing Senate hearings and arranging "photo opportunities" for his lawmaker mother. Tom Soto, president of the Santa Monica public relations firm PS Enterprises and son of state Sen. Nell Soto (D-Pomona), was hired by two San Bernardino County cities and two water districts in June 2002 after Sen. Soto established a task force to deal with groundwater contamination by the industrial solvent perchlorate. Since 1997, such contamination has forced the closure of 20 drinking water wells...