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Menendez Praises Consumer Safety Group ASTM International for Adopting New Safety Standards for Market Umbrellas; Urges Action on Beach Umbrellas   JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement in response to last week’s announcement by the non-profit consumer product testing organization, ASTM International, that it has released new safety testing standards for[...]

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Madison in the Sixties – December, 1963 – Shirley Abrahamson helps Madison make civil rights history. In 1963, racial discrimination in housing was perfectly legal in Wisconsin, and very real; only about 27% of the city’s rental units, and 12% of the houses for-sale, were available to nonwhites. The city didn’t even have a meaningful board or commission working for civil rights. Instead, there was the Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights (MCHR), which the Council created in 1952 as a powerless consolation prize for activists after their proposed fair housing ordinance was soundly defe...