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Both McDermott Lake and Sandy Beach Lake had previously supported natural walleye recruitment. Scientists removed about 285,000 warm-water fish from a Wisconsin lake over four years in an attempt to help its declining walleye population recover. The large-scale experiment reduced several fish species and was followed by a sharp rise in yellow perch. However, it…

Upper Mississippi riverRepresentative image from Canva For generations, the Hoesly family farmed rich bottomland along the Wisconsin and Kickapoo rivers in southwest Wisconsin, growing corn and soybeans on nearly 2,000 acres of floodplain. But as floods grew more frequent and severe, and a 2016 state tax change made it harder to claim agricultural exemptions on…

Gold is legal tender in Texas and Florida. A new law that allows Texas to begin implementing th eframework to accept certain gold and silver as legal tender came to effect on September 1 but that does not mean gold and silver have already become legal tender in the state.House Bill 1056, authored by Republican…

Haitian student from Ohio apparently ended his life over his humiliation for ankle monitor. 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel in Ohio got out of his car and stepped into the traffic on Ohio State Highway after a brief conversation with his father. The freshman student at Wright State University told his father that he was not…

Representative Image (AI-generated) California’s water problem is often framed around the need for more storage, new infrastructure and expensive construction. But a new study suggests that part of the answer may already be sitting behind the state’s existing dams. By using better weather and water forecasts to decide when reservoirs should release or retain water,…

Indian-origin CEO Nitish Kannan says he has zero sympathy for those who cry about H-1B for not getting jobs. Indian-origin Nitish Kannan, the CEO and founder of Circle Plus Pay, slammed the rampant H-1B shaming and said H-1B visa holders only get 65,000 jobs a year, as against 150 million jobs in the US. He…

Photo credit: Carter Grandbois / InstagramThis image is improved using Gemini At 16, while many of his classmates were thinking about part-time jobs in retail or food service, Carter Grandbois saw an opportunity in other people’s clutter. Living in Colorado Springs, he borrowed a trailer, posted on social media and started hauling away junk for…

The Garden Oaks Theater opened in 1947 as a 700-plus-seat Art Deco cinema and is now the focus of a preservation effort (Image Credit: Arthouse Houston) For generations of Houston residents, the Garden Oaks Theater was more than a place to watch a movie. Opened in 1947, the Art Deco-style cinema became part of the…

American CEO’s post on H-1B abuse goes viral. An American CEO, Hany Girgis, who is known on X for his anti-H-1B social media posts, shared some screenshots that he claimed to have received from a VP at a Fortune 500 company exposing H-1B abuse. The post went viral at a time when the H-1B visa…

43-year-old nurse and her two adult sons found dead. A Minnesota community is mourning the deaths of a 43-year-old nurse and her two adult sons in a suspected double murder-suicide, police said.Jamie Lee Charles, 43, and her sons Jaymison Samuel Shaw, 22, and William Samuel Shaw Jr., 19, were found dead Sunday at their townhouse…