MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has asked a federal judge to declare state budget provisions requiring food stamp recipients to undergo drug testing are legal. The budget Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed on Sunday contains language requiring food stamp recipients to undergo drug screening. If they fail the screen they must go through drug testing and treatment. Schimel filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Milwaukee against a […]
Political observers say governor Walker is doing all the right things heading into the partisan primaries and caucuses early next year…the question is how will that play out if he wins the nomination? Wispolitics.com editor J.R. Ross says Walker is bragging about his conservative policies and fighter reputation. Ross says the question is how does Walker address those issues in a general election campaign? "He will have a hard […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making his first stop in Nevada as a presidential candidate. The Silver State is the first of four states Walker will visit following his Monday evening announcement that he's running for president. He swung by a Las Vegas Harley Davidson dealership on Tuesday to tout his everyman story and his conservative credentials. Walker boasted about how he tamed unions in Wisconsin, […]
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice is helping a sheriff's office investigate a cold case homicide in which the only clue is a human skull. Jackson County sheriff's officials say loggers found the skull in a remote wooded area near the Village of Warrens in August 1978. An earring was found near the remains. The remains have gone unidentified for 37 years. Experts estimate the […]
The Department of Public Works would like to inform the motoring public that the north bound lane of Military Road will be closed from 9th Street to north of Grove Street beginning Wednesday morning July 15th due to water main repair work. It will remain closed until Monday, July 20th. Southbound traffic is not affected, but drivers are asked to use caution as they travel through the area.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Scott Walker is vowing to fight for America's interests abroad and for his conservative policies in Washington. The Wisconsin governor has launched his 2016 Republican presidential bid by highlighting his clashes with labor unions as his campaign taunted his Democratic critics. The 47-year-old Walker embraced his "fighter" reputation as he formally declared his candidacy in an evening speech in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with his family at his […]
The chairman of the Fond du Lac County Republican party says it’s a good day for the country. Dan Feyen was in Waukesha Monday for Governor Scott Walker’s announcement that he is running for president. "We knew it was coming. I think its a good day for Governor Walker's family, and a good day for our country and a good day for Wisconsin," Feyen told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines […]
A Ripon college political science professor says governor Scott Walker enters the race at a time when there is no real clear frontrunner among the Republican candidates. Professor Marty Farrell says that’s why it will be important for Walker to get out of the gate quickly, starting with the Iowa caucuses. "That means with a wide-open field and Scott Walker's conservative record will serve him very well in primary or […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a Milwaukee-based immigrant advocate group says Gov. Scott Walker's immigration policies are inspired by racism. The Republican governor announced his presidential bid Monday. Immigrant advocacy groups held a teleconference hours after the announcement to rail against his immigration policies. Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Milwaukee-based Voces de la Frontera, says Walker has an enforcement-first agenda — meaning he wants people living in the […]