MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic congressman from Wisconsin will not say which presidential candidate who he voted for in the state's primary. U.S. Representative Mark Pocan is also one of 10 super delegates who can cast a vote at the party's convention for either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, regardless of who won the Wisconsin primary.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic super delegate in Wisconsin is endorsing Bernie Sanders, who defeated Hillary Clinton in the state's primary earlier this week. State Rep. David Bowen is the first of the state's 10 super delegates to side with Sanders. Six others are committed to Clinton and three are not saying who they will back. Sanders' 13-point win over Clinton on Tuesday in Wisconsin netted him 10 more […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a plan to raise nonresident and graduate tuition at five campuses. Republican lawmakers have frozen resident undergraduates tuition through the 2016-17 academic year, but regents retain the power to raise out-of-state and graduate tuition. UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Platteville, UW-Stout and UW-Whitewater have asked the regents for permission to raise their nonresident and graduate tuition ranging from half-a-percent […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison's new tenure policy. Republican legislators stripped tenure protections out of Wisconsin law last year. The Board of Regents last month adopted a new policy that allows schools to lay off tenured faculty in financial emergencies and for educational consideration and requires performance evaluations. The policy allows each school to adopt its own policy reflecting those rules. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled a couple who struck their children with rods were properly convicted of child abuse, rejecting their argument that they're following their religion. Matthew Caminiti and his wife, Alina Caminiti were convicted of child abuse in 2014 for hitting their two young children on their bare bottoms with wooden dowels, starting when the children were two to three months old. The […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources has delayed plans to impose uniform rules on state-owned shooting ranges in the face of pushback from the public. The regulations would prohibit alcohol on the ranges, ban automatic weapons and exploding targets and require shooters to unload their weapons when they're off the firing line. The DNR's board was set to vote on the rules April 13 but agency officials […]
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — Developers say construction of a dairy operation that could eventually milk 9,000 goats a day should begin in a couple months in Calumet County. Drumlin Dairy is buying 35 acres in Brothertown, just northeast of Fond du Lac. One of Drumlin's owners, Kenn Buelow, says Wisconsin has the country's most milk goats, with 44,000, but more are needed to meet the needs of goat […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Russ Feingold's campaign says he has raised nearly $3.4 million in the first quarter of the year in his race against Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Feingold released the fundraising totals for January through March on Thursday in advance of the April 15 filing deadline. The totals surpass the nearly $2.7 million Feingold raised in the previous quarter. Johnson has yet to release his fundraising numbers […]
PPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A former Wisconsin Assembly majority leader is running for Congress. Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson is announcing his campaign for the 8th District in Appleton Thursday. Nelson was first elected to the state Assembly in 2004. He was named majority leader in 2008. He was elected county executive in 2011. Rep. Reid Ribble currently holds the congressional seat, but has decided not to run for a […]