The Fond du Lac County executive says he is pleased the governor plans to add more money to the state budget for counties. The governor delivered his budget address to the state legislature Wednesday afternoon. It includes funding to eliminate the waiting list for long term supports for children with developmental, physical or severe emotional disabilities. "It was very good news. It was good to hear the governor recognizes that […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is renewing his push to eliminate the state board that regulates for-profit colleges. The executive budget Walker unveiled Wednesday calls for eliminating the Educational Approval Board by January 2018 and transferring its duties to the Department of Safety and Professional Services. The governor proposed getting rid of the board in his 2013-15 executive budget as well, arguing then that doing away with it […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he wants to consider eliminating a utility tax that Wisconsin residents pay on electric bills. Fitzgerald said Thursday at a Wispolitics.com luncheon that he thinks that could be a more effective tax cut that a $200 million cut to the state income tax that Gov. Scott Walker is proposing. Fitzgerald says the Legislature doesn't want to do something "meager" […]
Fond du lac police say an 88 year old man accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes, striking the front of a restaurant this week. The incident happened Wednesday morning at Boda’s restaurant on South Pioneer Road. Nobody was injured. The brick entryway was damaged.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers are renewing their push to ban research on aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin. Three Republican lawmakers circulated a bill Tuesday for co-sponsorship that would prohibit the sale and research of fetal tissue starting in 2018. A similar proposal was introduced in 2015, but Republicans could not overcome opposition from University of Wisconsin researchers and the state's business community. They were concerned that the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Breaking up the state Department of Natural Resources as one Republican lawmaker has proposed appears to be going nowhere. Gov. Scott Walker did not include the idea in his budget and Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Thursday that he doesn't see the Legislature acting on that idea. He calls such a change "complicated" and "huge." With the governor not proposing it, Fitzgerald says that […]
Nobody was injured when a car veered into Boda’s restaurant in Fond du Lac. The crash on Pioneer Road happened Wednesday morning. Damage was minor and the restaurant stayed open.
The Fond du Lac city council has voted in favor of mandatory replacement of private lead water service lines. At their meeeting Wednesday night the council voted five to two in favor of mandating private line replacement when the public line in the street is replaced. Councilmembers Catherine Block and Kay Miller voted against. Miller says she felt residents should have had the option of opting out of […]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has put forward a state budget that looks far different than the ones from his first six years in office. Walker has said the budget will have a huge boost for schools, sizeable tuition cuts for college students groaning under debt and increased tax breaks for the working poor. In total the budget includes more than $900 million in new spending. Fond du Lac Republican […]