Month: January 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers appeared poised Wednesday to defy, or find a way around, a law enacted during the Republican lame-duck legislative session that prevented him from withdrawing Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit seeking repeal of the federal health care law.  Evers told reporters that he will be sending a letter to fellow Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul this week calling for Wisconsin to "change our stance" […]

The Dodge County Sheriff says the County Jail has a projected shortfall of  nearly a half million dollars following the closing last month of one of their pods.   Sheriff Dale Schmidt says he warned the county board in July about the budget impact of closing the pod at the end of the year.  "As predicted, as we mentioned in late summer, we're going to be at about a $490,000 shortfall,"  […]

An appeals court has upheld the drug conviction of an over the road trucker convicted in a cold case murder of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County.    The District Two Court of Appeals has upheld Dennis Brantner's drug possession conviction.   Brantner was convicted of  trying to smuggle prescription medication when he was being booked into the Fond du lac County Jail in 2016.  He was sentenced to six […]

Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman has  introduced a bill that would allow people to personally fund construction of a border wall with Mexico.   The People’s Border Wall Fund Act  would create an account within the Department of Treasury that would allow public donations be used for the design, construction and maintenance of a border wall.    During a stop in Fond du Lac this week Grothman told WFDL news that  a wall […]

Several major highway projects are planned for 2019 in Fond du Lac County.  One of the bigger projects involves reconstructing Highway V, including a roundabout at V and Pioneer Road.  Highway commissioner Tom Janke says an even bigger project this summer will involve reconstructing Highway G in St. Cloud.  "That's a project that will be contracted out.  We got some federal and state funding for that particular project,"  Janke told […]

A new county highway garage and government center security are the top issues facing the county in 2019.  County executive Al  Buechel says the massive new highway garage is being built off Hickory Road near the 151 Bypass.   "Its well underway and it will also provide a (shooting) range for the Sheriff's Department,"  Buechel told WFDL news.  Buechel says a new manned security checkpoint will be up and running at […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has issued a pair of executive orders designed to fulfill his campaign pledge of increasing access and affordability to health care and insurance.  But the executive orders released Tuesday stop far short of Evers' promises to expand Medicaid coverage and drop Wisconsin's involvement in a multi-state lawsuit seeking repeal of the Affordable Care Act.  Doing either of those things requires approval of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican lawmakers are asking a federal court to delay an April trial alleging that political boundary maps were illegally drawn.  Attorneys for the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Assembly asked the court on Monday to delay the trial until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pair of other gerrymandering case.  The Supreme Court said last week it would hear arguments in March in cases out of […]