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Month: June 2020

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6-24-20 bagged grocery store salad sickens sickens more than 100 in seven states

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has recalled bagged salad distributed to a dozen Midwestern states by Hy-Vee, Aldi and Jewel-Osco grocery stores after 122 people in seven states were sickened.  Nineteen have been hospitalized. The salad mix is contaminated with cyclospora, a parasite that can cause severe diarrhea. The salad mix is packaged as Hy-Vee Brand Garden Salads, Jewel-Osco Signature Farms Brand Garden Salads ALDI […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 uw oshkosh chancellor goes “between the lines”

The UW Oshkosh chancellor says students wouldn’t be allowed to return to the classroom this fall if school officials didn’t feel it was safe to do so.  Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced earlier this month that UW Oshkosh will open its Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and Fox Cities campuses this fall.  "Very satisfying.  It was after a lot of work by a lot of people,"  Leavitt told AM 1170s Between the […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 evers confident schools will make good decisions

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says local school officials will ultimately make the hard decisions about how to resume classes this fall. The state Department of Public Instruction issued guidelines for schools on Monday that call for face masks, no more than 10 students in class and opening buildings only two days a week. Evers stressed during a conference call with reporters Tuesday that the DPI guidelines are […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 reopening schools

Fond du Lac County school administrators are meeting with public health officials to begin the process of developing a plan for reopening schools in the fall.   Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller met with superintendents from all public and private schools in the county Tuesday following the release this week of guidelines from the state Department of Public Instruction.   Mueller says she thinks it’s a good idea for Districts to be on […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 retired ripon college economist expects unemployment rate to continue to fall

A retired Ripon College economist says another drop in the statewide unemployment rate doesn’t come as a surprise.   The 12 percent rate for May, dropped from 13.6 percent in April.  Economist Paul Schoofs says the state’s Safer at Home order closing most nonessential businesses due to the pandemic was in effect for two weeks in May before being struck down.   Schoofs says the drop shows that employers were ready to hire back workers […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 thompson creates uw system presidency transition team

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tommy Thompson has put together a transition team as he prepares to take over as interim president of the University of Wisconsin System. The system said in a statement Tuesday that Thompson has named former state Assembly Speaker Tom Loftus and former state Department of Administration Secretary Scott Nietzel as the team's co-chairmen. Loftus is a Democrat and served as speakers in the 1980s. Neitez is […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 evers promises secret recording won’t happen again

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers is promising his staff won't secretly record his calls with GOP legislative leaders again.  One of Evers' staff members recorded a May 14 call with Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. Evers, Vos and Fitzgerald said they were unaware of the recording. State law requires at least one party on a call to know the to know it's […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 pence campaigns in wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is launching a faith-centered tour in a conservative Milwaukee suburb, after touting Wisconsin’s school choice program for the second time this year. Pence’s events Tuesday in Wisconsin come two days before President Donald Trump was slated to visit both Marinette and Green Bay where he is to broadcast a town hall meeting. The dual visits in one week speak to Wisconsin’s importance […]

todayJune 23, 2020

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6-24-20 all-clear after suspicious package found at wi gop office

HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — Police in western Wisconsin have given the all-clear after a strip mall was evacuated and a bomb squad called in following the discovery of a package outside a local Republican Party campaign office. Officers in Hudson were sent to the scene just before 9 a.m. Police said the package, made out of a military-grade ammunition can, was identified as a potential threat and the area was […]

todayJune 23, 2020