Month: November 2020

The team helping Joe Biden prepare for the White House and a nonpartisan institution are asking President Donald Trump to cooperate with an orderly transition of power, even though the president has not conceded the election.   Retired Ripon College political science professor Marty Farrell says depending on how quickly Trump recognizes Biden as president-elect will determine how smooth the transition occurs.  "They start setting out space and allowing members of the transition […]

The director of the Marquette Law School poll says the challenge in getting some Trump supporters to participate in polls makes it a difficult to come up with an accurate poll.   Just like 2016, polls across the country generally missed the mark on this year’s presidential race.   The final Marquette poll was off by four points, within the margin of error.   Poll director Charles Franklin says the problem is the poll is systematically missing […]

President Donald Trump is tweeting a series of claims about four states where he is currently trailing President-elect Joe Biden. In all four cases, his tweets were baseless or misstated how the electoral process works. While The Associated Press and other media outlets have already declared Biden the winner, Trump has pursued legal challenges in several states and repeatedly made a barrage of false or dubious claims about voter fraud […]

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in Wisconsin have charged a 19-year-old man with supplying the gun that police say was used in a pair of fatal shootings during a protest in August. The Kenosha News reports that Dominick Black was charged with two felony counts of supplying a dangerous weapon to a minor. According to the criminal complaint, Black asked 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse to join him in guarding businesses in […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee city attorney have agreed to a revised $750,000 settlement of a lawsuit Brown filed after getting taken to the ground, shocked with a Taser and arrested during an encounter with police in 2018. The city attorney is recommending the city's Common Council approve the deal. Brown rejected the city's original offer of $400,000 made last year. Brown’s attorney, Mark […]

Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall” to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. He did it more sturdily in Michigan, but more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. While The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for Biden, the Democrat’s relatively narrow margins there reflect the nation’s continuing deep divisions more than a newly strengthened Democratic bulwark in […]

An eight year old Fond du Lac boy received serious, but what appeared to be non life-threatening injuries,  after being struck by a hit and run driver.  The incident happened Friday afternoon in the area of the Richard and Son’s Bakery parking lot on Forest Avenue.  According to witnesses, a  car was traveling through the parking lot and accelerated as it was moving toward a group of boys walking  through the […]