Month: March 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative businessman has filed a lawsuit with the Wisconsin Supreme Court seeking to ban absentee ballot drop boxes and other election practices.  Jere Fabick filed the lawsuit on Monday.  Fabick argues the elections practices he's challenging aren't authorized in state law. He's seeking to ban drop boxes, prohibit municipal clerks from filling in missing witness information on absentee ballots and prohibit third parties from requesting […]

The Fond du Lac County Board has given the okay for the city of  Ripon dispatch center to consolidate with the Fond du Lac County communications center.   The county board has approved a memorandum of understanding with the city of Ripon to transfer dispatch responsibilities to the county.    In January the Ripon Common Council voted in favor of consolidation.   Fond du Lac County  director of  communications and emergency management Bobbie Hicken says Ripon is […]

The Fond  du Lac County Land and Water Conservation Department is going to be moving to a new location.  The county board has approved a resolution to purchase a strip mall building near Fleet Farm for $1 million to relocate the Department.   County executive Al Buechel says the Department is running out of space at it’s current location on the West Frontage Road.  Buechel says purchasing the building is less expensive than leasing.

The local unemployment rate is up  in the latest reporting period.   According to the state Department of Worforce Development the Dodge County unemployment rate in January was four percent, up from 3.4 percent in December.   In Fond du Lac County the unemployment rate increased four-tenths of a percent to 3.8 percent.  The jobless rate in the city of Fond du Lac was 4.1 percent in January,  up from 3.6 percent in December.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bipartisan bill that would allow people to braid hair without a barber or cosmetology license. The bill's main sponsors, Rep. Sheila Stubbs and Sen. LaTonya Johnson, contend that hair-braiding is a natural and ancient craft and de-regulating it will allow more female entrepreneurs to practice braiding, creating jobs for people of color. They also argue that many cosmetology schools don't […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A union official says a worker at a supermarket distribution center near Milwaukee shot and killed two co-workers. Thomas Bennett, secretary-treasurer of General Teamsters Local Union No. 200 said Wednesday that the shootings happened Tuesday night in different locations inside the Roundy’s distribution center in Oconomowoc, about 30 miles west of Milwaukee. Oconomowoc police said the suspect’s vehicle was spotted in Milwaukee after the attack and officers […]