Month: April 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration has blocked former Gov. Scott Walker's plan to require some childless adults to work to maintain Medicaid benefits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent state health officials a letter Tuesday saying it was withdrawing approval for the work requirement for BadgerCare recipients. The plan would have limited BadgerCare coverage to four years for able-bodied, childless adults ages 19 to 49 […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers can exclude members of a conservative think tank from attending press briefings and keep them off his email list sent to other reporters. Friday's decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a ruling from a lower court. The MacIver Institute for Public Policy filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Evers […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, something conservatives have wanted done for nearly two years. The court’s 5-2 ruling Friday means about 69,000 people on the list of likely movers will not have their voter registrations deactivated. When the lawsuit was first brought in 2019, about 234,000 were on […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers is ordering workers to remove all concrete slabs around the entrances and exits of the University of Wisconsin System headquarters building after two slabs somehow broke off and plunged to the sidewalk below over the weekend. Evers issued an emergency order on Friday saying Van Hise Hall on the UW-Madison campus sees heavy foot traffic and the slabs pose an immediate threat to […]

The City of Fond du Lac Water Utility has scheduled bi-annual citywide unidirectional water main flushing to begin on Monday April 19, 2021.  The schedule for the flushing is as follows: Monday – Northeast Section,  Tuesday – Southeast, Wednesday – Southwest and Northwest.   Flushing operations will take place each day between the hours of 7:00 am and 5:00 pm. If unexpected problems occur, the schedule could extend into Thursday April […]

Beaver Dam Area Community Theatre (BDACT) is once again producing an area high school musical.  Auditions will be held at BDACT located at 117 West Maple Ave. in Beaver Dam. Anyone who is currently in high school is welcome. This year we are putting on the 2012 revision of Stephen Schwartz's Working. The musical was nominated for 6 Tony awards and has new songs added by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Auditions are Tuesday, May 4, 6:00-8:00 […]