Month: May 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans are moving to reinstate a requirement that unemployment people in Wisconsin search for work in order to qualify for benefits while they don’t have a job. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Friday he would support an effort to reinstate the requirement that was suspended by state officials last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Sen. Steve Nass, who co-chairs the Legislature’s committee that has […]

A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a challenge to a city of Fond du Lac order to raze an historic convent building.   The District Two Court of Appeals Wednesday reversed Fond du Lac judge Robert Wirtz’s decision  to dismiss a suit brought by the owner of the Sisters of Holy Nativity Convent on East Division Street.   The building was damaged  by an arson fire in 2015.   Few repairs have been made to the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health officials have ordered only a fraction of their allotted COVID-19 vaccine doses for next week in another sign of plateauing interest in the vaccine. President Joe Biden's administration announced earlier this week that it would shift doses from states with lower demand to states with more interest. Wisconsin has been allocated 86,580 Pfizer doses and 65,900 Moderna doses and 10,200 Johnson & Johnson doses […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee has voted to expand a mental health center in Madison to reduce the number of inmates at the state’s juvenile prisons. The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted Thursday to go along with Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to borrow up to $66 million to build a new unit at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center in Madison. The new unit will be able […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hundreds of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' priorities, including legalizing marijuana, raising $1 billion in taxes and expanding collective bargaining rights, have been killed by the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee. Lawmakers are taking their first votes Thursday in writing the next state budget. Republicans essentially scrapped the Democratic governor's entire two-year proposal. They instead are building off the current budget, The Joint Finance Committee voted to remove […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A man has been convicted of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend’s father and wounding her and another man in Oshkosh last year. A jury on Wednesday found Joshua Aide guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Aide shot Rebecca Borkowski, killed her father, James Gruettner, and shot John Miller at a home in August. A criminal complaint says Aide was upset […]

When dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes develop it’s essential to have a reliable way to receive alerts about approaching weather.   ReadyWisconsin is encouraging everyone to get a NOAA Weather Radio if  you don’t already have one.  ReadyWisconsin’s Andrew Beckett says the weather radios will alert you if you are sleeping in the middle of the night.  Many devices feature a battery back-up in the event power is lost during a storm.   In […]