Month: May 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers and University of Wisconsin officials are sparring over a bill that end an arrangement allowing UW doctors to train to perform abortions at a Planned Parenthood clinic. The bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Andre Jacque, argued during a hearing before the Senate's families and children committee on Wednesday that the deal violates state law prohibiting taxpayer-funded abortions. Robert Golden, dean of the UW medical school, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Female athletes are urging Wisconsin lawmakers to ban transgender people from participating in girls’ and women’s sports, while opponents of the Republican-backed measures say they are discriminatory and chasing a problem that doesn’t exist. A broad array of more than 30 groups opposed the measures that got their first public hearings Wednesday before three legislative committees. Supporters including female athletes and representatives from national groups pushing […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he doesn’t believe an independent commission is necessary to investigate the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, although he says there are still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened.  Grothman voted against the creation of the bipartisan commission last week.  Grothman says he is surprised that there are still many unanswered questions about what happened.  Grothman says instead of creating a commission a current standing committee could […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Chris Larson, of Milwaukee, is joining an already crowded field of candidates for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Larson announced his candidacy Wednesday. Johnson has not said yet whether he will seek a third term. Other Democrats in the race are Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson; Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski; and Wausau […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources board has started the process of revising Wisconsin's wolf hunt rules to potentially prohibit night hunting and shorten the window for registering kills after hunters blew past their quota in February. The board authorized the department Wednesday to schedule a hearing on the proposal.  The Trump administration removed wolves from the endangered species list in January. The DNR was preparing to […]

The local unemployment rate is down in the latest reporting period.  The state Department of Workforce Development says the Dodge County unemployment rate fell eight-tenths of a percent to 3.5 percent in April.  In Fond du lac County the April jobless rate is 3.4 percent, down from 4.1 percent in March.   The city of Fond du Lac’s unemployment rate dropped from 4.2 percent in March to 3.9 percent in April.

Fond du Lac County’s largest business organization is speaking out for the first time since the city council voted to exit a contract with a group of business leaders who had pledged millions of dollars to build a restaurant at Lakeside Park.  Envision Greater Fond du Lac president Sadie Parafiniuk told AM 1170s Between The Lines program this week the council’s decision to terminate the enhancement agreement with Lakeside Forward will […]

The Fond du Lac County Clerk says data from Wisconsin election officials that identified only 27 potential cases of voter fraud out of more than three million ballots cast in the November president election shows that the state’s election system is secure.  County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says people need to educate themselves on how the voting system works and the safeguards that are in place.  Freiberg says out of the just over […]