Month: September 2023

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Several Republican Wisconsin lawmakers have proposed impeaching the state's top elections official. The move came Thursday as Democrats are fighting to keep Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe in office. Democrats say the GOP-led Senate acted illegitimately last week when it voted to fire Wolfe. That vote is being challenged in a lawsuit brought by Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general. Meanwhile, five Assembly Republicans proposed impeaching Wolfe […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials are defending their decision not to set a hard cap on the state's wolf population in front of a Republican-controlled legislative committee. The remarks from the Department of Natural Resources large carnivore specialist Randy Johnson came during a hearing Thursday before the state Senate's sporting heritage committee on a GOP bill that would force the agency to set a statewide population goal in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan group of Wisconsin lawmakers is reviving a proposal to implement ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries in the battleground state. Under the bill unveiled Wednesday, all candidates for the U.S. House and Senate would compete in a single primary with the top five finishers advancing to the general election. That's where ranked-choice voting would kick in: Voters would rank their picks in order of […]

A proposed 2024 Fond du Lac city budget includes a decrease in the tax rate.  The Fond du Lac city council discussed the budget at a special meeting Wednesday night.  City manager Joe Moore says the big ticket item in the budget is a multi-million dollar bio-solids dryer at the wastewater treatment plant.  Moore says the proposed budget includes a decrease in the tax rate.  A public hearing on the budget […]

A public open house is being held this weekend at Central Wisconsin Christian School in Waupun following the largest expansion in school history.  The open house will be held Saturday from 10am to 1pm.  CWC director of advancement Gregg Zonnefeld says the expansion is necessary to meet increased student enrollment.  The largest phase of the project will add nearly 15,000 square feet at the high school and 15,000 square feet of elementary […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some names are just the wurst. Just four months after announcing that the hot dog-shaped Wienermobile was changing its name to the Frankmobile, the one-of-a-kind wiener on wheels is reverting to the original. Oscar Mayer announced Wednesday on Instagram that the Frankmobile name is toast. The Wienermobile rides again. The name change announced by The Kraft Heinz Company in May was meant to pay homage to […]

The area unemployment rate is up slightly in the latest reporting period.  The city of Fond du Lac's jobless rate in August was 3.8 percent, up from 3.5 percent in July.   Fond du Lac County's unemployment rate was up four-tenths of a percent to 3.3 percent.  In Dodge County the August unemployment rate was 3.1 percent, up from 2.5 percent the month before.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature has ignored a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. He called on lawmakers on Wednesday to pass a $1 billion package. It would keep a pandemic-era child care program running, send more money to the University of Wisconsin and create a paid family leave program. Republicans in both the Senate and Assembly convened the session as required by law, but took […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans fighting to preserve Wisconsin legislative electoral maps they drew argue in new legal filings that a key liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice must recuse from the case despite the dismissal of complaints against her related to comments she made about redistricting.  Democratic allies asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the Republican maps counter in court filings Monday that the judicial commission's actions are further proof that […]