A Fond du Lac state lawmaker has been elected to a leadership post. Republican state senator Rick Gudex was named senate president pro tempore. Gudex will preside over debate when the senate president, Mary Lazich, is not able to. "When she is on the floor and we are running proceedings I serve at the president's discretion," Gudex said. "If Mary Lazich decides that at some point throughout the proceeding that […]
The Republican state representative from Fond du Lac says last week’s election gives him a sense of validation that Wisconsin residents support the Republican agenda. State representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt was re-elected without opposition and Republicans are in control of the state capitol. "The temptation is to crow about the success you had, but that isn't what the people want to see. What they want to see is for us to […]
The Fond du Lac School District is in the process of updating its lease with Fond du lac Baseball Inc. for the Woodworth baseball-softball complex. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says the district wants to modernize the lease when the 15 year agreement expires next year. "The land is owned by the school district. The improvements that have been put on the property have been by the gratiousness of Baseball Inc. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Superintendent Tony Evers is calling for increasing state aid to public schools by $613 million over the next two years, a request that will have to pass the Republican-controlled Legislature and be signed by Gov. Scott Walker before taking effect. The two year budget request Evers submitted Monday would increase aid to public schools 2.6 percent in the 2015 school year and 4.7 percent the […]
The incoming chairman of the Senate's homeland security committee says he will aim to pass a border security bill once a new GOP-controlled Congress convenes in January. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin says his legislation would include a guest worker program to reduce incentives for illegal immigration. It would build on work already done by Congress, including a House bill aimed at ensuring that 90 percent of would-be border […]
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Slick, snow-covered roads are blamed for an accident involving a school bus in Outagamie County. Authorities say four kindergarteners, one high school student, the driver and an aide were on board when the bus from Clintonville schools slipped off a county highway and overturned. The accident happened about 7 a.m. Monday near Bear Creek. The driver and aide were taken to a New London hospital to […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The longest-serving woman in Wisconsin's Legislature has died at age 77. Former Rep. Annette Polly Williams, who died Sunday, is credited with helping create Wisconsin's school choice program and establishing the African American Education Council. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed her death.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A man heading to prison for stealing a $5 million Stradivarius violin admits he used a stun gun to attack a musician carrying the 300-year-old instrument in Milwaukee. Salah Salahadyn was sentenced to seven years in prison. He told the judge he intended to sell the instrument to help people he believed were unjustly evicted from the apartment building he managed. The 42-year-old said he thought "the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Rep. Jim Steineke has been elected as Republican majority leader for the Wisconsin state Assembly. Steineke, of Kaukauna, was chosen Monday by his Republican colleagues. He has been in the Assembly since 2011. Majority leader is the second most powerful position in the Assembly behind speaker. Steineke defeated state Reps. Andre Jacque, of DePere, and Joan Ballweg, of Markesan. The position of majority leader was […]