MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal report says the number of homeless people has declined slightly in Wisconsin. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report to Congress comes from a one-night count by local homeless advocacy agencies. Wisconsin's report says the number of homeless people declined nearly 1 percent this year compared to 2013 and dropped about 4½ percent from 2010. The State Journal reports there were 6,055 […]
A pre-sentence investigation has been scheduled for one of two Fond du Lac men convicted of participating in a business burglary spree. Anthony Buechel and James Meisner were arrested in February for burglarizing several businesses including taverns in the city of Fond du lac and Fond du lac County. Meisner pleaded no contest to one count of burglary. A deferred prosection agreement was ordered on two other counts and 25 […]
Fond du Lac congressman Tom Petri testified this week at a hearing of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Representative Tom Petri (R-WI) testified on behalf of Wisconsin-based paper company Appvion, Inc., to support extending the countervailing duties on lightweight thermal paper from China and Germany. Petri was joined by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and U.S. Representatives Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Mike Turner (R-OH) at the hearing in […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials are predicting a little more than half of the state's voting-age population will go to the polls next week. The Government Accountability Board officials said today it expects about 2.5 million people will vote Tuesday. That's about 56.5 percent of the 4.3 million people in Wisconsin old enough to vote.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke is making a final plea to get voters on her side. Burke says affordable higher education is a key to creating and filling good paying jobs. Burke says if she is elected, she would support raising the minimum wage. Burke says the governor’s divide and conquer strategy has stunted economic growth in Wisconsin. "We have to make sure that we put aside this divisiveness. […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker says he had nothing to do with allegations that his Democratic opponent Mary Burke was fired from her job at the family business Trek Bicycles in 1993. Walker said during a campaign stop in Sheboygan today that he is not behind the story coming out in the final week of the campaign.
The director of the Marquette Law School poll says voters, not polls elect candidates… and says voter turnout will still be key in Tuesday’s election. The final poll showed governor Scott Walker up by seven points among likely voters…but up by just one point among all registered voters. Poll director Charles Franklin says there were some other significant findings in the poll including how independent voters were leaning and the […]
A Fond du Lac County cheese plant is expanding. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation says it has authorized up to $800,000 in tax credits to support a $7 million expansion project at Baker Cheese Factory Inc. of St. Cloud. The project is expected to create as many as 40 jobs. The amount of tax credits awarded depends on how many new jobs are created. The WEDC news release says […]
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — The Dodge County Humane Society says two neglected dogs brought to the shelter weren't abandoned in a dumpster as the man who delivered them had claimed. Humane Society president Ryan Vossekuil says when police investigated the case of possible animal neglect, they found the man wasn't telling the truth. He had claimed he found the small dogs in a dumpster behind a Beaver Dam grocery […]