MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he won't run again for president as a sitting governor. Walker said Wednesday he would rule out running for president as a sitting governor "and stay committed to the end of that." Walker made moves to run for president shortly after being re-elected to a second term in November and dropped out last month. His current term runs through 2018, which will […]
Republican congressman Glenn Grothman is calling on House Republican leadership to tie social security disability insurance reform to any increase in the nation’s borrowing limit. Grothman says for far too long, the debt ceiling has been increased without significant spending reforms. Grothman says more than four million beneficiaries have been added to the SSDI rolls since 2001 and the SSDI Trust Fund is projected to run out of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Madison is allowing Wisconsin's Chippewa tribes to hunt deer at night in part of northern Wisconsin. The state has long banned hunting deer at night for safety reasons. The Chippewa, though, have pushed for years for a night hunt in part of northern Wisconsin the tribes ceded to the government in the 1800s. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled in 1991 that […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A pair of legislators is trying to convince an Assembly committee to approve a bill that would allow hunters to wear blaze pink. Reps. Nick Milroy and Joel Kleefisch introduced the bill earlier this year. They told the Assembly's natural resources committee during a public hearing Wednesday that blaze pink is just as safe as blaze orange. Majid Sarmadi, a University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert who […]
Appellate court judge JoAnne Kloppenburg says she is the State Supreme Court candidate with the most experience. Kloppenburg made a campaign stop in Fond du lac this week. She says the election is not a referendum on governor Scott Walker but rather the independence and future of the state supreme court. But Kloppenburg says Walker’s appointment of Bradley to fill the vacancy after Justice Crooks died last month gives the […]
The Department of Public Works would like to inform the motoring public the closure of Dixie Street between Hickory Street and Morris Street. The closure will begin Monday, October 19th and remain closed approximately 1 week. The street will be closed to allow the railroad to make temporary repairs to the crossing on Dixie Street. Motorists are encouraged to find an alternate route as there will not be a signed […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Justice Rebecca Bradley says she will not coordinate with outside groups as she runs to retain her seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Bradley said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press that even though such coordination with issue advocacy groups is permitted based on a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling from July, she will not do it. But Bradley refused to call on such groups […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin state appeals court has ruled that Attorney General Brad Schimel must release two training videos that he wanted to keep secret, saying there is no reason to withhold them. The 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Wednesday that Schimel must release the videos made when he was Waukesha County district attorney in 2009 and 2013. The court affirms a ruling made last year […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Assembly plans to vote next week on bills dissolving the nonpartisan state elections board to create a partisan commission and prohibiting the use of secret John Doe investigations into political crimes. The Assembly plans to take them up on Tuesday along with a bill rewriting the state's campaign finance laws to double the amount of contributions candidates can receive. All three bills are […]