The planning for 2015 Fond du Lac street construction projects is underway. Public Works Director Jordan Skiff says there are four proposed street projects for this year. The streets are W. Division Street (Brooke Street to Macy Street), Walker Street (W. Twelfth Street to Military Road), Cedar Street (W. Twelfth Street to W. Ninth Street), and W. Eleventh Street as an Unimproved Street from Farewell Avenue to the west dead […]
The chairman of the Assembly Education Committee says he hopes to have a revised school accountability bill ready for debate in about a month. Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac says the plan will take a back seat over the next couple of weeks to right to work legislation. Thiesfeldt says he’s reworking his proposal to still includes sanctions for failing public schools, but forcing them to […]
An on-campus student housing project at UW Fond du Lac will not be ready in time for the start of next school year as originally planned. UW Fond du Lac Dean John Short says the project has been delayed at the request of the developer, Bluffstone, LLC. "Bluffstone asked for a delay because they're having delays on some of their other projects," Short told WFDL news. Last summer, Bluffstone and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —College students gathered in the state capitol today warned that Governor Scott Walker's budget plan will lead to fee and tuition increases in the University of Wisconsin system. The students gathered to lament Walker's plan to cut $300 million from the UW System. He also plans to continue a current tuition freeze for another two years and free the system from state oversight. The students' group predicts […]
The senate majority leader says he’s confident making Wisconsin a right to work state will help the economy and give workers more freedom to choose whether they want to pay union dues. State senator Scott Fitzgerald says debate will begin this week in the senate and could be on the governor’s desk in two weeks. "I think its a game changer. I think this really opens up the economy […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin union leaders will likely not get much help from judges if they decide to challenge Republicans' new right-to-work provisions in court. A labor expert says no one has ever mounted a successful legal challenge to right-to-work laws. Republicans who control the Legislature have fast-tracked a bill that would make Wisconsin the 25th state to prohibit unions from reaching deals with businesses that require workers to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Private and public-sector unions are joining together to stop a right-to-work bill. It's the bill that Republicans have put on a fast track to pass in the Wisconsin Legislature. Union leaders say that they are urging their members, as well as business owners, to contact state senators to tell them to vote against the bill. The proposal is moving fast. A Senate hearing was set for […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) —The median price of Wisconsin homes continue to rise, even as sales slipped in January. That's according to a housing market analysis by the Wisconsin Realtors Association. The report says home sales in Wisconsin dropped 3.7 percent last month compared with the same time last year.
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A Racine lawmaker wants to repeal Wisconsin's 48-hour waiting period to buy handguns. State Senator Van Wanggaard says the original intent of the waiting period was to give gun dealers enough time to complete a background check, but they can now be done nearly instantly. Wanggaard says the 48-hour waiting period now amounts to a "time tax."