MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican critics of the board that oversees elections and ethics law in Wisconsin say a new audit shows that an overhaul is needed. The Audit Bureau released its long-awaited report on the Government Accountability Board Friday. It found numerous problems with the board's operation, and made recommendations for improvement, but did not say it should be abolished. Representative Dean Knudson of Hudson says he is working […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former aide to Governor Scott Walker when he was Milwaukee county executive has appealed her conviction of misconduct in office to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Kelly Rindfleisch filed the appeal on Friday. It comes after a state appeals court on a 2-1 vote upheld her conviction last month. Rindfleisch was one of six people convicted as a result of a now-concluded John Doe investigation focusing […]
Monday is the deadline to sign up through the health insurance exchange if you want to be covered at the start of the new year. In neighboring Minnesota more than 30,000 people had signed up through the state’s health insurance exchange since open enrollment began November 15th. Robert Kraig with Citizen Action Wisconsin says there are no specific numbers for Wisconsin. The deadline to get insurance for the year to satisfy […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's anti-abortion groups have drawn up their wish list for the next legislative session. Wisconsin Family Action hopes to fortify the state's so-called right-of-conscience laws, which allows people to act or not act in accordance with their religious or moral beliefs. The group supported a failed constitutional amendment last session that would have prohibited the state from punishing anyone for exercising his right of conscience. Wisconsin […]
Incumbent Fond du Lac School Board members Eric Everson and Susan Jones are up for re-election next spring. Jones is circulating nomination papers seeking her sixth three year term. Everson was first appointed to the board in 2005. Linda Uselmann has taken out papers to run. She ran in the spring election earlier this year but was defeated by incumbent board members Mark Strand and Julie Nett. The filing deadline […]
52nd District Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R-Fond du Lac) was appointed by Speaker of the State Assembly Robin Vos to be the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Education for the upcoming 2015-17 session of the state legislature. “I would like to thank Speaker Vos for appointing me to lead this important committee. With my experiences as a 22-year educator, and a 4-year member of the Education Committee, I intend […]
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin has been named to serve on the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. The Senate Appropriations Committee, considered to be one of the most powerful on Capitol Hill, is responsible for deciding how the federal government spends money. “I am proud to be named to the Senate Appropriations Committee and I look forward to bringing our Wisconsin values to the national conversation about how we invest […]
A Fox Lake man accused of sexually assaulting a Fond du Lac woman while she slept has been bound over for trial. Thirty nine year old Marlin Snake pleaded not guilty in Fond du lac County Circuit Court to second degree sexual assault of an unconscious victim and criminal damage to property as a repeat offender. According to a criminal complaint, a Fond du Lac woman told police she had […]
A third person charged in the heroin overdose death of a Fond du lac County man two years ago has been bound over for trial. Alonzo Cornelius of Milwaukee waived his preliminary hearing Thursday on charges of first degree reckless homicide-delivery of drugs and manufacture-delivery of heroin as a repeater. Bail was set earlier at $250,000 cash. Cornelius is the third person charged in the heroin overdose death of […]