The Fond du Lac County Board is remembering the county’s first county executive. Anita Anderegg died last Monday at the age of 92. Tuesday night the county supervisors observed a moment of silence prior to the board meeting. Anderegg served as county executive from 1981 to 1993. Prior to that she served 12 years as a county board supervisor. County executive Al Buechel says Anderegg was instrumental in creating the […]
Several Fond du Lac area businesses and individuals are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the community. The 33rd annual Marian University Business & Industry awards dinner was held Tuesday night at Marian's Stayer Center. Alliance Laundry Systems, LLC, of Ripon received the Business of the Year award. Established in 1908, Alliance Laundry Systems, LLC, is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of commercial laundry equipment used in laundromats, […]
Wisconsin residents are receiving confusing messages by phone and mail about the election. Just last week some people received a Wisconsin voter registration form in the mail with their name and address already filled in. They were told to mail the form to their municipal clerk, even though it was already too late for mailed registrations to be processed. Other people have reported receiving robocalls telling them to bring a […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state elections board has decided not to change its policy about when a voter turns 18 and is eligible to vote. The Government Accountability Board was asked by Grafton High School student Zachary Ziolkowski to vote in the Nov. 4 election, arguing that he is eligible because his 18th birthday is on Nov. 5. His father Tim Ziolkowski, an attorney, argued Tuesday that he […]
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Two University of Wisconsin-La Crosse employees have filed complaints against the school alleging discrimination and retaliation. A recent complaint filed by Sandra Sieber, assistant director of the school's Office of International Education, with the state Department of Workforce Development Equal Rights Division. It alleges the university retaliated with "extraordinary scrutiny and criticism" when she raised concerns over the February hiring of the department's new associate […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal Center for Media and Democracy is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the conservative group at the center of the John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign. The Wisconsin Club for Growth filed as a tax-exempt organization in 2011 and 2012 and told the IRS it spent nothing for political purposes. The Center for Media and Democracy's complaint says the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Labor unions, the state Republican Party and the state realtors association are all pumping money to Wisconsin's attorney general candidates. Democrat Susan Happ and Republican Brad Schimel each filed campaign finance reports Monday detailing contributions over the last three months. Happ's report shows her top donors were the Wisconsin Education Association Council's political action committee, the United Auto Workers' Wisconsin political action committee, the Wisconsin Laborers […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has raised about $900,000 less over the past three months than her campaign originally said. Burke's campaign on Monday issued a press release saying she had raised about $10.2 million in the roughly three month period that ended Oct. 20. But in her official filing with state elections officials, made later Monday night, Burke reported raising about $9.3 million. Burke spokesman […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The founder and CEO of health care software giant Epic Systems and the creator of the American Girl doll company are among the donors to Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner and American Girl creator and philanthropist Pleasant Rowland each gave Burke's campaign $10,000. The donations were listed on Burke's latest campaign finance report filed late Monday that covers a roughly three-month […]