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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Republican legislators have standing to appeal a federal ruling that extended the deadline for counting absentee ballots in the battleground state. GOP legislators have asked the full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a ruling extending the deadline for getting absentee ballots to clerks by six days. The appellate court responded by asking the state Supreme Court […]

The Centers for Disease Control is looking to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus on college campuses.   Throughout October the CDC will study how reliable antigen testing is to monitor spread of COVID-19 among UWO students, including those who are asymptomatic.  Kim Langolf is the risk manager and project lead for UWO’s COVID-19 Response.   She says UWO has one of the most robust status sets […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election officials have scrapped plans to use the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers' stadiums as early voting sites. The city of Milwaukee's election commission had planned to use Fiserv Forum and Miller Park between Oct. 20 and Nov. 1. Voters could have voted early in person or returned absentee ballots they received in the mail at the stadiums. The commission said Tuesday it would not hold early […]

Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam is offering a mobile flu clinic this fall.   Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 7 the mobile unit will be located  in the parking lot near Entrance B.   The unit  is designed to increase access to the flu vaccine and reduce traffic inside Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam facilities.   Hospital officials say entering the first full flu season during the COVID-19 pandemic,  it’s more important than ever to have yourself inoculated […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers’ administration has issued a new order limiting the size of public indoor gatherings to stem the spread of COVID-19. Wisconsin has become one of the worst hot spots for the disease over the last month as colleges and schools reopened and fatigue over wearing masks and social distancing has grown. The order issued Tuesday limits public indoor gatherings to 25% of the room […]

Governor Tony Evers has announced a second round of grants to help small businesses and communities amid the coronavirus pandemic.   The governor says the $100 million in investments include over $50 million of $5,000 “We’re All In” grants to more than 10,000 small businesses.   Other investments target tourism, entertainment  and cultural venues.  The grants include $20 million for the lodging industry,  $15 million for live music and performance venues and $10 million each for […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is reporting another coronavirus outbreak in a state prison. Officials say Oshkosh Correctional Institution has more than 300 active cases among inmates. Oshkosh Correctional has a large number of elderly inmates and is the state’s most populous prison with nearly 2,000 prisoners. The surge in cases comes as Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution reported 437 active cases of COVID-19 among inmates — […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says rising COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin are alarming.  Grothman was briefed on the situation last week during a meeting with representatives from the Wisconsin Hospital Association.   Grothman says for six months Wisconsin had been safer than most other states, but right now hospitalizations are over 50 percent higher than the previous high,  COVID deaths are climbing, and he says it’s focused in the Fox Valley.  "Just remind people […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer  says the state’s approach to testing the COVID-19 positivy rate is accurate and the preferred method of calculating the rate.  Kim Mueller was responding to a report from the conservative MacIver Institute that argued a fundamental flaw in how the state calculates the daily positive test rate was driving the recent explosion in that rate.  The report asserts the state should be basing the calculation off the raw […]