Democrats are floating the idea of droping the Medicare eligibility age for the first time in the program’s 55 year history. President Joe Biden is reportedly considering changing the requirement to qualify for the health program from 65 years to 60 years of age. Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says it would expand health care coverage, potentially saving them thousands of dollars a year. Schoofs says one of the complications that […]
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources in both Wisconsin and Minnesota are working with federal officials to try a new method to capture and remove invasive carp from the Mississippi River. Biologists are using huge nets to section off parts of the river where the carp have been found. Recently they were working near La Crosse, a spot where the invasive species has been increasing in […]
Fond du Lac Police Chief Bill Lamb is thanking the community for supporting public safety. On AM 1170s Between the Lines program Chief Lamb thanked Fond du Lac residents for voting in favor of a referendum to add six new police officers and six new firefighter/paramedics. "Thank you so much for the citizens in Fond du Lac," Lamb told WFDL news. "The information the Fire and Rescue and Police Departments […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump offered his “Total Endorsement” of Wisconsin’s Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Thursday, encouraging him to seek a third term as he mulls whether to run again or retire. Johnson’s seat in battleground Wisconsin is up in 2022 and after previously saying he would not run again, Johnson is now saying he’s considering it and doesn’t feel any pressure to make a decision […]
As traffic begins to pick up across the country with increased vaccinations and decreased pandemic restrictions, the auto group club AAA reminds drivers about focusing on the road ahead and not their smartphones. April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says distracted driving crashes kill nine people per day. In Wisconsin there were 12,000 crashes, including 29 fatalities in 2019 involving a distracted driver. Jarmusz says […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff says two Fond du Lac area men in their early 20s are missing and presumed drowned after falling out of a canoe on Lake Winnebago. The victims have been identified as Dakota Goldapske and Michael Gohde, both 21 years old, and from Fond du lac. The rescue search turned into a recovery effort Tuesday for the two men who were tossed into the water about […]
The Fond du Lac Police Department Friday announced that it has hired four new officers to join the Department’s patrol division: Officers Elijah Fuller, Jack Malloy, Andrew Nuanes and Da Neng Vang. These officers are part of a larger cohort of new officers joining the department. In total, nine new officers joined the patrol division at the Fond du Lac Police Department in 2020 and 2021 – six of whom […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marquette has fired basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski after seven seasons in which he posted no NCAA Tournament victories. The dismissal Friday comes after Marquette went 13-14 for its first losing season since Wojciechowski's debut season of 2014-15. The former longtime Duke assistant went 128-95 overall and 59-68 in Big East competition at Marquette. The Golden Eagles earned two NCAA Tournament appearances in his seven seasons. They likely […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a bipartisan bill that would require schools to include instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides. Under the proposal, public schools, charter schools and private voucher schools would have to include such instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides at least once in grades 5-8 and once in grades 9-12. The bill would require the state superintendent to develop model curricula […]