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The Fond du Lac Public Works director says a major road reconstruction project will inconvenience motorists for the rest of the summer.  Jordan Skiff says Military Road between Seymour Street and Pioneer Road is closed for the next two months as construction work continues on the Military and Pioneer Road project.  "We always knew this part of the Pioneer Road project would be coming.  Fortunately to this point we've been […]

Republican state senator Dan Feyen says a Senate Republican budget proposal  cuts taxes and pays for roads and public education .  The senate plan calls for an additional $712 million in additional borrowing to pay for roads.  Assembly Republicans said last week they agreed to an offer from the governor to use $200 million originally planned for an income tax cut to pay for roads.  But senate majority leader Scott […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic state Superintendent Tony Evers has filed paperwork to set up a run for governor.  Evers said Friday that creating a campaign committee is the next logical step to take, but he expects to make a final decision on whether to get into the race "in the near future."  Evers becomes the seventh Democrat to create a committee for a potential run against Republican Gov. Scott […]

Wisconsin Republican state representative Joan Ballweg of Markesan has been chosen by a bipartisan group of her legislative peers from the Midwest to join the national leadership team of The Council of State Governments.  The group is the nation’s only organization serving all three branches of government.  CSG’s Midwestern Legislative Conference Executive Committee selected Ballweg at its July 9 meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.  A member of the Wisconsin Assembly […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he looks forward to seeing Senate Republicans' ideas when they introduce their own state budget.  Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald plans to introduce the spending plan at a news conference Tuesday. His spokeswoman, Myranda Tanck, said it will include everything that the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee has already voted on as well as plans for tax changes, funding roads and funding […]

The Fond du Lac High School Summer Band will take the stage for their second Buttermilk Festival performance in a joint concert with the GHO Symphonic Band from Germany  on Wednesday, July 19.  The free program at Buttermilk Creek Park will begin at 7:15 p.m.  Under the direction of Chris Barnes and Matt McVeigh, the FHS Summer Band is comprised of high school students through all grade levels. The group […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Researchers at a Wisconsin university have been awarded a $1 million grant to develop a tool to find and fix algorithmic bias.   University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will use the National Science Foundation grant to work on a tool called FairSquare, which will be able to detect and automatically fix biases in software and algorithms.  Computer software is increasingly being used by private companies and government […]

Agnesian HealthCare has announced a series of executive promotions.  Katherine Vergos has been promoted to St. Agnes Hospital chief operating and nursing officer.  She will be responsible for the daily operations at the Hospital.  Holly Brenner will now serve as senior vice president of strategic development and marketing, and president of the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation.  Bonnie Schmitz has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer.     Schmitz […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man who collected a Wisconsin Lottery jackpot that was rigged by his friend has admitted using the windfall for an investment scheme that produced another wave of undeserved government money.  Court records show Robert Rhodes recently testified that he used the $783,000 payout to receive an additional $180,000 in bogus tax refunds.  The Texas businessman sent $450,000 to the Caribbean to buy an insurance […]