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Two years ago today Wisconsin was waking-up to the aftermath of the first night of protests and riots in Kenosha following the shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake was shot two years ago yesterday after fighting with police, trying to get into his ex’s SUV, and finally reaching for a knife. That shooting touched off three days of protests and riots that burned parts of Kenosha. The violence wouldn’t end until Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two people and wounded a third. As

 You’re going to hear more about legalizing marijuana ahead of the November election . The head of the UW-Eau Claire College Democrats yesterday launched a Vote Yes campaign designed to get people to vote for the non-binding referendum on pot that’ll be on the ballot this fall. Matthew Lehner said voters need to tell lawmakers in Madison how they feel about legalized marijauna. Critics say the pot question is simply an attempt to get more people to vote in this

The last house near the Foxconn development has finally sold, for nearly a million-dollars. The Mount Pleasant village board on Monday voted to buy Kim and Jim Mahoney’s home near the development for 950 thousand-dollars. That includes just over 750 thousand-dollars for the home, and another nearly 200 thousand-dollars in relocation expenses. The Mahoney’s fought for five years to get what they say was a fair price for their home near the still-being-built Foxconn site. They were the last home

Winning the trophy for America’s best mullet is just the beginning for a western Wisconsin boy. Eight-year-old Emmitt Bailey has big plans now that he’s won first place in the USA Mullet Championships. He beat-out 24 other kids, including another boy from Wisconsin, to win the best mullet competition. Bailey has been invited to throw out a pitch at an upcoming Brewers game, and has been invited to a Minnesota Wild game as well. Bailey is waiting to use his 25 hundred-dollar mullet

Losing in the NFC Championship again didn’t hurt the Packers bottom line. Forbes this week came out with a list of the value for every NFL team. The Packers are 15th on the list, valued at four-point-two billion-dollars. That’s a 22 percent jump from last season. The Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in the NFL, with a price tag of eight billion dollars. Then come the Patriots, Rams, Giants, and Bears.

The Milwaukee Brewing Company says there will be beer at its Fiserv Forum-area taproom, but it’s not clear if it will be their beer. The company yesterday said another brewer will take over after it closes the taproom at the end of the month. The Milwaukee Brewing Company isn’t saying why it is closing the taproom, or who will take over. The taproom’s closure comes as the Milwaukee Ale House is set to close its Third Ward location next month.

Some Brewer legends will be tending bar at American Family Field this weekend. The team yesterday said Robin Yount and pitcher Trevor Gott will be serving drinks at this weekend’s game. Gott will work Friday night’s game, and Yount will work on Saturday. They will also be joined by Brewer broadcasters and Brewer executives. You can find out when and where at the Brewers’ website.

All decorations, containers, shepherd hooks, solar lights and other adornments at Hillside Cemetery must be removed by October 1st for fall clean-up. Items affixed to headstones may stay, (i.e. grave saddles, monument-mounted vases), but any loose trinkets or items stuck in the ground around the stone must be removed. Staff will discard any remaining items beginning October 1st. It is strongly encouraged that any items/decorations of great monetary or emotional value be protected in a safe place outside of the

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers  wants to make more tax cuts with the state’s budget surplus.  However Evers likely won’t be able to do anything about it until the next legislative session.  Evers says the state’s expected to have a budget surplus of over five-billion dollars and a rainy day fund of around one-point-seven-billion dollars.

It’s a little more than four years in prison for an Ohio man who admitted to stealing four million-dollars in jewels from a suburban Milwaukee shop. A judge sentenced James Quinn of Youngstown, Ohio to 57 months in federal prison for the robbery at Treiber & Straub Jewelers in Brookfield back in July of 2016.  Prosecutors say Quinn and at least two others broke into the store by cutting a hole in the wall, breaching the safe, and making off