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The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly is facing a second challenge from the man who almost beat him earlier this month. Adam Steen, who came 260 votes short of unseating Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in this month’s primary, yesterday said he is running again as a write-in candidate. Steen is angry with Vos for not overturning the 2020 presidential election in the state. He said he wants voters to know the truth. Vos said Steen is ignoring the will of the

The University of Wisconsin says it’s affordable for most students in the state. The university released the results of its ‘affordability review’ yesterday. New UW President Jay Rothman said low- to moderate-income students are less likely to apply to a UW school, meaning a college degree may still be unaffordable to them. The review said even incoming underrepresented minority and first-generation students are more likely to come from higher-earning families. Wisconsin students pay about 11 thousand-dollars a year in tuition at UW-Madison, while out-of-state

It’s the 17-year anniversary of the Stoughton tornado that killed one person and injured nearly two dozen others.  The Stoughton tornado was an EF-3, a half-mile wide, and was on the ground for about 20 miles.  It was one of 27 tornadoes that tore across Wisconsin on this day back in 2005, causing around 30-million dollars worth of damage.  The outbreak remains the largest in Wisconsin history.

 Wisconsin’s attorney general is joining the list of people celebrating another round of canceled student debt. A-G Josh Kaul yesterday applauded President Biden for canceling three-point-nine billion-dollars in debt for over 200 thousand students who took classes at the ITT Technical Institute. The school closed in 2016 as complaints piled-up about shady business practices and high student costs. Kaul said students who were ‘defrauded by a predatory for-profit school’ shouldn’t be left holding the bag. It’s not clear how many

Wisconsin football and basketball games will soon reach an expanded audience thanks to a new TV deal.  The Big Ten has signed a seven-billion dollar deal with FOX, CBS, and NBC to carry football and basketball games.  The contract starts next July and will last seven years.  The deal also includes NBC’s streaming service Peacock, which will air eight football games a year.

Police in Chippewa Falls say a Minnesota man broke into a home to take a bath. It happened last week, officers say they got a call about a break-in and found the 29-year-old from St. Paul in the bathroom with the water running into the tub. Police say the man smelled of booze, and insisted he lived in the house with his girlfriend. No one at the home knew the man. He was arrested for burglary and taken to jail.

No one is sure just when kids at one Black River Falls school will move into their new building after someone vandalized it. Superintendent Shelly Severson says someone released some chemicals into the Forrest Street Elementary building, causing damage to the building itself and some of the schools’ computers. She says it will take some time to clean-up and fix that damage, and that means kids likely won’t be back in the building for the first day of school on

The Democrats have the lead in Wisconsin’s biggest races heading into the fall. The latest Marquette Law School Poll released yesterday gives Tony Evers a slight, two-point lead over Republican Tim Michels in the race for governor. The poll gives Democrat Mandela Barnes a seven point lead over Republican Ron Johnson in the race for U.S. Senate. Evers’ lead is in the poll’s margin of error. Marquette pollsters say the Democrats lead with voters who think the candidates represent them, but

Wisconsin’s public health managers have issued a public health advisory over the spike in fentanyl deaths. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said fentanyl deaths in the state are up 97 percent since 2019. DHS says there were nearly 13 hundred fentanyl deaths last year. The state is pushing to distribute more test strips and more Narcan to help drug users know what they have, and then possibly help people come back after a fentanyl overdose.

The Republicans who control the Wisconsin legislature aren’t on the same page as the governor over the state’s opioid settlement plan. The legislature’s Joint Finance Committee yesterday paused Governor Evers’ opioid spending plan. Republicans say they want some improvements, the governor says the delay is unacceptable. Governor Evers’ plan would spend huge chunks of the state’s 31 million-dollar settlement on new buildings and tribal communities, while spending just a few million-dollars in treatment and recovery.