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A federal court says Wisconsin cannot tax tribal lands without the okay from Congress. The appeals court in Chicago issued the ruling yesterday. It backs three bands of the Chippewa in northern Wisconsin. The state tried to impose property taxes on the land back in 2018 because the tribes sold the land to non-tribal members, then bought it back. The tribes say the land is tax-free under the terms of a treaty from 1854.

The UW System is offering free tuition to some students at three regional campuses. The university yesterday announced the Wisconsin Tuition Promise program. The idea is to offer ‘last dollar’ financial aid for kids from moderate and low income families. The program covers costs at UW-Milwaukee, UW-Whitewater, and UW-Parkside. The idea is to get students a degree without any tuition or fees. Families have to make less than 67 thousand-dollars a-year to qualify. The first round of students will see some help

The bad blood over the investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin isn’t going away. State Rep. Janel Brandtjen yesterday asked when Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will be as tough on the Wisconsin Elections Commission as he was on special elections investigator Michael Gableman. Vos fired Gabelman on Friday. Brandtjen said Vos has not called for the Elections Commission to be disbanded despite what she calls a history of lawlessness. Brandtjen and Vos have butted heads for months over the investigation into the last

Wisconsin is proudly represented in the contest for best mullet in America. Two kids, Axel Wenzel, of Brillion, and Emmitt Bailey, of Menomonie, are among the 25 youngsters competing for the best Kentucky Waterfall in the country. The contest is being presented by the USA Mullet Championships. You can see the kids’ delicious flows and the pictures of the other competitors at the Mullet Championships website. Voting is open through Friday. The winner gets 25 hundred-dollars.

It’s not exclusively beer flavored, it’s dive bar flavored. Miller High Life yesterday announced new dive bar flavored ice cream. The folks at Tipsy Scoops say the ice cream bars taste of peanuts, sticky floors as well as being Miller High Life infused.  You can buy the new bars online, or at the Tipsy Scoops shop in New York. Miller describes the bars as ‘including a chocolate dipping like the dark wood and dim lighting in dive bars, a peanut

National Guard soldiers from the 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade will be heading to the Horn of Africa.  The Wisconsin guard brigade received their orders today and will leave on their deployment this fall.  The Milwaukee-based unit will include about 280 soldiers from units around the state.  The unit will mobilize to support Operation Enduring Freedom-Horn of Africa to enhance partnerships and stability in the region of eastern Africa.

 A small-town Texas police department won’t apologize for a selfie one of its officers snapped with Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager who was acquitted of murder after shooting three people during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin two years ago.  The Police Department in Blinn, about 40 miles northeast of Austin, posted the photo on Facebook, writing “Make those stops, you never know who you might meet. Today it was Kyle Rittenhouse, welcome to Texas.”  Hours later, after a wave of negative comments,

 The discovery of a body near a boat landing in Juneau County is under investigation.  The county sheriff says deputies were called to the scene at 19th Avenue and County Highway N yesterday where they found the body of a man wedged among some trees.  Authorities identify the victim as Glen Erickson of New Lisbon. 

A homicide victim killed on Green Bay’s west side is identified as 65-year-old Patrick Ernst.  Ernst was found dead at the Mission Hill Apartment complex earlier this month.  The suspect is Caleb Anderson who is from Michigan but was caught in Alabama where he is being held.  Anderson is suspected of assaulting a woman in Michigan before killing Ernst and of killing another person after the Ernst murder.

A new program that will waive tuition and fees for qualifying students at the University of Wisconsin will go into effect at the school’s 12 regional campuses in the fall.  The Wisconsin Tuition Promise is designed after a program in place at UW-Madison called Bucky’s Tuition Promise.  Students from Wisconsin whose families make less than 62-thousand-dollars a year will have tuition and fees not covered by other financial aid waived.