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They are starting the work on a new, permanent memorial for the Waukesha Christmas Parade victims. Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly yesterday said the commission in charge of the memorial is looking for design ideas. No one is sure just what the memorial will look like, though planners say they want to have small markers along the parade route to remember the six people killed in the attack. Waukesha is hoping to finish the memorial by the two-year anniversary of the

There is a new request to get Brendan Dassey out of prison. Steven Avery’s former lawyers, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, wrote Governor Tony Evers this week asking that he shorten Dassey’s sentence. Dassey is serving life in prison for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. He’s said he was coerced into confessing to playing a role in the crime. Dassey tried for a pardon from the governor, but that was rejected. He was almost freed by a federal judge

The UW System is looking at all of its dorms after a carbon monoxide leak at UW-Milwaukee. The leak on Monday night sent 17 students to the hospital, and put nearly 400 others on the street for the night. UW-Milwaukee leaders say building codes in Milwaukee don’t require carbon monoxide detectors in dorms. UW System leaders, however, say state building codes do require the detectors. The university says crews are now checking dorms on every campus to make sure they

Wisconsin is benefiting from millions of dollars in federal funding for the dairy industry.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Wisconsin, California, Tennessee, and Vermont are all each getting a share of 80-million dollars in Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives money.  University of Wisconsin is getting 18-point-four-million dollars.  Wisconsin can apply for up to 20-million dollars total.

Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz will not seek reelection this fall.  The Oshkosh Democrat announced his decision on Twitter this morning.  Hintz has served in the Wisconsin Assembly for 15 years, serving as Minority Leader from 2017 to this past January.

ABOVE PHOTO: On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers (left) presented a check for $1,433,093 to fund construction of a new 20-bed homeless shelter on Stout Road to Padraig Gallagher, executive director of SteppingStones of Dunn County, and Menomonie Mayor Randy Knaack (right). Menomonie is among four Western Wisconsin cities to be awarded a grant from the state’sNeighborhood Investment Fund program. On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers presented aceremonial check to Mayor Randy Knaack and Padraig Gallagher, executive director of SteppingStones of Dunn

Madison’s superintendent wants lawmakers to use some of the state’s record-surplus to send more money to schools.  Superintendent Carlton Jenkins said schools across the state could always use more money.  Wisconsin is on-track for a record four billion-dollar surplus by next summer.  Governor Tony Evers and Democrats across the state want to spend the money on schools, while Republicans at the Capitol are talking about using some of the surplus to cut taxes.

The coronavirus rules in Wisconsin are changing.  The state’s Health Secretary yesterday said she fully supports the latest guidelines from the CDC.  Those guidelines relax the mask rules for most counties in the state.  Health Secretary Karen Timberlake says the new rules mean masks are only required for people in areas with “very high” coronavirus levels.  In Wisconsin that means six small, rural counties in northern or western parts of the state.

It’s jail time for a Minnesota man in a deadly 2019 ATV wreck.  A judge in Rusk County sentenced Brennan Plaisted to six months in jail.  Investigators say he was drunk when he crashed an ATV at a bachelor party back in 2019, killing a man.  In addition to the jail time, the judge ordered Plaisted to remain sober, and deliver a speech each year on the anniversary of the deadly crash.

The candidates running for governor and U.S. Senate in Wisconsin have some work to do.  The latest Marquette Law School Poll shows most voters don’t know most of the candidates.  Only Republican Rebecca Kleesich has 50-percent name recognition in the race for governor.  More than 80-percent of voters don’t know why Kevin Nicholson or Tim Ramthun are.  The poll says 62-percent of voters don’t know anything about Mandela Barnes in the Democratic race for U,S. Senate.  The rest of the crowded field