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The Wisconsin Elections Commission has a new member.  Today Wisconsin House Speaker Robin Vos appointed Republican attorney Don Millis of Sun Prairie to the commission.  Millis previously served on the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission under Governor Tommy Thompson and on the Elections Commission for former House Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.

The Brewers say a new ‘Beer District’ entertainment area near American Family Field is worth talking about. A Milwaukee County supervisor and a local developer want to turn some of the parking lots at the ballpark into a Deer District-like area for the Brewers. The team’s president of baseball operations Rick Schlesinger yesterday said he’s open to talking about the plans. But, he says nothing is final. The Brewers are waiting for a study that will tell them just how

Milwaukee’s violent summer is continuing. Police say three people were wounded and one person was killed in four separate shootings yesterday. The violence started about 1 a.m. and continued until about 8:45 p.m. The only arrest came in a shooting that followed an accident yesterday afternoon.

The man accused of gunning-down a former central Wisconsin judge has died. Authorities yesterday said 56-year-old Doug Uhde was taken off life support. Uhde was kept on life support until his organs could be harvested. Police say he shot himself after shooting and killing former Juneau County Judge John Roemer in his own home last Friday. The Wisconsin Department of Justice has not offered a specific motive for the killing, but court records show that Judge Roemer sent Uhde to prison for six years

City leaders in Eau Claire are trying to calm fears about a proposed bottled water plant by talking about jobs and new investments. The city hosted a listening session last night. We’ll show you different sides so you can decide. City manager Stephanie Hirsch told the crowd that Eau Claire is not in a financial position to walk away from a 100 million-dollar investment and jobs that pay about 60 thousand-dollars a year. A number of community activists are worried

There is a push to build a new homeless shelter in Eau Claire. Members of the Chippewa Valley Day Resource Center Steering Committee are looking for a place to build a new day shelter. The county’s Karen Petersin says a new day shelter would help get people out of the sun during the summer and out of the cold during the winter. The committee is eying land near downtown as they look towards fundraising efforts. The hope is to have

The first round of Wisconsin road money from the new federal infrastructure plan is going to smaller communities across the state. The governor yesterday said Wisconsin is getting 35 million-dollars from Washington D.C. for local road projects. And by local, he means local. All of the money is going to communities with fewer than 50 thousand people.

There won’t be any changes to Wisconsin’s PFAS regulations, for now. A Waukesha County judge yesterday kept his ruling that the state’s Department of Natural Resources must work with lawmakers to set PFAS standards on-hold. DNR wants to be able to force companies to clean-up PFAS contamination near their plants or businesses. But Wisconsin’s largest business group, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, says the state must first define just what PFAS contamination is. The judge expects the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take-up the case. His order is

Wisconsin’s Elections Commission is telling local election managers they can ignore questions about their voter rolls if they’d like. The Commission sent a letter to local election clerks last week saying there is no legal requirement to respond to questions from outside groups about voters who may have moved, voters who claimed to be indefinitely confined, or voters whose addresses don’t line up. The Commission says allegations about improper voting are serious, but the letter said they are just allegations.

The otters are back home, but managers at Baraboo’s Ochsner Park Zoo say two owls are still missing. Police say someone cut some locks on zoo enclosures late Monday night or early yesterday morning. Zookeepers found the damage, and panicked. A pair of kayakers found the otters in the river near the zoo, but the owls remain missing. The zoo’s Ellen Gallagher says whoever cut the locks probably wanted to free the animals, but says since the owls don’t know