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One local Republican says it’s time to stop looking back at the election of 2020. Chippewa Falls state Senator Kathy Bernier yesterday said the investigation into last year’s election is threatening to do real harm in the state. She says the continuing probe into last year’s vote is ‘jazzing-up’ people who don’t know what they are talking about. Bernier was joined by members of the Center for Election Innovation & Research who called the investigation a ‘pseudo-audit,’ and also said

 Milwaukee is trying again for a presidential convention, this time though, it’s the Republicans. Visit Milwaukee, the folks who handle these things, sent-off their application to host the Republican National Convention last week. The application features many of the same selling points that Milwaukee offered to bring the Democratic National Convention to town last year. While Milwaukee technically hosted the DNC,. the coronavirus meant last year’s convention was entirely virtual. Republican leaders are expected to announce a list of possible

The United States Supreme Court is not going to stop Governor Tony Evers’ invite-only press briefings. The court yesterday said it would not take-up the challenge from the MacIver Institute to Governor Evers’ policy of excluding some new organizations from certain news conferences. MacIver sued, saying the governor should not be allowed to choose his press coverage. The governor’s office said it excludes news organizations with ties to partisan operations.

We’re getting a few more details about First Lady Jill Biden’s plans for her visit to southeast Wisconsin tomorrow. The White House says Biden will visit with patients and doctors at Children’s Hospital before heading to Waukesha to meet with more parade survivors. The first lady’s visit will last just a few hours. Her trip to Waukesha is the first from the Biden Administration to the site where six people died and more than 50 others were run down during the city’s

Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle company is becoming its own thing. Harley yesterday announced plans to spin-off LiveWire into its own, private company. The new company is valued at just under two billion-dollars. Shareholders will own about 17 percent of the new company. Harley-Davidson launched the LiveWire bike in 2019 in a bid to attract new, younger riders.

It’s one of the headlines you don’t want to see after a Packer game. Police in Green Bay say Monday night’s game against the Chicago Bears ended with a season-high number of fights and ejections. Nine people were arrested, 17 were kicked-out of Lambeau Field, and police say they got nearly 60 calls for help from fans. Commander Kevin Warych says that’s nearly triple the number of calls that police get for other Packer games. Before Monday night, Green Bay

A Green Bay man is headed to prison for five years on a drunk driving conviction.  Wallace Bowers was arrested earlier this year after a crash in Green Bay.  He pleaded no contest to drunk driving today in what was his 18th drunk-driving conviction.  The 74-year-old Bowers said he was sober for ten years until the stress and isolation of the pandemic caused him to drink again.

A deadly fire is under investigation in Baraboo.  Police say one person died overnight in a duplex fire.  Two people were rescued from the fire that broke out around 10:30 last night in the 500 block of 4th Street.  The victim has not yet been identified.

University Hospital in Madison, Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee and Aspirus Wausau Hospital are cited as top cardiovascular hospitals in the country.  IBM Watson Health recently named University Hospital, Aspirus and Froedert in the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals nationwide.  The winners were selected from nearly a thousand hospitals with cardiovascular services.

This year’s Rose Parade will feature band and orchestra directors from across the country marching in the iconic parade.  Two directors from Lombardi Middle School and Southwest High School are among those who will take part in the salute to America’s band directors on January 1st.  Sara Baye and John Quigley will represent the Green Bay schools on New Year’s Day.