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The maker of voting machines used in Wisconsin in 2020 is not cooperating with the state’s special election investigator.  Attorneys for Election Systems & Software last week told former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman that they will not send him a trove of information about their machines.  Election Systems says Gableman’s subpoena is a “fishing expedition.”  Gableman is continuing his probe into what happened in the 2020 election.  That probe is supposed to be complete by next month.

Lawmakers in Wisconsin can hire outside lawyers, and pay for them with state money.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday ruled that lawmakers can turn to lawyers not already on the state payroll.  The ruling came as part of a challenge to Wisconsin’s to-be drawn political map.  Republican lawmakers hired lawyers to help with their map, and wanted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for them.

It looks like Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization peak has passed.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said just over 17-hundred people are hospitalized with the virus.  That’s a drop of more than 320 people from last week.  The Hospital Association says 362 people are in ICUs with the virus.  That too is down from last week.

UW-Eau Claire is hoping to get more students to get their shots.  The school yesterday announced a back-to-class vaccination clinic today.  Students are due back for their first day of classes on Monday.  School leaders say they want to get as many people vaxxed or boosted as possible. If you are interested in a shot, today’s clinic will be at the Haas Fine Arts Center from noon til 4 p.m.

The Mayo Clinic is growing at its Onalaska campus.  The hospital yesterday unveiled a new eight million-dollar imaging suite.  The centerpiece are two new MRI machines.  Mayo’s Lisa Archer says the new machines mean patients in western Wisconsin won’t have to go as far to be able to get state of the art scans and images as part of their care.

Another Republican enters the race for Wisconsin governor.  Today former U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson announced his candidacy for governor.  Nicholson is a business consultant and former Democrat who lost a bid for U.S. Senate as a Republican in 2018.  The only other major Republican candidate to announce a campaign is former Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch.

One person’s dead after a house fire in northern Wisconsin.  The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon at a house in Antigo.  The fire department says firefighters found a person dead inside the house while fighting the fire.  The victim hasn’t been identified and their cause of death hasn’t been released.  The cause of the fire is being investigated by the State of Wisconsin Fire Marshall’s Office.

In December 2021, green and gold cornerback, Shemar Jean-Charles hosted a GET one, GIVE one blanket campaign to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s and dementia. For every $35 donation made to his Walk to End Alzheimer’s® team, participants received a green and gold blanket and Jean-Charles pledged to donate a blanket to a senior care community in their honor. The campaign raised more than $14,000, and more than 300 blankets will be donated to senior care communities across Wisconsin.

Mary Pica Anderson, who for 16 years has led the L.E. Phillips Senior Center, will retire as executive director on March 31, said center Board of Directors President Jim Deignan. “So many amazing things have happened here at the center in the last 16 years…” Pica Anderson “So many amazing things have happened here at the center in the last 16 years,” Pica Anderson said, “itjust seemed like the right time to pass on the opportunity to someone else to

The Janesville man who told police he heard voices before he killed his grandmother could spend the rest of his life in a state mental institution.  A judge yesterday sentenced 37-year-old Jamie Beggs to a life sentence for killing his 97-year-old grandmother last June.  Beggs will be eligible for parole after 25 years.  Beggs pleaded guilty to the crime, the judge found him to be suffering from mental disease or defect at the time.