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Wisconsin’s special election investigator is holding-off on interviews with the state’s election managers, for now. Former Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman yesterday postponed his interview with Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe. She is one of several people Gableman subpoenaed in his investigation into last year’s election. Gableman has said he wants to know the relationship between the state of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha and the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life.

The group that represents Wisconsin’s school boards is once again asking parents to be nice. The Wisconsin Association of School Boards yesterday released a letter asking parents for civility when speaking with their local school leaders. The School Boards say passion is fine, but threats and violence are not. The association, however, didn’t provide any examples of threats against school board members. This is the second time the association has asked parents to watch how they speak to school board members in the

A northeastern Wisconsin lawmaker is back at work after a flight with the coronavirus that landed him in the hospital. De Pere State Senator Andre Jacque hosted a Senate committee meeting by phone yesterday.  He was hospitalized with the coronavirus back on August 16th, and eventually ended-up on a ventilator. He left the hospital at the end of September. Jacque is walking with the help of a walker, but says he feels better every day.

If not the Democrats, Milwaukee is more than willing to host the Republican National Convention next year. The city says they are ‘efforting’ a bid for the RNC. Milwaukee landed the Democratic National Convention last year, but the coronavirus canceled it. Mayor Tom Barrett has said he’d consider applying for the DNC again. Milwaukee’s tourism office, Visit Milwaukee, is the group that will have to make any official convention pitch.

Matt Wormer loves the fast pace of working in a kitchen. Hired in May, Wormer is the University of Wisconsin-Stout University Dining Merle M. Price Commons executive chef. “You have to be ready for 100 or 200 people to walk up the stairs of the Commons. They are hungry and they want to eat,” Wormer said. “It’s all hands on deck. “It’s exciting for a chef to see people being happy and being fulfilled,” he added. Wormer, of Ridgeland, grew up in

Three Wisconsin officers will have their names added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, DC.  In a ceremony this weekend Dane County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Treadwell, Milwaukee Police Officer Matthew Rittner and Racine Police Officer John Hetland will be remembered for their sacrifice.  More than 22-thousand names are etched on the police memorial.

 Graduation rates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are at a record high.  Chancellor Rebecca Blank says today’s numbers are the best seen at UW-Madison and speak to the university’s educational excellence.   The university says the six year graduation rate is 89-point-two-percent and the four-year graduation rate is 88-point-five-percent.  The retention rate of undergraduates also remains high at over 95-percent from the first to the second year.

The UW-Madison mask policy prompts the move of a Senator’s podcast to a different venue.  Texas Senator Ted Cruz was scheduled to record his podcast at UW-Madison last night but that changed after a disagreement about the university’s requirement that people wear masks indoors at all times.  UW-Madison Young Americans for Freedom hosted the event and said it was moved to the Wisconsin Masonic Center to accommodate the audience.  Cruz tweeted that the university is trying to stifle free speech.

At least one food pantry is looking for more than donations this holiday season.  Ruby’s Pantry in Wausau says it needs at least two dozen volunteers to run the once-a-month food drives at their two pop-up pantry locations.  There have been a few instances when those drives had to be canceled because there weren’t enough volunteers.  Ruby’s is just one of many pantries that would welcome volunteers and they always accept donations.