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Madison is the most caring city in America.  That’s according to WalletHub, which says Madison ranks first out of 100 U.S. cities in caring for the community.  Madison also ranks ninth in caring in the workforce and eleventh in caring for the vulnerable.  Other cities in the top five include, Boston, New York City, Virginia Beach, and Fremont, California.

Wisconsin safety Collin Wilder has played his last football game for the Badgers.  The sixth-year senior announced on social media Monday he has a very serious injury and won’t play in the Las Vegas Bowl later this month.  Wilder played in 32 games for the Badgers over three seasons.

Marshfield Clinic Health System is now scheduling patients age 16-17 for booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services authorized vaccinators to begin administering the booster dose for those aged 16-17 after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the vaccine last week. At this moment, you can visit marshfieldclinic.org/CovidVaccine to self- schedule online using My Marshfield Clinic or complete the appointment request form. If you do not have access to the internet, call 877-998-0880. However,

Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly will need a new leader. State Rep. Gordon Hintz yesterday said he is leaving his position as the top Assembly Democrat as of January 1st. He said in a statement that after his latest re-election, he agreed to serve as Democratic leader for just two years. Hintz is not leaving the Assembly, just his position as leader. There’s no word who will take over his spot in Madison.

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