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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering new legislative maps submitted by Governor Tony Evers.  The governor today said the maps he’s submitting are an improvement from the current gerrymandered maps and the Republican map which he vetoed last month.  The court has mandated the governor and legislative Republicans submit legislative maps that offer the least change.  The governor says just over 14-percent of Wisconsinites will move to a new Assembly District under his map guidelines.

American Family Insurance says two-point-three-million-dollars was raised for charity by the PGA Tour Champions Championship in Madison.  American Family announced today American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison will receive about half of the money and 124 local charities will share the other one-point-three-million-dollars. 

President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will be in southern Wisconsin this afternoon.  They’ll meet with health care workers in Milwaukee and the victims of the Waukesha parade tragedy.  The White House says they’ll arrive at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee around 3:15.

A Wisconsin basketball player from Kentucky raises over 80-thousand dollars for tornado victims.  Chris Vogt is from Mayfield, Kentucky and started a GoFundMe over the weekend to support the victims of the storm.  The original goal was to raise 50-thousand dollars, which has been met.  Now the goal is to raise 100-thousand dollars.

Madison is being named one of the top U.S. cities to celebrate Christmas.  That’s according to WalletHub, which ranks Madison the 45th best city for Christmas.  WalletHub says Madison has some of the most generous people, ranking 12th.  Milwaukee almost makes the list at 35th.  The top U.S. city for Christmas is Atlanta, Georgia.

It’s 10 days in jail for a former Regis school employee who stole 20-thousand-dollars. A judge yesterday sentenced Wendy Cronin to a combination of jail time and probation for taking the money from the school starting in 2019. Cronin was an accounting assistant at Regis. If she pays the 20-thousand-dollars back, her plea deal allows for her most serious charge to be erased from her record. The judge says she has until 2026 to repay the money.

There is now just one child in the hospital following Waukesha’s Christmas Parade tragedy. Doctors at Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee yesterday said two more children have gone home. They continue to face a long road to recovery, but they will do that at home. In all, 16 kids were rushed to the hospital after police say Darrell Brooks Junior plowed through the parade crowd late last month. One of those children, and five adults in the parade died.

Governor Tony Evers latest workforce development program means 20-million-dollars for Eau Claire. The governor was in town yesterday to announce the grants. UW-Eau Claire is in-line for a little over nine million-dollars for nurse training. The Chippewa Valley Technical College is getting 10 million-dollars to focus on metal fabrication. Both schools say they are happy to get the money. The governor says the grants should help get people to work in the region and across the state. But not everyone

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalizations continue to hover around 17 hundred people. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said just under 17 hundred people are in the hospital with the virus, that includes 427 in the ICU. Both of those numbers are down slightly from last week. The Hospital Association does not track how many people are hospitalized with the virus, as opposed to those who are hospitalized with it.

In the one year that doctors and nurses have been handing out the coronavirus vaccine, nearly three-and-a-half million people have gotten a shot. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the vaccine’s first dose in the state. Governor Tony Evers says just over 61 percent of people in the state have gotten at least one dose. Just under 60 percent of people are fully vaccinated. As has been the case since the beginning, older folks and white people make-up the majority