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The list of Wisconsin cities that are likely to see Afghan refugees is growing. The state’s Department of Children and Families yesterday said refugees are likely to settle in cities that already have refugee service providers. That includes Milwaukee, Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wausau, and Madison. The State Department has said nearly 400 Afghans will settle in Wisconsin, though not all of them could come from Fort McCoy. There are currently 13-thousand Afghans at Fort McCoy.

The number of people in the hospital in Wisconsin with the coronavirus is holding steady. The Wisconsin Hospital Association yesterday said just over 11-hundred people are hospitalized with the virus. Of them, just over 300 are in the ICU. The Hospital Association doesn’t track how many people are hospitalized because of the virus and how many people are hospitalized for something else. Wisconsin has seen more than a thousand people in the hospital with the virus for the past month or so. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

It’s going to be a contentious day at the Wisconsin Capitol. The Republicans who control the state Assembly are set to hear a series of new, proposed abortion laws today. They include a born alive proposal and a ban on gender, race, or sex selective abortions. Democrats are planning to vigorously oppose all of them. Even if the plans make it out of the Assembly’s Committee on Health, and pass a full vote at the Capitol, there is no way Governor Tony

The mayors in Milwaukee and Madison have a long list of complaints about what the state’s special election investigator wants from them. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett yesterday said the request for information from last fall’s vote is ‘broadly worded,’ while Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway says there’s no way she can produce all that the special investigator wants. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman is asking the mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha to provide information about any and

Democratic lawmakers in Madison are trying again to undo the state’s changes to teacher contract negotiations. Milwaukee Democratic state Senator Chris Larson yesterday led a group of lawmakers in introducing a plan to rollback Act 10, and allow teachers to once again include provisions for pay, benefits, and working conditions in their contracts. Act 10 only allows teachers and their unions to negotiate pay raises in their contracts. Larson says teachers need to be protected now more than ever. Act

Waukesha schools are the first in the state to face a lawsuit for not requiring kids to wear masks in school. A group of parents filed the lawsuit yesterday, but the effort is being paid for by progressive candidate and Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad. He is trying to force all schools in Wisconsin to order all kids and teachers to mask-up. He says kids are ‘basically vectors for COVID bombs.’ Bangstad has a political action committee that’s funding the effort.

Advocates in Milwaukee say it’s up to people in the neighborhoods to help stop violence in the city. A number of advocates gathered at Sherman Park yesterday to say someone has to do something to stop the wave of shootings and murders in Milwaukee. It all comes after an 11-year-old girl died in a drive-by shooting last Saturday. Reggie Moore, the director of violence prevention policy at the Medical College of Wisconsin, says it’s ‘on us’ to help stop the violence.

We now know the name of the man involved in a deadly drowning. The 37-year-old who drowned on Friday, October 1, 2021 near the CTH K bridge/Big Falls County Park entrance is Michael E. Lisowski, a resident of the City of Eau Claire. Lisowski was reportedly not a proficient swimmer, and the incident has been labeled an accidental drowning. No further information will be released.

Opening up the 40 th Anniversary at The Grand is the entertaining comedy, Arsenic and old lace. In the hilarious American Comedy Classic Arsenic and Old Lace, we meet two charming but not so innocent spinsters who have been poisoning lonely old men. Their brother thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, their murderous nephew looks a bit like Boris Karloff and poor Mortimer is doing his very best to control his family’s antics just long enough to announce his engagement to

 A federal agent is hospitalized in stable condition following a shooting during an operation in Racine.  It’s believed the agent was serving a search warrant.  Area residents had been told to stay in their houses until notified it was okay to leave.  As of early this afternoon, the Racine Police were saying the investigation scene remained active.