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The Democrats who will help write Wisconsin’s state budget say the state’s three billion-dollars in stimulus money should be off-limits. State Senator Jon Erpenbach yesterday said the stimulus money ‘has nothing to do with’ the state budget that lawmakers are currently writing. Erpenbach said he’d like to know how Governor Evers intends to spend the stimulus money, but he says he’s not looking to spend any of it on the state’s day-to-day needs. Governor Evers has said he should have details

A little over one-in-three of the protesters bailed out of Madison’s jail last summer went on to commit new crimes. The State Journal reviewed the numbers and found that 25 of the 70 people bailed-out by social justice activists committed crimes after their release. The paper says the tally includes 108 felonies and 49 misdemeanors or municipal code violations. Many of those charges are for bail jumping, but prosecutors also filed weapons and armed robbery charges, and at least one

A group of conservationists is calling Wisconsin’s wolf hunt politically motivated and harmful. The group, Wisconsin’s Green Fire, released its report yesterday. The report says hunters took too many alpha males and bred female wolves, and said that could eliminate pup production in 60 percent of the state’s wolf packs. Green Fire also says the hunt damaged relations with the Ojibwe Tribes, and showed the gap between regulators at the DNR and state lawmakers. Hunters in Wisconsin bagged 218 wolves during what turned-out to

Wisconsin’s state parks are opening-up a bit more, starting tomorrow. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said playgrounds and observation towers will finally open in parks across the state. There will also be new rules for pavilions and snack bars, more people will be allowed in each. Camping and hiking are already back to pre-coronavirus levels. DNR expects big crowds at state parks this summer as people continue to navigate the virus and the state’s reopening.

 A bill signed by Governor Tony Evers today will require lessons about the Holocaust and other genocides be taught in Wisconsin social studies classes.  More information with Sue Danielson: Wisconsin Act 30 will require students from grades 5 through 12 to have studies to include the pervasiveness of anti-semitism and the recognition of the tragedy of the Holocaust.  The bill requires school districts, independent charter schools and private schools to participate in providing instruction on the topic of genocide.

The Wisconsin State Fair will make its return this summer.  After being canceled because of the coronavirus last year organizers announced its return today to Fair Park in West Allis.  The fair will run from August 5th through the 15th.

The State Department of Health confirms 688 new COVID-19 cases over the last day.  That boosts the total number of cases to over 596-thousand-500.  There were 34 deaths reported today which raises the death toll statewide to over 68-hundred residents. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Health officials say only a small percentage of people in Wisconsin experience breakthrough cases of COVID-19.  A report in the Wisconsin State Journal reveals out of one-point-eight-million people who are fully vaccinated in the state 605 experienced a breakthrough case.  Officials say no vaccine is 100-percent effective and Wisconsin’s percentage of breakthrough cases is only zero-point-zero-three-percent.

Milwaukee Bucks fans will have a chance to roll up their sleeves for a COVID-19 vaccine this weekend.  The team announced yesterday that eligible fans attending Sunday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets can get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.  The vaccine will be given in the Panorama Club at the Fiserv Forum beginning at 1 p.m.

 A Wisconsin eagle’s nest has something extremely rare.  Sue Danielson reports.