There’s a push at the Wisconsin Capitol to have people in the state once again look for work to get unemployment benefits. State Senator Steve Nass says there are jobs going unfilled because the state’s Department of Workforce Development no longer requires people to apply for jobs in order to keep their unemployment benefits. Nass says with so many employers looking for people, anyone on unemployment should have no trouble finding a job.
Read MoreThe state of Wisconsin is cutting its coronavirus vaccine order by 90-percent this week. The state’s Department of Health Services was scheduled to get over 162-thousand doses this week. Now, DHS says it needs just over 13-thousand. The massive drop in doses-ordered is a reflection of just how few people are getting the vaccine across the state. Doses last week fell to their lowest point since January. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. Rules continue to change around the state. Another Wisconsin school
Read MoreThe Republicans who will write the next state budget say Wisconsin is in great fiscal shape. Senator Howard Marklein last week said the Republican decision not to raise taxes or spending, as Governor Evers requested, has set the state up for a two-point-five-billion-dollar budget surplus in two years. Currently, Wisconsin’s surplus is sitting at one-point-eight-billion-dollars, and there’s another nearly one-billion-dollars in Wisconsin’s rainy day fund. Marklein says Wisconsin is in such good financial shape because of Republican spending decisions over the past decade.
Read MorePeople can return to their normal lives in Wisconsin and continue to declare themselves an indefinitely confined voter. The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week sent a letter to local clerks about cleaning-up their voter rolls. The Commission said clerks need ‘reliable information’ before deactivating an indefinitely confined voter. But Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe said simply seeing voters out and about, even returning a ballot to the election office, is not reliable enough. Lawmakers say indefinitely confined voters are supposed to be sick or homebound.
Read MoreA pair of central Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to use some stimulus money to help reopen a closed paper mill. State Rep. Scott Krug and Senator Patrick Testin last week suggested using 50-million-dollars in coronavirus relief money to help a coalition buy the former Verso mill in Wisconsin Rapids. The company closed the mill last summer, and over 900 people lost their jobs. The lawmakers say finding a new buyer would not only help those 900 workers, but would help timber companies across the
Read MoreAn accident over the weekend resulted in critical injures for those involved. It was on May 8, 2021 at 6:53 p.m., when Officers responded to the intersection of Lake Street and Sixth Avenue for a report of a crash involving a motorcycle and car. There were two people on the motorcycle when it collided with the car. As a result of the crash, the 21-year-old driver of the motorcycle and his 15-year-old brother were transported to a local hospital in
Read MoreAn educator from Milton is recognized as one of Wisconsin’s top teachers. Yesterday WISC reported that Anna Miller of Harmony Elementary is being recognized for her teaching and professional excellence. Miller is one of four educators to be selected for the Kohl Teacher Fellowship’s Wisconsin Teacher of the Year top award.
Read MoreThe Memorial Union Terrace is set to reopen tomorrow, Monday, due to the loosening of government imposed COVID-19 restrictions. The Terrace will be open to the general public not only to UW-Madison students and faculty. Guests will still have to wear a face mask. Besides humans, only service animals, no pets, are allowed.
Read MoreHello. Welcome to your weekend. On Saturday mornings we like to start the day in a lighter way, with a “scroll down memory lane.” It’s just a little peek back at some of the big events that happened on this date in the pages of history. So, grab your favorite morning sippin’ drink and lets see what we can learn about the past before we head into our future. Today is Saturday, May 8th, the 128th day of the year.
Read MoreThe names are being released of the three officers who repelled an armed attacker at a casino outside of Green Bay. The Green Bay Police officers are Sergeant Brian Jordan, Officer Makayala Wolfe and Officer Ben Snyder. The three are on leave after shooting and killing an armed man who shot two people outside the Radisson Hotel next to the Oneida Casino last Saturday. The Oneida Tribe is holding a ceremony today at 9:00-a.m. at the Oneida Pow-wow Grounds, located
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