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Expect more questions about how absentee and indefinitely confined ballots were handled last November. A State Assembly committee is planning to hold a hearing this week into the general election. The hearing will be only for invited speakers, and there will be no public comment. Republicans in the state legislature say they have lingering questions about how and if Wisconsin’s election laws were followed last fall.

Time is running out to burn your tree branches and other yard scrap. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is telling people to get their yearly burns done before the snow melts. Folks in more rural parts of the state can burn all sorts of debris from their yards or land. DNR says it’s best to do that quickly so the embers or flames don’t spread and start other fires.

We will look to politics on the national level and then closer to us. There were no surprises from Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators in how they voted on the coronavirus relief package. Republican Ron Johnson voted against the nearly two-trillion-dollar spending plan. He said there’s just too much unnecessary spending. Democrat Tammy Baldwin joined every other Democrat in voting for the plan. She says the money included in the package will help people struggling from the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the top Republicans

One in six people in Wisconsin have gotten one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said over a million people have gotten one shot. Another 600-thousand people have gotten both shots. DHS says over 10-percent of people in the state are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Wisconsin’s attorney general says a robocalling firm that flooded peoples phones for years has been shut down. A-G Josh Kaul joined the Federal Trade Commission and 38 other states in taking action against the company Associated Community Services. Kaul says ACS would bombard people with calls for shady charities. In Wisconsin, ACS made 43-million calls to over one-million different people. ACS was fined 110-million-dollars, but the judge suspended that fine because the company and its affiliates cannot make the payments.

Add NBA All Star MVP to Giannis’ resume. Giannis didn’t miss a single shot in last night’s All Star game in Atlanta. He finished the night with 35 points as Team LeBron went on to win the game 170 to 150. Giannis says he didn’t realize he was perfect until after the game.

Badger fans are not the only ones upset with the refs in yesterday’s game against Iowa.  Wisconsin lost 77-73, in large part because of a late game foul that gave Iowa two points and the ball. Badger coach Greg Gard said the foul was wrong, and said if the refs are going to continue to make those kinds of calls then college basketball is in ‘big trouble.’ Gard says the refs should have let the two teams play, and not step-in

The family of George Floyd is calling for peaceful protests for racial equality.  On CBS’s Face The Nation, the family’s attorney Benjamin Crump says they anticipate the trial will still begin in Minneapolis this week despite some last minute changes in the case.  Jury selection is set to start Monday in the trial of Floyd’s accused killer, Derek Chauvin.

A woman suspected in the Slender Man stabbing is planning to request her release from a mental facility.  Nineteen-year-old Anissa Weier has spent the last three-and-a-half years at a Wisconsin psychiatric hospital after she and another friend allegedly stabbed a classmate 19 times.  The two girls told police at the time they did it to placate a fictional horror character known as Slender Man.  Weier was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 25 years in the mental facility after three years of

Ten percent of Wisconsonites are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.   The Department of Health Services said yesterday that nearly six-hundred-thousand have both doses while another million people have gotten dose number one.  Close to  50-thousand doses of the newly approved single shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine are expected to arrive in Wisconsin sometime this week. CLICK ON WI DHS.