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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is once again side-stepping the question over government overreach during the coronavirus outbreak. Justice Brian Hagedorn yesterday once again sided with the court’s liberals in upholding Dane County’s ban on indoor crowds. Hagedorn used most of his ruling to scold the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty for taking their challenge to the order directly to the Supreme Court. Hagedorn said the high court is the court of last resort. Conservative Justice Pagie Rogensack, however, said sending the case to

The final price tag for Wisconsin’s presidential recount will be less than three-million-dollars. Clerks and Milwaukee and Dane counties yesterday said they shaved over 300-thousand-dollars off their original estimates. The Wisconsin Elections Commission cut its price tag by another 20-thousand-dollars. Milwaukee’s clerk says the recount took less time than expected. The WEC says it has until mid-January to refund the president.

They are planning for the Northern Wisconsin State Fair next summer. Fair managers yesterday announced the dates for the 2021 fair. Right now, the fair is set for July 7th through the 11th. Managers canceled the 2020 fair because of the coronavirus. The hope is to be able to welcome people back to the fairgrounds this summer.

Wisconsin is setting a new record for COVID-19 deaths in one day.  The health department reports 120 deaths in the last 24 hours.  That breaks the record of 107 deaths set on December 1st.  Eight deaths were reported yesterday.  Over 45-hundred Wisconsinites have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. On the national level, President-elect Joe Biden is offering prayers for everyone confronting the “dark winter” of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  Biden delivered a pre-holiday speech in Delaware and said

At-home COVID-19 testing kits are now available in Wisconsin.  Officials say anyone who wants one of the saliva collection kits can get one free of charge.  Governor Tony Evers announced today a contract with Vault Medical Services to make those kits available for free.  People do not have to be experiencing symptoms in order to get a kit which is available at DHS-dot-Wisconsin-dot-gov.

 A local grad looks to give back to community. After earning his bachelor’s degree Dec. 19 from University of Wisconsin-Stout, Bailey Roux can look back on numerous highlights and proud moments that were packed into four years on campus. He graduated with honors from the criminal justice and rehabilitation program, making the dean’s list six times, and he played three years and was a captain of the Blue Devil football team this season, which was canceled because of COVID-19. Squeezed into those

A Piggly Wiggly winner leads to living high on the hog for one Wisconsin resident! A winning ticket, worth $1.4 Million annuity, $1.1 Million cash, was purchased for the December 16 drawing and sold by Frank’s Piggly Wiggly (3238 W Main St.) in East Troy of Walworth county.

The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a stolen portable water heater. In a Facebook post, the department is asking anyone who sees a Hot Tap X-40 portable water heater for sale or knows of one that’s been sold, to contact Investigator Chris Kowalcyzk. A photo of the heater is posted on Facebook and you can CLICK HERE to see it.  

The GoFundMe for a fallen Wisconsin National Guard pilot is inching toward its 176 thousand-dollar goal. Friends are trying to raise the money for U.S. Air Force Captain Durwood Jones’ family. Jones died in that F-16 crash earlier this month in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He left behind a wife and two sons. The GoFundMe has raised about 50 thousand-dollars so far.

Wisconsin’s governor wants lawmakers to come back to Madison and approve his coronavirus plan by the end of the year. Governor Tony Evers unveiled the 100 million-dollar proposal yesterday. Among its highlights are making sure vaccines in the state are covered through SeniorCare and BadgerCare, as well as shifting state employees around to help with the state’s unemployment backlog, and offering loans to local utilities in Wisconsin. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says the governor’s proposal is another take-it or leave-it