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More than 14-thousand absentee ballots are headed toward Madison residents by mail for the August Partisan Primary. Voters will only be able to vote for candidates in the party they select once they get their ballot. Absentee ballots envelopes must be sealed and signed by both a voter and a voter’s witness, and returned in time to be delivered for counting at a polling place. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway says it isn’t too late to request a ballot online. In-person absentee

Fishing equipment is available to rent at no charge through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The DNR says most pickup sites will have rods, reels, bobbers, and fishing line, along with other equipment. The department requests equipment be returned clean and ready to use again and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

 Wisconsin’s attorney general is joining a coalition asking that TurboTax services not be advertised as free. Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining 21 other attorneys general to ask the U-S Court of Appeals to reject an appeal filed by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax. Intuit is appealing a settlement of 141-million dollars reached in 2022. The company was also ordered to stop advertising its services as free, unless they are free to all consumers, by the FTC in 2023.  The

Six Wisconsin affordable housing developments are splitting 525-million dollars in state funding. It’s the largest amount housing investment given by the state in its history. The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority says beneficiaries include senior living, workforce housing, and rehabilitation developments. The two projects that got money from the first round of Vacancy-to-Vitality funding in January are currently underway.

There will be extra law enforcement on Wisconsin waters next week for Independence Day. The state Department of Natural Resources says wardens and law enforcement will participate in the national Operation Dry Water campaign. The DNR says crews will be looking for boat operators who are drinking, and educating people on proper life jacket use. Since Operation Dry Water began in 2009, almost seven-thousand impaired operators have been removed from waterways nationwide. The campaign runs from July fourth until the

ABOVE PHOTO: Campus Planner Michael Higgins, Sustainability Manager Kadi Wright, Xcel Energy’s Mike Plunkett and David Voss, Senior Facilities Officer Justin Utpadel, Chancellor Katherine Frank, State Rep. Clint Moses, Facilities Management Associate Director Zenon Smolarek and Engineering Specialist Josh Kohnke. For its collaboration and commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency in multiple campuswide initiatives in the last two decades, University of Wisconsin-Stout has received an Energy Efficiency Excellence Award from Focus on Energy, Wisconsin’s statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource program. UW-Stout, the only university

ABOVE PHOTO: From left, Trever Davern, Lisa Jevne and Emily Mettner, students in the Supply Chain Management program at Chippewa Valley Technical College, participated in a case competition at the University of St. Thomas recently. Their team took third place of six. This was the first competition CVTC has competed in of its kind, and the only two-year college in the competition. Lisa Jevne doesn’t love the spotlight. She’s not keen on speaking in front of a crowd. “I believe

Cheyenne Adriana Carter, 27 years of age, from St. Paul, MN has been arrested by the Wisconsin  State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 2nd offense, with  three children in the vehicle under the age of 16.   A Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper responded to a driving complaint and subsequently stopped a  vehicle on I94 EB near mile marker 7 for numerous lane deviations. The Trooper observed several  indicators of possible impairment when in contact

The eyes and ears of politics are shifting to Atlanta tonight for a presidential debate. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be on stage at the CNN Studios for the first of two-currently-planned major debates ahead of this November’s election. The 90-minute event will begin at 9 Eastern tonight. There will be no live audience. Here in our state, the race for president in Wisconsin is tied. The latest Marquette Law School Poll says President Biden and

The 16-year-old inmate at Lincoln Hills who is accused of killing a teacher there is now looking at formal charges. Prosecutors in Lincoln County yesterday filed second-degree reckless homicide against Javarius Hurd. He’s accused of beating a female staffer at the Lincoln Hills facility, then attacking and ultimately killing a teacher who tried to stop him. Hurd is being charged as an adult in the case. Lawmakers and Governor Evers yesterday all said how shocked and saddened they are that