Home

Western Wisconsin’s congressman is making the case that problems at the southern border are leading to fentanyl deaths in Wisconsin.  Congressman Derrick Van Orden ended his trip to the southern border yesterday.  He went with a group of fellow-Republican lawmakers to see the situation along the Texas side of the border for himself.  Van Orden says there is a direct link between the drugs that flow across the border, and deaths in Wisconsin.  He says Gundersen Health in La Crosse reported nine overdoses

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says lawmakers are going to see if there’s a way they can help the Brewers pay to fix American Family Field. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said Governor Evers has made a stadium funding deal much more difficult by pitting taxpayers against the team. Vos said that shows just how bad of a leader Governor Evers really is. Vos said he’s looking for a deal similar to the one former Governor Scott Walker signed in

UW Regents say they may have to raise tuition if lawmakers don’t give them more money in the new state budget. Regents yesterday said Governor Evers’ proposed budget would leave the university about 130 million-dollars short of what they asked for. The university asked for 435 million over the next two years, the governor proposed just over 300 million. Regents haven’t raised tuition since the legislature rolled back the state-mandated tuition freeze back in 2021. A UW spokesman yesterday said

ABOVE PHOTO: Laura Edman, who teaches the organ at UW-River Falls, will be among the performers at a February 24 organ concert at UW-River Falls. Pat Deninger/UWRF photo.  A concert featuring multiple styles of organ music at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls is intended not only for audience enjoyment but also to raise money to restore the pipe organ musicians will play during the performance.  “It’s a very special occasion for us to have a world-class improviser, someone of his caliber,

The trial is set for the two people accused of killing and beheading an Altoona man last spring. A judge yesterday said Tracey Clark and Brandon Gaston will go on trial in March of next year. They are accused of killing, then chopping 79-year-old Dennis Schattie’s head off. His body was found in Illinois last April. Both are facing life sentences if convicted. The judge said he expects the trial to take a month.

As expected, Governor Tony Evers wants to spend a lot more money in Wisconsin’s new state budget. The governor delivered his budget address to lawmakers last night, and proposed a nearly 104 billion-dollar spending plan. That’s more than 20 billion larger than the current state budget. The governor wants to spend more on everything from public schools, to a new paid-family-leave plan for Wisconsin, and he wants to expand Medicaid in the state. Governor Evers says his new budget will ‘invest’ in Wisconsin.

UW-Eau Claire is moving to wipe TikTok off of university-owned phones and tablets this week. Campuses across the system are wrapping-up their efforts to block TikTok from all university-owned devices. The university says the deadline for that is tomorrow. The UW System is banning TikTok because of worries that TikTok’s Chinese owners can spy-on and track American users. Students and faculty members can continue to use TikTok on their own phones and tablets.

About 50 workers at the 3M plant in Menomonie got a pink slip this week. The company announced a wave of layoffs tied to a planned ‘workforce reduction.’ There are about 700 people who work at the plant in Menomonie. The city’s mayor says 3M notified his office about the pending layoffs. It’s not just workers in Menomonie who are losing their jobs, 3M is planning to lay off 25 hundred people company-wide.

Western Wisconsin’s congressman is at the southern border today. Congressman Derrick Van Orden is touring the border in Texas. He said he’s there to see for himself how millions of illegal immigrants, and thousands of pounds of fentanyl are making their way into this country. Van Orden says there is a direct link between the drugs that are crossing the southern border and the people who are dying in Wisconsin from fentanyl overdoses.

Police in Wauwatosa say three people were arrested after a fight between students, a parent, and a school administrator.  It happened Tuesday afternoon at a freshman boys basketball game at Wauwatosa East High School.  Police say everything started as an argument between a parent and a group of students.  That escalated into a fight, and the parent shoved a school administrator.  Tosa East Principal Nick Hughes sent a note home to parents calling the whole thing “unacceptable.”  Hughes says the