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The top Republican in the State Assembly says there doesn’t have to be a flat tax in this year’s budget. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos Was On UPFRONT on Milwaukee TV yesterday, he said he’d like to see Wisconsin move to a flat tax but he understands that the governor has promised to veto the idea. Vos said as long as lawmakers reduce the state’s tax burden, he’s fine with whatever they do. Vos has been adamant about using Wisconsin’s record seven billion-dollar budget

Hello. Well, the January temperatures we are used to have arrived! Brrrr. Welcome to your weekend. We’re glad you have arrived here to begin it with us. We know the week can sometimes be busy and stressful, which is why we like to slow it down a bit on Saturday mornings with our “scroll down memory lane.” It’s just an easy look back at events that happened in history on this day-before you head out to make new memories today.

A forecast of snow this weekend is prompting at least nine communities across south central Wisconsin to issue snow emergencies.  Snow emergencies for Marshall and Beloit will take effect at 10 a.m., while McFarland’s snow emergency begins at 6 a.m., and the snow emergency for Lodi goes into effect at 9 a.m.  Snow emergencies take effect at noon in Clinton, Evansville, and Fort Atkinson.  Emergencies go into effect at midnight in Stoughton, and 6 p.m. in Janesville.

Less than one full month into 2023 Wisconsin has already seen five snowmobile deaths.  The Department of Natural Resources said on Friday that all five crashes happened between January 14th and this past Thursday.  The most recent fatal crash happened northwest of Rhinelander.  Snowmobile deaths are trending slightly above last year and the DNR is urging snowmobilers to keep safety front of mind.

An 85-vehicle pileup on I-39/90 between Beloit and Janesville closed all lanes in both directions for hours Friday.  At least 21 people were injured. The Wisconsin State Patrol says snow, ice, and whiteout conditions were factors in the initial crash around 12:30 p.m.  The northbound and southbound lanes of I-90 for closed for about seven-and-a-half hours.  Southbound lanes reopened shortly after 8 p.m. and all lanes didn’t reopen until just past 9 p.m.

Governor Tony Evers said this week he’ll veto the upcoming state budget of the Republican-controlled Legislature if it includes a flat tax.  GOP lawmakers have said they want Wisconsin to transition to a three-point-25 percent income tax for all income levels.  The Democratic governor said he’s considering either a line-item veto or vetoing the entire budget if the flat tax is part of it.  Evers said he believes the current progressive tax system is a good one and that the state doesn’t

They say there are angels among us, and in one Alabama town that angel was closer than anyone realized. Hody Childress was an Air Force veteran and a farmer known for his humility and kindness. But what people didn’t realize was that for nearly a decade he also donated $100 a month to the local pharmacy to help neighbors in need when they couldn’t afford their own medicine.  Brooke Walker, who is also the pharmacist and owner of Geraldine Drugs, saw

One of the candidates running for Wisconsin Supreme Court says a story that questions her son’s role in a deadly drug overdose last year crossed the line. Judge Jenifer Dorow issued a statement yesterday after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran a piece that linked Dorow’s son Michael to the death of a UW-Milwaukee student Cade Reddington. The story relies on interviews with unnamed sources who say Dorrow’s son sold Reddington a Percocet that likely was fentanyl. Reddington later died of a drug overdose.

The latest plea for more state money for prosecutors and public defenders is coming from Milwaukee County court officials. The county’s chief judge and district attorney spoke with city council members in the city yesterday. Chief Judge Mary Triggiano says there’s a 15 hundred case backlog right now. D.A. John Chisholm says they can’t find assistant prosecutors because of the workload and the pay scale. The State Bar of Wisconsin earlier this week said essentially the same thing. The State Bar is

Steven Avery’s lawyers say new evidence in the case requires a new trial. His attorneys made the argument in their latest filing in the case. Avery is serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, but his legal team says the state needs to re-open the case. His lawyer says another relative was seen with Hallbach’s SUV near the time she was killed, and that evidence must be examined. Judges have repeatedly turned-down Avery’s requests for a