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 Wisconsin’s attorney general is joining the list of people celebrating another round of canceled student debt. A-G Josh Kaul yesterday applauded President Biden for canceling three-point-nine billion-dollars in debt for over 200 thousand students who took classes at the ITT Technical Institute. The school closed in 2016 as complaints piled-up about shady business practices and high student costs. Kaul said students who were ‘defrauded by a predatory for-profit school’ shouldn’t be left holding the bag. It’s not clear how many

Wisconsin football and basketball games will soon reach an expanded audience thanks to a new TV deal.  The Big Ten has signed a seven-billion dollar deal with FOX, CBS, and NBC to carry football and basketball games.  The contract starts next July and will last seven years.  The deal also includes NBC’s streaming service Peacock, which will air eight football games a year.

Police in Chippewa Falls say a Minnesota man broke into a home to take a bath. It happened last week, officers say they got a call about a break-in and found the 29-year-old from St. Paul in the bathroom with the water running into the tub. Police say the man smelled of booze, and insisted he lived in the house with his girlfriend. No one at the home knew the man. He was arrested for burglary and taken to jail.

No one is sure just when kids at one Black River Falls school will move into their new building after someone vandalized it. Superintendent Shelly Severson says someone released some chemicals into the Forrest Street Elementary building, causing damage to the building itself and some of the schools’ computers. She says it will take some time to clean-up and fix that damage, and that means kids likely won’t be back in the building for the first day of school on

The Democrats have the lead in Wisconsin’s biggest races heading into the fall. The latest Marquette Law School Poll released yesterday gives Tony Evers a slight, two-point lead over Republican Tim Michels in the race for governor. The poll gives Democrat Mandela Barnes a seven point lead over Republican Ron Johnson in the race for U.S. Senate. Evers’ lead is in the poll’s margin of error. Marquette pollsters say the Democrats lead with voters who think the candidates represent them, but

Wisconsin’s public health managers have issued a public health advisory over the spike in fentanyl deaths. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said fentanyl deaths in the state are up 97 percent since 2019. DHS says there were nearly 13 hundred fentanyl deaths last year. The state is pushing to distribute more test strips and more Narcan to help drug users know what they have, and then possibly help people come back after a fentanyl overdose.

The Republicans who control the Wisconsin legislature aren’t on the same page as the governor over the state’s opioid settlement plan. The legislature’s Joint Finance Committee yesterday paused Governor Evers’ opioid spending plan. Republicans say they want some improvements, the governor says the delay is unacceptable. Governor Evers’ plan would spend huge chunks of the state’s 31 million-dollar settlement on new buildings and tribal communities, while spending just a few million-dollars in treatment and recovery.

There’s a warning about a rabbit disease in western Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday confirmed three cases of  Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease among a group of domesticated rabbits. The virus is deadly to all rabbits, but cannot be spread to people. DNR says this is the first case of  Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease in the state.

There are no surprises on the list of top fundraisers for Wisconsin’s statewide races. The candidates for governor this spring out-raised everyone else. Governor Tony Evers raised the most so far this year, bringing-in over 10 million-dollars. Republican Tim Michels is second with a nearly eight million-dollar haul, though much of that is his own money. Rebecca Kleefisch finished third on the list, she raised just over three-and-a-half million-dollars. Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul was the only other candidate to raise

Wisconsin’s special elections investigator is no longer in contempt of court, but the Dane County judge hearing his case continues to be furious. Judge Frank Remington yesterday said former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman satisfied a court order to search for missing documents, and lifted his contempt order. But the judge then ripped Gableman, saying his investigation ‘accomplished nothing.’ The judge Gableman didn’t interview any witnesses, didn’t keep weekly reports, and spent most of his time talking with out-of-state attorneys