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One of Madison’s lawmakers wants a full investigation into the Gableman investigation. Democratic state Senator Melissa Agard yesterday asked for a full audit of the investigation into the 2020 election. Agard says she wants a full accounting of the million-dollars that have been spent in the Gableman investigation so far. She says the probe into the last presidential election has been one of the most blatant misappropriations of tax dollars in the state’s history.

There are new “buns” in an old building. The city yesterday celebrated the opening of The Oscar Apartments on the site of the old factory on the city’s north side. There are 110 new apartments, with half of them being held for people over 55.

The man accused of running down three Girl Scouts in Chippewa County is taking his case to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Colten Treu filed an appeal with the high court this week. It comes after an appeals court shot down his request for a new trial. Treu says his lawyers didn’t fully explain his guilty plea. Treu pleaded guilty to killing the girls and one of their moms’ back in 2018. Police say he was high while driving down the road.

We could finally get a price tag for Eau Claire’s school referendum. The city’s school board is expected to set that number at its meeting on Monday. School leaders are planning to ask voters for money to repair or expand Putnam Heights Elementary, North High School, Memorial High School and South Middle School. The district’s Director of Business Services says Eau Claire Schools can’t wait any longer to raise taxes and make the improvements.

The new steps at the Devil’s Punchbowl in Menomonie are the latest sign that things are back to normal. The park reopened this week. The new steps are designed to help people get in and out of the area without having to trample the local plants, or risk the rocky terrain. Park managers say they expect a lot of visitors for the rest of the summer, and are asking people to skip the park if the parking lot is full.

The latest legal fight over Wisconsin’s election laws is coming in Racine over the city’s traveling voting van. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit yesterday claiming election managers in Racine are ignoring state law about alternative absentee voting sites. The law allows for other voting locations, but says they must be fixed and cannot offer one political party an advantage. The lawsuit claims Racine’s traveling voting van breaks both requirements. Racine’s clerk says the van is simply an extension

Public health managers with the state are asking doctors to give smaller, more potent doses of the monkeypox vaccine. The new guidance comes from the CDC and through the state’s Department of Public Health. DHS says studies have shown that smaller, more potent doses do just as good a job of protecting someone from the pox. Wisconsin has 32 confirmed monkeypox cases in the state.

Milwaukee’s fire chief sounds like he may not send firefighters to fight any more fires at the old Northridge Mall. Chief Aaron Lipski yesterday said he is ‘over it’ after the late fire, the fourth at the abandoned mall in the past month. No one was hurt in yesterday’s fire, though the chief says one of his firefighters could easily have been. The chief says the old mall isn’t properly secured, and someone needs to do something to make the

Leaders in Milwaukee are going to have to decide if they want a new prison on the city’s northwest side. The common council is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the land sale that will eventually lead to new juvenile prisons along West Clinton Avenue. The new prisons will close the troubled Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake facilities, but there has been some opposition to building a new prison in Milwaukee. That area of the city currently doesn’t have an alderman.

 One of two Wisconsin women sent to a state mental hospital for the so-called Slender Man attack on another girl eight years ago has withdrawn her request for release.  All three girls were 12 years old at the time.  In June, Morgan Geyser, who’s now 20, asked a judge for her release.  Her request followed the release of the co-defendant in the same case, Anissa Weier, who had spent four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh.  Geyser withdrew her request