by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
It's Friday. Jay Heck with the non-partisan government watchdog group Common Cause Wisconsin takes a look at this week's budget process Heck says even members of the legislative budget conference committee are getting frustrated. Senate republican Scott...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
Demand to get on the fall edition of Wisconsin's No Call List is apparently building up, with just a day to go before what was the deadline. Consumer Protection says their website and the phone number for registering have been overloaded with traffic, resulting...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
Madison native Sherri Steinhauer shot a 5-under par 67 to take a 1-shot lead after the first round of the LPGA State Farm Classic on Thursday. Japanese star Ai Miyazato and Marcy Hart are one shot back. Defending champion Annika Sorenstam is 4-shots back.
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
Matt Murton and Alfonso Soriano clubbed back to back home runs off of Chris Capuano in the 6th inning last night and the Chicago Cubs held on for a 5-4 won over the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. The loss for Capuano (5-12) is a franchise-record 12th...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
Milwaukee Brewers prospect Jeremy Jeffress was suspended 50 games yesterday for violating baseball's minor league drug rules. Jeffress pitches for Class-A West Virginia and was suspended after testing positive for a drug of abuse. Jeffress was 9-5 with a 3.13 ERA...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
The Green Bay Packers closed out the preseason with a 30-14 loss to the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. Brett Favre led a touchdown drive on the second offensive possession, then took the rest of the night off. The teams only other touchdown came when defensive...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
To the many great high school football fans that have come to our website for Football Friday Night and the scores that go along with it, you're probably wondering where we were last week. We've decided to pull the...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
Gas prices are under three dollars a gallon but not as many people will be traveling this Labor Day Weekend According to Triple A's latest survey about the same number of people will take off this year nationwide. Only five-million people in the Midwest states...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
The state will not order an audit of the American Transmission Company. The co-chairs of the Legislature's Joint Audit Committee say the state does not have the authority to audit a private company. State Representative Sondy Pope-Roberts (D-Middleton) called for...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
If it's been awhile since you signed up for Wisconsin's "No Call" list for telemarketers, time is running out to get in on the fall edition. Over 780,000 Wisconsinites are signed up for the list that tells telemarketers not to call them at home....
by WRN Contributor | Aug 31, 2007
The federal Drug-Free Communities program is helping to drive down drug use in Wisconsin. Commissioner Camille Solberg is helping the drug czar in getting our communities to be drug-free, and she's putting much of her attention on minorities, more specifically,...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
After a month of working, but accomplishing little, State Representative Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah) is calling on the conference committee to separate funding for schools from the rest of the budget. He says too many districts are being left in the dark right now about...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
A member of the legislature's budget committee suggests Governor Doyle change travel plans, in order to concentrate on the state budget. At the Capitol, the conference committee is still mired in trying to reconcile the vastly different budgets passed by the...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
Forget the doom and gloom; Wisconsin manufacturers still know how to compete. It's a sector of the state's economy that's taken some major hits over the past twenty years, but manufacturing in Wisconsin is still a major jobs provider. "There were...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
The Doyle administration is looking for places to cut just in case the budget impasse continues. Republicans call it a scare tactic. Linda Barth in the Department of Administration calls it something else. Prudent. For starters, DOA Secretary Michael Morgan is asking...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
The Kewaunee High School football team has forfeited last Friday's 42-7 non-conference win over rival Algoma after using a pair of ineligible players. Kewaunee school officials learned of the violation on Monday and immediately reported it to the WIAA , as...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
There's three things in life you can usually count on. Death, taxes and Ben Sheets getting hurt and missing a stretch of the baseball season. But last night, Sheets returned from the disabled list and jump-started a Brewers team in great need of a...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
A woman who cares for patients at UW Hospital and Veterans Hospital in Madison has tuberculosis. Doctor Dennis Maki, an infectious disease specialist at the hospital, says it's a potentially deadly lung disease, which spreads through close contact. The...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
Roughly six thousand college students are paying close attention to what's going on with the state budget. The longer the budget is at an impasse the longer those students will have to wait to find out if they get financial aid in the form of a state grant....
by WRN Contributor | Aug 30, 2007
Poverty levels in our state increased in the past year to 11-percent, and for children, it's even worse. 581-thousand Wisconsin residents didn't make enough money last year to live on, according to the US Census Bureau, and that includes 192,000 children....
