by Jackie Johnson | Jan 31, 2012
Interested parties can review all the recall signatures targeting Governor Scott Walker on the election agency’s website. The Government Accountability Board’s Kevin Kennedy says in a statement they conducted a balancing test to determine whether some...
by Bob Hague | Jan 31, 2012
The attorney general weighs in on recall petition privacy. J.B. Van Hollen says all state agencies need to balance the responsibility for open government with that of safeguarding citizens. The Government Accountability Board delayed plans to put the signatures on its...
by Bill Scott | Jan 31, 2012
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team blew a 16-point second half lead, then held off the Michigan Wolverines in Big Ten play at the Kohl Center, 66-60. The Badgers hit 6 of 7 free throws in the final 51 seconds to hold off the Wolverines. Taylor Wurtz lead the...
by Bill Scott | Jan 31, 2012
The Marquette Golden Eagles (18-4, 7-2 Big East) moved up from 17th to 15th in the A.P. Top 25 College basketball poll and from 18th to 15th in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 College basketball poll. The Golden Eagles have won 6-straight games and will look to make it 7...
by Bill Scott | Jan 31, 2012
The Milwaukee Brewers added some outfield depth by signing veteran Corey Patterson to a minor league contract. Patterson split the 2011 season with Toronto and St. Louis, hitting .239 with 6 home runs and 36 rbi’s in over 133 games. He played for the Brewers...
by Andrew Beckett | Jan 31, 2012
The field of candidates is shaping up for expected recall elections against several state senators. Democrats have officially stepped up to run in three of the four recall elections that could be held against Republican lawmakers later this year. State Representative...
by Bill Scott | Jan 31, 2012
Brandon Jennings scored 21 and Mike Dunleavy (8 for 10 FG) scored a season high 20 off the bench to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 103-82 win over the Detroit Pistons at the Bradley Center on Monday night. Drew Gooden added 16 points as the Bucks won their second...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 31, 2012
Some rumblings overnight when unnoticed by many. The U.S. Geological Survey confirms there was a magnitude 2.4 earthquake that struck last night along the northern side of the Wisconsin-Illinois line, just before 10 pm. The epicenter was about 11-miles west of...
by Andrew Beckett | Jan 31, 2012
Wisconsin could soon have a hunting season for wolves. Legislation from state Representative Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford) would create a wolf hunting season running from October through February. The Abbotsford Republican says a hunt will allow the state to effectively...
by Jackie Johnson | Jan 30, 2012
The Government Accountability Board decides, for now, not to post recall petitions against Governor Scott Walker online. The ACLU raises privacy concerns as the GAB posts pdf files on their public website of scanned recall petitions against elected officials,...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 30, 2012
A Portage County jury has found a Bancroft man guilty of two charges in a triple stabbing. After deliberating Friday and more than half the day Monday, the jury convicted Tyler Dahms of killing his girlfriend’s aunt and stabbing her dad last spring. Dahms was...
by Bill Scott | Jan 30, 2012
For the fourth time this season and fifth of her career, Green Bay Phoenix senior Julie Wojta (Francis Creek, Wis.) has been named the Horizon League Player of the Week for her recent performance. Wojta averaged 17 points and 9 rebounds in Green Bay’s wins at...
by Brian Moon | Jan 30, 2012
For the second year in a row a record number of Lake Winnebago sturgeon spearing licenses have been sold; 12,680 people bought licenses, up from the previous record of just over 12,423 set last year. It’s also an increase of 50 percent since 2007. DNR Fisheries...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 30, 2012
A scare this morning on the UW-Madison campus. Around 9:30 am there were reports of an explosion at the chemistry building. There was, but on the damage scale, it was rather small. A staffer received non-life threatening injuries after a lab experiment ignited and...
by Jackie Johnson | Jan 30, 2012
The American Lung Association says their efforts to reduce or prevent tobacco use is a constant battle. Dona Wininsky with the group’s Wisconsin chapter says for every success achieved, the tobacco industry is out there creating new products, and developing new...
by Bob Hague | Jan 30, 2012
Wisconsin’s presidential primary will be the first to require voter ID, and the city of Milwaukee will be closely tracking the impact of the new law on its residents. The tracking is the idea of alderwoman Milele Coggs – who opposed the state voter ID law....
by Brian Moon | Jan 30, 2012
The pool of hopefuls for Herb Kohl’s U.S. Senate seat is shrinking. State Senator Frank Lasee announced Sunday he is dropping out of the race for U.S. Senate. In a statement, the De Pere Republican said he and his wife concluded that it’s not the right...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 30, 2012
As the stare prepares for a likely recall election against Governor Scott Walker, one political scientist says the odds are in favor of the governor keeping his job. UW-Milwaukee professor Mordecai Lee says Walker has the advantage of being an incumbent with nearly...
by Brian Moon | Jan 28, 2012
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is warning about ongoing federal regulatory “creep,” including updates to agriculture labor laws for people under 18. Spokesman Casey Langan says the proposed rule changes will “drastically reduce the amount of...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 28, 2012
A small school district in western Wisconsin may become the first in the state to switch to a four-day school week. The Department of Public Instruction has given the Blair-Taylor district the okay to explore a four-day week for the next school year, which starts this...
