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Vukmir and Baldwin hold first debate

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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and here Republican challenger, state Senator Leah Vukmir, drew stark contrasts between one another during their first debate Monday at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Baldwin and Vukmir argued about health care, immigration, the #MeToo movement, and abortion during the hour long debate. Their exchanges grew the most heated over the scandal at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where opioids were over prescribed to veterans.

Vukmir accused Baldwin of turning “her back on the veterans of the Tomah VA.” Baldwin shot back that Vukmir was using a Marine veteran’s death for her own political gain. “Leah Vukmir should be ashamed of herself.”

WATCH: Baldwin-Vukmir debate on WisconsinEye

Baldwin is seeking a second term in the U.S. Senate, after defeating former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in 2012. Prior to that, she served from 1999-2013, representing Wisconsin’s 2nd congressional district. She also served in the Wisconsin state Assembly from 1993-1999.

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Vukmir is a registered nurse and pediatric nurse practitioner. She currently represents the 5th district in the Wisconsin State Senate. She previously served in the state Assembly from 2002 to 2011. Vukmir was first elected to the 14th district seat after Scott Walker was elected Milwaukee County Executive. She and Governor Walker remain close political allies.

The next U.S. Senate debate is Saturday, October 13th at the UW Center for Civic Engagement on the UW-Marathon County campus in Wausau. The third and final debate will be Friday October 19th at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

 

Officer involved shooting In Superior

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Superior police officers involved in a shooting on Friday have been placed on administrative leave. According to a news release, police were dispatched to investigate a theft at a business on Belknap Street.

Officers located the suspect, a 19-year-old white man, about a half-mile away in the Central Park neighborhood. A confrontation allegedly occurred and the suspect was shot “multiple” times by the officers.

Officers began lifesaving measures on the man until emergency responders arrived. The man was said to be conscious when he was taken to a Duluth hospital.

No police officers were injured. Police have not yet identified the suspect or the officers.

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Baldwin and Vukmir set for first debate

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Incumbent Senator Tammy Baldwin and challenger Leah Vukmir are set to have their first debate. The two will meet at UW Milwaukee Monday night for the first of three debates headed into the midterm elections next month.

Expected topics of discussion tonight will be Baldwin’s role in the reforms at the Tomah VA Medical Center, immigration reform and the Republican tax cut plans. The debate starts at 6 pm and will be heard on WTMJ, WUWM, and on JS Online.

Governor Scott Walker’s father dies

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Governor Scott Walker’s father has died. Llewellyn Scott Walker died Sunday. The Governor, who is running for reelection in November, announced the news on Twitter.

Walker’s Democratic opponent, state schools Superintendent Tony Evers, tweeted his condolences, which Walker in turn thanked Evers for. The Journal Sentinel reported that Llewellyn Walker died following a number of medical issues.

Baldwin a no, Johnson a yes on Kavanaugh

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Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh has the support needed for Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court. The announcement of support by Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) will allow a vote in the full U.S. Senate on President Donald Trump’s controversial and polarizing nominee.

Wisconsin’s U.S. senators will be splitting their votes on Kavanaugh.

Republican Ron Johnson said he’s “gotta go with the facts” and support Kavanaugh. Johnson says the FBI has presented no evidence to back up claims of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford.

Democrat Tammy Baldwin said the White House and Senate Republicans “stood in the way of a full investigation.” She calls allegations against Kavanaugh “credible,” saying she still isn’t convinced he would serve as a fair, impartial and independent justice.

The final confirmation vote is scheduled for Saturday. Kavanaugh needs support from at least 50 senators. Vice President Pence could cast the tie-breaking vote if needed.

President Trump nominated Kavanaugh in July to succeed retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Allegation of misconduct surfaced from Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers.

Walker requests federal disaster declaration

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Storm damage assessments from FEMA exceed $37 million, and Governor Scott Walker has requested a federal disaster declaration. The Thursday request is for both public assistance and individual assistance from the federal government.

“The storms Wisconsin experienced during August and September claimed two lives and caused massive amounts of damage in several communities,” a statement by the governor said. “The effect of the storms on the people of Wisconsin is severe, and the resources needed to help with their recovery far exceed what state and local officials currently have available. It is essential that the federal government provide needed assistance.”

Last week teams from FEMA were in the areas impacted by the August and September severe storms. The review determined 370 private homes were destroyed or suffered major damage.

Absentee vote applications sent by third party group cause concerns

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Absentee ballot applications mailed out by a third-party group may contain inaccurate information. Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesman Reid Magney is aware of the mailers. “These groups but voter registration data, and they try to get cute with it,” Magney said.

That includes filling out the voter’s name and a clerk’s address to send in the application. But Magney said while the applications forms are real, voters need to make sure all that information is correct, before trying to use them. “If you can look at the form, and your information is filled out correctly, and you absolutely know that the clerk whose information is on there is also correct, you could go ahead and use it,”he said. “If you’re not sure, maybe just recycle it.”

Magney said inaccurate information on one Dane County voter’s application is concerning. He said best sources of information for voters remain their municipal clerk, or the elections commission website, at myvote.wi. gov.

Keep your primary email account secure with tips from state experts

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October is Cyber Security Awareness month, and it’s a good time to give yourself and your online accounts a good once over.

State consumer protection director Michelle Reinen says one of the best things to do to keep yourself safe online is to lock down your primary email account.

“Be sure that that password is very strong, and where possible use two factor authentication to get in.”

Since you use that account to register for other things like social media or online banking, if a crook gets access to your email, they can potentially get access to everything else you have online.

Reinen suggests using something long, but easy to remember. “Like your favorite musical lyric with numbers and capital letters.”

The idea is to have a password that’s easy for you to remember but hard for a computer to guess. The more characters and numbers you have, the safer that password will be from being broken by hackers.

Central Wisconsin mill town officially dissolves

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The number of municipalities in Wisconsin has decreased by one.

The Village of Maine in Marathon County has officially absorbed the Village of Brokaw. Maine Administrator Keith Rusch says most resident’s won’t really notice a change.

“Basically they have all the rights and responsibilities of any other Maine resident. The only difference being now their representative government now resides in the Village of Maine hall and not in the village of Brokaw hall.”

Brokaw was bankrupted in 2012 after Wausau Paper closed a paper mill in the village, putting most of its residents out of a job.  There had been attempts to save Brokaw, including funding packages from the state, but those eventually failed.

Rusch says he’s not aware of any other instance where one municipality has completely absorbed another. Three different municipalities worked out how to handle that transition, and it was finalised on Monday.

“Whatever Brokaw has in existence, contracts, buildings, land, debts. All of those things the Village of Main basically inherits upon attachment,” says Rusch.

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Standardized tests: modest math improvement and persistent achievement gaps

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Just half of public school students grades three through eight are testing proficient or better in English and math. The results of the Third Annual Forward Exam were released Monday.

They show that benchmarks haven’t been met in the previous two years, either.

Achievement gaps also persist. More than 40 points separate white and black students in many categories. Some 455,000 students across Wisconsin took the exam between mid-March and early May.