UNDATED (WSAU) About 150,000 of Wisconsin’s retired public employees will again have their monthly core payments cut. Last spring, those in the State Retirement System’s Core Fund had their payments cut for the first time ever, at just over two-percent. And for the year starting May first ...More
MIWLAUKEE (WSAU) Folks in southeast Wisconsin will keep paying a sales tax for the Brewers’ ball park at least two years longer than expected – and maybe four years longer. Original projections showed that the borrowing for Miller Park could finally be paid off in 2014, thus eliminating the need for ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Tax-Day is five weeks from tomorrow – and Wisconsinites are slower to file this year. State Revenue Secretary Roger Ervin says about 30-thousand fewer income tax returns have been filed than this time a year ago. And despite the recession, Ervin still expects about three-million returns to be filed ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) A public hearing will be held tomorrow on a bill to create statewide limits on where sex offenders can live. It would wipe out tough local ordinances with restrictions so tight, offenders are driven elsewhere. The bill would let the Corrections Department come up with statewide limits on ...More
UNDATED(WSAU) Seventeen members of a Hmong gang have been indicted in federal court in Milwaukee for selling drugs and shooting rival gang members. Federal, state, and local authorities had investigated the Menace of Destruction gang since September of 2007.
Officers said they had a hard time cultivating sources within ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Starting in July, U-W research assistants might become the first public employees in Wisconsin to unionize without having an election.
The governor and Legislature agreed last year to give collective bargaining rights to the research assistants – most of whom work at the Madison and Milwaukee campuses. But unlike ...More
UNDATED (WRN) Proposed legislation at the state Capitol that would allow the governor to challenge deployment orders for the Wisconsin National Guard is drawing some concerns from lawmakers.
The bill from state Representative Spencer Black (D-Madison) would give the Governor the power to contest orders to deploy Guard troops overseas ...More
UNDATED (WRN) Tom Barrett is firing back at Republican criticisms of high speed rail. The Democratic candidate for governor say it’s a good thing Mark Neumann and Scott Walker weren’t around when President Eisenhower proposed an earlier transportation project. “With this line of thinking, we would have said ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsinites have been getting letters from the U-S Census Bureau, reminding them to fill out their Census forms when they arrive in the mail next week.
Officials say the economic downturn might make it harder to get everybody counted – especially homeless, college students, and non-citizens. Jim Accurso of ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) The mother of a New London soldier who reportedly misrepresented his injuries, rank, and unit in Afghanistan is still proud of his service.
Army Specialist Jordan Olson was greeted by 60 flag-waving veterans and supporters upon his return to the airport near Appleton over the weekend. According to ...More
