Month: September 2022

Students are back in class for another school year.  Waupun School Superintendent Steve Hill says Wednesday was the first full day of class for all students.  "The last couple years it's just been mitigating, mitigating, mitigation.  How can we protect them (students) so we've done everything we can,"  Hill told WFDL news.  "This year we are just thrilled that we are focused on education.   The third Friday enrollment count will […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office says its waiting for autopsy results before determining if an elderly Campbellsport man's death was caused by a traffic crash.   Sheriff's Lieutenant Chris Dobyns told WFDL news there is a possibility the 77 year old man may have suffered a  medical incident before crashing into a parked car on Main Street in Campbellsport Tuesday afternoon.  Dobyns says family members told investigators the man did […]

The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to many European countries under communist rule, was mourned as a rare world leader.   Ripon College political scientist Marty Farrell says on one hand Gorbachev brought global change and at the time a hope for peace among the superpowers.  But Farrell says the man who died in Moscow Tuesday at the age of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge says Wisconsin voters with disabilities can get help returning their ballots. U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson cited a federal law that trumps a recent state Supreme Court ruling and state laws that suggest otherwise. Peterson issued his order Wednesday ahead of the November election saying that voters who have difficulty returning their own ballot can choose someone to do so for them. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections agency will be asking the GOP-controlled Legislature to create a new division designed to increase confidence in election results in the face of ongoing conspiracy theories and false claims of widespread fraud. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, which has been under fire from Republicans since Donald Trump’s loss in 2020, unanimously approved a proposal at its Wednesday meeting to seek $1.3 million to hire […]

The Fond du Lac County Clerk says while she did not receive a subpoena she did meet with former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and members of his staff while he was investigating the 2020 election.  Assembly speaker Robin Vos fired Gableman two weeks ago, and officially ended the investigation last  Friday when he withdrew subpoenas sent by Gableman to mayors across the state.   Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa […]

A hearing is being held Thursday in federal court in Florida on a judge's order indicating she was inclined to appoint a special masster to review documents seized from former president Donald Trump's Florida estate last month.   A legal filing this week says the Justice Department has already identified  "a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information."    But Ripon College political scientist Marty Farrell says while the appointment of a special master […]

A retired Ripon College economist thinks California's decision to phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars will have an impact nationwide.   The California Air Resources Board last week voted to require 100 percent of new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to be powered by electricity or hydrogen by 2035.   Economist Paul Schoofs says this policy will only accelerate the electric vehicle trend across the country. The policy doesn't […]

The Fond du Lac County Tobacco Control program coordinator says she is pleased the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned a maker of nicotine gummies to stop marketing what is an illegal product.  In what is a a first of its kind warning the FDA said it considers these gummies particularly concerning because they resemble candy and can cause severe nicotine toxicity or death if young children eat them.  Johanna Brotz says […]