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Rep. Lindee Brill: Democrats Promised to End Vouchers as MPS Share Falls Below Half
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Fewer than half of Milwaukee children who receive a publicly funded education now attend Milwaukee Public Schools, a first that comes as Democrats prepare to take full control of state government. Alan J. Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette Law School, reported the shift Wedn...
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Dan Hicks Cause of Death: NBC Broadcaster Dies at 64 After ‘Acute Illness’
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Dan Hicks, the NBC Sports broadcaster who called the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits and opened his 35th season with the network at Lambeau Field in September, died Wednesday. He was 64. His wife, ESPN anchor Hannah Storm, announced his death Thursday in a post on X. As of Thursday, the Dan Hick...
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‘We Love Standards’: Hegseth Honors Soldier Who Called Out His Staff on Veterans Day
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal to the Army sentinel who reprimanded Hegseth’s group for laughing near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day. Hegseth posted photos on X showing him pinning the medal on Spc. Thomas Iglesias at the Pent...
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Gunman kills 1, wounds 4 at D.C. gym before shooting himself, police say
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A gunman killed one person and wounded four others at and near a Washington, D.C., gym Thursday morning before shooting himself during a standoff with police, authorities said. Two law enforcement officers briefed on the situation told Fox News the suspect is dead, and a law enforcement official con...
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Crowley: ‘We Can Do Away With’ the Electoral College
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Gov.-elect David Crowley is open to a plan that would give Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, even when Wisconsin voters choose someone else. “We can do away with it,” Crowley, a Democrat, said of the Electoral College in an Associated Press story published No...
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Justices Who Took WEAC Cash Give Unions Another Shot at Act 10
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority agreed Wednesday to hear the unions’ Act 10 challenge, reopening a fight over a law the same court first took up in 2013 and upheld in 2014, and that a state appeals court upheld again just four months ago. The vote was 5-1. Justice Annette Ziegler diss...
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Menomonee Falls Police Officer Rescues Injured Bald Eagle
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A Menomonee Falls police officer captured a badly injured bald eagle in the village and kept it safe until animal rescuers could take it in for rehabilitation, after a resident spotted the bird and called police. The Menomonee Falls Police Association shared the story on Facebook on Nov. 7. A “conce...
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Mandela Barnes Says Journal Sentinel Political Reporter Who Slept With Him Worked on ‘Defamatory’ Se...
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Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes formally sued the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today, alleging that the newspaper published a defamatory and deeply flawed story about his consensual sex life at a key moment during the Democratic primary for governor. And here’s the...
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David Crowley Redistricting Flip-Flop: ‘Not Going Forward’ in 2025, ‘I Will Sign It’ Now
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In September 2025, David Crowley told FOX6 “we’re not going forward with redistricting mid-cycle” and said “we have to protect our democracy.” Less than a week after Democrats won a trifecta this November, he says, “if the bill was to reach my desk, I will sign it.” The map he is ready to toss is […...
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Repealing Act 10: Money Machine Would Restart, Putting Teachers Unions Back on Both Sides of Bargain...
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Repealing Act 10 would bring back more than bargaining. Act 10 ended a system in which school districts pulled union dues straight from teachers’ paychecks, union contracts helped a health insurer WEAC founded cover about two-thirds of Wisconsin school districts, and taxpayers paid 99.2% of state re...
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Door County Family Jailed in Alleged $1.8 Million, Decade-Long Fuel Theft Scheme
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Three members of a Door County family are jailed, accused in a fuel theft and money laundering scheme investigators say cost 14 victims about $1.8 million.
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Crowley Doubles Down on Act 10 Repeal. The Price Tag: $2 Billion a Year [WATCH]
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Governor-elect David Crowley reaffirmed his support for an Act 10 repeal on UPFRONT. WILL estimates repeal would cost more than $2 billion a year.
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Wisconsin Democrats Eye Plan That Would Override Wisconsin’s Presidential Vote
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Wisconsin Democrats plan to join the national popular vote compact, sending the state’s 10 electoral votes to the national winner even if Wisconsin disagrees.
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Is David Crowley Chronically DISHONEST? Budget-Error Gate Fits a Disturbing Pattern [JESS NOTES 11/7...
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Is David Crowley dishonest? The tall tales are really starting to add up. I’d like him to be honest. He has an inspiring back story. But the evidence is sadly pointing in the opposite direction. And there’s zero accountability for it. Does anyone really believe the gobbledygook spilling from Crowley...
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Wisconsin Had the Smallest Swing to Democrats Among Trump-State Governor Races
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The Wisconsin governor race moved about 9 points toward Democrats from 2024, the smallest shift of any governor race Democrats won in a Trump state.
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Two Children Among Four Found Dead in West Bend Home; Police Believe Suspect Is Among the Dead
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Four people, two of them children, were found dead Saturday inside a West Bend home on East Washington Street. Police say they believe the person responsible is one of the four.
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Tony Evers Appointees Jack Up WE Energies Utility Rates on Wisconsinites as Chairwoman Goes on Parti...
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The Public Service Commission, appointed by Tony Evers, voted to jack up Wisconsin residents’ utility rates in 2027 and 2028. According to WISN-TV, the utility rates will increase 3.9% in 2027 and 3.5% in 2028. “It will be the energy company’s sixth rate increase since 2020,” the television station ...
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David Crowley DODGES Questions on Why He Hid $4.56 Million Budget Error But Admits He Knew
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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley admitted that he knew about a $4.56 million budget error BEFORE the election, but he gave a rambling and unclear response for why he didn’t tell voters or the Milwaukee County Board until the day after the election. Crowley, the new governor-elect and a Democ...
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Harry Odele Bruce: MPS Special Education Teacher Strangled in Horrific Attack Was Beloved ‘Tutor, Co...
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Harry Odele Bruce, a beloved special education teacher for Milwaukee Public Schools, was strangled and battered in a yard along North 12th Street in a horrific random attack. He is being remembered as “a father, teacher, minister, coach and author” who taught for years at Roosevelt Middle School. “H...
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Door County Sheriff: Republican Curt Vandertie Ousts Incumbent Democrat
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Republican Curt Vandertie defied the blue wave that swept the state and ousted an incumbent Democrat in a contentious Door County Sheriff race. Vandertie received 8,529 votes. The Democratic incumbent, Tammy Weckler-Sternard received 7.599. There was also an independent candidate in the race, Randy ...
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