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This is your WFHR Daily News Roundup for locally grown radio 97.5 FM and 13.20 AM and WISC country 105.5 FM WIRI in Wisconsin Rapids.
For WFHR and WIRI News, I'm Melissa K.
The Joint Finance Committee has started work on the state budget this week. Republicans essentially take the governor's budget down to the studs and basically start over.
GOP members release their plan to nix about 600 proposals from Evers plan.
State Senator Howard Marklein said it's about to be a long month, month and a half, as they negotiate.
The site of a beloved decades-long Wisconsin-Del's attraction is sold, the property that was home to the Tommy Bartlett water ski show and the Tommy Bartlett exploratory has been purchased by Ripley's Believe It or Not, World Entertainment.
The sale announced Monday comes five years after the Bartlett venue closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The owners of the shuttered property searched for a buyer who would maintain the space as a tourism and entertainment spot.
The new owners plan to keep the site open as a year-round attraction.
New data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction found most students are missing school less often year-over-year, but students from low-income families are still missing school at a higher rate.
According to the data, overall chronic absenteeism dropped by about 2% from the 2022-23 school year to last school year.
The overall rate last year was 17.7%, but the data found students from low-income families are still missing more than one in 10 days of school at a rate of 29.5%.
From Mother's Day to Father's Day, United Way of Southwood and Adams counties is holding a diaper drive.
You can help by donating new and unopened diapers of all sizes, unscented wipes and diaper rash-paced or cream from May 12th through June 13th.
Just bring your donations to the United Way office on 351 Oak Street in Wisconsin Rapids Monday through Friday from 830 to 4.
Mother's Day is this weekend, many choose to honor the emotional and mental sacrifices made in the journey of motherhood, but what about the physical sacrifices?
Lisa Hale has the details.
It isn't always easy, and the experience is different for every person who has ever given birth.
Dr. Kristen Leierly says the effects of pregnancy on a woman's body take a while to resolve.
It's not joyful for everyone. It is for many people, but not for everyone.
And importantly, it's not over when the baby comes out. It takes a year for your body to recover from a pregnancy.
The Dr. Kristen Leierly show airs weekends on all civic media radio stations, but you can hear more of this interview on this week's issue of New Wisco Weekend at civicmedia.us.
It's a busy time for farmers, but one state representative says they need to make their voices heard now. Joanne Krulotz reports.
Farmers need to make their voices heard on agricultural equipment, lemon law legislation.
That from the state representative and farmer Travis Trannel of Cuba City after no one testified on the bill during a public hearing at the Capitol this week.
Your voice matters, and you need to be part of the process.
And so if things like right to repair are important to you, which I think to most farmers they are, you need to show up.
You need to let legislators and people that sit on these committees know, and you need to let farm organizations that are supposed to be representing the voice of farmers know that these things matter.
Trannel is the author of Assembly Bill 31. The bill in coordination with Senate Bill 8 would give farmers protection against faulty equipment while under warranty similar to lemon laws for automobiles.
I'm Alyssa K for WFHR and WIRI News.
Milwaukee heads to Florida for a three game series. Hi, I'm Chimicuska filling in for my Clemens.
After taking two of three games from the Houston Astros this week to get back to 500, the brewers are ticking on the Tampa Bay race for a three game set this weekend.
The race are currently on a three game losing streak and sit five games below 500. Milwaukee is three games back in the NL Central.
The NBA playoffs continued tonight. Last night it was the Minnesota Timberwolves blowing past the Golden State Warriors 117 to 93 to even up the series at a game apiece.
Tonight's games include the Pacers taking on the Cavaliers where Indiana leads two games to none and the nuggets taking on the Thunder in a series currently tied at a game apiece.
The NFL is announcing its schedule next Wednesday in full with the league announced that it will release select games on its broadcast partners.
Several games will be announced between CBS Fox NBC and ESPN as well as streaming platforms Amazon Prime and Netflix on Monday and Tuesday.
The full schedule will then be announced Wednesday at 7 p.m. on the NFL network.
Lower seated teams to the WIAC baseball championship won both games yesterday as Plattville and Oshkosh advanced. They'll square off today.
La Crosse and host Whitewater play in an elimination game to start things off today.
One of those four schools will be crowned conference champion tomorrow afternoon at the end of the double elimination tournament.
Today is the start of the WIAC softball championship at top seeded Whitewater. Oshkosh is the number two seed. Both Whitewater and Oshkosh have a buy until tomorrow's semifinal round.
Plattville takes on La Crosse while Steven's point gets o'clair. The winners today will play tomorrow in the semifinals followed by the WIAC championship game.
Fiddling in from my climates, I'm Jimmy Cusco with Civic Media Sports.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Pete Schwabba. Just days after the president announced 100% tariffs on foreign films, there is serious pushback.
According to Variety, the proposal is on shaky legal ground as the president has been using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which gives him power to regulate trade in times of national emergency.
But a Georgetown law professor says a 1994 amendment says a president can't stop the flow of audio-visual media.
Since announcing the executive order, the White House said nothing official has been decided, maybe Trump will forget about tariffs altogether after his failed run at the papacy.
Keeping it paper, we have a new Pope.
But fun fact, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Cardinals in Rome watched the movie Conclave as a research tool to help them in selecting the new pontiff.
Politico reports that many Cardinals call the film remarkably accurate. Coincidentally, the new Pope's last name is not Finds, Lithgow or Tucci.
A new book about the show Better Call Saul reveals an interesting journey for the character of Saul Goodman.
The character was first introduced on Breaking Bad before receiving its own spin-off, Better Call Saul.
The role elevated actor Bob Odin Kirk's career to a new level, although he probably would have gotten there anyway.
The book Saul Goodman V. Jimmy McGill, the complete critical companion to Better Call Saul, reveals that AMC wanted producers of Breaking Bad to scrap the Saul Goodman character altogether, but the producers stuck to their guns.
Saul first appears in season 2 of Breaking Bad, but before he went by that moniker, he was Jimmy McGill as we learn in the prequel, Better Call Saul.
Also a fun fact, the Saul Goodman character was almost played by actor Michael McKean, who played Jimmy McGill's older brother Chuck, also a lawyer on Better Call Saul.
I realize this only makes sense if you are a fan of both shows.
If you've got 800 smackers burned in a hole in your pocket, you could see Jerry Seinfeld live.
Seinfeld will be performing at Madison's Overture Center on May 30th.
I recommend going to the Overture Center's website where tickets start anywhere from 70 to 90 bucks, but if you want to sit close enough to make sure Jerry flosses those piano keys, make sure you get your tickets off the Overture site where they are a pricey 500 bucks, but still 300 cheaper than other outlets.
If you're thinking about heading to Summerfest this year, make sure you check their website.
Wednesday on Nightlight, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Music Writer, Pete Levy, told me a lot of acts have been added since the lineup was announced in February.
This year's performers include the killers, deaf leopard, Laney Wilson, Gigi Perez, Billy Corgan, and his new band.
And if you're feeling retro, check out the Isley Brothers, Rick Springfield, and Devo.
The event takes place over the course of three weekends and opens in about six weeks.
From our show is fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Pete Schwabba, weeknights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media Radio Network.
It is going to be a really nice weekend.
Today, mostly sunny will get to the low, maybe mid 70s in some spots here this afternoon.
Tonight, partly cloudy will drop to near 50 tomorrow, sunny in the mid 70s on Sunday, sunshine with highs in the upper 70s to near 80.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable, temperature now 49.
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