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For 97.9 WGBW News, I'm Lisa Hale.
Election laws, abortion rights and the role of public sector unions were among the hot button topics the two candidates vying for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court argued over during Wednesday night's debate.
With only three weeks before the election, Circuit Court judges Susan Crawford and Brad Schimmel discussed a wide range of issues from abortion rights, redistricting, the state's voter ID law and the future of collective bargaining rights for public workers.
The exchanges were sometimes heated. At one point, Schimmel said Crawford was lying about his past actions involving a case.
Later, Crawford disputed one of Schimmel's allegations about her donors saying he had a, quote, very active imagination.
At stake in this election is the court's ideological balance, which currently leans towards the liberal majority.
This is important as a number of impactful cases might be on the docket in the coming months. The two candidates will face off in the April 1st election.
If Wisconsin legislators and Governor Tony Evers do not come together to pass a new biennial budget by July 1st, the Green Bay Area Public Schools will see a $10 million to $12 million budget shortfall for the 2025-26 school year. Superintendant Vicki Bayer.
Not the only district in the state of Wisconsin, 420 of us that are facing a deficit and many of them are depending on referendum to be able to keep their doors open.
District leaders are recommending freezing base wage negotiations, freezing wage increases for certain milestones, closing the virtual school and transferring some insurance costs to employees to make up for the shortfall.
Last night, police were called to little lake butamore south of the ninth street boat landing in Manasha to a report of a man yelling in the lake.
Officers tried to reach the 67 year old man with a throwable floating life disc, but they were not successful.
An officer went into the lake to bring the man to shore. He was taken to the hospital where he died. No other details have been released.
Police from four additional law enforcement agencies helped the Manasha police find and arrest a person who was seen carrying a rifle near Manasha High School Wednesday afternoon.
The high school was placed on lockdown and the suspect was found quickly. Names have not been released.
A body was found in a wooded area off South Lake Street in Manitouac Wednesday morning. Manitouac police say foul play does not appear to be a factor in the person's death.
The investigation which will include an autopsy is still ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Manitouac police or crime stoppers.
Trump administration layoffs at the National Weather Service have experts concerned. Here's civic media's Joanne Croulette.
The weather guys UW Madison meteorology professors Jonathan Martin and Steve Ackerman say any pullback of the severe weather forecast provided by
National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration could put lives at risk.
Ackerman says many employees being described as probationary are in fact experienced professionals at the agencies.
Martin says the service is provided by the National Weather Service and NOAA cannot be easily or quickly replicated.
There are National Weather Service offices in La Crosse, Green Bay and Milwaukee Sullivan and offices in the Twin Cities and Duluth serving Western Wisconsin.
The numbers to be let go at the Weather Service and National Oceanic and atmospheric administration remain unclear.
Federal funding for hospitals is at stake without congressional action. Jimmy Cusca reports.
For home-to-health and telehealth programs under Medicare used by several Wisconsin hospitals will expire at the end of the month unless Congress extends the benefits.
Six Wisconsin hospitals rely on home-to-health for patient care. While 16 hospitals utilize the telehealth and other programs that are also set to expire, mostly affecting providers in the state's rural areas.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association estimates the federal funding lost if the programs expire to be around $200 million.
The hospitals will not be able to take on as many patients at the programs expire, meaning longer drives to find health care, especially for older patients in rural areas.
Forty-year-old Joshua Denoll, who faced 16 charges of sexual exploitation and child enticement, entered a no contest plea in Brown County Court this week.
Former Green Day tennis coach is accused of taking several upskirt photographs of girls he was coaching.
Judge Thomas Walsh found him guilty of the six felony child sex offenses he was charged with.
Denoll is out on bond, but will be sentenced on May 20th.
A report released last week from the Wisconsin National Guard shows an increase in reports of sexual assault.
However, this doesn't necessarily mean that there are more assaults happening. Here's Melissa Kay.
The wing report acknowledges that sexual assault is often under-reported. They believe the increase in reporting shows an increase in trust of the wing sexual assault prevention and response program.
This increase could also show a cultural shift within wing.
These changes have come about after reports more than five years ago showed the guard was violating state and federal law with botched investigations and retaliation against those who spoke up.
Senator Tammy Baldwin and Governor Tony Evers called for a review of guard procedures in March of 2019.
The guard is now required to submit an annual report on sexual assault and harassment within the Wisconsin National Guard and have a public hearing on the report.
I'm Lisa Hale, 97.9 WGBW News. For news anytime, log on to WGBW.FM.
Packer players moving on. Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with sports NFL free agency.
Two Packer players have signed with other teams. Senator Josh Myers, a one-year contract with the Jets running back AJ Dylan joins the Eagles also a one-year deal.
Men's College basketball, the Badgers taking on Northwestern today in the Big Ten tournament.
Mark Kett against Xavier in the Big East turning in Madison.
Sarah Williams says she's entering a transfer portal after three years on the Wisconsin women's basketball team.
NBA bucks basketball tonight. They host the LA Lakers.
And Shaquille O'Neill had this to say about former bucks player and business mentor, Junior Bridgeman, who died on Tuesday.
Yeah, this one really hit hard for me. They always tell us stories about 75% of athletes zero or five years after they're done playing. Go broke.
No, a lot of people don't know this, but I've patterned my whole business acumen after Junior Bridgeman. This one hurts a lot.
Matt Shaquille O'Neill was sports on Mike Clemens.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Peach Schwabba. All right, all right, all right. Matthew McConaughey is back after a six-year hiatus.
The star of Dazed and Confused, Andrew Detective, returns to the big screen in The Rivals of Amsia King.
During his hiatus, McConaughey wrote a book, spent time with his family, and stayed fresh by doing voice work in films like Sing2.
McConaughey's memoir Green Lights is now available.
Will the new Jurassic Park be rated R? As a fan of dinosaurs and thrillers, I really hoped so, but seriously doubt it.
Fans are speculating based on the new trailer and how dark it seems, and the fact that the franchise introduces a new, especially scary monster called the D-Rex.
Social media users seemed excited at the idea of an R-rated, truly freaky Jurassic Park.
Unfortunately, according to the experts, studios will most likely not want to give up those under 17 profits.
Eric Stone Street is expanding his acting talents. The hilarious and Emmy-winning Stone Street, who played cam on modern family for nine seasons, has agreed to a role on Dexter.
Stone Street will play Dexter's estranged brother, who he was separated from at a young age.
You can catch Eric Stone Street on Dexter Sunday nights on Showtime.
Hate speech and toxic social media users had to take a powder this past Monday when Twitter, also referred to as X, experienced outages, leaving anonymous users and bots with nowhere to spew their disinformation.
Angry young men who hide behind avatars and fake screen IDs probably experienced calm for the first time in the last few years.
Better a Twitter malfunction than a cyber truck.
Dolly Parton told Oprah Winfrey that she thought she would be a great mother.
Parton elaborated saying she and her recently deceased husband, Carl Thomas Dean, ultimately decided not to have kids because Parton wanted the freedom to pursue her career and be a mother to all children.
That is so Dolly Parton.
Parton said at one point they even had a name picked out if they had a girl, but decided against it.
I'm guessing it was Dolly Jr.
Billy Joel is putting his health before his tour.
The 75-year-old music icon has wisely chosen to postpone working the road so he can rehab after a recent medical procedure.
Joel's camp says he will take four months away from performing to get his health back.
Joel expects to make a full recovery and will resume his tour in Pittsburgh on July 5th of this year.
For more showbiz fond tune in to Nightlife with me, Peach Wabba, weeknight from 6 to 8 p.m. on Pacific Media, Radio Network.
We are tracking a storm system that could bring showers, even if you thundershowers late tomorrow into tomorrow night, rain and eventually some rain changing to snow.
By Sunday it's going to be windy too, but for now, sunshine today 58 tomorrow will get to the mid 60s.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable. Temperature now 30!
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