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For 97.9 WGBW News, I'm Lisa Hale. The NFL Draft 2025 is this week. Visitors will start arriving in Northeast Wisconsin in preparation for all of the festivities that officially start Thursday April 24th. However, there are many activities planned throughout this week leading up.
Lombardi Avenue from military to homegrown way is now completely closed in both directions. Pedestrian traffic along the NFL Draft fence is still allowed. Information on road closures, parking, traffic patterns, shuttle services, and more is available on the NFL One Pass app.
If the thing keeping you from going to the NFL Draft near Lambo Field this week is the drive, the traffic, and the thought of trying to park, the Fox City's Convention and Visitors Bureau has the solution said Pam Sidel, executive director of the CVB.
Everybody knows where Fox River Mall is. They've given us the whole section of the parking lot. We've got six coach buses, real easy trip up, you know, on both Thursday and Friday.
The shuttle service will cost $60 round trip to reserve your shuttle seat from the Fox River Mall to the draft and back, visit FoxCities.org or see our story at WGBW.FM for links.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin introduced a new process for replacing local party officials last week.
The new rules were approved by the state Republican Party's executive committee in an attempt to cut down on what they call egregious behavior and infighting between state party leadership and local officials and organizers.
Here in the eighth congressional district, there have been reports of infighting and shouting matches. The new code of conduct requires local, regional, and state party members to treat other party officials with respect, support candidates endorsed by the party,
and prohibits harassment of other party members. Can AI help people with opioid addiction? Joanne Coulette has that answer.
A new artificial intelligence tool developed by UW Madison could streamline care for people battling opioid use.
The AI tool was able to identify hospitalized adults at risk for opioid use disorder and recommend them to addiction specialist.
The tool can scan clinical notes, medical history, and other health records in seconds for patterns associated with opioid use.
A study funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on drug abuse used data for more than 51,000 hospitalized adults,
727 of whom completed addiction, medicine, consultations.
Wisconsin Wildlife Officials say bird flu is still spreading across the state and is estimated to have killed hundreds of wild birds over the last few months.
According to the Department of Natural Resource Officials, there was a significant uptick in reports of sick and dead geese in multiple counties in December, as well as die-offs of geese and swans in January and February.
The agency is also awaiting test results on samples taken for more than 70 dead sandhill cranes in recent weeks.
They're asking residents to report any groups of dead birds.
The Trump Administration's 2026 Budget Passback Plan, that's currently under consideration, eliminates NOAA's oceanic and atmospheric research office,
and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated cooperative institutes.
Meteorologist Brittany Marlowe tells us more.
If the plan is enacted, it would close all of NOAA's weather, climate, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes.
And without that research, the National Weather Service Weather Models and products will stagnate.
Observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, and undergraduate and graduate student support will drop.
Also, NOAA funding for universities will plummet.
These scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically reduced.
This could lead to unknown and disastrous consequences for public safety and economic health.
If you believe it's important for NOAA research and improving National Weather Service forecasts, the time to act is now.
Reach out to your elected representatives and share your concerns.
Consider installing the five calls app on your phone to help you.
A Wisconsin business owner is talking about the Trump tariffs after learning how much it will hurt his bottom line.
TJ Sumanshan has three Wonder State coffee locations in the state, but he buys all of his coffee beans from farmers in other countries.
All of our coffee is going to get hit with a 10% tariff attack. That's just a boom. Unexpected increase costs of business.
I need to go out and find financing for that. I have to pay for that tariff upfront before we sell it to the inconsumer.
I got to come up with that cash.
Sumanshan adds coffee doesn't grow well in the US, especially in the volume of beans he needs for his businesses across the state.
Boy did the election commission meeting last week get heated. Stuart J. Wattles has more.
The agenda was for talk about Madison's ballot problems, but Bob wanted to talk about Milwaukee.
The Bob is Bob Spindell, and that was part of the heated conversation during a recent meeting of the Wisconsin election commission.
Share and Jacobs had the gavel and wouldn't let Spindell comment about the issue of not having enough ballots in Milwaukee for the April 1 election.
He also talked about.
You are out of order. The city of Milwaukee is not on this agenda. You don't have to hide that agenda. You are not.
You are not the chair.
Mr. Spindell wasn't kicked out and the meeting did go on. Milwaukee officials have clarified the restricted areas were unrelated to absentee ballot processing.
I'm Lisa Hale, 97.9 WGBW news.
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The brewers clobber the A's. Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with sports. The brewers had a season I 16 hits on the way to a 14 to 1 win over the A's.
Milwaukee stole nine bases in the game. Six of them in just one inning. Both franchise records. The brewers sound free.
Yeah, I mean, I hope that every team and every catcher thinks that like whether we're stealing or not, just beating it first base or second base.
The pitcher and catcher thinking about she was a success manager Pat Murphy.
I think that's one of the ways we win. You know, we win by collecting hits, taking walks, stealing bases, having the threat to steal, which could be a better pitch to hit sometimes. That's one of the ways we can beat you.
The crew in San Fran tonight against the Giants NBA bucks getting ready for game two tomorrow night after losing 117 to 98 Saturday to the Pacers.
I think we're going to be able to be had enough urgency going to game two. Hopefully we can improve that or we can change that. We'll see, but going to game two, we're going to be better.
That's Jonathan Tadacupo with sports. I'm Mike Clemens.
I'm your entertainment beat. I'm Pete Schwabba. Since we haven't heard Glenn Powell news in about four seconds, here is an update. The highly in-demand actor will co-write and star in a new comedy about a country western music star.
Powell is partnering with Judd Apatow, with whom he will share writing credit for the script. Apatow, whose credits include the 40-year-old Virgin and knocked up, will direct.
Powell's most recent credits were Hitman and the blockbuster's Twisters and Top Gun 2. A legacy drummer is out of a job.
The Who has decided to part ways with Zach Starky after almost 30 years following a performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Starky is the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and the godson of original Who drummer, The Late Keith Moon.
Starky apparently got into it on stage with lead singer Roger Daltry.
The new Star Wars film officially has a title and it's called Star Wars Starfighter. The film's lead actor will be Ryan Gosling and it will be directed by Sean Levy, whose previous credits include, well, pretty much everything.
Levy has directed the recent smash Deadpool and Wolverine, all three night at the museum films and executive produced Stranger Things.
Gosling's last big film was the fall guy so I'm sure he's eager to watch that taste out of his mouth.
Star Wars Starfighter hits theaters May 28th of 2027.
There is something about podcasts that seems to help celebrities open up. Emilio Estevez recently appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
Host Josh Horowitz asked the outsiders actor what the worst note he ever got from a director was.
Estevez says on the set of St. Almost Fire director Joel Schumacher screamed at the top of his lungs have a good bleeping time.
Estevez says Schumacher was a bully and wildly insecure. He also made a very mediocre Batman movie.
Here is one of Pete's picks. The show Bosh Legacy just wrapped up after three seasons and it was fantastic.
Bosh Legacy, like its predecessor Bosh, is based on Michael Connolly crime novels.
Bosh ran for seven seasons and followed lead actor Heronymous Bosh and LAPD homicide detective who is rough around the edges and pushes procedural boundaries.
Legacy follows the same character but as a retired cop in private eye.
Legacy is batting a thousand percent on rotten tomatoes and the original Bosh pulls in 97%.
If you like crime shows, both Bosh's are must-seize. All ten seasons of Bosh and Bosh Legacy are available on Amazon Prime.
Variety reports that according to the New York City Chief Medical Examiner, actress Michelle Trachtenberg died of natural causes.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star apparently had diabetes and suffered complications from diabetes malitis.
For more showbiz fun tune into Nightlight with me, Peach Wabo, weeknights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media radio network.
It is going to be breezy, cloudy, with scattered showers likely today. The showers will end and we will clear a little bit by late this afternoon with a high today in the upper 40s to low 50s.
Tonight, mostly clear, we'll drop into the low to mid 30s tomorrow. A mix of clouds and sun with a few sprinkles here and there and a high in the low to mid 50s.
I'm a urologist, Sean Cable, current temperature 44.
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