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Annual Ride for Veterans set for next month
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – A local Army Veteran is going the distance again. In 2021, James Greer founded Ride for Veterans after reading an article that said 22 Veterans commit suicide everyday in the United States. In 2022, Greer drove to the Artic Circle and back to Kansas on a motorcycle in 22 days. Every year […]
Lake Altoona pollution case ends with significant fines
EAU CLAIRE — A man accused of dumping wastewater into a creek that feeds Lake Altoona saw the all charges dismissed, but didn’t get away with it. Daniel Burns III, Cedarburg, faced four counts of discharging pollutants into waters of the state, a Class U misdemeanor. Prosecutors filed the charges after wardens with the Department of Natural Resources watched him pump liquid out of a defunct landfill and into Sixmile Creek. The landfill was formerly used by Plainwell Tissue for disposal of sludge and ash. ...
Wisconsin Workforce Reels as Companies Announce Mass Layoffs
Wave of Job Cuts Hits Wisconsin, Thousands Brace for Layoffs. The mass layoffs continue in Wisconsin. Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, an employer with more than 100 full-time workers must give 60 days' notice before laying off 50 or more people at a single site.
Republicans urge Secret Service to push protesters further from RNC
The Coalition to March on the Republican National Convention (RNC) is condemning efforts by RNC leaders to keep protests as far from the convention as possible. As first reported by Politico, GOP leaders issued a letter to the Secret Service arguing that allowing protests anywhere near the convention security footprint threatens the safety of the […] The post Republicans urge Secret Service to push protesters further from RNC appeared first on Wisconsin Examiner.
The history of Milwaukee's distinctive black-and-white address tiles
They adorn duplexes, businesses, bungalows and City Hall. They have borne witness to children playing on porches, families moving in and out, and shops opening and closing. They tell people where to go and when they’ve arrived. Milwaukee’s black-and-white address tiles are distinctive and ubiquitous, the result of an...
Here's how to keep track of the latest power outages across Wisconsin
We Energies is reporting that more than 4,000 Milwaukee-area customers are without power as of Wednesday morning after storms tracked across southeast Wisconsin last night. There are also 289 separate outages across Wisconsin as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the utility's outage map. Other utility providers in Wisconsin show that about 30,000...
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