News 09.28.16
28 September 2016 News
One of four people arrested following a meth bust in Ripon last spring is convicted. Amy Radliff pleaded no contest to possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine. Two counts of bail jumping were dismissed and read into the record. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered. Radliff and three others were arrested following the execution of a search warrant at a Ripon home last April. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for November 21st.
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Authorities are working to identify an SUV driver that was killed in a two vehicle accident last week in Dodge County. The crash happened shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday on County Highway AY near County Trunk Y in the Town of Theresa. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department says a northbound pickup truck, driven by 43 year old Jonathan Murray of rural Mayville, and a southbound SUV, driven by an unidentified male, collided. The SUV erupted in flames, and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Murray sustained minor injuries. The Dodge County Medical Examiner is working to determine the identity of the SUV driver. The accident remains under investigation.
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Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel is the recipient of the 2016 Friend and Advocate Award presented recently by University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen. The Chancellor’s Friend and Advocate Award honors individuals or organizations outside the UW Colleges and UW-Extension for support to the outreach mission of one or both institutions. Buechel was recognized for his support of both UW Colleges and UW-Extension since he was elected Fond du Lac County Executive in 1993. Sandeen says Buechel has consistently placed the needs of UW-Fond du Lac and UW-Extension Fond du Lac County high on his daily agenda and long-range vision.
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Wisconsin elections officials have started mailing postcards to hundreds of thousands of people telling them how to register to vote. State lawmakers passed a measure earlier this year requiring Wisconsin to join a multi-state consortium that works to identify eligible voters who haven’t registered and informs them how to get on the books. The state Elections Commission voted in August to comply by sending postcards to 1.28 million unregistered state residents. Commission Administrator Mike Haas says the agency is mailing the first 400,000 to 500,000 postcards on this week with the rest to follow later this week. Recipients should find them in their mailboxes within nine days. The effort will cost $225,000. The Pew Charitable Trusts has given the commission a $150,000 grant to defray the cost.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she’ll ask the university’s governing board to raise tuition for out-of-state and professional students. Blank also told faculty Monday that the flagship school in Madison will distribute $9 million in raises and bonuses to faculty and academic staff. The initiatives were part of Blank’s State of the University speech to the faculty senate. Blank says the university needs to stabilize its financial basis as state funding declines. The last time regents approved tuition increases for non-resident and professional school students at UW-Madison was in spring 2015. Blank says tuition at UW-Madison’s professional schools are “very low.”
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A federal judge refuses a union’s demand to block Wisconsin’s right-to-work law. The law prohibits businesses and unions from reaching agreements that require all workers, not just union members, to pay union dues. Unions have argued the law enables nonunion members to receive free representation. Two chapters of the International Union of Operating Engineers filed a lawsuit in May alleging the law amounts to an unconstitutional taking. U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller upheld the law on Monday, citing a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding Indiana’s right-to-work law. A Dane County judge struck down the Wisconsin law in April, but a state appeals court has reinstated it while it considers state attorneys’ appeal.
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