Brittney Merlot

3 weeks ago | waukradio.com | Brittney Merlot |Adam Hess |Jack Kelly |Jo Ann Krulatz

Jill Underly, the incumbent State Superintendent of Public Instruction, defeated challenger Brittany Kinser on Tuesday night in the race to decide who will lead Wisconsin’s public education system. According to unofficial results from the Associated Press and with nearly 86% of districts reporting, Underly had 958,918 votes, or 52.7%, while Kinser had 860,968 votes, or 47.3%. Underly’s win gives her a second term in office. Underly was elected state superintendent in 2021.

3 weeks ago | civicmedia.us | Teri Barr |Jo Ann Krulatz |Jimmie Kaska |Brittney Merlot

Blog“ When I first got to Vietnam, I thought very little of the enemy. Many of us were that way. We didn’t think they were as well equipped as us, didn’t have our training and so on. But man, when they hit us the way they did on the night of January 21st, 1968, the start of Tet, that’s when I really saw their ability to fight. Wow. As horrible as it was, afterward, you had to respect the way they fought. They had a lot of drive. They were fighting for a cause in their own country.

3 weeks ago | civicmedia.us | Teri Barr |Jo Ann Krulatz |Jimmie Kaska |Brittney Merlot

It was springtime on the old Willow Valley farm. The Willow creek was rising, and little Phil was moving outside on his Huffy bike wearing his husky jeans. He would ride around the chicken coop, around the old barn, and out to the tractor shed. Dad would be greasing the spring tillage equipment and getting set to plow the fields for oat planting. While dad was working hard for the spring season, little Phil was working on putting more cards in the spokes of his bike.

3 weeks ago | waukradio.com | Teri Barr |Jo Ann Krulatz |Jimmie Kaska |Brittney Merlot

MADISON, Wis. (Civic Media) – Wisconsin voters approved a ballot measure that adds a photo identification requirement for voting to the state constitution during Tuesday’s Spring Election. The passed referendum means a 2011 state law is now part of Wisconsin’s constitution. Language in the amendment doesn’t list the types of identification that can be used for voting, leaving it up to the state legislature to decide what IDs can be used to cast a ballot.

3 weeks ago | civicmedia.us | Jimmie Kaska |Brittney Merlot |Teri Barr |Adam Hess

It’s been a nail-biting contest with records being broken for campaign spending with Susan Crawford emerging victorious in Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court race. Crawford defeats former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel. The race — with more than $90 million in spending — surpasses all previous judicial election records. It’s also been one of the most closely watched races in the nation.