Lisa Hale

6 days ago | civicmedia.us | Savanna Tomei-Olson |Phoebe Petrovic |Lisa Hale |Dan Shafer

MADISON, Wis. (Civic Media) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Governor Tony Evers’ 2023 partial vetoes extending per-student funding increases for school districts for 402 years did not violate the state constitution. The opinion was released Friday, with the court’s four liberal justices ruling in favor of Evers.

6 days ago | civicmedia.us | Savanna Tomei-Olson |Jimmie Kaska |Phoebe Petrovic |Lisa Hale

BlogIt was another fun week on the radio, thanks to YOU! Here’s some of what we did. Played a ton of great music!Half of married couples say they never mix their dirty clothes with their spouse. They wash them separately. Nabisco bakes about 18-billion Cheese Nips every year. The average cellphone user “panics” when their phone battery gets below 38 percent.

1 week ago | civicmedia.us | Tom Kertscher |Jo Ann Krulatz |Lisa Hale |Brittney Merlot

After two high-profile cases in which candidates were unable to remove their names from the ballot, Wisconsin lawmakers are weighing a change to one of the nation’s strictest withdrawal laws. Under current Wisconsin law, once candidates qualify for the ballot, they can only be removed if they die. The restriction received renewed attention in August 2024, when Robert F.

1 week ago | civicmedia.us | Jo Ann Krulatz |Lisa Hale |Brittney Merlot |Adam Hess

Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election, with its $100 million in record spending and wall-to-wall attack ads, spotlighted how politicized the state’s “nonpartisan” high court has become. To understand how we got here, consider the rise and fall of former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who has agreed to surrender his law license for behavior unbecoming of a lawyer, let alone a formertop judge.

1 week ago | civicmedia.us | Jo Ann Krulatz |Lisa Hale |Brittney Merlot |Adam Hess

This week on Those Were the Days, we will feature a few of our favorite Canadian artists. I realized early on in my record collecting career that some of my best loved artists hailed from Canada. I have purchased lots of vinyl recorded by the Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive, April Wine, Triumph, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Loverboy, Bryan Adams, Five Man Electrical Band, and Rush. When I was a ‘wee Nee’, I would listen each night to distant AM radio signals.