Sawyer County Record

2 days ago | apg-wi.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – A pair of legal groups have filed to intervene and add an additional argument to the case hoping to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional maps as unconstitutional. Law Forward and the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School additionally argue that Wisconsin’s maps of its eight congressional districts use an anti-competitive gerrymander. kAm“p== (:D4@?D:? G@E6CD[ ?@ >2EE6C H9@ H6 2C6 @C H96C6 H6’C6 7C@>[ 56D6CG6 2? 6BF2= G@:46 2?5 2? 6BF2= D2J :?

2 days ago | apg-wi.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee approved adding more than $732 million into its budget for the state’s Environmental Improvement Fund that funds the Clean Water Fund Program. That program provides loans at below-market rates so that local wastewater and drink water capital projects can be completed. The loans start at 2.2%, below the 4.0% market rate, for the loans while some smaller communities can receive rates of 1.3% or lower rates.

3 days ago | apg-wi.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – A pair of Republican lawmakers have begun circulating a plan to continue Wisconsin’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program through fiscal year 2029-2030. The plan calls for $1 million annually to be set aside to acquire land for the Ice Age Trail, which was previously approved, along with $2 million annually for nonprofit conservation organizations to acquire and develop property. kAm%96 A=2? 2=D@ 42==D 7@C 2 ?6H >2;@C =2?5 24BF:D:E:@? AC@8C2> 7@C AC@;64ED E92E 4@DE >@C6 E92?

3 days ago | apg-wi.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – A bill that would prevent a group of five food ingredients from being included in the food Wisconsin schools offer to students through the state-funded free- or reduced-price meals plan passed an Assembly committee and is advancing in both ends of the Legislature. Those cancer-causing additives include brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylpraben, azodicarbonamide and Red Dye 3.

3 days ago | apg-wi.com | Benjamin Yount

(The Center Square) – Milwaukee Public Schools are going to lose state money, again. The state’s Department of Public Instruction on Tuesday confirmed that it will withhold money because the district missed the end-of-May deadline to turn in last year’s financial report. kAm“(:E99@=5:?8 7F?5:?8 :D 2 =2DE C6D@CE 2?5 4@>6D 27E6C 4@F?E=6DD 9@FCD DA6?E DFAA@CE:?8 |!$[” s6AFEJ $E2E6 $FA6C:?E6?56?E %@> |4r2CE9J D2:5 :? 2 DE2E6>6?E] ”|66E:?8 <6J 5625=:?6D :D 4C:E:42= E@ 6?DFC6 E96 s!x 42?