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#1 Wisconsin Republicans Kill Cannabis Legalization And Tax Increases for Millionaires
May 13 2025 // Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, including legalizing marijuana, even as both sides negotiate a tax cut. The...
#2 Wisconsin Couple Sues Over Son’s Death Linked to $500 Surge in Asthma Meds
Feb 7 2025 // A Wisconsin couple is suing Walgreens and a pharmacy benefits management company, alleging that their son died because he couldn’t afford a sudden $500 spike in his asthma medication. Shanon and William...
#3 Farm Bill Becomes Lightning Rod in Wisconsin Senate Race
Oct 30 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has repeatedly defended his self-professed lack of knowledge about the U.S. farm bill in the campaign’s closing days, after first saying in a...
#4 Mother of Dead Inmate Sues Troubled Wisconsin Prison
May 5 2025 // The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum security prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit, marking the fourth action brought by relatives of inmates who have...
#5 Residents Jumped From Windows in Wisconsin Apartment Fire That Killed 4
May 13 2025 // Residents jumped from the windows of a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee during a Mother’s Day fire that killed four people, critically injured four others and grew so intense that the blaze outmatched the...
#6 Wisconsin Recycling Company Fined $202K for Exposing Workers to Lead, Cadmium
Oct 11 2024 // A follow-up inspection by federal workplace safety investigators in April 2024 found a Janesville, Wisconsin recycling company continuing to expose employees to unsafe levels of lead and cadmium while they dismantled...
#7 Meta Plans Nearly $1 Billion Data Center Project in Wisconsin
Apr 7 2025 // Meta Platforms Inc. plans to spend nearly $1 billion on the development of a data center project in central Wisconsin, underscoring a larger effort from the social media giant to ramp up investments in AI and cloud...
#8 Wisconsin Voters Seek Damages Over Uncounted Ballots
Mar 11 2025 // Four Wisconsin voters whose ballots were not counted in the November presidential election initiated a class-action lawsuit Thursday seeking $175,000 in damages each. The voters were among 193 in Madison whose ballots were...
#9 AM Best Downgrades Wisconsin’s Cities and Villages
Mar 25 2025 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of Cities and Villages...
#10 Wisconsin Waste Management Company Faces $367K Fine for Endangering Workers
Jul 22 2024 // Had John’s Disposal Service Inc. and John’s Recycling Inc. in Franksville, Wisconsin followed federal safety standards, a temporary maintenance worker might not have suffered severe injuries when their jacket...
#11 70,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled in Wisconsin Pipeline Leak
Dec 16 2024 // OAKLAND, Wis. (AP) — Roughly 70,000 gallons (264,978 litres) of oil from a pipeline spilled into the ground in Wisconsin, officials said. The problem was discovered Nov. 11 in Jefferson County, 60 miles (96.5 kilometers)...
#12 Wisconsin Officials Recall Eggs After Salmonella Outbreak
Sep 9 2024 // Wisconsin health officials initiated a recall of eggs following an outbreak of salmonella infections among 65 people in nine states that originated on a Wisconsin farm. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said in a...
#13 Wisconsin Pizza Restaurant to Pay $99K Over Child Labor Law Violations
Nov 15 2024 // A Wisconsin pizza restaurant has agreed to pay $99,000 in fines after a Department of Labor investigation found the business assigned teenage employees to dangerous duties. Investigators found Pizza Parlor and owner...
#14 Wisconsin’s Rural Mutual and Badger Mutual Finalize Affiliation Agreement
Jan 17 2025 // Rural Mutual Insurance Company and Badger Mutual Insurance Company, with a combined 227 years of providing farm, commercial, and personal policies, have finalized their affiliation agreement based on regulatory approval...
#15 Wisconsin Manufacturer Faces $177K Fine After Worker Fatally Struck
Jun 6 2024 // Federal investigators have concluded that an Appleton, Wisconsin pallet manufacturer’s failure to train employees in machine safety procedures — and ensure the procedures were followed — contributed to the fatal...
#16 Bridge Specialty Group Acquires Assets of Wisconsin’s ARMR
Dec 10 2024 // J. Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE:BRO), and David Dybdahl and Cynthia Statz, owners of American Risk Management Resources Network, LLC (“ARMR”), announced that a Bridge...
#17 Wisconsin Contractor Faces $144K Fine for Endangering Workers
Sep 19 2024 // A suburban Madison, Wisconsin contractor with a history of federal safety failures – including violations that led to an employee’s fatal injuries in 2022 – has again been found exposing workers to the...
#18 Coterie Relocating Headquarters to Appleton, Wisconsin
May 15 2025 // Coterie, a small business MGA, announced it is relocating its headquarters from Cincinnati to Appleton, Wisconsin. Coterie said relocating the company’s headquarters to Appleton provides a reduction in operational...
#19 Wisconsin Food Processor Fined $161K for Exposing Workers to Dangers
Sep 18 2024 // A Wisconsin animal food producer exposed employees to the risks of explosions, fires and long-term respiratory illnesses from excessive amounts of airborne dust, federal workplace inspectors found. The findings follow an...
#20 Wisconsin Man Charged With Crop Insurance Fraud
Nov 27 2024 // A Wisconsin man has been charged with defrauding the Federal Crop Insurance Program, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin announced. Lance G. Meier, 52, Ogema, is charged with defrauding...
