Green Bay, Wis. – UW-Green Bay’s Institute for Women’s Leadership is sponsoring an ongoing monthly “Caffeinated Conversations” discussion series. The topics highlight gender and leadership equity and are intended to amplify and inspire women. The morning sessions take place virtually and in-person at coffee shops in Northeast Wisconsin from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and are hosted by Jessica Lambrecht, Executive Director of UW-Green Bay’s Division of Continuing Education and Community Engagement. Each month, Jessica and a dynamic group of women grapple with an important topic, share experiences and offer each other advice and networking support. “These conversations are vital,” says

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling today in Friends of Frame Park vs. City of Waukesha is a body blow to the state’s traditions of open government. It undermines the provision in the open records law that allows litigants to recover actual costs and attorney’s fees in cases in which access to records is wrongfully denied. The court’s conservative majority has created new opportunities for authorities to deprive the public of access to public information. Indeed, as Justice Karofsky writes in dissent, the ruling may actually “disincentivize government actors from making timely disclosures, eviscerating the very purpose of the public records

MILWAUKEE, WI — The Chief Deputy of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, Dr. Denita Ball, announced today that she has earned the endorsement of State Rep. Christine Sinicki, who represents portions of Milwaukee, St. Francis, and Cudahy. “Dr. Denita Ball is driven by her passion to better her community and prioritize public safety for all of us,” said Rep. Sinicki. “Denita is far and away the most qualified person for the job and I know she’ll be a fantastic Sheriff for Milwaukee County.” “I’m honored to have the endorsement of Rep. Sinicki who has served her community for over two decades

Appleton, Wis. –  Last week Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek, Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) Secretary Dawn Crim, and Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) Secretary-designee Cheryll Olson-Collins toured Poplar Hall, an Appleton event space built with mass timber. The group also met with the development, design, and construction team. Mass timber refers to a family of engineered, load-bearing wood construction materials. Already popular in Europe and increasingly so in Canada, mass timber is more recently emerging in the United States as a renewable and aesthetically appealing alternative to traditional commercial construction. In its recent Commercial Building Code Update, DSPS

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley cast the deciding vote and actually wrote the decision that favored a golf course developer, even though that developer had contributed $2,500 to her campaign. Late last week, the high court’s conservative majority ruled that a group had no standing to challenge the transfer of state park land for a proposed golf course. The Kohler Co. and its chairman, Herbert V. Kohler Jr., want to build an 18-hole, 247-acre “world class” golf course using nearly five acres of forest and wetland in the Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan County for the golf course project. The plans call