MON PM Update: DOJ announces sex assault charges against defrocked priest

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — AG Josh Kaul announced today a defrocked former cardinal had been charged with fourth-degree sexual assault for an incident that allegedly occurred in April 1977. Theodore McCarrick, 92, is the second person charged after Kaul’s Attorney General’s Clergy and Faith Leader Abuse

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Sen. Cowles: Announces Green Bay area listening session

GREEN BAY– Senator Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) is pleased to announce an upcoming listening session on Monday, April 24th. Senator Cowles and other area legislators will be meeting with constituents in the common room of Bay Port High School, located at 2710 Lineville Road, Green Bay, from 4 to 5

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Dept. of Health Services: Experts brief legislators about the Childhood Lead Poisoning Data Explorer

What: Department of Health Services (DHS) experts will brief legislators about the prevalence of blood lead testing and lead poisoning in children under age 6, related environmental and community characteristics, and strategies to prevent and respond to childhood lead poisoning. They will also launch the Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Data Explorer  Who: When: Friday,

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WARF touting method for extending storage life of meat products

WARF is seeking commercial partners to help develop a new method for extending the storage life of various meat products.  This method’s inventor, Mark Richards, is a professor in UW-Madison’s Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is touting his work as a top licensing prospect

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Voces de la Frontera: Wisconsin latinxs and immigrants gear up for a National Day of Action on May 1st to demand state issued driver licenses for immigrants and more

What: May Day Press Conference and a May Day community art build When: Saturday, April 22, 2023 Time:  The press conference will be at 11:00 a.m., but the art build will go from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Where: The Voces Milwaukee office on 733 W. Mitchell St. Speakers: Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director of Voces

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Rep. Macco: ‘Wisconsin Wins’: income tax and local funding reform

Madison, Wisc. Representative John Macco (R-Ledgeview) and Representative Jerry O’Connor (R- Fond Du Lac) released the following statement on their Income and Local Funding Legislation: “For over eight years the Ways & Means committee and I have worked consistently and successfully to improve our tax code and make it fair, low

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Dept. of Justice: Attorney General Kaul releases update in advance of two-year anniversary of Clergy and Faith Leader Abuse Initiative

MADISON, Wis. – As Wisconsin approaches the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Clergy and Faith Leader Abuse Initiative, Attorney General Kaul is releasing additional information, including statements from several survivors who have reached out to DOJ, and highlighting progress being made through the

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