Feb 11, 2021
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A new legal challenge to Gov. Tony Evers’ latest mask mandate is before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, filed less than a week after the Legislature struck down a previous order and the governor quickly issued a new one.
Prominent Republican donor Jere Fabick asked the court late Tuesday to issue a temporary injunction to block the mask order Evers issued on Feb. 4, just after the GOP-controlled Legislature voted to repeal an earlier order. Fabick’s lawsuit challenging Evers’ authority to issue multiple emergency orders remains before the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in November but has yet to issue a ruling.
Public vaccination site in Rock County just days away from giving first doses
February 10, 2021 5:35 PM Adam Duxter
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JANESVILLE, Wis. – Wisconsin’s first public vaccination site is set to open on Tuesday Feb 16.
Located at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, the site will start with the goal of vaccinating 1,000 people each week. On Wednesday, Governor Tony Evers toured the site.
“This site will start slow, and hopefully as things go forward, they’ll get more and ore supplies to this site,” Evers said. “As this grows, we can have more and more sites across the state.”
The site will offer appointment only vaccines to anyone who already qualifies for a shot. The site is also the first of Wisconsin’s partnership with AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, who will be overseeing the shots.
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Some 10.4% of white people in Wisconsin have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 2.9% of Black residents, according to the first such data available, released Thursday by the state Department of Health Services.
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The figures are 2.9% for Hispanics, 4.9% for Asians and 7.3% for American Indians, with race or ethnicity not provided for some people. Similar disparities have been found in other states.
The new data also show Iron County, bordering Michiganâs Upper Peninsula, has the largest share of its population vaccinated, with 18.5% of residents receiving at least one dose.
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Members of the Wisconsin National Guard load boxes with hand warmers and PPE on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, before distributing them to COVID-19 testing sites across the state. Angela Major/WPR
There’s a warehouse in Madison full of personal protective equipment (PPE). It contains everything the Wisconsin National Guard needs to safely and effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: nitrile gloves, N95 masks, hand sanitizer, coronavirus test kits, and more. Chief Warrant Officer 2
Matt Hipp has overseen the warehouse since the beginning of June.
Milton Police Department Lt. Kyle Johnson has accepted the job as chief of police in the Village of Roberts in St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
A Milton native, Johnson was promoted from patrol officer to patrol lieutenant at the Milton Police Department in 2018. He started working full-time with the Milton Police Department in 2008. Prior to that, he worked part-time for Milton, City of Jefferson Police Department and the Jefferson County Sheriffâs Department, and was a deputy coroner for Rock County.
Johnson has a bachelorâs degree in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the police academy at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville in 2007.