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MADISON - A new report puts Wisconsin among the states with the largest decline in higher education spending per student between 2013 and 2018.
The analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association shows that Wisconsin's higher education funding per student fell by more than 8% during that period. Only Mississippi, West Virginia and Oklahoma saw larger declines.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that Wisconsin is bucking the national trend. The United States overall saw a more than 15% increase in state spending per student between 2013 and 2018.
The group's senior policy analyst, Sophia Laderman, says Wisconsin spent about $1,500 less per student last year than the national average of $7,853.
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MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court will take over the appeal in a second lawsuit challenging Republican-backed laws passed in a lame-duck session to restrict the powers of the newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general.
The decision Friday bypasses the state Appeals Court in the case involving the Service Employees International Union Local 1 and other unions. They're arguing the laws passed last year to limit some of the powers of Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul violate constitutional separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches.
The State Journal reports the conservative-led court said Friday the state's interests "would be best served by the appeal bypassing the court of appeals."
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MADISON - A new report says Wisconsin has seen a steep decline in net migration of families with children who could help replace the state's aging workforce.
The Wisconsin Counties Association's research arm, Forward Analytics, recently released a study that raises concerns about migration patterns. The report says Wisconsin doesn't have enough young people to take over jobs from retiring baby boomers in the coming 10 to 15 years.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that migration of children dropped below 10,000 from 2010 to 2015. Before 2010, Wisconsin added 40,000 children from outside the state over a five-year period.
Wisconsin's birthrate has also declined to its lowest in four decades.
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PINE LAKE - One person went to the St. Mary's Hospital in Rhinelander with non-life threatening injuries Saturday morning after a one vehicle accident on County Road W near Bozile Road.
The driver was reported to be outside of the vehicle which was on fire before firefighters arrived.
Emergency crews remained on the scene for about one hour.
The Pink Lake Fire Department responded after being dispatched at 3:30 a.m.
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NEWBOLD - If it's Saturday, it's training day for the Newbold Fire Department in Oneida County.
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RHINELANDER - Guitar strings lose their rich sound whether they're being played or just sitting in an attic. The Northland Music Center gave their customers a fresh set Saturday for free to celebrate Earth Day a little early.
Co-owner Will Roffers had a busy Saturday morning.
"I would say we're probably in the twenties at this point an hour and a half in," said Roffers working on a guitar inside Northland Music Center in Rhinelander.
He and his co-workers have been re-stringing guitars and recycling the old strings.
It's part of string company D'Addario's international effort to keep highly-recyclable metal guitar strings out of the landfill.
"The amount of strings that go in the garbage is phenomenal so this is really taking a dent out of that," said Roffers.
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MADISON - Wisconsin's youngest lawmaker is much like your typical 19-year-old who binge-watches Netflix, goes out to movies, and eats out with friends.
But Democratic Rep. Kalan Haywood doesn't have a lot of free time these days. The Milwaukee teenager's days in the Legislature tend to be jam-packed. He dashes from committee hearings to office meetings with lobbyists and at the end of the day still has homework to worry about.
Haywood is a sophomore at Cardinal Stritch University, where he's pursuing a degree in business administration.
Haywood is one of three lawmakers nationally who were 19 when they were elected to legislatures in November. The others are in West Virginia and New Hampshire.
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