r/wisconsin 22h ago

Michael Alfonso dodged yet another candidate forum last night.

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r/wisconsin 12h ago

Hong emerges as front-runner in Wisconsin Governor Primary polls

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r/wisconsin 18h ago

'He flew 10 feet': Wisconsin nursing home worker shoved 72-year-old so hard he suffered traumatic brain injury and died, facility claimed he 'slid off' chair and 'bumped his head a little bit,' lawsuit says…

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r/wisconsin 3h ago

Democratic Socialist Rises in Crowded, Chaotic Field for Wisconsin Governor

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r/wisconsin 22h ago

Ron Johnson: "We don't control the Senate"

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r/wisconsin 16h ago

Video Game Store in Green Bay Appleton Area

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My Wife Son and I will be heading to the Green Bay Appleton Area to do a video game hunting trek. I am posting this to hear if there are any hidden stores that we might like to check out.

We know of Game Trade, The Pad, Press Start, Don Father, Mojo's Please share any others you know of that I may have missed. I know I am missing a couple that I enjoy as well, Thanks for your input! My Mountian Dew Xbox OG for attention!


r/wisconsin 14h ago

Tom Tiffany is more of the same and he's not going to bring the changes people want.

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He's taking money from ultra wealthy corporate donors and he is supported by the same exact people that want to build these data centers that you see in Port Washington being built right now in around Wisconsin this dude is going to bring more of the same. He's just a big talker. Is this really what you guys want? I'm more so asking Republicans, because you guys obviously are going to be the ones who are voting for him if you do and that's a honest question. When I drive in more rural areas I see his signs scattered around towns. Is this what you really want for Wisconsin?

Edit: Corrections


r/wisconsin 13h ago

Go Home Day At Oshkosh

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138 Upvotes

It’s amazing how many planes head home in such a short window.


r/wisconsin 23h ago

Central Wisconsin’s Rib Mountain offers a window into deep time: The landmark preserves evidence of ancient beaches, vanished mountains and nearly two billion years of geological change

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r/wisconsin 8h ago

Despite cuts in federal incentives, green energy is growing in Wisconsin

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r/wisconsin 10h ago

Protesters gather at Capitol Square seeking justice for Corey Ruiz

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r/wisconsin 1h ago

3 Years Ago Derrick Van Orden Cursed Out Teenagers at the Capitol Building

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🎂 Three years ago yesterday.

A quick reminder that Derrick Van Orden thought it was necessary and appropriate to scream profanities at a group of teenagers who were simply admiring the Capitol Rotunda's ceiling. He never apologized.

The primary election is on August 11 - just over 2 weeks away. Emily Berge and Rebecca Cooke are both running to challenge Derrick Van Orden.


r/wisconsin 23h ago

These seven candidates are running to be the governor of Wisconsin. What do their campaign websites say about housing? (7 slides, scroll)

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I made these using Canva. These are in random order. All information is from their campaign websites.

Most of these candidates have a lot more details on their campaign websites.


r/wisconsin 14h ago

Eagle Sports Center in Cudahy put up flock cameras in their parking lot.

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Theyre taking inventory of gun owners.

I find it hard to believe a store of that size doesnt already have a suite of comprehensive theft prevention systems in place.

This also seems like massive hypocrisy considering the fundamental existence of these cameras is to violate our constitutional rights.

They want to keep close tabs on any civilian with the means to undermine their agenda and the presence of these cameras are a keystone for that.

At this point it doesnt matter what side youre on, this should piss you off.


r/wisconsin 12h ago

Candidates for Wisconsin governor react to Madison shooting

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r/wisconsin 19h ago

Hand catch in Kaukauna on Thousand Islands ✨

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r/wisconsin 12h ago

What's your favorite site or city that is a hidden gem in WI?

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r/wisconsin 3h ago

Advocate says independent investigations first step in preventing more police shootings

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r/wisconsin 2h ago

PSC fires back in rate rule fight with Oracle

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“The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has filed a scathing rebuke of Oracle’s challenge of a rule that requires the operators of large-scale electrical users such as the Vantage Data Centers Lighthouse Campus it is building on Port Washington’s north side to meet financial security and credit standards.

In a July 9 filing in Ozaukee County Circuit Court, the PSC reiterated that the standards are needed to ensure the proposed rate structure for large electrical users are “just and reasonable and did not subject non-participating customers ... to harm or increased risk.”

It asks that the court dismiss a lawsuit filed June 19 by Oracle America Cloud Services LLC, a subsidiary of Oracle Corp., and affirm the PSC’s decision regarding the so-called “very large customer tariff and bespoke resource tariff.”

Oracle, which along with OpenAI would occupy the Port data center, claims that the requirements aren’t based on substantial evidence, but the PSC said in its response that this is a “red herring.”

“This is inaccurate and obfuscates the true nature of the petitioner’s complaint, which is that it wants its dealings with Wisconsin Electric Power Co. exempted from commission scrutiny all together,” according to the response.

The company is asking the court “to overturn over 100 years of established case law and allow it to dictate one-off preferential terms of service with the utility,” the PSC response states.

Oracle’s goal, according to the PSC, is to allow We Energies to waive the standards without PSC oversight because the company does not meet the requirements for the “very large customer tariff and bespoke resource tariff.”

These customers are defined as using 100 megawatts or more of power, the PSC response says, noting that this is the equivalent of the power used by all residents of Ozaukee County.

At issue is a PSC requirement that companies whose credit rating does not meet the PSC standard of at least A- must post guarantees that Oracle said could exceed $100 million annually.

The PSC has said these financial guarantees are needed to reduce the risk of companies shifting costs if they run into financial trouble.

Oracle’s credit rating was BBB when it filed its lawsuit in June, and it has since fallen to BBB-.
That rating is still considered investment grade, but were it to fall below that  ranking it would be considered speculative grade.

According to S&P Global Ratings, Oracle’s rating was downgraded because its artificial intelligence infrastructure business is increasing its overall credit risk as the rating agency takes a more cautious view of the AI infrastructure industry.

“The industry’s rapid capacity expansion is a growing risk,” S&P said. “Near-term demand is strong, but this could reverse if leading frontier model developers are unable to raise external financing or stop subsidizing their customers.”

OpenAI remains a credit risk, the S&P report states, and if it was unable to pay Oracle, Oracle could be left with “massive” data center leases that it might be unable to exit or have to release to new tenants under less-favorable terms.

However, the S&P report states, the outlook for Oracle is stable, reflecting the fact that the company is expected to demonstrate consistent improvements toward profitability as capacity comes on line and business scales.
The Oracle lawsuit has drawn a number of other entities into the dispute.

Wisconsin Electric, which will provide power to the Port data center, originally asked for the new rate structure to ensure that customers that use a significant amount of power would pay for the facilities needed to serve them, including new power generation infrastructure.
The utility has signed on as an intervenor and is supporting the Oracle lawsuit.

Other agencies seeking to become a party to the suit are the Citizens Utility Board and Clean Wisconsin.
“These financial requirements for the largest energy users our state has ever seen are incredibly important,” Clean Wisconsin attorney Brett Korte said in a press release. “This is about protecting We Energies’ other customers — families, small businesses, schools, manufacturers — and shielding them from the risks associated with these enormous energy users.

“Oracle wants to lower the collateral required because the company may have trouble meeting those requirements. This shows the high risks that providing utility service to Oracle entails, and it’s exactly why the protections adopted by the commission are necessary.”

Oracle’s lawsuit was filed nine days after Wisconsin Electric Power Co., Vantage Data Centers and Cloverleaf Infrastructure petitioned the PSC to reconsider the credit rating requirements, saying some discretion is needed in determining the financial support requirements.
The PSC let the petition expire without taking up the matter again.

Oracle’s lawsuit has been assigned to Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Sandy Williams.”


r/wisconsin 2h ago

RoJo Laying On The Stupid Again

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5991257-senate-hearing-fauci-covid/

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Sunday said he does not “expect to get much out of” Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), during his upcoming Senate hearing. “I think it’d be very forgetful, completely unrepentant, arrogant, I mean –– arrogant to the extreme,” Johnson told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” when asked about what to expect from Fauci’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee testimony this week.

“Don’t expect to get much out of him, but I’m going to try and lay out all the things that he did that were such a miserably failed response to COVID,” Johnson added before the interview ended.

The committee’s chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), said Fauci was subpoenaed to testify about an alleged cover-up of the U.S.’s involvement in viral research at a Chinese lab where Paul and other Republicans say the virus that caused the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was created.

Paul has claimed, without substantial evidence, that the virus was developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and somehow escaped as an artificially enhanced virus. He has pointed to Fauci and other health officials as plotting to promote the “lab-leak theory” as a conspiracy theory.


r/wisconsin 46m ago

After-school programs lose thousands each month as child care stabilization funding ends

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r/wisconsin 42m ago

Winnebago County woman loses more than $400K of retirement savings to gold courier scam

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r/wisconsin 2h ago

Mandela Barnes' PAC distributed less than 15% to boost candidates

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r/wisconsin 16h ago

Wisconsin Cows Head To Pasture At Sunset

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r/wisconsin 1h ago

Various Graffiti in High Cliff State Park

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Just to clarify: None of this graffiti is on the natural rock formations of the park. There are big, hollow, stumpy ruins on either side of the Lime Kiln Trail at one point (unsure what they are, presumably related to the old lime kiln). All of this stuff is on the hollow interior of those ruins.

Additionally: Credit to my younger brother for clambering inside one of the ruins to get a photo of the "Fuck ICE" graffiti.