On this episode of Rewind: Your Week in Review, legislative maps proposed by GOP lawmakers and conservative voters are partisan gerrymanders, while four Democratic proposals largely meet the criteria laid out by the state Supreme Court, including being politically neutral, two consultants wrote to the justices. The consultants, Prof. Jonathan Cervas of Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategies and Technology and Prof. Bernard Grofman of UC Irvine School of Social Sciences, stopped short of declaring the four Dem maps as constitutional, which means they did not explicitly recommend acceptance any maps. The Justices could still ask for changes, but there is no clear winner or loser at this point.
Gov. Tony Evers on Feb. 6 announced that an $8 million federal grant has been awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to reconstruct a safety rest area near Sparta, a key facility serving traffic from Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago and Rockford on I-90 westbound to La Crosse, Rochester, and beyond.
Thirteen of 14 Walworth County public school districts fared well in the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) school and district accountability report cards for the 2022-23 school year, placing in the top three rating categories.Â
