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MADISON, Wis. — Utility bills for more than 150,000 customers in south-central Wisconsin are about to increase. Madison Gas and Electric is increasing rates by about 9% in January, which will result in customers paying about $8.20 more per month. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved the price hike Thursday night while also approving MG&E’s request to purchase part of Alliant Energy’s West Riverside Energy Center natural gas plant in Beloit. The move toward clean energy also includes a solar and wind farm. However, the cost of those initiatives has been increased by pandemic- and supply chain-related issues. “This...

Sen. Ron Johnson criticized top Senate Republicans Sunday in the wake of the party failing to retake control of the chamber and suggested the conference should elect different members to leadership posts. The Wisconsin Republican, who narrowly won reelection against his Democratic challenger, blamed leadership for sowing “dysfunction” by failing to have a unified message and working with Democrats at times to pass bipartisan legislation. “We need to do a real assessment of what went wrong. The last two years, we had … a number of our colleagues join Democrats spending like drunken sailors,” he said on Fox News’ “Sunday...

The Trumps showed off their sibling love in a series of social media posts over the weekend documenting the night of Tiffany's lavish Mar-a-Lago wedding. The family all seemed to be enjoying themselves as they dressed to the nines on Saturday to watch 29-year-old Tiffany says 'I do' to 25-year-old billionaire Michael Boulos under a floral canopy, and celebrate in an extravagant party afterwards. Former first daughter Ivanka, 41, who served as the maid of honor for the special event, shared pictures of her family on Twitter, showing her, husband Jared Kushner, and children Arabelle, 11, Joseph, 9, and Theodore,...

VIDEOKudos to Publix! For the second time during this inflation era, Publix has kept their turkey prices for Thanksgiving down to the pre-inflation level of just 49 cents per pound. I bought two of them right after I recorded this. One will be smoked and the other cooked via sous vide. Therefore we will have TWO turkeys for Thanksgiving.The money I saved by buying these turkeys will be invested in alcoholic drinks for the holiday.

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Florida proved an outlier state for the Republican Party on Tuesday. While GOP candidates—particularly those with far-right platforms—underperformed to expectations nationally, Florida Republicans turned out at much higher rates than Democrats, allowing the GOP to dominate the state. In Manatee County, the overall turnout was 62 percent. Turnout for registered Republicans, however, was a whopping 72 percent. Meanwhile, Democratic turnout was only 59 percent, while NPA and third-party voters turned out at just 47 percent. Statewide, Republicans turned out at 64 percent, while Democrats turned out at just 50 percent. Republicans now hold a majority of registered voters in Florida...

Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD) joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the midterm elections with host Margaret Brennan. The Democrats stole the senate with ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania and post-Election Day ballot counting in Arizona and Nevada. The race for control of the US House is not over. By Sunday morning CNN showed the Democrats gained another seat on Saturday while the GOP stayed at 211. Rep. Raskin discussed Kevin McCarthy, the Freedom Caucus and the Republican leadership moving forward. Raskin said Republicans in the Freedom Caucus are looking for new leadership and could vote for Trump to be...

The “crypto winter” that hit earlier this year walloped digital asset prices and served as a healthy reminder that cryptocurrencies are highly risky, volatile investments. But now, in the wake of crypto exchange FTX’s implosion, crypto investors were reminded of another risk they face: Crypto accounts lack guaranteed protections when the exchange or platform provider goes belly up. Traditional savings and investment accounts can never be 100% safe in the event an institution becomes insolvent, either. But most banks and brokerages, as well as 401(k) plans, do provide federally guaranteed protections and other insurance. Crypto custodial accounts, however, do not...

In many places, searching the web is a gateway to a wider world of information, but in Russia, it is part of a system that helps trap people in an alternative reality. Shortly after 20 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk in June, Lev Gershenzon - a former manager at Russian tech company Yandex - typed the city's name into its search engine to find out more. The results he got back shocked him. "The sources that ranked at the top of the page were strange and obscure," he told the BBC....

Crypto.com just admitted to making another very large and concerning clerical error: it mistakenly sent 320,000 in Ethereum (~$416 million USD) to another cryptocurrency exchange, called Gate.io, about three weeks ago (via Web3 Is Going Just Great). In a post on Twitter, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company was supposed to send the crypto to one of its cold, or offline, wallets, but accidentally sent it to a “whitelisted” address belonging to its corporate account at Gate.io. [competitor] Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao appeared to allude to the situation in a tweet on Sunday morning, stating: “If an exchange...

Today, we discuss updates from across the war zone; analyse the latest diplomatic news from the U.S. and Europe; and we speak about the rise and development of Russian fascism with historian Dr Ian Garner.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Republican Party does not have a single leader when asked if former President Donald Trump should remain as the head of the GOP. Partial transcript as follows: [cut] BRENNAN: Sure, but you lost the ballgame in the Senate. Karl Rove blamed...Should Mr. Trump remain the leader of the Republican Party? COTTON: Well, Margaret, when the party- when any party is out of power, as Republicans are now, we don’t have a single leader. The former president is obviously very popular with many of our voters– BRENNAN: He’s...

Climate activist Harrison Ford has been photographed yet again piloting one of his gas-guzzling private jets, this time on a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to celebrate his wife Calista Flockhart’s birthday. The Raiders of the Lost Ark star piloted his $18.8 million Cessna Citation Sovereign jet from New York to Tennessee to pick up his mother-in-law and then onto L.A. to celebrate his wife’s 58th birthday, according to a Daily Mail report. The three were reportedly seen disembarking from the plane in L.A. and boarding an SUV. The cross-country plane trip gave off an estimated 10.8 metric tonnes of...

House district 3 51% in R up 53-47 CA-9 Dem up but only 36% in CA-13 tied 46% in CA-21 Dem up 49% in CA-22 Rep up 39% in CA-27 Rep up 53% in CA-41 Rep barely up 53% in 3 other key races with 60-75 percent in

Democrats took a page right out of the Newt Gingrich playbook. They nationalized the midterms, and made it about abortion and losing democracy. Secondary reasons, ballot harvesting and extreme lack of funds in significant races.

RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) is a wonderful spy drama with Bruce Willis. A retired spy's simple life is interrupted at Christmas when he's put on an Exterminate! list.

Kari Lake War Room @KariLakeWarRoom Five days now. Our team knew we won on election night. Our models showed no statistical path for @katiehobbs to overcome the margins we knew we'd gain in @maricopacounty . Five days later, they still haven't counted Maricopa County. Does this seem right to you?

The declassification and release today (November 9, 2022) of the interview with President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney conducted by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) follows recommendations long advocated by the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB). The release of the transcript addresses one of the Boards mandates, to release records and materials of extraordinary public interest. The declassified transcript of the interview is now available at: https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2012-163-doc-1-release-material.pdf. “The release of this historical record regarding then President Bush and Vice President Cheney’s actions in the period leading up to and...

Maggie Hassan had an amazing night on Tuesday. The unpopular Democrat Senator routed her Republican opponent. She had such a good night that she won 1,100 votes in a community with a population under 700. It was another Democrat miracle! Granite Glok reported: We’ve got something for you if you’re looking for irregularities in your local elections. Columbia, New Hampshire. It’s way up north. A tiny little town that, according to the 2020 US Census, had 695 residents. But according to the Secretary of State, Maggie Hassan received 1,106 votes from the same town. Don Bolduc had 193 votes. The...

Republican Candidate Derrick Van Orden beat Democrat competitor Brad Pfaff in a tight competition to represent Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District. This was a Republican flip, as incumbent Representative Ron Kind (D-WY) announced he would not run for re-election.The Trump-backed Van Orden is a retired Navy Seal. He received Trump’s endorsement back in August, with Trump offering high praise as he did so:“Derrick Van Orden is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District. Derrick is a former Navy SEAL Senior Chief who bravely served and defended our Country. He strongly supports our Military, Veterans, Law Enforcement, and he will always...