Jan. 6 committee seeks Vos testimony on phone call with Trump
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Jan. 6 committee seeks Vos testimony
We start with a Wisconsin tie to the Jan. 6 committee.
The U.S. House committee that's investigating the attack on the Capitol wants Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to testify, reporter Molly Beck writes.
The committee is interested in a phone call former President Donald Trump made to Vos in July in which Trump asked him to overturn the results of the 2020 election — a legal impossibility.
Vos was served a subpoena on Friday, but then he filed a lawsuit in federal court to block it. A scheduled deposition was canceled in response, but the subpoena still stands.
"I was surprised to receive a subpoena since I have no information to provide about the events surrounding January 6th," Vos said in a statement.
Trump made the call after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the use of unmanned absentee ballot drop boxes were illegal.
The committee said the call and "other interactions Vos has had with Trump regarding the 2020 election" are relevant to its investigation.
Vos in a statement said the subpoena "seems to be more about partisan politics than actual fact-finding."
Managing heart failure
Aurora St. Luke's hospital in Milwaukee is a national leader in implanting a certain kind of sensor in patients with heart failure.
Reporter Devi Shastri writes about how the device has affected the life of one patient: Mary Korte, 76 years old and an avid traveler.
"Getting the implant gave her an even more intimate understanding of her disease and gave her the chance to essentially be part of her own medical team."
A patient lies back on a pillow that beams data from the sensor in the pulmonary artery to medical staff in Milwaukee.
The goal of using the device is to keep patients with chronic heart failure out of the hospital.
Advocate Aurora has seen a 50% reduction in the number of hospitalizations among patients who have the implant, according to data provided by the health system.
Concert cancellations
Were you among the ticketholders who saw Panic! At The Disco's Milwaukee show abruptly postponed, then cancelled entirely?
Even as the Delta and Omicron waves of COVID-19 have waned, concert cancellations are still happening at a high rate in Milwaukee, Piet Levy writes in an interesting and in-depth piece.
Low sales, health issues and logistical complications are some of the factors to blame, experts say.
One key quote: “Every line item for a touring show is more expensive,” said Dave Brooks, senior director of live and touring for Billboard.
He continued: “It’s just harder to make money right now or to break even than it has been in the past. … There’s less incentive now to just kind of continue to do dates that aren’t selling well.”
Read more about the challenges facing the live music industry here.
More top stories
- Two Republican leaders are calling on the State Patrol to provide answers about the security costs for Gov. Tony Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
- The conservative website Wisconsin Right Now has sued the Wisconsin Parole Commission for access to information about its most recent parolees. The site has been publishing stories about individual parolees, focused on their past crimes.
- Milwaukee's police union argues its service weapons can fire without a trigger pull. Here's what to know about the lawsuit.
- Milwaukee will study closing Brady Street to cars. Another well-known local street closing, the Historic Mitchell Street pedestrian mall, failed — with the road eventually reopened.
- Elements of the recently shuttered Milwaukee Brewing Co. will live on after it was bought by Milwaukee's Eagle Park Brewing. Its well-known beers will stay on shelves and on tap.
Wedding ring discovery
Don't miss this special story about a hospice chaplain with a passion for metal detecting who helped find a Pewaukee man's long-lost wedding ring.
Judith Sherman was receiving home hospice care and told the chaplain the story of the ring her husband Dewey lost while doing yard work.
The chaplain, Paul Humphreys, searched for hours in the couple's backyard before finding it under 6 inches of dirt.
Reporter Quinn Clark recounts the heartwarming moment Humphreys returned the ring to the couple. Read it here.
Contact Sophie Carson at (414) 223-5512 or scarson@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @SCarson_News.