Here are your local headlines for August 22, 2023:

• The RNC confirms the participants in the first Republican presidential debate.
• Waupun Correctional Facility has a four-month-long lockdown.
• UW schools consider layoffs in the face of budget deficits.
• Residential property values continue to increase rapidly.
• Cooling centers open across Southern Wisconsin.

And in tonight's episode, we unpack...

• What was driving the resignation of three Dane County Board Supervisors last week,

• Why a legal firm is asking the state Supreme Court to reduce the length that eviction records are public,

• Why puppy mills appear to be on the rise, and

• Why the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative legal firm, is suing Wisconsin's Secretary of State over open records.