The team proposed the project in January, saying it needed the revenue from the renovation to remain competitive in the National Football League. Green Bay and the Fox River Valley are ground zero in the campaign for the White House. Candidates and their surrogates visit the Green Bay area numerous times in what would become one of the closest and strangest elections in the country's history. That allowed the U.S. Coast Guard to determine in October that it sunk after it was struck by a barge. Brown County leaders lobby for part of a 0.5 percent countywide stadium tax to help fund government operations, saying service cuts are on the horizon without it.
Voters reject the proposal for county government.
A hiring freeze is placed on county positions. The third-largest school referendum in state history was passed by 78.5 percent of voters. Leland Jarvey was convicted in April after a weeklong jury trial in the 1971 slaying of Diane Cartier, 16. Two brothers, David and Robert Bintz, were convicted in separate trials in May and July in the 1987 killing of Green Bay bartender Sandra Lison. In their continuing search for a new casino site, the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Indians float casino-hotel complexes in Ashwaubenon and Lawrence.