In October 1995, George Petak changed the course of Major League Baseball in Wisconsin. As a Republican state senator at the time, Petak cast the deciding vote to provide public funding for the ...

Just two weeks after he lost his Wisconsin State Senate seat in unprecedented fashion, George Petak threw out the first pitch at a Brewers game at County Stadium. It was a moment rich with irony since ...

Former State Sen. George Petak has passed. In the 1990s, Petak cast the deciding vote to fund the construction of Miller Park. Petak lost a recall election over that single vote. In the 1990s, ...

RACINE, Wis. -- Former Wisconsin State Sen. George Petak died Tuesday at the age of 75, his son said. "My Dad certainly fought the good fight and finished his race well," Petak's son Brian Petak wrote ...

RACINE, Wis. (WKBT) -- Governor Tony Evers has issued a statement following the death of former Wisconsin State Senator George Petak, who passed away at the age of 75. In part, the statement reads, ...

Staff file photo / Brian Yauger. Mathews’ Ethan Petak puts up a jump shot during basketball season. This past school year, Mathews’ Ethan Petak was the go-to guy. Not just for the baseball program, ...

MADISON (WKBT) -- Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) signed Executive Order 252 on Friday which orders that all flags in the state be at half-staff on Monday, Jan. 6 to honor former Wisconsin Senator ...

With a new era of baseball in Milwaukee just a week away, the man who is quite literally responsible for making Miller Park a reality is throwing his support to another good cause with a March 30 ...

MADISON (WKOW) — George Petak, a former Wisconsin state senator, has died. He was 75. Gov. Tony Evers released the following statement on Petak's passing: “Kathy and I join the people of Wisconsin in ...