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President Biden was in the Superior area today as expected and was busy promoting his domestic agenda after the State of the Union address. Speaking in our state, Biden said the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill will make major upgrades while providing good new jobs.  He noted that the measure will address faulty bridges, bad highways, poor water systems and wide swaths of rural communities without decent Internet service.  Biden also said the infrastructure bill will help restore the Great Lakes.  President Biden

Green Bay is reducing the penalties for getting caught with marijuana.  The city council passed a resolution last night saying anyone caught with 28 grams of marijuana or less on private property will only have to pay court costs.  Getting caught in public could result in a fine of up to 500 dollars or community service.  Anyone under 21 caught with marijuana could be fined between 100 and 200 dollars for their first offense.

Gov. Tony Evers today announced that the City of Altoona will receive a $1.37 million grant through the Neighborhood Investment Fund grant program. The funded project consists of redeveloping blighted property in Altoona’s traditional downtown core to attract new businesses.The City of Altoona plans to partner with Containers Up, a Wisconsin based contractor hard-hit by thepandemic, that specializes in creating unique buildings from refurbished shipping containers. When theproject is complete, businesses impacted by the pandemic will be provided a chance

 Wisconsin has some of the highest property taxes in the U.S.  WalletHub says the effective real-estate tax rate in Wisconsin is one-point-eight-five percent, sixth-highest in the country.  Based on the median home value in Wisconsin, WalletHub says the average Wisconsin resident pays over 33-hundred dollars in property taxes a year.  WalletHub says the state with the lowest property taxes is Hawaii and the state with the highest is New Jersey.

 Firefighters in Milwaukee say a problem with a boiler caused a carbon monoxide leak at a UW-Milwaukee dorm late Monday night that sent more than a dozen students to the hospital.  In all, more than 400 students were evacuated from the Cambridge Commons.  The students say they had trouble breathing and were feeling dizzy about 10 p.m. Monday.  Milwaukee firefighters say 17 students were taken to the hospital for treatment.  Students were allowed back into their dorms early yesterday morning

WAXX Cares is welcoming a new month with a new local cause that aims to make tuck-in-time a safe and special part of a child’s day. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT WAXX CARES Child bedlessness is a national problem, and as a national nonprofit with chapters spread across the country, SHP has provided the solution. They are a volunteer organization that builds beds for kids who are sleeping on the floor and there are multiple ways to get involved

President Biden will make one of his first post-State of the Union stops in Wisconsin.  The president is scheduled to speak in Superior later today.  The president is expected to use Superior’s Blatnik Bridge as an example of the success of his infrastructure plan. Incase you missed the State of the Union address, you can click below to hear a recap with Mark Mayfield:

The special investigator looking into Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential vote says there was a “bribery scheme.”  Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman unveiled his report yesterday.  It goes into details about how the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life used nearly nine-million-dollars to work its way into election operations in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha.  The report also highlights potential voter fraud at nursing homes across the state, including suspiciously high voter turnout numbers in selected nursing homes in

Investigators say what started out as a day of smoking meth led to a night of sex, that eventually ended with a woman chopping a man’s body into pieces.  Prosecutors in Green Bay yesterday filed homicide and sex charges against 24-year-old Taylor Schabusiness.  They say she strangled a man last week while they were having sex.  After he was dead, prosecutors say she eventually decided to cut his body into pieces.  Police found the man’s head in a bucket, his

Young hunters in Wisconsin are no longer going to have an online-only option for hunter safety classes.  The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said it is ending online-only youth hunter safety classes as of March 20th.  DNR says it wants young hunters, those under 18-years-old, to get a more “hands-on” experience.  Older hunters can still take the online-only class.  Wisconsin switched to the online-only classes for younger hunters during the height of the coronavirus outbreak.