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The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has confirmed that two white-tailed deer at a Waukesha County farm have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The samples were confirmed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa. Both affected animals were 3-year-old bucks. The 9-acre farm had been under quarantine since November 2021 after white-tailed deer moved from its herd tested positive at an Eau Claire County ranch. It will remain under quarantine while DATCP

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Eau Claire’s latest homeless count finds more people living on the streets.  Western Dairyland, one of the groups in charge of the count in Eau Claire, says teams found 26 people who don’t have homes in the city.  The last time Eau Claire counted, in January of 2020 they found nine homeless people. Eau Claire’s homeless count will be used for policy decisions, as well as possible funding from the state or federal governments.

There’s hope the High Bridge will be open again by next month.  Eau Claire’s city engineer yesterday said crews are almost done with the work along the base of the bridge, that’s expected to wrap-up this month.  If all goes well the bridge should open sometime in March.  The bridge has been closed for almost a year-and-a-half after inspectors found serious damage to the pilings at the base of the bridge.

Republican lawmakers in Madison are expected to approve another doomed plan that would change how schools across the state work.  The Parents Bill of Rights is up for a hearing in an Assembly committee today.  CJ Szafir with the Institute for Reforming Government say the plan would spell-out that parents are in charge of their child’s education, and make sure that schools respect that.  Among the rights in the plan is the right for parents to see assignments and to

There’s a new report that suggests ways to get some of Wisconsin’s 160-thousand regulations off the books.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty released the report yesterday.  It says Wisconsin has more rules created by bureaucrats than any other Great Lakes state.  Some of those rules go back to the 1950s.  WILL says lawmakers need to push for more transparency, built-in sunsets on new regulations, and a demand that emergency rules only focus on one thing at a time.  The report says Wisconsin’s regulations are

There is a website, but no official announcement.  State Rep. Tim Ramthun, a conservative Republican from Campbellsport, has a website that says he’s running for governor this fall.  Ramthun would be the third Republican in the race.  He, however, has not made an announcement.  Ramthun has made the headlines this year for demanding a full audit of Wisconsin’s voting machines, accusing the Assembly Speaker of colluding with Hillary Clinton over ballot drop boxes, and for having his statehouse staff reassigned.  Ramthun’s

 We’re now down to 11-hundred people in the hospital with the coronavirus in Wisconsin.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there are just over 11-hundred people hospitalized, including 220 people in the ICU.  The 11-hundred hospitalizations is half of what that number was one month ago. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

American Family Insurance is raising its starting wage, again.  The company yesterday said all workers will make at least 23-dollars an-hour.  That comes to just over 47-thousand-dollars a year.  Nearly two-thousand workers are set to get raises under the new plan.  American Family bumped its starting wage up to 20-dollars an-hour back in 2020.  American Family says it’s offering higher pay as a way to attract and keep better workers.

The work at Camp Randall Stadium should be wrapped-up in time for football season.  Crews are renovating the south end zone to make way for new premium seats and some hospitality suites.  The hope is to have the main structure in place by May, which would then allow crews to focus on laying new brick at the stadium.  The whole project is expected to cost about 77-million