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They are taking the next step at Ashley Furniture’s new Chippewa Falls facility. The company joined local leaders for a ribbon cutting yesterday. The new facility, on First Avenue in Chippewa Falls, will eventually be an upholstery manufacturing site. Ashley says opening the new facility will not impact its headquarters in Arcadia. Ashley hopes to create 200 jobs at the new facility in Chippewa Falls.

The governor signed the 87-and-a-half billion-dollar, two-year budget yesterday. But not all lawmakers think he deserves credit. He said he delivered on his promise to cut taxes. But Republican Senate Leader Devin LeMahieu said the governor deserves ‘No’ credit for the budget. LeMahieu said Republicans crafted the spending plan, Republicans pushed for the tax cuts, and Republicans delivered in their promises. LeMahieu says Governor Evers originally wanted to raise taxes in his state budget.

The state of Wisconsin is not going to buy the closed paper mills in Wisconsin Rapids and Park Falls. Governor Evers yesterday cut the mills out of the state’s new budget. Republican lawmakers wanted to use federal stimulus dollars to help re-open the mills. The governor says he doesn’t want to spend any of the state’s two-point-four billion-dollars in stimulus money on something that doesn’t give long term support to the mills or their workers. Northern Wisconsin state Senator Patrick Testin says the governor ‘turned his

Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine numbers continue to show huge racial and age gaps. Numbers from the state’s Department of Health Services show over two-point-four-million of the two-point-nine-million people who’ve gotten one dose of the vaccine are white. Just 116-thousand Black people in Wisconsin have gotten a single dose of the vaccine. More than one-million people 55-plus have gotten their shots, compared to just 140-thousand people under 18. DHS says a little over 50-percent of people in Wisconsin have gotten one dose of the vaccine. CLICK

The first piece of Wisconsin’s opioid settlement is worth 65-million dollars. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said the state will get the money from Purdue Pharma, the makers of Oxytcontin. Purdue is settling with some states as part of a lawsuit that claims the company pushed Oxy pills without warning of the dangers. In all, the Purdue Pharma settlement is over four-billion dollars.

The talk about making electric cars at Foxconn’s plant in Mount Pleasant is becoming more formal. The WEDC this week said it has ‘engaged’ in site selection talks with both Foxconn and the electric car maker Fisker. No one is saying just where the talks are, or where they are headed. Foxconn announced a partnership with Fisker back in February, and the two companies said Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant is one of the choices to build electric cars in the United States. The

Kids at Webster Middle School in Cedarburg will get to see the LGBTQ-plus mural that’s been behind a covering. The school’s principal, Tony DeRosa, sent a letter home to parents yesterday explaining that the school has changed its mind about covering the mural up. DeRosa said the mural, called Love in Universal, is about creating an inclusive environment at the middle school. Originally, DeRosa wanted the mural covered because kids as young as six-years-old would be in the school for

Steven Avery’s mother has passed away. Avery’s attorney yesterday said Dolores Avery died yesterday, she was 83. Dolores Avery was featured heavily in the Netflix series Making a Murderer. She never wavered in her belief that Steven Avery did not kill Teresa Halbach back in 2005. Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder.

Governor Tony Evers is signing a budget with one of the largest tax cuts in Wisconsin history.  The governor said when he ran for office, he made a promise that he would cut taxes for the middle class by ten-percent.  Today, he says he’s keeping his word.  The state budget signed today includes a two-billion-dollar income tax cut over the next two years.

The State Department of Health is reporting 208 new COVID-19 cases today.  That raises the total number of cases to nearly 613-thousand-500.  There have been over seven-thousand-300 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus. CLICK FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.