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About 36 percent of people in Eau Claire County are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. But that’s about where the numbers have been for the past week or so. The county says they’ve hit a vaccine plateau. Health Director Lieske Giese says they are trying to make it as easy as possible for people to get the shot. Giese says there are plenty of walk-in clinics open across Eau Claire. Follwing some more of the data we see that

A pair of Wisconsin farmers want to know why they can’t apply for farm loan forgiveness under President Biden’s stimulus package. Calumet County farmer Adam Faust and Crawford County farmer Christopher Baird are part of a lawsuit that challenges the program based on race. Their suit says the Biden Administration’s loan forgiveness program applies only to non-white farmers. They are challenging that. Faust says the economic impact from the coronavirus didn’t hurt one race more than another as far as agriculture goes.

Doctors and nurses across Wisconsin have had to toss thousands of coronavirus vaccine doses. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said 45 hundred doses have been thrown-out so far. While 45 hundred doses may sound like a lot, it’s actually about one-tenth of one-percent of the over four million doses handed-out since December. DHS says nearly 43 percent of people in the state have gotten one dose of the vaccine, another 33 percent have gotten both doses.

Wisconsin is getting ready to purge its voter rolls. The Wisconsin Elections Commission this week agreed to begin the process of removing more than 180 thousand people from voter registration lists across the state. Anyone who hasn’t voted in four years will get a postcard from the Elections Commission, and anyone who doesn’t respond to the card will be removed. The purge comes after the Elections Commission fought a move to remove some voters before last year’s elections. Lawmakers in Madison say this

It is a sign of things to come. A judge in Madison yesterday blocked Republican lawmakers from hiring an outside law firm to help draw the state’s next political map. The judge said lawmakers don’t have the power to hire outside lawyers to do the job. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos accused the judge of playing politics, and vowed to appeal. Lawmakers are supposed to draw new political boundaries after every Census. Almost everyone at the Capitol expects this year’s map

 The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) unveiled a new campaign educating retailers that Federal law now requires tobacco purchasers to be 21 years old. The campaign’s message to retailers is simple. Don’t sell tobacco to anyone under the age of 21. The Federal tobacco purchasing age was raised from 18 to 21 at the beginning of the year, and local health advocates say it was a long-overdue change. In addition to the DHS’s campaign, members of the Chippewa County

COVID-19 cases continue to edge up in the Badger State.  Health officials today confirmed 806 new cases.  Those cases bring the total number statewide to more than 597-thousand-300.  There are over nine-thousand active cases. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

A Wisconsin native is being named the head coach of one of the top soccer teams in Germany.  Jesse Marsch will take over the reins of RB Leipzig for the 2021-2022 season.  Marsch coached the New York Red Bulls of the MLS for three years and also spent 2019 coaching RB Salzburg in Austria.  Marsch grew up in Racine and played both in the MLS and on the U.S. Men’s National Team.

Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that 39 year old Diana Xiong, Eau Claire, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 90 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. This prison term will be followed by 4 years of supervised release. The charges in this case stem from an investigation conducted by law enforcement in the summer of 2020. On two occasions, Xiong sold methamphetamine to

The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and the Eau Claire City-County Health Department will hold a special three-day clinic May 4-6 to offer doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to protect against the COVID-19 virus. If you are interested in more information about this opportunity, CLICK HERE.