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Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang will speak to the Blugolds this week. Yang will be speaking in a virtual forum with students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Tuesday evening. The school says he’ll host a discussion about artificial intelligence, automation and the U.S. economy.  

John Dawson joins Chippewa Valley Habitat for Humanity as the Executive Director. John grew up in Brookfield WI, attended St. Dominic Catholic grade school, Marquette University High School, UW – EC BS, University of Utah MS, taught 5th grade, moved to corporate where he ran profit and staff divisions in Chicago and Zurich, Switzerland. Spun a company out a large corporation and sold it to a Nasdaq company. Followed a passion building a remodeling/new home construction business. Founded a Not

Baby Nancy, Jenga and sidewalk chalk are now in the National Toy Hall of Fame.  They were inducted in a ceremony at The Strong National Museum of Play, chosen from a list of 12 finalists including Lite-Brite, My Little Pony and Tamagotchi.  Baby Nancy was a Black baby doll with natural hair made by Shindana Toys in 1968, a community-owned company dedicated to making toys reflecting Black pride.  Sidewalk chalk was chosen because historians believe even the earliest humans played

Starting a new week, we will take a quick look at the big picture of American Politics. President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team gets to work today.  The first order of business will be naming a team of scientists and experts to work on a plan to control the coronavirus pandemic.  The team’s goal is to have a plan to put into action on Inauguration Day.  NBC’s Mike Memoli reports. This week the transition team will also start laying the groundwork

The percentage of people dying or ending up in the hospital with the coronavirus is falling. The state’s Department of Health Services reported another four-thousand-plus positives yesterday. There were over seven thousand positives on Saturday. But the spike in positives is driving down the death rate and hospitalization rate. DHS’ numbers show less than one percent of the people who’ve tested positive in Wisconsin have died from the virus, and less than five percent have been hospitalized with or because of the

Eau Claire schools are looking to hire someone to help teachers with the virtual part of virtual learning. The school district is looking for virtual teaching assistants. The district says the teaching assistants would handle the technical aspects of online classes, but could also help teach lessons. There is no word just how many assistants Eau Claire is looking to hire, you can apply for one of the jobs through the district’s website, which you can get to with an

The weather is definitely turning in Wisconsin this week. The National Weather Service says parts of western Wisconsin could see one to three inches of snow tomorrow. Eau Claire is right on the line. Folks to the north have a better chance of seeing more snow. After the snow, it will remain cool in the Chippewa Valley with highs in the 30s and 40s all week. The winter will not only bring cold and snow, it could bring an end to some downtown Eau

A man picked up a 6th OWI over the weekend. It was on Sunday, November 8th, approximately 5:45 pm., when a vehicle traveling south on 18th Street west of Rice Lake, left the roadway and struck tree. A Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper responded to the scene shortlythereafter to assist. A subsequent investigation including standard field sobriety tests were conducted. The driver, 59 year old Jack G Kurschinsky, from Barron, was arrested for operating while under the influence of an intoxicant

As all eyes seem to be on America, we will look at a few sides so you can decide. President-elect Joe Biden says the whole world is watching America.  In his victory speech last night Biden said the world relies on the U.S. to lead, and that America never gives up.  The President-elect said it’s always a bad idea to bet against America, and that its people are good.  He also said he’ll get to work immediately, and will appoint

The University of Wisconsin Badgers make adjustments after more COVID-19 positive test results.  UW-Madison’s athletic department announced yesterday a Badgers student athlete and a team staff member tested positive within the past four days.  The statement says there are currently 14-active cases among students and staff, five of which have been confirmed in the past seven days.   As a result,  team practices are for now described as “limited on field conditioning” including mask wearing and social distancing.