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Election Day is tomorrow, but no one is sure what it will be like for voters. The Republican-controlled legislature on Saturday refused Governor Evers’ call to move the election til next month and make it vote-by-mail only. Top lawmakers say the governor shouldn’t be changing the election just days before voters cast their ballots. There are also some pending legal challenges heading into Election Day. The main question is how Wisconsin will handle absentee ballots that are mailed-in, or come-in after Election

Wisconsin’s governor says it is more important for people to stay at home than to go to church for Easter or go to temple for Passover. Republican lawmakers on Friday asked that the governor allow people to attend religious services this weekend despite his Safer at Home order. The governor’s office said in a statement that protecting public health is more important at this point and time.

The folks at the L.E. Phillips Career Development Center are helping-out during the coronavirus outbreak. The residents and volunteers are making masks for healthcare workers in western Wisconsin. The center’s Angela Kjellberg says they hope to make 40-thousand masks. She says a number of recent donations have given them enough material to make that goal possible.

The wheels on our buses might be turning, but the seats in Eau Claire will be a bit more empty for the next little while. Eau Claire Transit managers on Friday announced that they are limiting buses to just 11 people. Transit Manager Tom Wagener says they are trying to enforce some social distancing. Wagener says they see about 800 to 900 bus riders a day, as opposed to 35-hundred a day before the outbreak.

It’s the next best thing to a room full of friends and family. Dozens of people in Eau Claire turned out yesterday for a parade for Geraldine Olson’s 100th birthday. She sat in a lawn chair in her front yard as the cars rolled-by, honked, and waived. Olson says she’s had a lot of birthdays over the years, but this one takes the cake.

Responders were busy with over a dozen crashes after the winter storm over the weekend. On Friday afternoon precipitation began as rain and quickly turned to freezing rain and snow. The region responded to 14 crashes, two of which were injury crashes, six runoffs, and 8 motorist assists. In Jackson County at approximately 11:40 PM, the Wisconsin State Patrol and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office responded to multiple crashes on I-94 westbound between the Hixton and Black River Falls areas. The

State lawmakers fail to vote during Saturday’s special session on whether to delay the primary elections.  The Republican majority opted not to act either way on Governor Tony Evers coronavirus inspired proposal to convert the election into an absentee ballot only event and move the primary election date from this coming Tuesday to May.  Lawmakers instead will meet again Monday to take up the matter again. As you might expect, Governor Tony Evers is not happy with Republican lawmakers’ failure

Country Fest is moving its dates this year from June to August because of the coronavirus emergency.  Show organizers announced this week that the annual festival which takes place in Cadott at the County Fest Grounds on County Highway S is being switched from June 25, 26 and 27 to August 13, 14 and 15.  Ticket holders will automatically be able to use their June tickets in August, hold onto the tickets and use them next year instead or request

Welcome to your first full weekend in April. In a time of uncertainty and sometimes scary moments, you might find comfort in the fact that you are not alone. With news and rising case numbers every hour, more people are fearing the Covid-19 pandemic and worried about their own health. A new poll says nine-out-of-ten Americans fear getting the coronavirus.  Jim Forbes has more. CLICK HERE FOR MORE Now more than ever, we need somebody lean on….(virtually and from a

Elections officials say more than one million absentee ballot requests have been made for the primaries. Today state lawmakers will be in special session to consider Governor Tony Evers call to send absentee ballots to all registered voters and to extend the deadline to the end of May.