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Eau Claire police are warning people to watch out for fake money.  Police say they recently found fake 20 dollar bills with replica written in the bottom right and upper left corners.  Police say they have a suspect in the case but it’s unclear if they’ve been arrested.

Participation in Wisconsin’s Women, Infants, and Children supplemental food program is down.  According to the U.S. Food and Nutrition Service, the number of people participating in the WIC  program went down by 17 percent from 2015 to 2019.  Health officials in Chippewa County say one reason for the decline is Wisconsin’s falling birth rate.

A Chippewa County woman who police say stole a dog as part of a drug feud is looking at charges. Prosecutors in Chippewa Falls yesterday charged 28-year-old Ally Hembd with theft and dognapping. The D.A. says she stole a Teddy Bear dog, worth about 700 dollars, back in December because she thought the dog’s owner’s brother ripped her off in a drug deal. Police were able to recover the dog unharmed.

There are a lot of unanswered questions about the racial incident at Galesville Ettrick-Trempealeau schools. District Supervisor Aaron Engel yesterday said the school district is working on a comprehensive plan to deal with hate, bias, and racism. But no one is saying just what happened at the district to push leaders to find a new plan. The G-E-T school board on Tuesday said the incident last week was racially charged and involved death threats.

The fight over Wisconsin’s surplus isn’t ending. Governor Tony Evers yesterday vetoed the Republican-backed plan to spend about 250-million-dollars of the surplus on a tax cut. The governor wants to spend the money on public schools. Evers says he’s willing to compromise, but said he will not accept anything from Republicans that doesn’t spend more money on special education and mental health education across the state.

There is once again someone in charge at the host committee for the Democratic National Convention. DNC organizers yesterday named former BMO Harris Bank executive Raquel Filmanowicz as the new Host Committee president. The move comes after the DNC fired two former top Host Committee managers for creating a toxic work environment. The Democratic National Convention is coming to Milwaukee in July.

The city of Eau Claire says it is in desperate need of poll workers. Election managers say they barely had enough people to cover the polls on Election Day last week. Eau Claire’s City Clerk Carrie Riepl says she needs as many as 200 people to sign-up to cover a shift for the next election. Without new workers, Riepl says voters will face long waits at the polls.

Mowing the grass at some of Eau Claire’s parks is about to get a lot more green. The city says a state grant is helping Eau Claire buy two new electric lawnmowers. The state is picking-up about half the tab. Parks managers in Eau Claire say the new electric mowers will replace older diesel mowers and will help the city inch toward its Renewable Energy Action Plan goals.

A new report says most families in Wisconsin could not afford the Green New Deal. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and the Competitive Enterprise Institute released a study yesterday that says the cost to change to sustainable energy, retrofit homes and offices, and phase-out the internal combustion engine over the next ten years would be 40-thousand-dollars a year. That doesn’t include the massive costs for farmers in the state. WILL says it will cost farmers hundreds of millions or billions of dollars