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There is a new wrinkle on the debate over medical marijuana in Wisconsin. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said he thinks it’s just a matter of time before the state legalizes marijuana as medicine. Vos has said in the past that he could support a limited medical marijuana program. The Republican leader of the state Senate, Scott Fitzgerald, however continues to fight the idea. Vos said he has no timeline in mind for when Wisconsin could get a medical marijuana program.

The jobless picture in Wisconsin looks pretty much the same as it did two months ago. The state says the unemployment rate held steady last month at three-point-three percent. The report also says employers have created just under ten thousand jobs in the year since Tony Evers was elected governor.

Prosecutors in Green Lake County are releasing a bit more information into the case against six men accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl. The D.A. yesterday said the six, who are all in this country illegally, threatened and forced the teen to have sex with them. Investigators say all six had sex with her at one point. The teen escaped the men and found a deputy last month. All six men are being held in jail and are awaiting

The United States Curling Association selected the Eau Claire Curling Club as the host of the 2020 Junior Nationals Championships, to be held January 12 through January 18, 2020 at the Eau Claire Curling Club in the Eau Claire County Expo Center building on Lorch Avenue. Eight teams of four men and eight teams of four women will be arriving in Eau Claire on Sunday January 12 to begin the week-long competition, which kicks off with Opening Ceremonies Sunday evening. 

A conservative legal group is threatening to sue the Madison School District.  Reports say the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty told the district Wednesday it has 45 days to change a policy involving gender identity.  The organization claims the current policy doesn’t allow parents to find out from schools if their kids are transitioning genders.  The organization says parents have a right to be involved in their kids’ decision making.

A malnourished dog that was picked up in Dunn County earlier this year has a new home.  The Dunn County Humane Society says Gabriel will spend Christmas in a foster home in the area.  The Humane Society says he’s getting healthy and doing well.

A man is hurt after hitting a horse that was in the road in Tomah.  The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says Jonathan Schendel was southbound on State Highway 13 late Tuesday night when he hit the horse.  Schendel suffered non-life threatening injuries.  The horse died at the scene.

University of Wisconsin employees are getting a two percent pay increase. The Wisconsin State Journal reports the Joint Committee on Employment Relations voted unanimously Wednesday night to increase salaries but it rejected raising the minimum wage for state employees to 15 dollars per hour.  The salary increase will be in place for 2020 and 2021.

Western Wisconsin’s Democratic congressman joined almost every other member of his own party in voting to impeach President Trump. Congressman Ron Kind said yesterday that his vote is not for impeaching the president, but rather he voted to uphold the law. Kind was the only questionable vote in Wisconsin. He is a Democrat, but President Trump won western Wisconsin back in 2016.

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are moving ahead with charges after police say they found a three-year-old boy home alone earlier this week. Police say they found the little boy naked at home, he needed to be changed and fed. Officers say his mother, 28-year-old Cristina Villarreal, may have been drunk when she eventually showed up. The D.A. filed charges yesterday against Villarreal and the child’s father, 34-year-old Kanlaya Lo. Lo told police he’d leave for work around 6 a.m. and