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The Madison City Council is now on Twitter.  The new account launched this week will help residents stay abreast of the proceedings in the city’s lawmaking body.  City Council office manager Lisa Veldran says it’s a great way for residents to keep up with what the council is doing.  To learn of all the legislative goings on in Madison, follow @MadCityCouncil on Twitter. 

The number of Wisconsin young people hospitalized because of vaping continues to increase.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services today says it’s received reports of eleven new cases of teens and young adults with severe lung damage.  The department is already investigating seven other cases.  Chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, a cough and even weight loss are some of the symptoms. 

The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is down a-penny-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-71-cents today, just below the national average.  Drivers in Eau Claire are paying the highest average price at the pump at two-78-a-gallon.  The lowest average price is posted in Fond du Lac at two-59-a-gallon for regular, followed by Madison at two-63. 

The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office is planning a sit-down interview with the father of the man accused of shooting and killing four people in Lake Hallie and Lafayette.  Ritchie German Junior is believed to have killed Laile Vang, Bridget German, Douglas German, and Calvin Harris before killing himself on Monday.  German’s father Ritchie German Senior has previously spoken to authorities but the sheriff’s office is planning a sit-down interview with him to talk about the case. 

State disaster recovery assistance is now available to residents in Barron and Polk Counties.  Local governments can now apply for disaster recovery assistance through Wisconsin’s emergency assistance program.  The state Emergency Management Operations Center estimates last month’s storms caused over eleven-million dollars in damage in those areas.  The state wants anyone who has property damage to call 2-1-1. 

An Eau Claire man is facing his eighth OWI charge.  A criminal complaint says an Eau Claire County sheriff’s deputy pulled over David Colby on Curve Road in Union yesterday.  The deputy involved says Colby had a blood-alcohol level over twice the legal limit.  His OWI charges date back to 1992. 

The convenience store Kwik Trip will soon be able to make deliveries.  Kwik Trip is teaming up with Eat-Street to deliver items such as hot food, drinks, snacks, and ice cream.  The program will be available in Eau Claire, La Crosse, Madison, Wausau, and Appleton.  It’s unclear when it will launch. 

Farmers in western Wisconsin are on the list of people who can ask the federal government for help after a rough spring.  The USDA yesterday said farmers in Barron, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Marinette, Oconto, Oneida, Pierce, Portage, Price, Rusk, St. Croix, Sawyer, Taylor, and Wood counties can all apply because they were placed under a disaster declaration earlier this year.  Farmers can ask for help to pay for lost equipment or livestock, or to refinance

Western Wisconsin’s congressman says President Trump’s next round of tariffs could make back-to-school shopping more expensive.  Congressman Ron Kind yesterday said the proposed 300-million-dollars’ worth of new tariffs on China will do little more than hurt Wisconsin families who are looking to buy clothes and other things to send their kids back to school.  Kind says tariffs are taxes, and it’s the people in Wisconsin who end-up paying those taxes.  

One of the conservative watchdogs at the Wisconsin Capitol is looking to trim Governor Tony Evers’ veto power.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday filed a lawsuit to block the governor from making more partial vetoes.  WILL’s Rick Esenberg says the governor’s ability to strike individual lines or paragraphs from proposed laws turns law making into a ‘competing game of Scrabble.’  Essenberg says by allowing Wisconsin’s governor to sign only the portions of laws that he likes, the governor is essentially making new