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Wisconsin is getting another task force. Governor Tony Evers yesterday ordered the creation of a Climate Change Task Force to look at how the state can be more green. The governor has created at least a half-dozen task forces, councils, or committees since he took office back in January. Evers is giving this task force an August deadline to come-up with recommendations.

There are fewer students on campus at UW Eau Claire this fall. The University of Wisconsin System released this fall’s enrollment numbers yesterday. UW Eau Claire lost 346 students compared to last year. UW La Crosse added just 10 students. The numbers are not unique. Only five of the UW System’s 13 campuses saw enrollment increase this year. UW officials say the drop is a reflection of a drop in the number of college-age students across the country. T Overall, the summery

La Crosse parks managers say they don’t tolerate hate, but they can’t have anti-hate signs up in the parks and say no to others. The city’s Parks and Recreation Department yesterday said it removed the Hate Has No Home Here signs from its parks because other people were putting other signs right next to them. Those signs had messages that parks managers didn’t like. So, all the signs had to go. Parks Director Jay Odegaard says La Crosse may create

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate continues to tick higher. The latest report from the state’s jobs agency shows that the jobless rate in Wisconsin hit three-point-percent last month. That’s the fourth straight month that the unemployment rate increased under Governor Evers. One of the reasons is the drop in manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing lost 68-hundred jobs between September of 2018 and September of 2019.

Add accusations of corporate espionage to the on-going court battle over what is in Bud Light and Miller Light. Anheuser-Busch says in its latest court filing that a brewer at Miller improperly accessed some of its recipes. A spokesman for MillerCoors says the company respects confidential information, but also points out that Anheuser-Busch printed its ingredient list on Bud Light boxes. MillerCoors says the recipe can’t be that secret if it is part of an advertising campaign.

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will stop around Milwaukee, but will skip the city this year. The railroad yesterday posted the schedule for the train’s trip through Wisconsin. The Holiday Train will make stops in southeast Wisconsin, starting in Sturtevant on December 2nd. The train will cut through Waukesha County the next day before heading to western Wisconsin the following day.

Food pantries across Wisconsin are again asking for meat donations.  Hunt for the Hungry is a program where hunters can donate deer to a processor which will eventually deliver ground venison to food banks.  There are 24 counties where deer must be tested for chronic waste disease before donation.  That list and other information about the deer donation program is easy to find-just CLICK HERE.

The post office in Sun Prairie will soon be renamed for a fallen firefighter.  The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that got the Senate okay this summer to rename the post office after fire Captain Cory Barr.  Barr was killed in an explosion in Sun Prairie in the summer of 2018 when a contractor struck a gas main.  The measure now awaits the president’s signature.

The chief medical officer of the State Department of Health Services says traces of Vitamin E acetate were found in samples of Wisconsin vaping products containing THC.  Vitamin E acetate is used in skincare products but it appears to be harmful when used in vaping oils.  Doctor John Meiman says recent samples in Wisconsin did reveal from traces to substantial amounts of the chemical.  Some health officials believe the chemical is to blame for the 13-hundred vaping illnesses nationwide and 76 cases in Wisconsin.