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UW-Eau Claire is once again on the list of best colleges in the Midwest. The latest U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking is out, and the Eau Claire campus is ranked fourth in the Midwest for best colleges.  UW-EC is also ranked 20th out of 165 public and private regional schools in the Midwest. That’s up one spot from last year. Chancellor James Schmidt says the rankings are recognition of the quality education at the UW, particularly at the

Less than half of UW-Madison’s new record-breaking freshman class is from Wisconsin.  The university released its 2024 freshman enrollment numbers on Monday. There are 85 hundred freshmen this year, a seven percent increase from last year. But just 38-hundred of those kids are from Wisconsin. The rest are from across the country. UW-Madison continues to be a very popular school. The university said nearly 66-thousand would-be freshmen applied to UW-Madison, Nearly 80-percent of them were rejected.

One of Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen says Madison’s clerk needs to offer a better explanation as to how some voters got two ballots in the mail. Northwoods Congressman Tom Tiffany said the clerk’s office needs to answer a number of questions, including how they can guarantee that some voters won’t be able to vote twice.  Madison’s clerk said a mistake sent nearly two thousand voters duplicate ballots. The clerk’s office says barcodes will stop people from voting twice.  But Tiffany said

Culver’s is stepping-up its curd game. The company yesterday said it will be introducing hot honey cheese curds. The new curds will make their debut on National Cheese Curd Day, that’s October 15th. October will also mean the return of the Curder Bugger. That’s Culver’s cheese burger with a giant cheese curd on top. Those will be available from October 1st til October 14th, the day before National Cheese Curd Day.

Wisconsin is getting three-million dollars in funding for opioid treatments. The U-S Department of Health and Human Services says Core Treatment Services of Manitowoc will get the money over the next four years, starting with 750-thousand dollars this fiscal year. Funding will go toward launching new treatment and recovery centers in rural areas.

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre says he has Parkinson’s disease. The 54-year-old N-F-L Hall of Famer revealed the diagnosis today (Tue) during a hearing about welfare funds that were allegedly misspent in Mississippi to pay for his speaking fees. He repaid the money and isn’t facing criminal charges. Favre started playing for the Packers in 1992, and was part of the team when it won the Super Bowl in 1997. He retired from the NFL in 2010. 

Some small Wisconsin communities are getting 460-thousand dollars to improve water systems. The Department of Natural Resources says the money will be used to take PFAs and manganese out of water systems for services like schools, day cares, and apartment complexes. Funding is coming from the federal government. The DNR says it expects to distribute five-million-dollars in the second grant cycle, which will open applications on October first.

A northwestern Wisconsin man is looking at his 17th drunk driving charge. Police in Rice Lake arrested 71-year-old Mark Johnson Friday night after they say he was swerving while driving, and almost hit another car. Officers say Johnson told them he drank two 16-ounce beers while he was driving home. They say his blood alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit. Court records show that Johnson has 16 prior ‘suspensions, revocations, and other convictions.’

The Trump campaign is going back to the bus for a trip across the state this week. The former president’s campaign launched its Team Trump on Tour bus trip yesterday in northwestern Wisconsin. That included stops in Hudson and Eau Claire. The tour will hit the Green Bay area today, and will close with a rally in Waukesha County on Wednesday. Trump himself will not be on the tour, instead Vivek Ramsawmy and RNC Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump will headline.

Eau Claire Schools are preparing their pitch for the tax hike on the November ballot. The city’s school district is asking voters for a 72 million-dollar tax increase to cover day-to-day expenses. There will be a series of meetings to answer questions, and give the district’s view on the referendum. The first meeting will be next Monday at North High School. There will then be another meeting at Memorial High School, as well as one at DeLong Middle School.