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There is a new challenge to Eau Claire Schools’ gender policy. The Liberty Justice Center yesterday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh-in on the school’s policy of keeping gender changes at school secret. The request comes after a federal judge dismissed the first challenge to the policy. The Liberty Justice Center says school districts who do this “are treating parents’ constitutional rights as negotiable rather than essential.” Showing you different sides so you

More families in Wisconsin may qualify for free and reduced school lunches this year. The state’s Department of Public Instruction yesterday released the new income guidelines for the coming school year. A family of four can make up to 40-thousand-560 dollars and qualify for free lunches. That’s up about 15-hundred dollars from last year. Families can make up to 57-thousand-720 dollars and qualify for reduced-price lunches. That too is up, over two thousand-dollars, from last year. DPI is not saying

Chippewa Valley Airport managers are open to SkyWest’s return. The airport is in the middle of choosing a new air carrier. Both SkyWest, which served the Chippewa Valley til 2022, and Sun Country, which currently serves the airport, are bidding for the job. SkyWest is promising daily flights to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, while Sun County is promising similar service to what they currently offer, which is three flights a week to the Minneapolis-St. Paul, and two flights a week to

UW-Madison’s chancellor is going to make more than a million-dollars next year. University regents yesterday approved raises for eight of the UW’s 13 chancellors. UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin is getting a 10 percent raise for next year, which will bring her base salary up to 892 thousand-dollars. She is then in line for a 150 thousand-dollar retention bonus next year. That will push her paycheck to just over a million-dollars. Mnookin will then get 50 thousand-dollar retention bonuses in 2026,

Target will soon stop accepting personal checks as payment. The retail giant says the policy takes effect starting July 15th and noted stores will still accept cash and digital wallet payments along with debit and credit cards. Target said the decision was due to “extremely low volumes” of checks being written, adding that it remains committed to creating an easy and convenient checkout experience.

The Chippewa Valley Technical College District Board approved the 2024-25 budget as proposed during its meeting recetly. The budget calls for total expenditures of $115,403,675, a reduction of 2.63 percent from the 2023-24 revised budget due mainly to less planned capital project expenses. General fund revenues are projected to be $63,882,544, up 1.26 percent from 2023-24. An estimated six percent increase in property values will result in a decrease in the mill rate of 0.01 percent from $66.29 per $100,000 of

There will likely be a lot of pointed questions about crimes, cover-ups, deaths, and the conditions inside Wisconsin’s prisons this week. The Assembly Committee on Corrections has a hearing scheduled for tomorrow to press Department of Corrections leaders. The hearings come after nine people, including the former warden at the prison in Waupun were arrested for two inmates’ deaths. Lawmakers are also expected to ask about the attack at Lincoln Hills that left a DOC teacher dead.

Some parking and driving restrictions for the Republican National Convention will start today (Mon). The convention starts next Monday. The Secret Service will be locking down part of downtown around the Fiserv Forum. Cars traveling within about a block radius of the center could have to go through a screening process. No parking will be allowed on some streets starting just before midnight tonight (Mon) until Sunday, July 21.

The danger appears to be over in Waupaca County where the Manawa Millpond Dam looked like it was going to fail. The city’s fire chief yesterday said the dam at the millpond is holding. Storms dumped five inches of rain on Manawa on Friday, and the city evacuated about 100 people who lived near the dam. Now, Chief Josh Smith says they are focusing on cleaning-up. He says that will take a while. Many people who live in Manawa say

Police in Milwaukee are blaming the deadly wreck on Marquette’s campus on a drunk valet driver in a borrowed car. Prosecutors filed formal homicide charges yesterday against 23-year-old Marco Gomez. Police say he was working as a valet at a Milwaukee hotel when he took a guest’s Toyota, then crashed it into another car on the Marquette campus, and killed the driver. Investigators say Gomez was drunk at the time. He’s being held on 100 thousand-dollars bond.