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President Biden will be back in Milwaukee today.  The White House says he’s expected to talk about the city’s complete streets project.  Complete streets are redesigned to make more room for people who walk or ride their bikes.  Critics say that leaves less room for cars and trucks.  Milwaukee used 36 million-dollars in federal money to build a section of complete street on Sixth Street, that’s where the president will visit.  This is President Biden’s latest visit to Milwaukee, once

Wisconsin’s supreme court is reopening the debate over ballot drop boxes. The liberal-majority court yesterday accepted a case that looks to overturn Wisconsin’s current ban on ballot drop boxes. The old, conservative-majority court, ruled that Wisconsin law does not allow for ballot drop boxes at any place except the election clerk’s office. But Democrats and activists argued that state law didn’t specifically ban them. Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote yesterday that the liberal-majority court is, once again, trying to ‘increase

St. Croix County is the latest to go on the record against refugee resettlement in western Wisconsin. The county board last night approved three resolutions against the plans from World Relief to resettle the rest of the 75 refugees who are headed to the Chippewa Valley area. St. Croix County leaders say they’re not against the refugees themselves, instead they are frustrated with the lack of answers, and the top down approach that is being used. One of the resolutions

The Wisconsin Senate has, once again, fired some of the governor’s appointees. Republicans in the Senate yesterday fired eight of Governor Evers’ people, including UW regents John Miller and Dana Wachs. They both voted against the compromise that cleared the way for pay raises for UW employees, as well as UW-Madison’s new engineering building. That agreement, though, came with a freeze on diversity, equity, and inclusion positions. The Senate also fired four appointees to the Wisconsin Judicial Commission. Senators say

A family member of the eight-year-old found dead in a Fulton home has been arrested and charged with homicide. Rock County Sheriff’s deputies and Fulton Police say they were called to look for a missing child. They say they searched the home once and didn’t find the child before starting a search outside. Dayveon Lathrop was detained and officers got a search warrant to look at the house again. The child’s body was found during the second search. 

The signatures submitted to try and oust Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are not enough. According to an initial review by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, almost 950 signatures were needed for the recall election to be considered. New legislative maps could have an effect on which signatures are counted.  A recall election would require Vos to re-run for office.

A meeting will let people give feedback on a new rule that would give local education entities the ability to start school before September.  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction says it’s been seeing an increase in school districts asking for a school start date exemption. The current rule was put in place in 2002. The virtual meeting for feedback on the proposed new rule will be on March 25.

ABOVE PHOTO: The students created their Pringles packaging contest entry in UW-Stout labs. They designed a 3D model before 3D-printing it in a lab. Imagine creating a new package for a product that has been on store shelves around the world for more than 50 years. How would you make the package better while ensuring consumers still recognized their favorite brand? “Pringles packaging is one of those things that I’ve always found myself frustrated by but had never thought too

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Center for Communication Disorders (CCD) is expanding its speech-language health care service options to respond to community needs after the announcement that multiple clinics and hospitals are closing in the Chippewa Valley. HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire and HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls will close along with several Prevea Health clinics in the region in March and April, reducing the available speech therapy and audiology services. “With the HSHS and Prevea

The city manager in Eau Claire wants the state to investigate the Chippewa Valley’s hospitals sooner-than-expected closing. HSHS yesterday said Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire will close next Friday, instead of the original closing date in April. Eau Claire City Manager Stephanie Hirsch says she wants the state to look into the ‘circumstances of the closure.’ She says she is shocked by the ‘lack of corporate responsibility.’ HSHS announced that it is closing Sacred Heart, as well as St.