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Tim Johnson is out at another western Wisconsin school district. Chippewa Falls Schools yesterday said Johnson resigned as their head of human resources and public relations. Johnson is under investigation for his time as superintendent of the Glenwood City Schools. A former substitute teacher says Johnson billed Glenwood City Schools about 80 thousand-dollars for grad school classes he may never have taken. Johnson left Glenwood City Schools last summer. Chippewa Falls’ school board accepted Johnson’s resignation last night.

Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to clarify the law for sex offenders. Wisconsin’s attorney general issued a ruling that sex offenders must register after two or more convictions, even if those convictions were for the same crime. The new law will likely mean more people will have to register as sex offenders going forward here in Wisconsin. The plan is up for a hearing at the statehouse later today.

A group of Wisconsin Democrats are pitching a plan to have the state boost local journalism. State Representatives Jimmy Anderson, Jodi Emerson, and state Senator Mark Spreitzer are asking the legislature to support a newspaper tax credit as well as a local journalism fellowship program, and what they are calling a Wisconsin Civic Information Consortium. The move comes after Democrats in Illinois suggested something similar to deal with the lack of local news coverage in their state. Local news coverage

The ten-thousandth tip has been received at the Speak Up, Speak Out tip-line. The Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of School Safety says the line is a free threat-reporting service giving students a way to speak with an adult confidentially any time of day, all year round. The agency says it got its ten thousandth call since the tip-line was launched September of 2020 on Friday. Of the tips, almost 200 were concerns about planned school attacks, over 200 were

Patients who are repeatedly trying to quit smoking are more likely to be successful if they don’t wait between attempts. A study at University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention split 437 participants trying to quit smoking tobacco into two groups. One group was encouraged to wait a month before trying to quit again, and the other was told to try again right away. The Center says 80-percent of people who were told not to wait, compared to

A proposal in the Wisconsin Legislature would add a black and white license plate option to the vanity plate list. The plate, which would have a black background and white text, has been a popular option for motorists in Iowa and Minnesota. In Iowa, blackout plates have brought more than 30-million dollars in revenue since they became available in 2019. In Minnesota, the plates were introduced on January 1 and more than 16-hundred were sold in the first two days. 

 Residents of a village in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador are looking forward to having — for the first time — clean water, thanks to the skills and efforts of determined engineering students at University of Wisconsin-Stout. “The intention is that once we finish the project, we hope we’ll never have to touch it again. They can operate it completely on their own,” – Jeremiah Hubbard The students are members of the university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter. They designed a

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has announced updates to its Farmland Preservation Program due to Governor Tony Evers signing 2023 Wisconsin Act 42 in December. “The Farmland Preservation Program helps ensure agricultural lands will remain productive, viable, and sustainable,” -DATCP Secretary Randy Romanski. This legislation makes the following updates to the Farmland Preservation Program: “The Farmland Preservation Program helps ensure agricultural lands will remain productive, viable, and sustainable,” said DATCP Secretary Randy Romanski. “This change to

“The County Highway B project is the significant project that will taking place this year…” – Dustin Binder, county highway commissioner. The list of road projects that the Dunn County Highway Department will undertake this year is dominated by continued work on two stretches of Highway B that will be reconstructed in 2024.  “The County Highway B project is the significant project that will taking place this year,” said Dustin Binder, county highway commissioner.  For total cost of the projects,

Tax-related identity theft involves the theft and misuse of your Social Security number (SSN). It generally happens in one of two ways: someone uses your SSN to get a job and their employer reports that person’s income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as if it were yours, or someone uses your SSN to file for your tax refund. You may not even know your identity has been stolen until the IRS informs you of the unreported income or multiple