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Chances for medical marijuana are dimming in Wisconsin.  Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said he will not compromise on his plan to sell medical marijuana to very sick people in Wisconsin through state-owned dispensaries.  Senate Republicans, including the Senate Majority Leader, says the idea of state-owned pot-shops is a non-starter with him.  Vos says he has enough votes to get the plan through the Assembly, and says renegotiating the plan would likely cost it some votes.

No one is saying how long it will take to clean-up after the weekend fire at an agricultural building in southwest Iowa. Insight FS, which saw its building in Cobb burn to the ground on Sunday says teams from Iowa County’s emergency management services as well as crews from the state are working to clean-up the site. Firefighters backed away from the fire on Sunday out of fears that pouring water onto a chemical fire may make it worse. That

Four people were taken to a local hospital after an overnight house fire in Durand.  Sheriff’s dispatch audio reported the fire just after two A-M, with a deputy reporting heavy smoke and flames coming from a window.  Durand Emergency Medical Services requested a helicopter while ambulances responded from Eau Claire.   There’s been no update on the condition of the four people.

A Chippewa Falls man is sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend. Scott Vanigan pleaded no contest to a first-degree intentional homicide charge for the murder of Lynn Smith. As part of the plea deal, arson and corpse mutilation charges were dismissed. Prosecutors say firefighters responded to a 9-1-1 call reporting Vanigan’s home was on fire in July 2022. When they arrived, they say they found Smith’s body — and according to the autopsy, she was dead before

Wisconsin is the U-S state with the cheapest weekly grocery bill. In new Census data analysis by Help-Advisor. com, Wisconsin, along with Iowa and Nebraska, were the three states with the most affordable grocery hauls. Average weekly spending on groceries in Wisconsin is about 221-dollars per household — almost 50 dollars less than the national average. In Iowa, households are spending an average of about 227-dollars. The state with the most expensive groceries is California, with a weekly average of

Wisconsin organizations can now apply for up to 85-thousand in grant money to go toward preventing sexual violence. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says the money will come from the Centers for Disease Control, and will go to one organization. Grant money is meant to be used to increase community awareness of sexual violence prevention, and promote health equity across the state of Wisconsin. Applications are available WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE.

The Speaker’s Task Force on Childhood Obesity, led by Representative Karen Hurd (R-Fall Creek) as chair and Representative Robyn Vining (D-Wauwatosa) as vice-chair along with Representative Behnke (R – Oconto), Representative Penterman (R-Columbus), Representative Rozar (R – Marshfield), Representative Schmidt (R – Bonduel), Representative Joers (D – Middleton), and Representative Ratcliff (D – Cottage Grove) presents five bills to address obesity amongst children. Ten percent of children age 2-5 years are obese; 15.2% ages 6-11 years; 17.9% ages 12-17 years,

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Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld announced that applications are now being accepted for the Transit Capital Assistance Grant Program to fund the replacement of eligible public transit buses under the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust. Judicial settlements require Volkswagen to pay more than $2.9 billion into an Environmental Mitigation Trust Fund, for violating the federal Clean Air Act by selling diesel engine vehicles that utilized software designed to cheat on federal emissions tests by reporting inaccurate data on nitrogen oxide

ABOVE PHOTO: Students Braeden Lange and Maria Winkelman, along with Blaze, the Blue Devil mascot, thank those who supported UW-Stout on Giving Day. The students work for Blue Devil Productions in the Involvement Center on campus.  The Stout University Foundation set its sights high for the fifth annual Giving Day at University of Wisconsin-Stout. With a goal of $250,000 — $100,000 more than the previous year’s goal — the Foundation asked members of the university community to step up to support Wisconsin’s