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“It’s difficult to care about something you know nothing about,” The Wisconsin Water Library (WWL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) today announced plans for Great Lakes, Great Read, a basin-wide community read program scheduled to launch in 2024.  Water Library Director Anne Moser says the program is based on the need for greater education about the Great Lakes as an important natural resource. While approximately 34 million people in the U.S. and Canada live

A woman is dead after a wreck in Vernon County. It happened Friday in the town of Bergen. Vernon County deputies say 47-year-old Laurel Wicks drove her car into the back of a dump truck that was turning into a driveway. She died on the scene. Wicks is from South Dakota, but used to live in La Crosse. The sheriff’s office continues to investigate.

A missing western Wisconsin woman has been found, and the statewide Silver Alert for her has been canceled. The State Patrol issued a Silver Alert for 78-year-old Maureen Mahoney yesterday morning. Troopers say she was last seen in La Crosse. The State Patrol is not saying just where she was found, but they say she was found safe, and the Silver Alert was canceled.

There won’t be any pay raises for UW-Eau Claire workers for the foreseeable future. University regents on Saturday left all them in limbo when they rejected a deal with Republican lawmakers on diversity, equity, and inclusion spending. Lawmakers offered to release the money for pay raises and millions of dollars more if the university would ‘re-purpose’ some DEI jobs and put a three-year hold on new DEI hires. Regents voted 9-8 against the deal. Regent Evan Brenkus accused supporters of

Governor Evers says he will veto any attempt to get rid of the state’s Elections Commission. The governor was a guest on UPFRONT on Milwaukee TV over the weekend. He said that ‘under no circumstances would he agree to the Republican plan that would dismantle the elections commission and shift its powers to the secretary of state.’ The governor says the Wisconsin Elections Commission is a good system, and has a good leader. Republicans have been unhappy with the Elections

The state is giving Milwaukee 15 million-dollars to do something with the old Northridge Mall, despite the on-going court case.  Governor Evers made the announcement on Friday. The money is coming from Wisconsin’s leftover share of coronavirus cash. The money can be used to help tear-down the old mall, including any asbestos work that needs to be done. It remains to be seen when, or if Milwaukee will be able to tear the Northridge Mall down. The mall’s owners continue

Gas prices keep falling across Wisconsin.  Triple-A reports Saturday’s statewide average for regular was two-85 a gallon, down a penny from Friday.  In Madison, the average slipped down a penny, to two-86 a gallon.  Prices are even lower in the Janesville-Beloit area where the average fell one cent to two-77 a gallon.  

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents won’t go along with a plan to unlock millions of dollars in funding in exchange for a freeze on diversity, equity, and inclusion positions.  The regents rejected the proposal on a 9-to-8 vote in a special meeting Saturday.  The rejection came less than 24 hours after UW officials announced they’d reached a compromise with Republican lawmakers.  The Republican-controlled state Legislature recently withheld 32-million dollars that would because of GOP anger over the DEI

Hello. Welcome to your weekend! Thank you for spending some of your time with us. During this time of the year it can seem like there are never enough hours in the day to accomplish all we need to. For that reason, we like to start Saturday mornings with an intentional slow down. We call it our “scroll down memory lane.” It’s a simple look back at events that happened on these dates in history before we head out to

University of Wisconsin regents are expected to sign off soon on a deal between UW-system officials and Republican lawmakers. Under the compromise agreement reached Friday, the system will freeze hiring for diversity positions through the end of 2026 and shift more than 40 diversity positions to focus on what the arrangement calls “student success.” The system also will eliminate any statements supporting diversity on student applications and create a position that focuses on conservative political thought. In exchange, GOP legislators