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The Department of Military Affairs is looking at an equal pay lawsuit from the federal government. The Justice Department yesterday filed the suit in federal court in Madison. The suit claims the state offered a woman a job as Wisconsin Emergency Management’s Director of the Bureau of Response and Recovery, but offered her less than the nearly 80 thousand-dollars the state was paying a man in a similar job. The lawsuit goes on to say that when the Department of Military Affairs

The University of Wisconsin Law School is the latest to drop out of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. The school yesterday said it won’t participate in this year’s rankings because the rankings make it more difficult for low income students to get in. UW Law School Dean Dan Tokaji says the rankings push the school to hit the mark on LSATs and GPAs. He said that’s not a good thing for legal education as a whole. UW is not alone

All aboard! Could Eau Claire be on the rails for Amtrack service? There was a meeting last night at the Chippewa Valley Technical College to talk about a proposed rail line to Minneapolis. The push is part of a larger, statewide effort to return Amtrak service throughout Wisconsin. Supporters hope to get some of the billions of dollars that the federal government has set aside for Amtrak service in the new infrastructure plan. Don’t pack your bags quite yet… If Wisconsin is chosen

About half of voters in Wisconsin don’t want the current president or the last president to run for office again. The latest Marquette Law School Poll says 48 percent of Republicans don’t want Donald Trump to run for president in 2024, and 51 percent of Democrats don’t want President Biden to run again either. The nearly 50-percent split comes even as the poll says both men are very popular with their base. The Marquette Poll says 70 percent of Republicans like Trump,

A Memorial grad has been named Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate. Governor Evers this week named Nicholas Gulig as Poet Laureate for the next two years. Gulig says it’s an honor to receive some recognition for his work, he’s written three books North of Order, Book of Lake, and Orient. Gulig will split his time between the laureate post and his full time job as a professor at UW-Whitewater.

There will soon be two Jersey Mike’s in Eau Claire. The company’s website says two stores will be open soon. One will be on Clairemont Avenue next to the ShopKo Optical, and the other will be near the mall. There’s no word on just when the new shops will open.

A Madison man is headed to federal prison for his role in a multi-state drug trafficking ring.  Charlie Goodwin was sentenced this week to eleven years in prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Madison says Goodwin was arrested back in 2021 after he sold a pound of meth to a confidential source.  The attorney’s office says officers found over 16-thousand dollars, guns, and drug packaging material at his girlfriend’s house where he

The Wisconsin Department of Human Services wants suggestions on how to spend the state’s money from a recent opioid settlement.  The department says it’s getting eight-million dollars to invest in statewide projects and programs.  You can provide input on the Department of Human Services website.

An early morning crash leads to an OWI. Alan Jay Willis, 54 years of age, from Black River Falls WI has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 4th offense. Alan Jay Willis, 54 years of age, from Black River Falls, WI. has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 4th offense. On 01-26-23, at approximately 4:40 a.m.,

 A pair of adults in Barron County are looking at charges for running a ‘party house’ and tattooing two teenagers. Prosecutors say 27-year-old Chase McCarty and 24-year-old Hannah Rhodes gave local teens alcohol and marijuana and let them get drunk or high at the house. The teens would sometimes do chores for the two. Investigators started looking into McCarty and Rhodes after one of the teenagers who partied with them said something to authorities about a six-year-old who lived at