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The Wisconsin Assembly is being forced to pay attorney fees for a liberal watchdog group suing over the Michael Gableman investigation.  Today a Dane County judge ruled the Assembly will pay American Oversight at least 98-thousand dollars using tax payer dollars.  American Oversight has sued Gableman, claiming he broke Wisconsin open records laws while investigating the 2020 election.

Fast food chain Dairy Queen is donating at least one dollar to Children’s Wisconsin for every Blizzard sold at participating Wisconsin locations today.  It’s called Miracle Treat Day.  Dairy Queen says the goal is to help kids in the local community.  A full list of participating restaurants is available online at Dairy-Queen-dot-com.

The National Association of Town Watch (NATW) is sponsoring a nationwide crime and drug prevention program called “National Night Out”, America’s Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 2 from 5:30pm-8:00pm at Carson Park in Eau Claire. This is the 28th Anniversary of the event. The event is FREE to the public. The National Night Out event provides a unique opportunity for the City of Eau Claire to sponsor its 28th Annual Night Out on Crime event to promote cooperative,

Election Day is about two weeks away, but over 140 thousand people in the state have already cast their ballot. The Wisconsin Elections Commission yesterday said it’s mailed about 315 thousand absentee ballots to voters across the state, and over 140 thousand of them have come back. In-person absentee voting opened on Tuesday as well. But two candidate drop-outs this week, Democrats Tom Nelson and Alex Lasry, mean some voters may have voted for candidates who are no longer in the race.

Milwaukee is closing-in on two straight weeks of shootings every day. Police in the city say an early morning shooting yesterday killed a man. The shooting marks the 13th straight day where someone was shot in Milwaukee. Investigators are not saying what led up to this shooting.

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are dismissing homicide charges in a killing from last year, but the suspect is still looking at prison time. The D.A.’s Office yesterday dropped the reckless homicide charges against Selwyn Smith, saying he was justified to shoot and kill a man who broke down his door and punched him in the face in February of last year. The decision comes after Smith pleaded guilty to weapons and drugs charges. He’s a felon who never should have

Fire investigators in Chippewa Falls are calling a house fire suspicious. The house just north of downtown caught fire yesterday afternoon. No one was hurt, and it took firefighters about 15 minutes to put out the flames. No one is saying just why firefighters think the fire is suspicious.

Alex Lasry is out of the Democratic race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. Lasry made the surprise announcement yesterday, saying there was ‘no path’ for him to win the race. Lasry immediately endorsed Mandela Barnes in the race. Lasry spent 12 million-dollars of his family’s money in the primary. His exit all but guarantees Barnes will be the Democrat who takes-on Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson in the fall.

 It’s another sign of the Republican split in Wisconsin’s race for governor. Former Vice President Mike Pence yesterday endorsed Rebecca Kleefisch for governor. Pence’s endorsement comes after former President Donald Trump endorsed Tim Michels in the Republican race. Pence and Trump have had a very public falling-out after the January 6th riots. Kleefisch and Michels are neck-and-neck in the latest Marquette Law School Poll in the Republican race for governor.

Eau Claire is forming a Monkeypox task force. The city/county health department says it wants to be ready if Eau Claire gets a case of the pox. The idea is to provide assistance, then contact trace any possible exposures. The CDC says there are 13 monkeypox cases in Wisconsin, none of them are in Eau Claire yet.