Homeowners in Wisconsin are seeing an increase in the lottery tax credit on their property tax bills. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says for the owner of a $100,000 home in Durand that should mean property taxes will be about $28 less than last year. The Lottery Tax Credit is the highest in the lottery's 33yr history.
The Durand-Arkansaw School District and the City of Durand are working on an agreement to be a part of the Dunn County Economic Development Corporation. Durand Arkansaw School Superintendent Greg Doverspike says the city and district felt it was easier to work with Dunn County EDC than start a separate one. Doverspike hopes the collaboration with the Dunn County EDC will help bring new businesses to the Durand area.
One person was injured and another was arrested in a stabbing in the town of Wilson. According to the Eau Claire County Sheriff's Department, the attack occurred in the victim's home and the attacker was known to the victim. The suspect fled to his home after the attack where deputies confronted him. The suspect remained uncooperative and started a fire in his home which forced the Eau Claire Regional Tactical team to use its armored vehicle to recuse the suspect and he was taken into custody.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the leader of his partisan probe into the 2020 election may be headed to court over their records. A Madison judge is ordering Vos and former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to release public records about the review “immediately,” or appear in court next month. The order is part of a lawsuit brought by a liberal watchdog group called American Oversight, which wants the records of Gableman’s probe to be made public. The ruling is the latest in a string of legal setbacks for Vos and Gableman. Wisconsin taxpayers are being charged 676-thousand dollars for their election review.
The University of Wisconsin is announcing a new incentive for U-W students who work in health care during the COVID pandemic. U-W System President Tommy Thompson says around one-thousand students will be eligible for a 500-dollar tuition credit if they work at least 50 hours in a health care setting from now until the end of February. U-W students enrolled in the spring semester have until the end of March to enroll in the program. Thompson says they are working to secure additional funding.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has confirmed that Foxconn Technology Group has qualified for tax credits. The state agency reported Wednesday Foxconn has met job creation and investment benchmarks to qualify for almost 29 million dollars. The Taiwan-based company created 579 eligible jobs and made a 266-million-dollar capital investment at the Mount Pleasant location. Foxconn will receive two-point-two million dollars in job credits and 26-point-six million in capital investment credits – for the first time. It missed those benchmarks the two previous years.
Thirty-two thousand registered voters were deactivated over the summer in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Elections Commission took that action after a legal fight that had gone on for two years. The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty had argued the commission should have deactivated the voters who had moved within 30 days. The new lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Madison argues the 31-thousand-584 voters should still be on the rolls because they weren’t told it could happen and weren’t given a deadline to respond.
The message hasn’t changed. Beloit police are reminding people not to leave their cars running in cold weather while they run into the convenience store. Two drivers learned that the hard way Wednesday. Police say by 8:00 a-m they had already received a pair of reports about cars that had been stolen. Yes, they had been left running. The thieves got away with a 2009 Honda Accord and a 2006 Chrysler 300. Officials say consider buying an extra set of keys and lock the door on your running car while you’re away. That’s cheaper than buying a new car.
Almost one-fourth of all jobs at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections are vacant right now. State officials say maximum security prisons in Waupun and Portage are operating with half-staffs. Wisconsin Public Radio reports the state agency is sending two dozen officers from other locations to help. State lawmakers approved raising the pay rates for guards by almost 15 percent last year to 19 dollars, three cents an hour. Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr has said low pay and fears of contracting COVID-19 are keeping applicants away. There are about 11 hundred open positions in the department.
A Wisconsin woman accused of child neglect in her son’s death has been released on bond. Thirty-one-year-old Natasha Bratland of Lublin has been ordered not to leave the state or consume any controlled substances without a prescription while she is free. Her two-year-old son died last June when he was hit by a train. Taylor County Sheriff Larry Woebbeking says the train tried to stop and was blowing its horn before the child was hit. People who lived nearby told investigators Bratland’s children were often seen playing in the street, on the railroad tracks, or even on rooftops.
The Minnesota Department of Labor reports it recovered more than 334-thousand dollars in back wages for construction workers in the state. Many workers were not paid the correct prevailing wage or overtime wages. D-L-I investigators say A-E-2-S Construction, doing business as E-I-M, did electrical work at a Detroit Lakes wastewater treatment plant partially funded by a state grant and did not pay employees the prevailing wage. More than 333-thousand dollars was recovered through that order for 33 workers. The company also made partial overtime back-wage payments to nine workers. The prevailing wage rate is the minimum hourly wage employers must pay their employees performing construction work on projects funded in whole or in part with state dollars.
A planned quarter-billion-dollar pharmaceutical campus in Verona could create between 200 and 250 new jobs. Arrowhead Pharmaceutical will build the project on a 13-acre property at the city’s technology park. Arrowhead says the project reaffirms its commitment to the biotech industry and to Wisconsin. When it is complete, there will be a 140-thousand square-foot drug manufacturing facility next to a 115-thousand square-foot laboratory and office complex. The new campus is expected to open by the end of 2023. Arrowhead already has one facility in Madison and another in southern California.
Wisconsin is one of 19 states where possibly contaminated salad products were sold. The U-S Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall notice saying the products could be contaminated with listeria. That can cause serious or fatal infections in consumers with weakened immune systems. Florida-based Fresh Express says customers who bought salad products should throw them away and contact it or the store where they made the purchase to get a refund. The recalled items were sold under several brand names including Fresh Express, Bowl and Basket, and Marketside. They were labeled with product codes Z-3-2-4 through Z-3-5-0.
If you're planning to do some ice fishing over the holidays, remember that ice conditions continue to vary across Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Minnesota D-N-R's Lisa Dugan says in the northern parts of the state it sounds like that they are opening up vehicles to larger vehicles, but in central and southern regions that just doesn't seem to be the case right now. She says there hasn't been enough ice to support the large vehicles and, in some cases, even A-T-Vs and snowmobiles. Recent rain, snow, and fluctuating temperatures have affected ice-making and impacted ice that’s already formed. The D-N-R recommends four inches of clear ice for walking and five to seven inches for four-wheelers and snow machines.
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