The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on the Tarrant Park Pool Project, Ash Tree Removal in city boulevards, and reports from the Mayor and Department Heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall.
State Senator Brad Pfaff has won the Democrat Primary for the 3rd Congressional District. Pfaff won 40% of the vote over Rebecca Cooke, Deb McGrath, and Mark Neumann. Pfaff will now face Republican Derrick Van Orden, who was unopposed in the Republican Primary. Current 3rd District Congressman Ron Kind had decided not to run for reelection this year.
State Assemblyman Jesse James won the Republican Primary for the 23rd District State Senate seat. The district covers Chippewa and Clark Counties and parts of Dunn, Eau Claire Jackson, Wood, and Marathon Counties. James will run against democrat write-in candidate Dan Hardy in November.
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Republican challenger Scott Jensen scored easy victories Tuesday in their primaries to set the stage for their fall matchup in Minnesota’s top race this fall, while business lawyer Jim Schultz won the GOP primary to take on Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Residents that live near or on Tainter Lake discussed the possible formation of a Lake District during a public hearing last night. The Friends of the Red Cedar Basin collected over 500 signatures on a petition to create the lake district. The district would be formed to help rehabilitate Tainter Lake. Dunn County has six months to decide on the formation of the lake district and now the County Land Conservation Department and the Planning, Resources and Development committed will provide a report to the county board on the proposed district.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the man he hired to review the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin aren’t in agreement anymore. The Republican Vos now calls former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman “an embarrassment.” Even though Vos signed him up to probe the election and paid him more than 11-thousand dollars a month, Gableman endorsed Vos’ primary challenger, Adam Steen in the District 63 race. Despite the endorsements from Gableman and former President Donald Trump, Steen wasn’t able to oust Vos in Tuesday’s Republican primary. The Assembly is going to meet soon to decide if Gableman continues with the investigation.
The state of Wisconsin will receive about 31-million dollars for its fight against the raging opioid epidemic. The first six-million-dollar payment from the settlement of the national prescription opioid litigation came in late last month. The Department of Health Services says its plan on how the funds should be distributed has been submitted to the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee. W-M-T-V reports the submitted plan has three phases – immediate needs, increased access to services statewide, and investments in long-term projects. Three-million dollars would be spent to increase the availability of Narcan – the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses.
New college students should think twice before taking up a new credit card offer. State consumer protection administrator Lara Sutherlin says many businesses will offer cards to college kids, who aren't ready to handle having that sort of money available. Sutherlin says if you do need a credit card, you should shop around at trusted banks that you or your parents have used in the past, and make sure to shred or rip up credit card junk mail.
A special prosecutor has been appointed to review accusations against the Waupaca County Sheriff’s Office. There have been allegations of altered reports that could impact court cases. District Attorney Veronica Isherwood says her office has requested a public integrity investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice. That investigation will determine whether criminal charges should be filed.
Minocqua police and fire officials say a Monday morning car fire caused a chain reaction with the flames spreading to a nearby building and leading to an explosion. The first emergency calls came in at about 4:00 a-m. Emergency responders say people living in the apartments above a printing business got out safely before firefighters arrived. W-S-A-W/T-V reports when the car exploded, the fire spread to the building. Authorities say a portion of Highway 51 in Minocqua was closed for several hours. So far, investigators say it doesn’t look like the fire was intentional.
A nationwide warrant has been issued for the man suspected of firing a gun in the Mall of America Thursday--and for another man suspected of fleeing with the shooter. Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges identifies the shooter as 21-year-old Shamar Lark and his accomplice as 23-year-old Rashad May. Hodges says the two should turn themselves in and adds “you cannot come shoot up a mall and think that you’re going to get away with it – we’re not going to allow that to happen.” Three others, including a Best Western employee who Hodges says lied to police, have already been charged with aiding Lark and May. No one was injured in the shooting.
Liberal activist groups are repeating their opposition of earlier this summer against the Republican National Convention coming to Milwaukee. Voces de la Frontera, the S-E-I-U Wisconsin public employees’ union, and a number of other groups say the city shouldn’t have agreed to host the 2024 national convention. Those groups say they oppose acts of racist violence and they fear Milwaukee will be turned into a militarized zone while 50-thousand visitors are in town for the convention. Republican leaders chose Milwaukee for the giant event on a vote last Friday.
A survey says supply managers from nine midwestern states, including Minnesota, are very pessimistic about the economy. The Business Conditions survey shows continued growth but Ernie Goss, an economist with Creighton University in Omaha, says that growth is not very fast. He says the country is probably in a recession or skating along and moving into the recession in the next quarter or so. Goss says to listen carefully to what the Federal Reserve Governors say because when they see a recession ahead, they’re going to be raising interest rates. Goss says he expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in September.
The pain at the pump continues to ease for Minnesota drivers. The latest data from Triple-A shows the average price for regular-unleaded gas in Minnesota at three dollars, 95 cents a gallon -- that’s 18 cents a gallon cheaper than it was a week ago. The national average is currently four dollars, three cents a gallon. Pennington County in northwestern Minnesota has the cheapest average price in the state at three-50 a gallon, while Lake County in the northeast has the highest at four-15 a gallon.
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