This is your WCFW Daily News Roundup for 105-7 CFW in Chippewa Falls and 93-5 The Tap in Eau Claire.
For 105-7 CFW News, I'm James Kelly.
A number of Chippewa Valley advocacy groups gathered in Eau Claire on Monday morning to call on newly elected Democratic state lawmakers to take action with their majority.
The groups held a press conference outside the Eau Claire County Government Center as the election certification process took place inside.
Bill Hogseth, co-executive director of Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin, highlighted the results of last week's election as evidence that Wisconsinites are ready for meaningful change.
However, it would be a mistake to read this election simply as Republican versus Democrat.
This was an election about top versus bottom.
This was an election about regular people who are sick of living in an economy where there is always a boot on their neck doing whatever they can to change course.
This was big tent politics versus big money politics.
Along with addressing affordability concerns and health care costs, school funding was one of the most significant issues on voters' minds during the election.
Eau Claire Area School District Board of Education President Dr. Stephanie Farar, representing the Wisconsin Public Education Network, highlighted the importance of investing in the state's public education system and called on the new Democratic majority to fully fund public schools.
There is no profession that does not start in a public school.
There is no adult that does not start their life trajectory in a public school.
We need to invest in the future of our state by investing in every single child in our public.
Let's fund our public schools and let's do it now.
We aren't going to wait anymore.
Representatives from Citizen Action of Wisconsin and Wisdom also spoke at the event.
For 105.7 CFW News, I'm James Kelly.
For Civic Media News, I'm Connie Feldman.
Chano County is the latest to join the growing list of Wisconsin counties where measles is now confirmed.
The Chano Menominee County Health Department confirmed a measles case there yesterday.
The Health Department is not releasing any further information.
Last week, the State Health Department announced the first death related to measles in more than three decades.
Just one day later, they named the first potential public exposure site at Marshfield Medical Center's Western Emergency Department.
They say a person infected with measles visited the location while they were contagious.
The most recent numbers from state health officials confirm 477 cases of measles across our state.
Updated numbers are expected later today.
Wisconsin drivers are getting a pleasant surprise at the pump for a change.
Gas prices dropped below 4 bucks a gallon for the first time since September.
Civic Media's Maddie Schaefer has more.
Gas prices are continuing to fall across Wisconsin, with the state once again seeing one of the largest weekly declines in the country.
According to GasBuddy, Wisconsin's average gasoline price dropped nearly 29 cents over the last week, the fourth largest decline nationwide.
The statewide average is now about $3.90 per gallon.
Patrick Dahan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, says prices are falling as refineries finish seasonal maintenance and increase production while demand slows with
cooler weather," he says.
Increased oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz are also helping bring prices down, and the national average could remain below $4 in the coming weeks.
For Civic Media News,
I'm Maddie Schaefer.
Dahan also says where you buy your gas matters right now.
Busier stations that go through gas faster can replenish their supply at current market rates, but slower stations still need to sell their more expensive shipment without taking a loss.
For consumers, that just means it'll pay to shop around over the next few weeks.
WeE Energy's recent announcement of rate hikes is prompting significant local government action in southeastern Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously last week to approve up to $1.35 million in borrowing for a comprehensive feasibility study.
The study will evaluate the potential replacement of WeE Energy's service within the city by creating municipal, city-owned public utility.
Meanwhile, Alliant Energy, which serves areas in the southern, eastern, and central part of our state, recently disclosed ongoing talks for seven potential new sites and three expansions to existing data centers.
Over the next six months, the utility anticipates securing contracts for an additional one gigawatt of data center power supply to accommodate the rapid
increase in AI and data center electricity demand which is projected to raise peak system load by approximately 60% by 2031.
Alliant has expanded its four-year capital expenditure plan to $15.9 billion.
The U.S.
Department of Energy's Office of Energy Dominance Financing finalized a $5.1 billion loan package for Alliant Energy to support grid reliability and power generation expansion across Iowa and Wisconsin.
This federal package aims to lower electricity costs and deliver more than $1 billion in savings to regional consumers while funding natural gas-fired facilities, energy storage systems, and infrastructure upgrades.
The rapid expansion of data centers has drawn significant local pushback in communities all around the state.
Milwaukee recently joined places like Superior, Madison and Wisconsin Rapids in passing their own data center construction moratorium.
Many smaller communities have done the same thing at the local level.
Grassroots groups and political figures have advocated for rate payer protections and moratoriums to ensure that large corporate energy demands do not result in higher utility bills for local residents.
That's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
A setback for the pack.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports NFL.
The Green Bay Packers coming off that impressive win over New England, now dealing with the news that running back Josh Jacobs suffered a severe broken finger while carrying the ball Sunday.
Will it require surgery?
Head coach Matt LaFleur.
He does.
It should happen sometime this week and then as far as how long he'll be out, I think that's to be determined.
Estimates are a three-week recovery.
Meanwhile, backup Caleb Johnson could get more reps at
running back, what's he been working on to
improve?
Protection, past protection, you know, me knowing my stuff.
And I feel like I've been doing that very, very well.
So ever since I got here, you know, I've been knowing it and, you know, just been applying myself every day to it and showing them that I can be reliable on every down.
I feel like to me, you know, that's my confidence right now.
So I
feel like I can do it.
The Packers host the Viking Sunday NBA, the Bucks in New York tonight, taking on the defending champions, the Knicks, College Hoops, the Badgers at the Coles Center.
They're playing the Fairfield Stags out of Fairfield, Connecticut with sports on Mike Clemens.
I'm
meteorologist Brandon Bormins.
Another mild November day with increasing clouds, high temps in the mid to upper 50s.
For tonight, mostly cloudy skies with lows near 40.
For Veterans Day, a stray light shower or two in the morning, otherwise partly sunny, cooler, highs right around 50.
Right now, it's 42.
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