A peaceful protest, primarily of Stout Students, took place in downtown Menomonie, on 5/29/2020. We took some photographs of the protest and talked to one of the protesters. There  was also another protest at Interstate 94 where a banner was placed across the highway on the pedestrian bridge.

MADISON – Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Caleb Frostman announced today that, due to an increase in the state's unemployment rate, Wisconsin triggered onto the Extended Benefit (EB) program, which provides additional unemployment benefits to those who exhaust previous benefits, effective May 17, 2020.

Facebook Live Video courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

The Dunn County office buildings will all remain closed to the public through the end of June. That period may be extended or shortened depending on progress on containing the pandemic. 

“Many employees who have been working from home are now beginning to return to Countyoffices,” said County Manager Paul Miller. “With more people in the buildings and COVID-19still a threat to public health, we need to protect residents and employees of Dunn County.”

Live streaming from Unicorn Riot and KTSP. Fires have been burning in the area of Lake St. and 28th Avenue. The 3rd District Police station has burned down, along with some commercial buildings. The Target store that was looted last night is also on fire, and there are reports of fires and looting in St. Paul and a of conflict in other parts of the Twin Cities.

Today's media briefing includes

• Governor Tony Evers
• Secretary-designee Andrea Palm, Wisconsin Department of Health Services 
• Dr. Ryan Westergaard, Chief Medical Officer of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases   
• Ryan Nilsestuen, Chief Legal Counsel, Office of the Governor 
• Dr. Aronica Williams, Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.

In a teleconference yesterday the Wisconsin Elections Commission developed new plans for the remaining 2020 elections, including plans to distribute CARES money to municipalities in the state and to mail absentee ballot information to registered voters.

Today's COVID-19 Media Briefing is with the Department of Military Affairs outlining the work the National Guard is doing on testing and other issues.

Who:

• Gen. Paul Knapp, Wisconsin’s adjutant general
• Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk

What:

In a press release, this afternoon Dunn County Public Health Administrator KT Gallagher announced a new COVID-19 Administrative Order. The previous order 20-01 was set to end on May 26. The new order 20-02  extends the order through June 1, 2020 and clarifies the differences between what parts of the order are mandatory and those that are advisory.