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Fiscal Facts: Impairment to Imprisonment

The number of people incarcerated in Wisconsin state prisons, for intoxicated driving offenses, hit a record high in 2024 – 2,750 adults were incarcerated in state prisons, for OWI offenses, enough ...
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It can’t come soon enough for me

I got yelled at, week before last. It stung. It might look like I have a thick skin, but deep dow...

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Share the road and save a life

Eli Miller, 18, of Granton, was killed, July 17, when his horse and buggy were struck by a pickup truck, at the intersection of Meridian Avenue and Pine Creek Road, in the Town of York, in Clark County. Kristina Borntrager, 13, was killed, July 15, in a collision, involving a truck and an Amish buggy, on Highway 58, in the Town of Ironton, in Sauk County Joseph Z. Glick, 56-year-old buggy drive...

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It’s the little things

It has been roughly two months, since I had my garage roof re-shingled. I wrote about how impressed ...

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Don’t let vandals win

The vandal is among the lowest of the low, when it comes to non-violent criminal behavior. The thief is easy to understand. They are motivated by want and greed, whether on the petty level of a shoplifter or on the corporate scale of embezzlers. Other crimes are driven by passion or to feed an addiction. Vandals, however, channel some basic level of reprehensible evil. Vandals see something ...

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Rural Grocery Stores Connected to the Community

Across the U.S., rural grocery store owners are doing far more than stocking shelves. Running a grocery in a small town, is more complex and more essential, than it often appears. When a rural grocery store struggles, the impact affects the entire community. Here are five lessons we learned from working alongside grocery stores: 1. Ownership models matter – In locallyowned stores, owners c...

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Increased Reliance on the Role of Data Centers

As increased consumer reliance on digitized information sparks a critical new addition to energy infrastructure, energy consumers are no longer passive recipients of electricity and utility services – they are increasingly active participants in energy generation, management and optimization. As digital transformation accelerates across industries and households, data centers are emerging as ...

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