In the paper last week, there was a happily titled article ‘Wisconsin homeowners receive holiday gift from the lottery’. It was a light, fluffy article seeming to celebrate the many benefits that we all receive from this wonderful program. Isn’t it great that ‘strong sales’ helped to continue to help Wisconsin taxpayers? Ultimately, the answer is no. Gambling is a major issue in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) invites individuals with a passion for promoting agriculture to apply for the 76th Alice in Dairyland through February 3, 2023. As one of the most widely recognized communications professionals in Wisconsin agriculture, Alice in Dairyland travels extensively throughout the state promoting Wisconsin’s agriculture

It’s important to have inspections when building a new construction or putting on an addition, but those services are getting hard to find. The Village of Gilman is losing their uniform dwelling code (UDC) inspector to retirement, so they sought the services of another. Robert Christensen, CSC Services, offered his work to the village, with the requirement that the inspection fees match those

New recovery voucher program will use opioid settlement funds for affordable, safe, stable housing Gov. Tony Evers today announced the launch of the Recovery Voucher Program in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA). The effort will be supported by a portion of Wisconsin’s McKinsey & Company opioid settlement

For decades, programs that offer public dollars to businesses as incentives to create jobs have played a prominent role in state and local economic development strategies. Now a new approach has begun to gain popularity: offering incentives to individual workers instead. As remote work becomes more prevalent, more communities are offering financial incentives to workers to entice them to relocate.