Plan to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake and relocate youth now up in the air. By Graham Kilmer - Dec 30th, 2020 02:42 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School. Photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
The state will likely have to extend the deadline once again for closing the youth corrections facilities at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake.
The youth prisons’ deadline for closing was July 2021, but there is no plan in place for where to put the youth that need to remain in a secured facility after the closure.
Mark Mertens, administrator of Milwaukee County’s Division of Youth and Family Services, said that if the state and county came to an agreement today concerning the funding to build a new facility in Milwaukee, the improvements on the new facility would not be ready before the deadline.
Roth and others discussed CAFO Moratorium response At Farm Bureau annual meeting
WISCONSIN - Joined by Kay-Johnson Smith, president and CEO of the Animal Agriculture Alliance, and Dan Bahr of the Wisconsin Counties Association (WCA), two farmers also joined a panel discussion about ‘What you need to know about CAFO Moratoriums’ at the Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s Annual Meeting. The meeting was held virtually on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6.
The two producers on the panel were Chris Owen, president of the Polk-Burnett County Farm Bureau, and Howard AV Roth of Crawford County. Both counties have enacted CAFO Moratoriums in the last year.
Is fiber optic the best choice for broadband internet access?
CRAWFORD COUNTY - When Bug Tussel CEO Steve Schneider said he was withdrawing his proposal to partner with Crawford County on a PSC grant application for the installation six cell towers to provide fixed wireless internet, some county supervisors were dismayed.
These supervisors voted against a motion to table the resolution of support for the proposal. However, the board voted 8-7 to table the proposal. So far, Bug Tussel has not applied for any tower permits.
Weeks later, Forward Analytics released a report titled ‘Broadband in Rural Wisconsin Identifying Gaps, Highlighting Successes.’