Community gardens feed low-income families, school kids, and residents with limited ability to harvest food at home but often it’s a handful of volunteers who make sure they survive.
Broadband roundtable explores how Evers budget proposal will aid rural areas Broadband is a big focus of the Evers administration s budget proposal for the 2021-23 biennium, quadrupling the current investment in broadband infrastructure at $200,000. Even with all that money, experts in the field still have to figure out the best ways to invest it. A roundtable on the challenges rural areas face on lack of access to high-speed internet, or to a connection at all, was held in early April with several members of the agriculture industry in Wisconsin. Randy Romanski, secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, led the roundtable and explained that DATCP is deeply involved in the effort to get broadband out to those who need it most.
They supported Republicans again. Will rural residents get help they need? By Henry Redman - Dec 23rd, 2020 10:38 am //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee A Trump sign on the side of the road in Buffalo County. Photo by Ruth Conniff/Wisconsin Examiner. In a time of overlapping crises, rural Wisconsin shifted further to the right in 2020, voting overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump by often higher margins than in 2016. But in just over a month, President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in and the hard work of governing, amid gridlock in Congress and intransigence in the Wisconsin State Legislature, will begin. That governing will take place as many rural Wisconsinites lack adequate housing or internet access, wages in many jobs remain low and family farms are dying every day.
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