October 1, 2013 - 6:57am
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Providers say people with mental illness are particularly likely to have difficulty changing their health insurance arrangements.
People with a mental illness may be particularly at risk among the thousands who are losing BadgerCare coverage in Wisconsin. There are concerns that they may find it difficult to navigate the new health insurance exchanges. About 92,000 people are losing their BadgerCare coverage because of Governor Walker's refusal to...
October 1, 2013 - 1:30am
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Dane County plans to replace outdated culverts, purchase equipment that would help vehicles move through heavy snow, and start an emergency sandbag fund.
Dane County, one of the state's most populous areas, plans to spend nearly a million dollars next year to prepare for climate change.
October 1, 2013 - 1:00am
Fifty-two people died in domestic violence-related murders and suicides in Wisconsin last year, an increase of 15 deaths over 2011. A report from End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin says that there were three domestic violence homicides per month in the state. As in past years most of the perpetrators of those...
September 30, 2013 - 1:56pm
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A Wisconsin National Guard F-16 making a flight over Devil's Lake. The guard will be constrained to a skeleton crew of 210 people if a shutdown happens
The Wisconsin National Guard is preparing for a possible government shutdown . The National Guard gets most of its payroll money from federal appropriations – meaning if the government shuts down at midnight, paychecks to guard members will stop. Despite that, the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs will still be...
September 30, 2013 - 1:20pm
Photo Credit: Steve Glynn (CC-BY-NC) | Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says he worries that if former BadgerCare recipients don't sign up on the exchanges, they will end up in emergency rooms for routine care.
A major effort is underway by Wisconsin hospitals and social welfare groups to get people who will no longer be eligible for BadgerCare next year signed up for subsidized private insurance on the new federal exchange.
September 30, 2013 - 12:27pm
Many drivers are staying on Highway 41 to avoid city detours around the closed Leo Frigo Bridge.
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Engineers are still working to determine what caused Green Bay's Leo Frigo bridge to sag . In the meantime drivers are finding their way from one side of town to the other, by driving city streets and alternate highway routes. The bridge has been closed for almost a week due...
September 30, 2013 - 11:58am
For the second time in three years, a group of lawyers is asking the state Supreme Court to require judges to appoint publicly funded attorneys in civil cases where a defendant's basic human needs are at stake. When the court considered a similar petition three years ago, it declined to...
September 30, 2013 - 10:11am
Health Department workers in Barron County are working overtime to keep up with Affordable Care Act paperwork after the county board turned down state money to add staff. Barron County was the only county in Wisconsin to turn down federal and state funding for extra staff to register people for...
September 30, 2013 - 9:30am
Photo Credit: cliff1066 (CC-BY) | The proposal rejected by the committee would have allowed mental health teams, not just police, to approach someone with a mental illness in particular crises.
A legislative task force has quashed an effort to change a Wisconsin law that currently requires law enforcement to take the lead in handling emergency detentions of people suffering from a mental illness.
September 30, 2013 - 1:00am
The federal government is looking towards La Crosse County to establish a new model for jail education to help ex-offenders develop meaningful job skills and, ultimately, stay out of jail. Most county jails have some sort of educational program. In La Crosse, inmates can work to get their GED, take...
