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2 weeks ago |
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron
The plan for Whitetail Woods in Altoona looks like the future in fast-growing Eau Claire County. Ground will be broken before the end of this year for a senior living center. Over the next decade, 114 duplexes, four multifamily apartment buildings and 54 single-family homes are expected to be built and occupied on 64 acres of what was farmland just a few years ago.
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1 month ago |
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron
President Trump’s executive order to halt federal funding for public broadcasting will save taxpayers nearly $8.5 million annually in reduced federal outlays to public television and radio networks in Wisconsin alone. Republican leadership on the Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has said it will not support any attempt to replace those reductions in federal spending with state tax dollars.
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1 month ago |
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron
More than half of the employees in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and more than 40% in the Department of Administration still work remotely, five years after COVID sent them home. Numbers collected by the Badger Institute suggest that as many as half of Wisconsin’s 29,000 state employees do not work at all in a state office and that more than 24,000 work either full- or part-time from home. Those are only extrapolations. No one — in Gov.
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2 months ago |
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron
Unlike many places in Wisconsin, there is no housing crisis in the Village of Hobart because its leaders have done something developers say is exceedingly rare — making it as easy and predictable as possible for them to do business there. With approximately 11,000 residents, Hobart is one of the fastest growing communities in one of the fastest growing counties, Brown, in the state.
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Feb 24, 2025 |
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron
First in a series on housing in the Badger State, Out of reach: Wisconsin’s housing crisis and hope for the American Dream. Jason Joling was a dream candidate for a dream job in a dream location. Just one problem: He couldn’t afford to live there. “They offered me the job and told me, ‘We expect you to be living up here within four months,’” Joling said. “I said, ‘That ain’t gonna happen.’ I had been on Zillow and there wasn’t anything we could afford. I told them I could give them 50 hours a week.
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