MADISON, WI — Wisconsin Recovery Alignment Day, sponsored by national pharmacy benefit solutions provider  Serve You Rx, will take place at the State Capitol on May 3, 2022 at 9 a.m. The event will include resource tables,  opportunities to meet with state representatives and senators to advocate for recovery, networking with recovery  advocates from Wisconsin, and participation from the Wisconsin Faces of Addiction and Recovery Quilts.  Attendees with also hear from legislative speakers, recovery speakers such as local activist Tom Farley, and  special guests, including bestselling author Ryan Hampton, Wisconsin Senator Janet Bewley, and  Representatives Lee Snodgrass, Supreme Moore Omokunde,

The Safe & Sound Board of Directors has announced that Bridget Whitaker, Milwaukee native, will be the next Executive Director of the organization, whose mission is to unite residents, youth, law enforcement and community resources to build safe and empowered neighborhoods. “I am grateful for the opportunity to move the mission onward and upward,” said Whitaker. “We have an amazing team of talented staff who have a heart for serving people and I feel confident that our collective impact centered work alongside so many partners who are led by the voice of residents will help create a safer Milwaukee.” Whitaker

MADISON, Wis. –  The smell of freshly cut grass can be a welcome sign of summertime but it can also be a time for serious lawn mower-related injuries in children. Every year thousands of children in the United States are treated for lawn mower-related injuries to fingertips, hands, arms, legs and feet, according to the Child Injury Prevention Alliance. These injuries usually happen when the person mowing is distracted, even for a split second, according to Dr. Ken Noonan, pediatric orthopedic surgeon, UW Health Kids. “Every year we see lawn mower injuries at American Family Children’s Hospital, unfortunately some of

STEVENS POINT, Wisc., April 26, 2022 – Following Earth Day 2022, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Wisconsin Julie Lassa announced today more than $5 million in climate-smart infrastructure to strengthen the health and livelihoods of people living in rural Wisconsin. “Investing in rural climate-smart infrastructure has a positive impact locally as well as globally,” Lassa said. “The investments we’re highlighting reflect the importance that USDA, under the leadership of President Biden and Ag Secretary Vilsack, is placing on locally-driven climate change solutions as well as helping rural communities prepare for severe weather events. We couldn’t be prouder to

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Republican members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC), in requesting information from U.S. Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman regarding illegally obtained Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans received by Planned Parenthood affiliates across the U.S.  “On May 19, 2020, SBA notified a number of Planned Parenthood affiliates that they had wrongfully applied for 38 PPP loans totaling more than $80 million dollars. SBA determined that these local affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America were ineligible for PPP loans under

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin – After more than three months, the Wisconsin National Guard’s mission to assist as nursing assistants at state healthcare facilities is winding down. Senior Wisconsin National Guard leaders and officials from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services travelled to several healthcare facilities around the state to express their appreciation for the partnership that formed between them and the hospitality they provided to the Guard members who have been serving at those facilities. As the state grappled with the Omicron COVID-19 variant surge in late 2021 and an ongoing staffing shortage in the healthcare field, bedspace availability at

Franklin, WI: Forward Latino, a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy and service organization with  members in 29 states issued the following statement following the conviction of Clifton Blackwell on first-degree and hate crime charges for his attack on a Hispanic American citizen with acid.  Forward Latino National President Darryl Morin issued the following statement:  “Today we thank the Jury, the District Attorney’s office, and the Milwaukee Police Department for their combined efforts in bringing this individual to justice on charges of first-degree reckless  injury. We also acknowledge the District Attorney’s office for not only prosecuting the crime,  but successfully prosecuting the hate

MADISON, WIS. – Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that Cadott Miller Pharmacy, Ltd., located in Cadott, Wisconsin, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $20,000 to resolve civil allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by dispensing controlled substances outside the usual course of professional pharmacy practice, among other CSA violations. As a registrant with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the CSA required the pharmacy to be both knowledgeable of and to adhere to federal and state statutes and regulations concerning the receipt, storage, recordkeeping, distribution, dispensing, and destruction