Month: May 2012

The Rev. Stephen Savides has a discretionary fund at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Appleton that is used for much more than helping parishioners with rent and gasoline assistance. Savides calculated the single highest expense the money has been used for within the past year is mental health services. (APPLETON POST CRESCENT, 5/11)

One city. One focus. One hundred women. That was the message presented Wednesday when the Milwaukee Health Department, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Zilber School of Public Health, launched a social marketing campaign to reduce Milwaukee's infant mortality rate and increase healthier birth outcomes. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 5/10)

Republican Gov. Scott Walker launched a new ad Wednesday touting how much he has put into state health-care programs. The positive spot pushes back against criticism from Democrats who have blasted him for cuts to BadgerCare Plus that are expected to result in more than 17,000 people being dropped from the program for low-income people. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 5/10)

Few might refer to living near a landfill as “lucky.” But for Gundersen Lutheran, the proximity to the La Crosse County Landfill led to a unique partnership for converting gas from buried trash into energy. Now, its 350,000-square-foot Onalaska clinic can boast being 100 percent “energy independent,” using a methane-powered engine both to generate electricity and heat its buildings. (LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, 5/9)