Author: Matt

Acting County Executive Lee Holloway said Thursday that he fired Milwaukee County's employee benefits manager, the second top administrator to be dumped during Holloway's brief stint as executive, the Journal Sentinel reports. Holloway declined to give a reason for the dismissal of David Arena and said he was sorry he had to go. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 1/14)

Wisconsin's Medicaid program — which provides medical benefits to more than a million children, disabled people, elderly and other residents — faces a shortfall of more than a billion dollars. Solving this deficit will not be easy; it will require bipartisan, pragmatic solutions so that those least able to afford health care do not go without, writes Dr. Thomas Luetzow, president of the Wisconsin Medical Society in a opinion editorial for the Wisconsin State Journal. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 1/14)

The fifth annual Wisconsin Local Food Summit on Thursday and Friday at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake is expected to bring together a diverse group of about 150 people, including public health officials, who share a common interest in expanding the local food system and increasing access to healthful food grown close to home. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 1/13)

The Healthier Cumberland and Barron County Safe & Stable Families coalitions were awarded a $750,000 Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program Impact Grant. The project will run from Feb. 1 to Jan. 20, 2016, and is funded wholly by the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program, a component of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin. (Barron News-Shield, 1/13)