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• Using leadership to tackle the ‘crisis points’ of local government
  Local governments across Wisconsin are wrestling with issues that define what it takes to support a thriving community. “We’re getting to these crisis points where population is declining, and people are getting older,” said Tiffany Brault, a member of the Fond Du Lac City Council and Fond Du Lac County Board.
• Local Government Leadership Academy graduates 21 at conference
  Twenty-one individuals were recognized this month for their completion of the Wisconsin Local Government Leadership Academy. Their graduation took place at the Wisconsin Counties Association annual conference in the Wisconsin Dells.
• Extension funding 3 specialists to support broadband connectivity for underserved communities
  Communities in Wisconsin that lack needed high-speed internet services also happen to be the same communities that lack the resources to take advantage of funding to expand broadband. UW-Madison Extension is committing special funding for three new broadband specialists to solve this problem and bring communities closer to billions of federal funding.
• New state geologist Susan Swanson has lifelong ties to nature, education
  Growing up, Susan Swanson already embodied the Wisconsin Idea that drives UW-Madison Extension. “I learned best when I was able to connect the classroom to things that I could see and interact with in nature.” That led to a career in geology and now the next Wisconsin state geologist.
• ‘I need to do this to help my community’ – Extension interns bring UW research to all corners of Wisconsin
  To HMoob farmers, growing food is a way to become self-sufficient, eat well, and partake in rich cultural traditions that connect generations through shared knowledge and histories. However, HMoob farmers in Wisconsin, many of whom arrived between the late 1970s and early 2000s, largely did not have access to resources for growing culturally relevant crops.