Disconnected
In Kentucky s Silicon Holler and Wisconsin s Northwoods, high-speed internet is creating jobs, and changing lives
Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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3:28 pm UTC Jun. 9, 2021
McKee, Ky. - Matt and Jennifer Muncy were dangerously close to becoming homeless.
They had lost their livelihood when a local factory sent work to Mexico. They barely subsisted on a string of low-paying jobs that followed.
Raising their four children in a part of Appalachia with a median annual household income barely above $32,000 about half the national average had become as lonely as McKee s single traffic light.
“We were literally at a point where we were done,” Matt said, tears welling up in his eyes. “We had each other, and as God is my witness, that’s the one thing which kept me going.”
When lawmakers on the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee began the process of retooling Gov. Tony Evers’ budget, one item that survived was a $100 million venture capital “fund of funds.”
The proposal by Evers, a Democrat, has the support of eight former secretaries of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the former state Department of Commerce. The group includes five appointed by Republican governors and three by Democratic governors.
The venture capital fund “would allow Wisconsin entrepreneurs to secure needed next-step financing from in-state sources so they don’t have to look to, or move to, the coasts for capital, WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes said in a statement.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bunker Labs has announced new details for its upcoming annual Muster conference on Thursday February 25, 2021.
Dick Leinenkugel, President of the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company will lead a toast during the vConnect happy hour portion of the agenda. Special guest retired Commander and U.S. Navy pilot Karen Brasch from Intuit will also be in attendance for the happy hour.
Bunker also announced that Shannon Huffman Polson and D Shawn Russell will deliver keynote speeches at the Muster, in addition to a keynote speech by retired United States Army four-star general John W. Nicholson. Polson was one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army, and is the author of
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Ty Rogalski woke at 3 a.m. with visions of cheese-wedge emojis and dice dancing in his head. Don t forget. Don t forget, Rogalski repeated to himself while lying in the dark before drifting back to sleep.
But, he forgot. He woke later that morning without recalling the dream in which he thought the holes on the cheese emoji were like dots on a dice.
If the vision hadn t returned later that day during a Pickleball game with his wife, Angela, the world may not be a mere Kickstarter campaign away from having a cheese-scented game. After explaining his cheese dream, he implored, Don’t let me forget this.