A Laughable Idea

In these troubled money times why do things like this happen ….?

An $87,000 Wisconsin Department of Health Services grant will be used to help create a plan to combat binge drinking among 18 to 25 year olds in La Crosse County.

The five-month planning grant was awarded to the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium, in partnership with La Crosse County Departments of Health and Human Services and Coulee Council on Addictions. The partners will work with the Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior Community Coalition and a team of volunteers to develop the plan for October.

La Crosse was among four counties to receive funding. It is the third-highest ranked county in Wisconsin for binge drinking among ages 18 to 25, at 62 percent.

So, this was one of four grants. We can probably say these grants to CREATE  PLANS easily exceeded $300,000.  Plans to combat binge drinking.

What odds do you put on that coalition of partners creating a successful  plan to combat binge drinking in LaCrosse County?

Jeez, what a waste.

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