Dane County plans to spend $750,000 this year to test out paying farmers to plant cover crops in an attempt to curb runoff from heavy rains and snowmelt.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Wisconsin $840,000 to help places along Lake Michigan reduce the threat from coastal hazards, Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday.

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When we talk about "federal assistance" for disaster relief, we obviously mean money and personnel subsidized by federal taxpayers. That includes those of us living here in Wisconsin. We didn't personally deliver the federal aid in times of need. But indirectly, through the taxes we pay, we did.

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There were a lot of questions from homeowners who live on Lake Michigan and are watching rising waters eat away at their property. But, there were few answers from federal, state and local officials who met with the property owners in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday evening.

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Severe erosion along some of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan communities is threatening homes and causing bluffs to collapse.

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When the state adopts its uniform erosion-control standards, Mark Etrheim said, he wants it to eliminate a La Crosse County rule forcing his company to lay down a gravel driveway before beginning work on a house.

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In signing the state’s 2013-15 budget bill Sunday, Gov. Scott Walker left unchanged a tax increase that is estimated to cost construction companies and other heavy users of the state’s unemployment fund millions of dollars in the coming years.

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Democrats said a move to standardize erosion control rules for commercial construction sites is another effort by Republicans to take power away from local authorities.

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Dane County is in danger of losing authority that for almost 11 years has let it tailor its erosion-control standards to protect resources such as lakes Mendota and Monona and trout streams.

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The state's Department of Natural Resources would issue statewide standards for erosion control at construction projects that disturb more than acre of land under a motion passed by the state’s Joint Finance Committee on Thursday.

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