After the recent attack of an 11-year-old girl at Whitehorse Middle School, Madison community members expressed frustrations to the Madison Metropolitan School Board about racism within district schools.
Testimony devolved into shouting, which in turn devolved into threats of removal at a Madison City Council meeting Tuesday, as the debate over funding for a Hmong therapy program spilled into a public quarrel.
In his latest executive order, Gov. Tony Evers commissioned a total recall of Wisconsin’s National Guard from the southern border Monday. Evers acted in opposition of President Donald Trump’s declared National Emergency and rebuked former Gov. Scott Walker’s decision in originally stationing the troops in June.
SSFC approved their official recommendations for the University health Services budget for fiscal year 2020.
Gov. Tony Evers announced a new proposal for his first biennial budget in which he suggested stopping the expansion of state voucher programs and charter schools passed under former Gov. Scott Walker’s administration.
Former candidate for mayor Toriana Pettaway has been placed on paid leave from her position as Madison’s racial equity coordinator as a result of working during an unpaid three-day suspension last week.
Madison police made several arrests late last week and over the weekend involving a number of robberies and a fight with a drug dealer.
2018 National Teacher of the Year and returned Peace Corps volunteer Mandy Manning will headline UW-Madison’s upcoming Peace Corps week.
Milwaukee has made the cut as Tom Perez, the Democratic National Committee chairman, narrows down the three cities he will choose between to host the 2020 Democratic Convention.
The man arrested for assaulting a UW-Madison student on Langdon Street in early February made his initial appearance in court Wednesday, where he was charged with five felonies.
The Madison mayoral spring primary had a higher turnout than past years, up 59 percent from 2015, with incumbent mayor Paul Soglin set to face off against Satya Rhodes-Conway in the coming general election April 2.
Gov. Evers used his first veto on a Republican middle class income tax cut bill Wednesday, rejecting the GOP plan to use money leftover in the budget.
Evers' plan includes reintroducing Planned Parenthood as a trusted health care service.
Students last semester spent approximately half a million dollars more in dining halls than they did in Fall 2017 as a result of the new mandatory meal plan for incoming students, according to UW-Madison officials. University Housing Director Jeff Novak said the meal plan, which requires first-year students living in residence halls to make a $1,400 minimum deposit onto their Wiscards for on-campus dining, “rebounded” the dining program from where it was “a few years ago.”
Female representation in Wisconsin has remained stagnant for decades.
As the winter months continue to creep into Wisconsin, cold weather and dangerous storms relentlessly target those who are outdoors at the wrong time.
Guided by economic incentives to promote a pro-life agenda, legislation has strained accessibility to abortion and other reproductive services across the state.
A Madison man is expected to appear in court this week after homemade explosives believed to be a plot to attack UW-Madison were found in his apartment last year.
New research showing the implications of Medicaid expansion for those with private health insurance instigated a press conference with Republican legislators, who convened at the Capitol Tuesday morning.
Seven months after he announced he would not seek another term, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin emerged victorious in the city’s municipal primary election Tuesday, setting up a race between himself and former Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway.
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