Walker urges congressional action on welfare drug testing
By Gina Heeb | Apr. 13, 2016Gov. Scott Walker signed a letter to Congress Monday, pressing for legislation that allows states to require drug testing for food stamp recipients.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a letter to Congress Monday, pressing for legislation that allows states to require drug testing for food stamp recipients.
Officials from Madison Area Technical College held a student and community forum Tuesday night to answer questions regarding the possible 50-year lease of the downtown campus.
The UW-Madison student organization Force For Freedom: An Abolitionist Movement began Freedom Week with a demonstration Tuesday on East Campus Mall to raise awareness for modern-day slavery. UW-Madison senior Elle Waters helped organize the events this week as a part of the leadership team for Force For Freedom: An Abolitionist Movement.
Common Council held a discussion Tuesday night to discuss a proposal that would restructure several facets of city government that Ald. David Ahrens, District 15, and Ald. Mark Clear, District 19, announced March 16.
The UW System will host its 13th annual Posters in the Rotunda student research event at the Capitol Wednesday, followed by an opportunity for UW students, faculty and alumni to meet with state legislators and advocate for the system.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan relayed a message Tuesday, announcing yet again that he does not wish to be drafted as the GOP presidential nominee.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi sent a letter to Gov. Scott Walker Monday in which he urged Walker not to sign any laws that allow for discrimination based on sexual orientation. Parisi also suspended all nonessential travel to states with these laws. Parisi stressed the business impacts other states have seen due to new laws that allow discrimination against the LGBT community on religious grounds. In the letter, he noted PayPal decided not to build its global operations center in North Carolina after the state passed the law.
UW-Madison hosted a town hall Monday night at Union South with presentations about the future of gene editing both on a global and local scale.
The City of Madison Board of Estimates approved a proposal Monday to raise parking prices and made a final selection for a Judge Doyle Square development team.
The Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee met Monday to discuss the Tuition Transparency campaign, as well as the usage of the Electronic Registration Information Center in Wisconsin voting.
Three people were arrested in Madison this weekend in separate incidents of driving under the influence of alcohol, according to Madison Police Department incident reports.
The UW System released reports from each campus Monday that detailed the effects of state funding cuts to public higher education within the last year.
Gov. Scott Walker signed several bills into law today at various locations across Wisconsin, all of which deal with sexual and domestic abuse.
In a surprise move, state Rep. Mandela Barnes, D-Milwaukee, announced Monday he would seek the state Senate seat presently held by state Sen.
Author Jennifer Morales read excerpts from her book “Meet Me Halfway" and provided insights regarding pervasive racial disparities in Milwaukee at her speech Sunday at Union South.
UW-Madison announced Friday that Stem Cells in the 4th Dimension, an annual scientific meeting, will focus on how time affects stem cells in terms of development, maturation and aging.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university’s new tenure policy approved by the UW System Board of Regents Friday is “workable” and should reassure faculty, according to a post on her online blog.
A series of six unsolved weapons violations throughout Madison plagued the city over the weekend, according to the Madison Police Department. The first occurred on the 1800 block of Helene Parkway around 6:30 Friday night.
The Badger State may have seen an end to its 28-year streak of choosing the eventual presidential candidates on Tuesday night.
A first-degree sexual assault occurred late Friday night between 10 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. near Memorial Union. The victim reported “three unknown men held her down against her will with a knife and sexually assaulted her,” according to the campuswide crime warning.