Madison’s Common Council authorized city government to work with a consulting firm Tuesday on a project to implement a new bus station downtown and heard a proposal to improve Metro Transit.
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New data shows a significant drop in the four-year UW-Madison graduation rates for two campus diversity programs, though their retention rates are higher than the overall campus minority population.
Lawmakers must deal with an even larger state budget deficit as they work toward passing the 2009-'11 budget bill.
The UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty released a report on poverty in Wisconsin Monday, which tracked poverty rates in the state and found the need for food has increased in the state in correlation with the recession.
According to a poll conduced by WisPolitics at the state Republican Party convention, a majority of attendees support Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker as the GOP gubernatorial nominee.
Gov. Jim Doyle declared a public health emergency Thursday to make medical supplies available and facilitate the state's response to the swine flu outbreak, which may have the potential to become a pandemic.
The first probable cases of swine flu were reported in Wisconsin Wednesday, two in Milwaukee and one in Adams County.
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