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(09/11/13 2:57am)
Democratic state legislators shared a room in the Memorial Union Tuesday with students and college affordability advocates in an effort to hear grassroots ideas to make college more affordable for university students.
(09/10/13 3:16am)
Between 80 and 100 people gathered Monday night on the street outside Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s, D-Wis., 30 W. Mifflin office as part of a series of simultaneous nationwide MoveOn.org vigils in protest of the U.S.’s potential military intervention in Syria.
(09/09/13 7:10am)
After President Barack Obama surprised analysts by deferring his decision to intervene in Syria to a vote from Congress, federal representatives and senators nationwide have blurred party lines and undertaken individual efforts to collect information from intelligence reports, experts and their constituents to decide whether they will vote to authorize a military intervention in the civil war-wracked country.
(09/06/13 3:32am)
A group of state legislators, a regent and two chancellors, including University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, held a panel discussion Thursday on the UW-Madison campus about the need for communication between state government and educators on higher education funding.
(09/06/13 2:26am)
State Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, announced Thursday during a press conference he would not seek reelection to the state Senate after his term expires in January 2015.
(09/05/13 2:40am)
State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, the lead author of six controversial Republican election bills and chair of the state Senate Elections and Urban Affairs Committee, held a hearing Wednesday to discuss criticisms of the proposed legislation, including the claim the bills would make elections more partisan.
(09/05/13 2:38am)
The state Legislature underwent multiple changes Wednesday, including the naming of a new assembly majority leader and adopting a formal timeline for the election of a new representative for the recently vacated 69th state Assembly district seat.
(09/04/13 3:48am)
Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday the month of September will be the “Don’t Text and Drive” awareness month, continuing a statewide effort to curb fatalities from accidents caused by texting while driving, which began with a bipartisan bill to set penalties for the practice in 2009.
(09/04/13 3:32am)
The LGBT Campus Center, located on the first floor of the Red Gym, started its welcome week festivities Tuesday with an ice cream social and a visit by congressman and part-time ice cream scooper for the day, Mark Pocan, D-Wis., one of seven openly gay members of the U.S. Congress.
(09/03/13 1:28am)
A group of singing protesters in the state Capitol continue to draw attention to the ever-lengthening list of arrests they are generating as they protest permitting requirements for groups assembling within the Capitol.
(08/16/13 2:20am)
The saga surrounding the arrests of a group of singing protesters in the state Capitol’s rotunda hit a new mark Thursday with the first arrest of an elected official, Ald. Mark Clear, District 19.
(07/28/13 11:27pm)
Protesters known for singing at the state Capitol started a trend of daily arrests inside the building Wednesday that will likely continue as the Capitol Police and Gov. Scott Walker’s administration attempt to enforce their permitting rules for groups assembling inside the Capitol.
(07/11/13 8:28pm)
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a resolution Thursday that includes a system-wide tuition freeze for all UW undergraduate and graduate students as well as slight increases to students’ segregated fees and room-and-board costs.
(07/09/13 5:02am)
In the last step of the approximately four-month-long state budget process, Gov. Scott Walker officially signed the state budget June 30 with only 57 vetoes, paving the way for several changes to university policy.
(06/26/13 7:32pm)
The United States Supreme Court overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act in one of two decisions regarding the rights of LGBT individuals to marry Wednesday, leaving the final decision on recognizing gay marriage, which Wisconsin currently does not, to the states.
(06/21/13 8:12pm)
The state Senate passed the biennial budget by one vote early Friday morning—which includes a provision that would force the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus—and moves the budget on to Gov. Scott Walker for final consideration.
(06/20/13 1:18am)
The state Assembly passed the 2013-’15 budget in a near party-line vote Wednesday, sending the next major decision on issues ranging from private school vouchers to forcing out a nonprofit investigative journalism group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state Senate Thursday.
(06/06/13 2:16am)
The Joint Finance Committee concluded its consideration of the state’s biennial budget in a session that stretched from Tuesday into early Wednesday morning and included committee approvals for some of the most controversial budgetary motions, including those pertaining to declining federal Medicaid expansion money and the full expansion of a private school voucher program.
(06/03/13 10:03am)
Tuition within the University of Wisconsin System will likely be frozen for the next two years after the state’s Joint Finance Committee approved an omnibus motion May 23 relating to the UW System, but other portions of the approved motion have UW students, specifically those associated with United Council, worried.
(05/30/13 10:44pm)
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling Thursday in a decision that found the state’s controversial voter ID law, which requires voters to show a photo ID before voting, to be constitutional.