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(05/24/13 7:51pm)
As the Joint Finance Committee debated and ultimately passed a budgetary motion to freeze tuition and reduce proposed funding for the University of Wisconsin System Thursday, it also passed a provision that could mean United Council, a representative body for students in the system’s universities, would have to operate under a much smaller budget.
(05/24/13 3:52am)
The Joint Finance Committee approved a two-year tuition freeze and several other funding decreases to the University of Wisconsin System Thursday as part of a change to Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget.
(05/16/13 1:23am)
Gov. Scott Walker officially called for a tuition freeze and an overall decrease in funding for schools within the University of Wisconsin System Wednesday, after an April 19 audit memo reported the system holds approximately $1 billion in surplus revenue as of June 2012.
(05/15/13 6:56am)
The Dalai Lama stopped into the Wisconsin state Assembly chambers Tuesday as part of his Change Your Mind Change The World tour to deliver an approximately 20-minute speech peppered with jokes and his distinctive chuckles, which hit on the need for unity and compassion among state legislators.
(05/10/13 6:54am)
Wisconsin will likely have more spending money over the next three years, which could allow Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators to increase funding for education and other state initiatives, according to new estimates released from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau Thursday.
(05/03/13 8:06am)
An April 9 letter from the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division released to the public Thursday recommended the state’s lead education organization focus more attention on regulating the treatment of students with disabilities who apply for admission to state voucher schools.
(05/03/13 8:03am)
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and U.S. Representative Mark Pocan, D-Wis., spoke at a panel on campus Thursday about the increasing federal debt and the need for citizens, specifically students, to take notice and begin acting to remedy the issue through bipartisanship.
(05/02/13 12:48am)
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation drew criticism from state officials Wednesday after a Legislative Audit Bureau audit of the organization found WEDC operated with a number of financial and organizational inefficiencies during the 2011-’12 fiscal year.
(05/01/13 5:07am)
A Republican-sponsored bill designed to standardize statewide housing regulations, including tenant-landlord relations, drew criticism from Madison city officials and University of Wisconsin-Madison students after it was introduced to the state Assembly Tuesday.
(04/26/13 5:21am)
After a Legislative Fiscal Bureau report was conducted to determine the “non-fiscal” portions of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal, the co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee drew criticism for only removing 12 of the LFB’s 58 recommendations from the proposal, none of which included the contentious private voucher expansion and residency law portions.
(04/25/13 2:58am)
Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators from both sides of the aisle are calling for a full University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze after a state audit revealed the system is operating with a $648 million surplus of unrestricted funds.
(04/24/13 6:25am)
The recent discussions over a $1 billion surplus in the University of Wisconsin System balance boiled over Tuesday as a planned discussion on the system’s Human Resources program before the state’s Joint Committee on Employment Relations turned into a heated question and answer session with UW System President Kevin Reilly.
(04/22/13 3:40am)
A Democratic state senator plans to introduce legislation that would change current state voter registration procedures, including making it legal to vote after living in the state for 10 days before the election instead of the previously required 28 days.
(04/19/13 4:55am)
The Joint Finance Committee held its final officially scheduled hearing sessions on Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget in Baldwin Thursday.
(04/19/13 4:48am)
State politicians and government officials, including Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, have shown mixed reactions to the U.S. Senate’s Wednesday vote against a bipartisan proposal that would have mandated the expansion of background checks on gun sales nationwide.
(04/18/13 2:04am)
Two state legislators recently proposed a bill that would help people avoid political robocalls by keeping their names on the state’s do-not-call list, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
(04/18/13 1:22am)
Fifty-six people were quarantined in a Beloit health center Wednesday morning after three individuals experienced negative side effects because they were exposed to an envelope containing a white powder.
(04/11/13 5:18am)
President Barack Obama officially released his version of the federal budget Wednesday, which included various proposals aimed at keeping higher education affordable across the country, drawing mixed responses from Wisconsin politicians.
(04/10/13 3:31am)
Several Democratic state legislators announced Tuesday they plan to circulate a petition to remove Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to expand private school vouchers to nine additional school districts from the biennial budget.
(04/08/13 5:54am)
Republican state legislators proposed reforms to the state’s unemployment insurance policies in an April 1 letter to the state’s Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, specifically aiming to eliminate overpayments and redefine which individuals qualify for the insurance.