As last week’s election shock dissipates, climate change activists and policy professionals are coming to terms with a president-elect who rejects climate science as conspiracy and promises to roll back regulatory regimes and international agreements meant to curtail carbon emissions.
UW-Madison fifth-year student Donale Richards is one of the few students of color who majors in biological systems engineering.
Madison Police Department officers arrested Arsen Piloyan, 46, of Van Nuys, Calif., and Wafig M. Jebarah, 49, of Los Angeles, in relation to a series of credit card skimmers that have recently been found on Madison-area gas pumps.
Live Free, a UW-Madison student organization focused on student wellness and recovery, had its budget approved for the 2018 fiscal year by the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee Thursday. According to Carter Kofman, Live Free’s vice chair, the organization’s goals for the upcoming fiscal year are increasing visibility of the organization and its purpose, creating more connections and developing allies on campus, in the community and nation-wide. Live Free has been a part of the UW-Madison campus for almost three years.
Members of the Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot came to UW-Madison Thursday to discuss their experiences as political prisoners and alternative media producers. The event, sponsored by Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts and WUD Distinguished Lecture Series, featured Maria “Masha” Alyokhina and Alexandra “Sasha” Bogino, both of whom are current members of the collective.
Social Justice speaker and photographer Matika Wilbur spoke Thursday night to UW-Madison community members in the Elvehjem Building about her photography project that is focused on documenting Native Americans of every federally recognized tribe.
UW-Madison’s Chican@/Latin@ Studies Department hosted a public event to analyze the election results and discuss its future implications.
The Dane County Board approved a budget for 2017 in a 34-2 vote Monday, which “makes unprecedented investments in compassionate services,” according to Dane County Executive Joe Parisi. Parisi signed the $587,112,816 budget Friday.
A federal court ruled Thursday that Brendan Dassey must remain imprisoned while the state appeals the decision of a lower court to overturn his conviction. Dassey, along with his uncle, Steven Avery, were found guilty of killing photographer Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., urged President-elect Donald Trump to carry through on campaign appeals to the middle class by keeping Wall Street elites out of his cabinet in a Thursday letter. “You have made a promise to ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington by reducing the influence of special interests in government and expressed deep concerns about the influence of Wall Street over government,” Baldwin wrote.
UW System schools employ the equivalent of 830 fewer full-time staff members compared with October 2014, according to a report submitted Thursday to the state’s Joint Finance Committee.
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UW-Madison students are working with community members to push Madison toward using more renewable energy sources. The City of Madison is in the process of reviewing its energy budget, and plans to renew contracts with Madison Gas and Electric and Alliant Energy.
Inside a corner office in the Student Activity Center every Sunday night, Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy and Vice Chair Mariam Coker meet to lay out plans of positive change for the campus.
UW System President Ray Cross asked several leaders of UW-Madison’s student government Wednesday to “influence the decision-makers” who will decide the fate of Wisconsin’s public universities in the state’s upcoming biennial budget.
Student activists protested a lecture by conservative media personality Ben Shapiro Wednesday evening.
While undocumented students proactively fight to secure university protection from deportation as the president-elect’s inauguration approaches, state legislators are divided on how to move forward. Though not officially a sanctuary city, Madison’s police department follows a resolution passed by common council in 2010 discouraging MPD officers from reporting undocumented people to immigration officers, except in instances of violent crime. After a presidential campaign that emphasized deportation and wall-building, anxieties continue to rise for undocumented students as Trump gets closer to the Oval Office. A letter to university administration urging protection for students, staff and their families by making the campus a sanctuary for the undocumented has gained 4,500 signatures. Mike Mikalsen, chief of staff for state Sen.
Continuing a recent series of powerful movements in Wisconsin’s GOP, the Republican Governors Association announced Wednesday that Gov.
A City of Madison inspector found a credit card skimmer in a gas pump located at Genin’s Mobil on the 3500 block of University Avenue Tuesday, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. “He was conducting random inspections when he made the finding on pump five at Genin's Mobil."
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Police Chief Mike Koval said Wednesday that the city’s policies regarding immigration will not change in light of the election, while City Attorney Michael May said he will be researching impacts of possible changes in federal immigration policy. The three officials held a press conference Wednesday with several city alders to address the issue.
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