Eighteen Republican state legislators lobbied for a $500,000 sporting grant to be designated to the United Sportsmen of Wisconsin Foundation in a letter sent to a Department of Natural Resources committee Aug. 22.
Deadlock and a failure to compromise permeated through the U.S. Congress and into Tuesday morning as the Republican-dominated House pushing its agenda to defund the Affordable Care Act and the Democrat-dominated Senate acting in support of President Barack Obama’s directives missed their midnight deadline and forced the federal government into its first shutdown in 17 years.
After a turbulent three years, the Affordable Care Act, which has been an annoyance to Republicans, the center of a Supreme Court case and one of the central tenants of President Barack Obama’s tenure, will move to its next step Tuesday as Wisconsin citizens and students will have their first opportunity to log into the online exchange and explore their health care coverage options.
A liberal leaning group filed an ethics complaint against former State Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, Monday for what it said was his unethical involvement in awarding United Sportsmen of Wisconsin Inc. a now rescinded $500,000 grant.
The I’m Shmacked production company featured the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a YouTube video filmed during Parent’s Weekend on Sept. 21, which has raised discussion from students and university officials about the drinking culture depicted in the video.
Paul Williams, a retired emeritus professor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison plant pathology department, came to the university as a graduate student in 1959 off a train from Vancouver.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri is among five recipients honored with the 2013 Friends of Education Award, according to a university press release.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted just past midnight Sunday to amend a bill that would postpone a federal government shutdown with a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and a repeal of a taxation to pay for it.
Madison police arrested a 37-year-old man for sexually assaulting a college student after selling her ecstasy on State Street earlier in September, according to a police report.
There was a moment early in Madison Police Chief Noble Wray’s tenure when he was sure his short-lived career had come to a screeching halt.
Read the full transcript of an interview with retiring Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray. View the story here.
Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s “Science Friday,” described how science has become “sexy” in America as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Wisconsin Science Festival.
New safety procedures are being put into place after a UW Physical Plant employee died last spring while working at the Art Lofts, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison news release.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student and Daily Cardinal Editor-in-Chief Jacob “Jack” Zeldes died peacefully Sept. 18 after a long battle with health issues.
A new Republican proposal in the state Legislature would make it more difficult for residents in school districts to file complaints against Wisconsin schools that use Native American mascots.
An Associated Students of Madison financial committee unanimously denied InterVarsity Christian Fellowship funding from the General Student Services Fund at a meeting Thursday.
The most recent private sector job growth statistics released Thursday showed Wisconsin dropped one place to 34th in the country in private sector job growth, and drew mixed responses from Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators.
Ruth Ozeki shared her challenges and inspiration behind the 2013 Go Big Read book, “A Tale for the Time Being” with The Daily Cardinal Tuesday.
Several statewide leadership and law-enforcement agencies are putting the rapid proliferation of heroin abuse in Wisconsin at the forefront of concern and teaming up with local organizations to educate people about preventing and treating the alarming problem.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved a college affordability campaign Wednesday, which will aim to evaluate different factors that contribute to students’ college expenses.
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