As the government shutdown dragged into its third day Thursday, Capitol Hill was disrupted with a speeding black sedan, gunshots, a Capitol lockdown and one death.
The 300 block of West Mifflin Street will be closed to bicyclist and motor vehicle traffic Monday through Wednesday to accommodate construction equipment, according to a city release.
Former state Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, will change his job for the second time in two months, according to a release from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, in the wake of controversy concerning an award of a $500,000 grant to United Sportsmen.
Shortly after 2 p.m., the Associated Press reported the U.S. Capitol building is no longer under lockdown.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice granted the state’s 200,000th concealed carry permit Monday, according to a release from the state attorney general, highlighting an issue that has fueled disagreement since the concealed carry law passed in November of 2011.
Economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the primary architects of a health care plan that influenced the creation of “Obamacare,” will give a lecture Thursday on current national issues of health care reform.
State Senate and Assembly Democrats put forth alternative eligibility requirements for securing the Sporting Heritage Grant Wednesday in the wake of an ongoing and increasingly concerning process that led to the United Sportsmen of Wisconsin receiving a $500,000 grant, according to the Democrats.
A Wisconsin congressman is joining other federal legislators in forgoing his salary while the government remains shut down and approximately 800,000 federal workers remain on temporary leave.
Madison police arrested a man for exposing himself to a mother and her child at Olbrich Botanical Gardens Tuesday, according to a police report.
A former adviser to Richard Nixon during the Watergate era will deliver a lecture Friday on the second floor of the Gordon Dining and Events Center.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank met with faculty and staff in the Chazen Museum Wednesday to introduce herself to her new colleagues. The event was a chance “to put a face with our program name and to get to know her and to introduce her to the rest of our staff,” according to Dominic Ledesma, associate director of the Chancellor’s & Powers-Knapp Scholarship programs.
The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare released a summary report of its six-month long investigation into a University of Wisconsin-Madison experiment Monday that found no violations in the university’s use of cats in sound localization research.
The Affordable Care Act’s federal exchanges, which launched in Wisconsin and 33 other states Tuesday, ran into a series of technological issues soon after the federal government simultaneously began its shutdown proceedings.
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.
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