Gov. Scott Walker officially signed four college affordability bills into law Monday, despite Democrats alleging the proposals don’t do enough. Two of the bills are concerned with technical college students.
As the April 5 primary approaches, presidential candidates have been busy making their final appeals to voters in the Badger State.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appeared in Madison Wednesday, holding a campaign rally at the downtown Orpheum Theater six days before the state’s primary election. Sanders was consistent in the talking points that have been evident throughout his campaign.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders lead Wisconsin presidential primaries in a new Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday.
JANESVILLE, Wis.-- Donald Trump supporters and protesters sparred prior to a Janesville rally where the divisive presidential candidate criticized Wisconsin Gov.
Gov. Scott Walker formally endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as the Republican presidential nominee Tuesday, a week before the critical Wisconsin primary April 5.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich spoke to a crowd of more than a hundred supporters Monday during a town hall meeting at the Madison Sheraton Hotel.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law Thursday designed to increase reporting of sexual assaults on college campuses. The measure prevents law enforcement from issuing drinking tickets to victims or witnesses of sexual assault.
State lawmaker Rep. Andy Jorgensen, D-Milton, announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election to the Wisconsin legislature but instead intends to run for Rock County Register of Deeds.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Wednesday allowing Wisconsinites to register to vote online. The measure allows anyone with a Wisconsin driver’s license or state-issued voting card to register online.
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin introduced a bill Tuesday in an attempt to make college more affordable and to help graduates pay off their student loans.
President Barack Obama named federal judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday morning, despite firm pushback from a Republican-controlled Senate that they will not confirm a nominee. Speaking at a news conference in the Rose Garden, Obama called Garland a jurist who possesses “decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence.” Garland would replace longtime conservative justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly last month.
The state Senate approved dozens of bills in their last session of the year Tuesday, including most of Gov. Scott Walker’s college affordability package.
The UW System selected Gary Bennett, chief of staff for state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, to lead an agency that will explore opening new charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee. Starting April 1, Bennett will head the Office of Educational Opportunity and will also be a special assistant to UW System President Ray Cross.
The state Senate released its calendar for the last session of 2016 and Assembly Bill 739, the centerpiece of Gov. Scott Walker’s college affordability package, did not make the cut.
After months of waiting for the insult slinging author of “Art of the Deal” to stumble, students are soberly staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being the Republican party’s presidential nominee. Trump’s success prompted the mobilization of campus political groups who vow to blunt the mogul’s momentum ahead of Wisconsin’s April 5th primary.
It’s not exactly a state secret that Madison is politically liberal. Famously derided by Republican Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus as “30 square miles surrounded by reality,” the city and its college campus are notorious bastions of liberalism in a state which swings between political parties. At first glance, voting data from the UW-Madison campus seem to unquestionably support Dreyfus’ quip; no Republican has garnered more than 30 percent of the vote in campus precincts since 2000 and in most elections the campus was even more liberal than the city of Madison as a whole. 2014 marked a significant shift, however.
Cheeseheads across Wisconsin can rejoice, as Fitchburg-based Emmi Roth USA took home top honors in the World Cheese Contest Wednesday.
City, county and state officials are locked in a battle over whether more should have been done to prevent the closing of Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant last year. Legislative Democrats and city officials have pointed the finger at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the state’s chamber of commerce, saying both entities knew Kraft-Heinz was considering shuttering the east Madison facility but didn’t do enough to keep the company in the Badger State. But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, countered Tuesday by announcing that he was submitting open records requests to determine if Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi could have prevented Oscar Mayer’s departure. "If the Mayor did have advance knowledge of changes at the Madison location as he has suggested, the city’s residents deserve an explanation as to why no action was taken,” Fitzgerald said in the statement. “His misguided attempts to shift blame onto WEDC or other state business groups are no more than a smokescreen to disguise his office’s culpability.” Fitzgerald added that since the Oscar Mayer facility was located in Madison, the closure happened “under Mayor Soglin’s watch.” Soglin held a press conference Thursday in which he claimed the Walker administration has caused Wisconsin’s economic performance to lag.
Wisconsin is ranked the 36th among 50 states in the pace of job creation, according to the latest employment census report released by the Federal government Wednesday. U.S.
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