The UW South Madison Partnership is inviting the community to attend a celebration Thursday featuring food, music, games and visits from UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Bucky Badger at the Village on Park mall.
WRS data doesn’t cover every public employee in the state, but it includes more than 660,000 active and retired police officers, prison guards, teachers and university employees across more than 1,500 state agencies and local governments. Wisconsin Policy Forum also tabulated similar data from pension systems for the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County public employees.
An alarm brought a quick response to extinguish smoldering oily rags at Memorial Union on Sunday, the Madison Fire Department reported.
Poem by Paul Tran, a poet and an editor whose debut collection, from which this poem is taken, is “All the Flowers Kneeling” (Penguin Books, 2022). They are an assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hundreds of nurses with UW Health voted Wednesday to hold a three-day strike in September if hospital administrators do not recognize their union, an escalation in a yearslong fight to regain bargaining rights.
UW Health nurses on Wednesday voted to authorize a three-day strike next month as they seek to regain union recognition lost in the wake of Act 10’s passage in 2011, health care workers union SEIU Healthcare said Thursday morning.
The first women’s hockey player to be on the cover of the Electronic Arts NHL video game series is from the University of Wisconsin.
Former Badgers star Sarah Nurse is one of the cover athletes for EA NHL 23 along with Trevor Zegras of the Anaheim Ducks.
The University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team is coming off a Sweet 16 run, but the team isn’t using the past to set expectations.
UW-Madison School of Business lecturer Moses Altsech said the move is a temporary fix for a much bigger problem. “There are some people for whom this will be very beneficial, but what it really is, is a one-off in terms of the relief, it doesn’t do anything to address the long-term rising cost of higher education,” Altsech said.
As Wisconsin heads into the 2022 midterms, the Wisconsin Main Street Agenda project is trying to get past soundbites and polarizing political coverage go straight to voters to see what is on their minds.
In that spirit, we recently spoke with six voters from across the state to get a sense of their concerns.
This project is a collaboration between the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
