Sen. Kelda Roys of Madison and Sen. Jeff Smith of Brunswick, along with Rep. Deb Andraca of Whitefish Bay and Rep. Alex Joers of Middleton, said the bill would exclude student loans from Wisconsin state income tax by adopting the student debt loan relief tax exclusion passed under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
January 18, 2024
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Thai Pavilion gets a makeover in the deep of winter
The pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as a gesture of international friendship.
Opinion
Crime in the US is once again falling. Can we rethink policing?
My hope for 2024 is that we start asking better questions about these systems, so that we can find better answers.
-Simon Balto is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
UW Experts in the News
Greenland ice sheet losing more ice than scientists estimated
The amount of freshwater from the edge calving is modest (42 gigatons per year) compared with total flow (about 221 gigatons per year), said Feng He, a polar scientist at researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who was not involved in the study.
Experts say the recent cold bears the fingerprints of climate change
The idea is the jet stream — the upper air circulation that drives weather — is wavier in amplified global warming, said University of Wisconsin-Madison climate scientist Steve Vavrus. And those wave changes in the upper air knock the polar vortex out of its place and toward the United States, Cohen said.
Can Year of the Dragon Stop China’s Baby Bust?
“The Chinese zodiac had little effect on births in China until at least 2010,” University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer Fuxian Yi told Newsweek, citing China’s annual census data.
With mental health therapist shortage, could lay counselors fill in?
Bruce Wampold, emeritus professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has spent years studying the essential ingredients of therapy. Wampold points to a robust set of research indicating that more than the particulars of any method of treatment, it’s the relationship between therapist and patient that predicts outcomes.
This Middleton development will rely on geothermal, solar for energy
Just 5 or 6 feet below ground, it’s about 50 degrees year-round, and that heat production becomes more consistent the deeper you go, said Gregory Nemet, professor of energy and climate policy at UW-Madison. It makes sense for large developments like the Belle Farm Neighborhood to use energy sources like geothermal, as the infrastructure needed is minimal, Nemet said: essentially digging a hole in the ground and installing coils and connecting that to an HVAC system for heating and cooling.