Local pharmacies across the state are playing a bigger role in preventing people from dying from opioid overdoses, largely because of the work of a Madison-based program that started one year ago. The Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Response Center estimates it has brought more than 185,000 residents into contact with a variety of expanded services since launching last year.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice says funding in the state would impact a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction grant program that includes training new providers, increasing teleservices, and a UW-Madison program which trains 24 psychology graduate students to work in high-need high schools.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is in the process of laying off 31 employees and leaving an additional 156 positions vacant. Schools and colleges have cut back on supplies, travel and other expenses. Some libraries plan to shorten hours. And some deans are relying on other funding sources to maintain services and staffing.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison housing announced students who wish to have guests in dorms over the weekend will be required to register them and pay $100, a new Halloween weekend policy for guests.
Housing said the decision was motivated by safety issues around Halloweekend in past years. “Our goal is to maintain your safety and that of our community, and years of experience have indicated that Halloween weekend requires extra steps,” said Beth Miller, an assistant director of resident life in an email sent to all residents.
Thinking about joining the growing number of people zipping around Madison on electric scooters? Know this: They are generally allowed anywhere you can ride a bicycle, though there are exceptions. Madison and UW-Madison police say there’s been a noticeable uptick in e-scooter use over the last one to two years, even as no business renting out commuter scooters has yet opened in the city.
Madison Fire Department responded to a second call in as many weeks from the UW-Madison campus after a dryer caught fire in the Gordon Commons at 770 West Dayton Street on Tuesday morning. The building’s automatic sprinkler system kept the fire from spreading until firefighters arrived around 4:50 a.m. to extinguish the remaining flames still burning inside the dryer.
After suffering a cardiac arrest while performing on stage last year, local musician Rökker is speaking out regarding his efforts to provide Automated External Defibrillators to public spaces.
Rökker collapsed on stage at the Gamma Ray Bar, and with the help of bystanders, he was taken to UW Health.
People in Madison are working to help Jamaicans prepare as a Category 5 hurricane is hitting the islandon Tuesday.
Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. It’s currently tied for the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic. At least seven people have died from the hurricane.
Co-owners of Fya Syde Kitchen in Madison say they have been trying to stay in contact with their family, who are still in Jamaica, to make sure they know just how devastating this storm is.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team announced Tuesday that a senior forward has been dismissed from the team.
UW-Madison has announced a swath of new programming intended to improve civil discourse across campus among students and faculty with differing viewpoints.
Starting in the spring, the “Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice” initiative will bring in prominent speakers to talk about free speech and the value of having a diversity of opinions in a community, UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said last week.
