Closed-door meetings continued for the second week at the Capitol, but as they do, some are talking about measures that might have brought compromise long ago.
The governor’s office said Monday that it has lawyers looking into emergency actions the governor could take to break the stalemate.
LA CROSSE, Wis. – A drunken Twin Cities man fell from a bridge to his death in an inky, algae-covered Mississippi River slough just as this river city’s famous Oktoberfest celebration was getting under way.
Twenty-four-year-old Christopher Melancon’s death Sunday appeared to underscore how little progress La Crosse has made in its years-long battle with binge drinking.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has been going around the state urging people to contact their legislators.
The message is a sound one: Higher education needs more state support, and it needs an end to budget cuts that are tougher than other agencies have had to bear. It needs these things because higher education can help the economy.
The State Budget is now 90 days overdue…with no immediate fix in sight. The President of the U-W System says in these uncertain times, Universities are brainstorming for new ways to bring students in. Seve Roisum Reports. (Audio.)
MADISON â?? Allen Dines, assistant director at the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations (OCR), is a veteran of the high-tech start-up world, having created and sold two biotech firms.
Before that, he worked for another company that was spun out of a UW-Madison research lab. Even earlier, he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton in Bethesda, MD as a high-tech consultant. (Audio.)
I kept telling myself that Madison is different, that it wouldn’t happen at my alma mater.
But it did.
A perfect Saturday for college football turned nasty.
Some very dear friends of ours from the Quad-Cities and Mason City, Iowa, were in town to accompany my wife, Shannon, and me to the Badger game Saturday night against the Iowa Hawkeyes. The weather was too good to be true for the opening of the 2007 Big Ten season.
Wisconsin ‘s military veterans deserve our gratitude and support. One way we recognize their sacrifice is by helping them earn their college degrees. Those educational benefits should be preserved, and they should be paid for.
Together with state legislators on both sides of the political aisle, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has steadfastly supported veterans.
Now they’re costing us real money.
That’s why property taxpayers throughout Wisconsin should be hopping mad at the state Legislature for blowing another deadline for the state budget.
Lawmakers deserve credit for finally making some progress this week on a budget compromise. But they didn’t get far enough.
One of the inescapable conclusions from the impressive recent community public safety conversations in neighborhoods around Madison is that home ownership matters. Certainly, renters are important members of our community and we need rental properties and engaged owners and tenants.
But, it is homeowners who feel a sense of investment and commitment to a neighborhood and it is simply good policy to encourage homeownership as much as possible. Affordability is key.A recent University of Wisconsin study found residents of the Park Street corridor for example valued their neighborhoods and want to stay there. But more than half of respondents are paying more than a third of their incomes for housing and that’s tough to sustain. The survey itself was significant because it used a community-based model that suggests a high level of credibility.
For the second time in less than a week, UW-Madison and Madison police worked together to respond to a campus crisis involving a man with a gun – but this time they found him quickly.
By 1:20 p.m. Friday, police had arrested Marcus T. Chavous, 46, of Madison as a suspect in what Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain called a “rather brazen” armed robbery of a Regent Street deli during the busy lunchtime hour. Chavous was being held on a probation violation pending formal charges on the robbery.
Jesse Miller – the 19-year-old who escaped from Dane County Jail last month and triggered Tuesday’s lock down of UW Hospital and a campus search by claiming he had a gun and wanted police to shoot him – repeatedly sought help for suicidal thoughts during a week last summer when he threatened to jump from the top of the Veterans Hospital parking garage, court records show.
Her patients can ‘t tell Dr. Ruthanne Chun what ‘s wrong with them.
The dogs she sees at UW-Madison ‘s School of Veterinary Medicine don ‘t explain when their front left leg hurts or they feel run-down or they have a suspicious lump.
The near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decade has produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that could haunt the U.S. economy for years.
While scholarship, grant money and government-backed student loans â?? whose interest rates are capped â?? have taken up some of the slack, many families and individual students have turned to private loans, which carry fees and interest rates that are often variable and up to 20%.
Many in the next generation of workers will be so debt-burdened they will have to delay home purchases, limit vacations, even eat out less to pay loans off on time
Quoted: Giulio Tononi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
As a parent of a college student, your article on student privacy (“Families Grapple With Student Privacy,” Personal Journal, Sept. 20) rang true. I was absolutely floored by the statement from the University of Wisconsin administrator that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act “is about judgment.” I have found the exact opposite to be true.
When confronted by parents and others, school officials abandon judgment and hide behind the privacy act. They use it as an excuse to do nothing about legitimate concerns. I hate to admit it, but my wife had to pose as my daughter over the telephone to clear up a relatively simple issue. What a mess.
MADISON, Wis. — A suspect was taken into police custody on Friday afternoon after two University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings were placed in lockdown.
Police said that alert citizens played a huge role in helping resolve the scary situation quickly.
Authorities acted rapidly Friday afternoon to lock down UW-Madison buildings after an armed robber held up a Regent Street in broad daylight.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Wisconsin.
State lawmakers on the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities are on the right track in asking the University of Wisconsin to drop the practice of “preferred” lender list of financial institutions offering loans to college students.
Lists of preferred lenders have come under fire recently when investigations found that at least some were offering colleges gifts or financial inducements, presumably in exchange for getting on the “preferred” list.
NEW YORK — The more educated you are, the less likely you are to become chronically ill or disabled, but the amount of money you make plays a bigger role in whether your illness progresses, a new study shows.
Based on the findings, the most effective single policy strategy for improving health might be to make higher education more accessible, Dr. Pamela Herd of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the study’s lead author, told Reuters Health.
MADISON, WIS. – The 19-year-old escaped inmate accused of threatening the University of Wisconsin campus had 54 different homes from age 4 to age 18, according to court records.
Jesse Miller was arrested late Thursday in San Diego, two days after police say he claimed he was on top of a parking ramp at the UW Hospital, had a weapon and was suicidal. They say he followed that up with a false report of shots fired in the area and a fake bomb threat.
MADISON, Wis. â?? At first, police warned that a suicidal man claiming to have a gun was loose on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Students were told to stay home. Classes were canceled on the west side of campus. Dozens of police officers, some with guns drawn, scoured the area.
Then on Friday, three days after the escaped inmate phoned in his threats, police said the calls may have come from more than 2,000 miles away.
Two UW-Madison residence halls and an administration building were locked down Friday during a police search for an armed robbery suspect.
The suspect has been detained but not arrested as police continue to question him.
Around 11:15 Friday the Madison Police Department received a call saying an armed robbery took place at Fraboni’s Italian Specialties at the corner of Regent and Park Street.
Organ donor transplants have come a long way in the last few years, but nationally nearly 100,000 people remain on the waiting list.
The UW Health Transplant Program is considered the best kidney and pancreas transplant facility in the nation. This afternoon the hospital thanked the heroes who make it all possible.
In the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games, snowboarder Chris Klug achieved his life-long dream, winning an Olympic medal. But, it nearly didn’t happen. In July of 2000 he received a liver transplant after waiting on the list for 6 years.
Prior to Jesse Miller’s arrest in San Diego overnight, a man claiming to be Miller’s brother called the 27 Newsroom from San Diego. 27 News has now confirmed that the caller was actually Jesse Miller.
UW-Madison police tell 27 News the man believed to be behind the security scare on the UW Campus Tuesday is now in custody.
Jesse Miller’s phone call to 27 news offered more insight into a troubled life, and a week of great concern.
Miller’s call and reporter Carl Agnelly’s interview with Miller, who posed as his older brother, Tyson, took place Thursday night, just before Miller’s arrest.
MADISON, Wis. — The 1970 bombing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison building that left a student researcher dead is getting national exposure in an attempt locate a fourth suspect.
The bombing of Sterling Hall rocked the UW-Madison campus in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1970. Three of the four suspects were apprehended and sent to prison. But the fourth suspect was never found.
MADISON, Wis. — The escaped inmate accused of threatening the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was captured early Friday at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.
San Diego police spokeswoman Monica Munoz said Jesse Miller, 19, showed up seeking treatment there under the name of his brother, Tyson Miller.
MADISON, Wis. — More information is surfacing about the man who triggered a lockdown at the UW Hospital Tuesday night.
Court records reveal that 19-year-old Jesse Miller had 54 different residences between the ages of four and 18.
The documents also show that Miller has bipolar disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Delaware State University made all the headlines on September 21 when a freshman shot and wounded two students on campus, one seriously. An arrest and an apology later, the 18-year-old charged with the crime sits behind bars. But months after Virginia Tech, the incident sparked comparisons in both the nature of the shootings and the effectiveness of the response.
Madison, Wis. – In an era of standardized testing, the idea of introducing computer games into the classroom might be tantamount to driving a square peg into round hole.
Even though parents and educators increasingly see the value of computer game learning, the powers who drive education policy are either still too wedded to the type of learning that prepared students for the industrial age, or they think teaching with computer games is too radical to suggest at the moment – even if they know the digital world is creating a new paradigm for education.
The potential value of computer game education, and the counterintuitive thinking it requires, has not been lost on University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Williamson Shaffer, author of â??How Computer Games Help Children Learn.â?
Q. During World War II, Japanese and Germans prisoners of war were detained in camps in Wisconsin. Where were the Wisconsin camps, how long were these people held and what happened to them after the war?
A. More than 3,000 Japanese and 5,000 German POWs were held in Wisconsin during World War II, said Geraldine Strey, reference librarian and archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
When a masked freshman came to campus at St. John’s University with what police said was a loaded rifle sticking out of a bag, the school alerted students via cell-phone text messages within 18 minutes.
And when a suicidal gunman was reported to be on the loose at the University of Wisconsin, the school sent out mass e-mails and took out an ad on Facebook to warn students.
As the school year starts, colleges around the country are applying the lessons of Virginia Tech and using high technology to get the word out fast in a crisis.
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University of Wisconsin faculty and staff asked lawmakers to endorse a plan that would allow them to form unions. AFT-Wisconsin delivered a letter to budget negotiators that includes the names of more than 2,000 employees at UW campuses who support the plan. Under the proposal, employees on each campus could decide whether to form a union. All other state employees have that right. Supporters want the plan included in the final version of the state budget
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin said that it will continue to provide students with a list of preferred private lenders even though some colleges and universities have decided to scrap the practice.
The lists came under scrutiny this year after an investigation by the New York attorney general turned up quid-pro-quo relationships between schools or college financial aid officials and lenders.
MADISON, Wis. — The leader of state Senate Republicans said that there’s “no way” the budget will be done any time soon.
State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said that he doesn’t think negotiations have been going well at the governor’s residence. He said that the budget will not be wrapped up by Friday and possibly not until later than mid-October.
Quoted: Allan R. Odden, a professor of educational administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies teacher compensation, â??so the momentum is building.â?
NEW YORK â?? When a masked freshman came to campus at St. Johnâ??s University with what police said was a loaded rifle sticking out of a bag, the school alerted students via cell-phone text messages within 18 minutes.
And when a suicidal gunman was reported to be on the loose at the University of Wisconsin, the school sent out mass e-mails and took out an ad on Facebook to warn students.
As the school year starts, colleges around the country are applying the lessons of Virginia Tech and using high technology to get the word out fast in a crisis.
College sporting events are known for their pre-game drinking traditions, but the new “Show and Blow” program at UW-Madison may put a damper on the drinking before football games for some students.
The program, proposed by the Assistant Dean of Students Ervin Cox, was launched at last Saturday’s Big Ten opener against Iowa. Students who were previously ejected from or received drinking citations at Badger games are required to blow into a Portable Breathalyzer Test to prove their sobriety.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley has warned legislators that the Assembly’s version of the budget could force the school to make millions of dollars of midyear budget cuts, eliminating thousands of course sections, lengthening the time it takes students to earn degrees and delaying the admissions process.
Five months ago, James Pellow, the chief operating officer of St. Johnâ??s University, numbly watched the panic at Virginia Tech. Students were dropping from upper-story windows, cowering under desks, scrambling for cover or freezing where they stood.
Two colleges hit by violence within the past two weeks used new emergency-alert plans — of different types — to keep their communities safe.
The shooting and wounding of two students at Delaware State University on September 21 sent resident advisers knocking on dormitory-room doors in the middle of the night. Three days earlier, thousands of people at the University of Maryland at College Park received an alert on their cellphones warning them of a violent crime near a freshman dormitory.
MADISON, Wis. — Police said that they are still looking for the man who allegedly threatened to provoke a deadly shootout with authorities on Tuesday night, causing a lockdown at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and classes in the west area of campus to be canceled.
Classes resumed at UW-Madison Wednesday morning. But, police say they still haven’t found the man who tried provoking a deadly shootout with authorities Tuesday evening.
Campus Police Sergeant Jason Whitney says they don’t believe Jesse Miller is on campus, but may be in the Madison area because of his local ties.
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney would like to end Huber jail-release, save several million dollars, put all Huber-eligible inmates into the community, and rely on high technology monitoring.
Mahoney said before the escape of inmate Jesse Miller, Miller would have qualified for the proposed expansion of the high-tech community supervision.
UW officials sent out three emails to students last night after a suicidal man made threatening phone calls prompting police activity near UW Hospital.
UW Police Sgt. Jason Whitney said today he was pleased with the response.
“We did the best we could being proactive,” he said.
Visitors to UW Hospital are allowed in once again as of 10:25p.m. Tuesday night.
Police started searching the area around UW Hospital around 5p.m. for a person, who UW Police tell 27 News is not a patient, but claimed to have a gun. 27 News learned the subject of the search is escaped Dane County jail inmate Jesse Miller, 19, who was convicted of armed robbery with use of force in 2006.
MADISON — Behind a locked gate, a handful of politicians are meeting in secret.
Their decisions will affect everything from how much workers pay in taxes, whether families can get health insurance, how much it costs to drive a car and tuition at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – Classes resumed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday, but police still had not located the teenager they said was suicidal and tried to provoke a deadly shootout with authorities on campus.
The university said it had determined Jesse Miller, 19, of Madison, to be a danger to himself and not the campus community, so classes and other campus operations, including UW Hospital and Clinic business, would go on as normal.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley warned Tuesday that proposed budget cuts would devastate the Madison campus, as lawmakers and Gov. Jim Doyle’s aides continued to
negotiate a new state budget.
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Black Student Union held a protest on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday to support the “Jena Six.”Participants wore black and protested the jailing of six young men in Jena, La. The rally was modeled after last week’s protests in Jena by thousands.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Police now say a suicidal 19-year-old man who claimed to have a gun posed no threat to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.In fact, they have no evidence that he was ever on campus or actually had a weapon.
The university canceled some classes and activities, warned students to stay home and briefly closed the UW Hospital to some patients and visitors as police sought the caller, believed to be a 19-year-old escaped inmate.
Campus police responded to reports of a suicidal gunman on the UW-Madison campus last night. Were lessons learned from Virginia Tech?
UW Police say yes. For one thing at least two mass emailings went out to students and staff keeping them updated on the latest.
UW Madison researchers have found the symptoms of autism sometimes improve over time. (Audio.)
Two health-related research grants won by UW-Madison show yet again the university’s immense value to people in Wisconsin and in the nation.
Republican lawmakers negotiating the state budget should keep that in mind. Shortchanging the UW System would shortchange the public.
After police swarmed part of the UW-Madison campus in search of a suicidal man who claimed he had a weapon, students were out and about Tuesday night but had the incident on their minds as the university sent out e-mails asking students and staff to take extra precautions.
Arron Lokrantz, an 18-year-old freshman, said he first heard about the scare through an e-mail sent by UW-Madison police to his WiscMail account.
UW-Madison and Madison police continue to search for a suicidal man who claimed to have a weapon and said he wanted officers to shoot him.
Police, however, said it was not clear whether the man was ever in the hospital area. UW-Madison Police said they believe the man is a threat to himself but not to UW-Madison students or staff. UW Police Sgt. Jason Whitney said Wednesday that officials did not believe Miller was armed or on campus.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema continues to fight to reduce the five-game road suspension for sophomore running back Lance Smith.
But as of now, there is no indication Smith’s penalty will be reduced.
Better late than even later.
It appeared Monday that top state leaders were finally getting serious about doing their most important job — passing a state budget.
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, and Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson, D-Beloit, stood side by side Monday morning at the governor ‘s mansion in Maple Bluff, expressing optimism that a budget deal can be reached by the end of this week.
Roger Tikum does have family here, including his wife, Green Bay native Adriana Peguero. The two met as UW-Madison students, where she earned a law degree and he earned a degree in economics. They married in 2003. Tikum worked with disabled people for TLC Community Living Connections; Peguero is an assistant city attorney.
It was back in 1995 that a group of Minnesota middle schoolers shocked the scientific community when they returned from a field trip to report that more than half the frogs they’d captured had major deformities.
Some had five or more hind legs or even no legs at all.
But in the investigations that followed, it quickly became clear that cases of deformed amphibians went far beyond that Minnesota pond and were actually fairly widespread across the U.S.
