The goal “is to begin building a movement that will change Wisconsin’s political landscape, giving power back to people” instead of to the special spending interests who lobby our government for favors, at the expense of the taxpayers.
In 1986, Shiela Reaves was a young photojournalist with few credits on her resume.
So when American Historical Press came knocking on her door about working on an illustrated history of Wisconsin, Reaves didn’t figure she would get the gig.
State officials are patiently awaiting Gov. Jim Doyle’s upcoming state budget proposal and the effects it will have on public education throughout Wisconsin.
The bidding has commenced. Now it’s time to ban local minimum wage laws before the city councils of our state succumb to the easy politics of giving people more money without having to raise taxes. It’s just too tempting when you’re giving away other people’s money.
University of Wisconsin officials and state auditors are considering eliminating state-funded cell phones issued to UW employees in order to decrease expenses.
The chairman of the state Assembly’s higher education committee wants to restructure the University of Wisconsin System by making its 13 two-year colleges satellite campuses of its 13 four-year universities.
While delivering his annual State of the State address, Gov. Jim Doyle declared “there’s no greater investment we can make than in the University of Wisconsin.”
The immediate causes of Wisconsin’s budget deficit are twofold. First, along with many other states, our tax receipts fell when the dot.com bubble burst, and we now struggle to fund our growing needs from a shrinking tax base. Second, some bad budgeting decisions postponed a confrontation with the deficit, which had swelled to more than $1 billion. These immediate issues have put us in a deep hole.
Nichols is director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and a professor of economics and public affairs at the UW-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday rejected a state mediator requested by the Wisconsin State Employees Union to help settle negotiations over labor contracts that expired about 18 months ago for more than 24,000 employees.
The leader of the Assembly’s higher education committee Tuesday called for a redesign of the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System, proposing that the 13 two-year colleges be merged into the 13 four- year universities.
(MADISON) — The relationship between Wisconsin troops and the UW system is ready to take flight.
The state of Wisconsin is, apparently, on the move.
In the annual State of the State address Wednesday evening, Gov. Jim Doyle highlighted Wisconsin’s progress and optimistic future regarding agriculture, child care, health care, minimum wage and education. Regarding education, however, Doyle dropped a part of his speech that promised to give the UW System and its financial aid a larger increase in state money than the corrections system in his budget to be revealed next month.
When students look down State Street to the Capitol building, many may say they see a monopoly of power for University of Wisconsin policies, tuition setting and budgeteering. Many students do not know that much of the power held in planning the UW System�s future rests in the top floors of Van Hise, where they will find the Board of Regents� offices and where meetings are often held.
Gov. Jim Doyle addressed the state of Wisconsin Wednesday night, discussing an agenda which included job-growth measures and funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
Mentions that a new policy for using cell phones for all state agencies and the University of Wisconsin System takes effect Monday. Previously, the university and individual departments had set their own policies, creating different rules for employees’ personal calls.
For the first two years of his term, the Democratic governor’s greatest struggle was tackling a $3.2 billion budget deficit without raising taxes or gutting government services. Now entering the second half of his term, Gov. Jim Doyle faces still another deficit and growing challenges to his agenda by Republicans who control the Legislature and who already are gearing up to unseat him in 2006.
Earning a distinction that school officials are unlikely to include in any upcoming promotional materials, the University of Wisconsin is now the only school in the Big Ten to not offer domestic-partner health insurance to employees.
Madison – Gov. Jim Doyle’s job is so basic, even a first-grader can understand it.
When Doyle visited Kathy Rehl’s classroom at Milwaukee’s Ralph H. Metcalfe School last week, Rehl and her co-teacher asked if anyone in the class knew what Doyle does.
Campus faculty and student can’t feel too reassured abut their prospects this week after Gov. Jim doyle skipped the only section of his State of the State speech that made a real financial commitment to higher education.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly sounded optimistic after the governor’s State of the State address.
“This is a time when the governor is trying to reinvest in the university for the future. And that’s the theme we want to keep talking about,” Reilly said in a phone interview this morning.
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle dropped a section of his State of the State address Wednesday night that promised to give the University of Wisconsin System and financial aid a bigger increase in state money than the state prison system in his next budget.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin is on the moveââ?¬Â was the theme of Governor Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s speech on the ââ?¬Å?State of the Stateââ?¬Â Wednesday evening in the state Capitol.
Under heat from political opponents on the property tax issue, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday night kicked off his re-election race by outlining his State of the State plan to hold down local levies.
Governor’s plans for public K-12 schools are outlined in State of the State speech.
Gov. Jim Doyle offered Wisconsin an ambitious plan Wednesday night to hold the line on taxes yet achieve meaningful improvement in education and health care.
Transcript of Gov. Jim Doyle’s annual assessment of the State of the State before a joint session of the Legislature.
Madison has more options than previously thought for businesses seeking full liquor licenses.
Interview with former UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward, president of the American Council on Education.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday used his State of the State speech to put forward a potent “education agenda” for Wisconsin.
Are wealthy elderly people taking advantage of a state law by moving into really nice retirement facilities that are tax exempt while poorer people continue to pay taxes on their homes? Or is a move to tax such “benevolent” facilities merely attacking old people instead of trying to make large tax-exempt facilities pay their fair share for city services?
Far more valuable and costly to city services, says Earl Thayer, are university, city and county government properties, and hospitals.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to announce a plan tonight that would give Wisconsin families with college students a break on their state income taxes. Doyle spokeswoman Melanie Fonder said Tuesday that when Doyle delivers his State of the State address tonight, he will announce a plan to increase the income tax deduction for families with students enrolled in a public university, private college or technical college.
Thomas Cooler can’t wait to open his Cajun-style Gaston’s restaurant on Madison’s North Side.
Neighborhood residents, faculty, staff and students can weigh in on UW-Madison’s developing campus master plan in a series of meetings over the next several weeks.
Wisconsin’s education leaders – from the K-12 system and all types of higher education – are banding together to protest changes in federal rules that will eliminate Pell grants for about 5,500 needy college students in the state this fall and reduce aid to many others.
Lobbyists say polls show Gov. Jim Doyle’s favorable ratings are in the low 60 percent range. Meanwhile, the three Republicans mentioned as his possible opponent in 2006 have some potential problems.
This, then, is a “morning line” on the next gubernatorial race as Doyle prepares to give his State of the State address Wednesday to the Legislature.
In the Andrew Goodman file at the Wisconsin Historical Society is a stack of unused postcards, brown with age.
The National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in September in Washington, D.C., is a celebration of art and culture. And – with exhibits drawn from a collection of 800,000 objects – it also serves as a showcase for the detective work of a UW- Madison professor.
The issue of the state providing health insurance to domestic partners is caught in a power struggle involving the Republican Party, the private sector and colleges and universities around the nation looking for world-class faculty and staff members.
Public employee pension checks appear headed for a bump this year.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board said Thursday that it earned a 12.7% return on the pension money it manages for government employees and retirees last year. The result means that about 125,000 pension checks should increase in May, officials said.
A task force agreed Thursday to seek legislation that would require all Wisconsin law enforcement agencies to develop policies on police lineups. The legislation is aimed at preventing wrongful convictions like that of Steven Avery, who contends that he served 18 years in prison partly because law enforcement officials led a sexual assault victim into falsely identifying him as her attacker. Avery was freed through the efforts of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, based at the UW Law School.
The Wisconsin Women’s Network celebrates their 25th anniversary with an edited version of “Uncommon Lives of Common Women: The Missing Half of Wisconsin History,” a collection of stories portraying the lives of women exceptional for their time.
Featured — Eulalia Croll: UW athlete
A state task force Thursday is expected to adopt recommendations aimed at preventing wrongful convictions like that of Steven Avery, the Manitowoc County man who spent 18 years in prison for a sexual assault he didn’t commit. Avery was freed through the work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, based at the UW Law School.
The path will run from Camp Randall Stadium to Lake Monona along a railroad bed.
Neglect is defined in state law as the failure, refusal, or inability by one to provide necessary care for another. Wisconsin’s governor and Legislature are guilty of 160,000 counts of “neglect” in terms of UW System students and campuses.
Most of us work harder at our jobs when we can see we are succeeding. So Wisconsin policy-makers and business executives should work harder on the job of economic development in the upcoming year than their counterparts in any surrounding state.
Cheryl Martens said she spent most of the night searching after calling Dr. Kurt Sladky, a special species veterinarian at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, at around 11:30 p.m. to determine what kind of drugs could be used to capture the kangaroo.
It promises to be a doozy of a fight for control of the Madison City Council this spring.
The move, he said, wasn’t because he would have faced challenger Noel Radomski, a policy analyst at UW-Madison who was recently named by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz to two city committees and backed by council President Brenda Konkel and Economic Development Commission Chairman Mark Bugher.
Professor David Hottmann, 71, one of the most powerful voices in the Madison classical music world for four decades, died Sunday in a Madison nursing home.
(AP) Wisconsin’s Democratic governor and the Assembly’s top Republican want to clean up the state’s financial mess, make government more efficient and improve the lives of Wisconsin residents. They just have very different ideas on how to do it.
Gov. Jim Doyle and the Republican-dominated Legislature head into the next two-year legislative session with a $1.6 billion state budget deficit to solve amid growing pressure to ease the growth in property taxes.
Extend benefits to all In response to the Monday editorial, “Allow the UW system domestic partner insurance benefits,” we need to go one step further and allow all state employees the same. It is already set for city and county government employees. Why not the UW and state?
God must love government, reasons Waukesha County Executive Daniel Finley, because that�s why we have so much of it in Wisconsin.
Second part of the newspaper’s two-part series on the effects of TABOR in Colorado.
The first installment of a two-part series examining how the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights works in Colorado.
To hear some people talk, if Wisconsin approves a taxpayer bill of rights, long-suffering taxpayers will finally find their promised land. But that�s hardly been the case in Colorado, where TABOR has been a way of life for more than a dozen years and the reaction has been mixed.
The Capital Times has selected five stories as candidates for the best area news story of 2004, including “the Audrey Seiler hoax,” and is asking readers to choose the winner.
The New Year! A time for fresh beginnings, fresh resolutions, fresh . . . failures.
A 2003 UW- Madison survey found that more than 50 percent of Wisconsin smokers have tried to quit three or more times, and that 90 percent of those who quit.
The first Outback Bowl touchdowns occurred Wednesday, when hundreds of University of Wisconsin football fans arrived in St. Petersburg and Tampa on five charter flights from the Dane County Regional Airport.
Women’s advocates are worried about potential changes in laws affecting reproductive rights that could emerge during the 2005 session of the Wisconsin Legislature. They’re concerned because the Legislature has shifted toward the right after the last election.
….Wisconsin Right to Life plans to keep an eye on Governor Jim Doyle’s plan for stem cell research.
The UW Medical School today announced grants for a baker’s dozen of innovative health programs around the state. Most of them aim at improving public health for minorities and the poor, though one program seeks to extend health insurance to farm families.
Thirteen programs will split a total of $5.4 million that resulted from the conversion of Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin into a for-profit business.
