UW System President Tommy Thompson and a coalition of shared governance groups are seeking to limit cuts to the state’s university system following Gov. Tony Evers’ call for $250 million in state agency budget cuts for the current fiscal year.
A new poll question from Polco about how schools should handle the 2020-21 year amid the COVID-19 pandemic is now available to be used by WNA members on their websites and other platforms.
Readers visiting WNA member websites and social platforms from July 7 to 21 were asked whether masks should be required in public places. Out of 109 respondents, 49% said yes, masks should be required in all public places, 24% said they should be required only while indoors, and 27% said masks should not be required.
Recently, I joined the estimated 300,000 people each year who are diagnosed with Lyme disease — an infectious ailment caused by a bacterial infection carried by the deer tick.
Mariah Clark is no stranger to dealing with COVID-19 in her work as an emergency department nurse at UW Health in Madison. But the virus unexpectedly touched Clark’s personal life in late June.
The gap between the increasing diversity of Wisconsin’s K-12 student population and the lack of diversity in its teacher workforce has widened in the last decade, with large gaps in urban school districts and the divide growing most quickly in the state’s least urbanized areas.
Fifty years after he first arrived in California from Hong Kong, columnist Peter Kwong returns to visit family and remember why he loves the Northwoods.
Higher fund reserves at the start of the pandemic and state and federal action should push any broad payroll tax increases for employers into early 2022
It’s been a week since I watched Dad take his last breath. I selfishly tried to keep him with us a little longer but my life-saving attempts fell short.
The EPA Small Refinery Exemptions update in mid-June shows the agency was considering 52 exemption petitions for Renewable Fuel Standard compliance in a big chunk of the 2010s — actions that could hurt a Wisconsin ethanol industry just beginning to come back from a pandemic-induced hit.