Monthly Archive: March 2015
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has announced four regional public hearings for later this month to take comments on Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget proposal. The panel will meet March 18 at Brillion High...
Bloomberg Business is reporting that, in 48 U.S. states, government spending on each college student is still below where it was before the recession that ended almost six years ago. Now, at least seven...
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said Wednesday that UW-Madison is under review for possibly violating Title IX. The complaint is reportedly related to an alleged incident that took place last May...
• “The Jazz and Film Music of Krzysztof Komeda,” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday (March 5) in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center • Final weekend for UW-Green Bay Theatre comedy “Months on End”...
What do you do if a piece of food slides off your plate at a business luncheon? Is alcohol ever acceptable? Is it okay to take home a doggie bag? The answers to these...
The need for continuing, bipartisan support of the UW System was the main message at a rally outside the University Union late Wednesday afternoon (March 4). A crowd of about 75 braved bitter cold...
The Green Bay Press-Gazette rated Wednesday’s anti-budget-cut rally on campus its top local story of the day, giving coverage by reporter Patti Zarling and photographer Evan Siegle front-page treatment. Zarling mostly interviewed students about...
Fox-11 reporter Ben Krumholz (yet another UW-Green Bay grad) opened his report with a sound bite from junior Sierra Storm Spaulding that, again, emphasized the need for bipartisanship. “We’re not attacking the (Walker) administration,”...
A Local 5 news report on Wednesday’s rally noted that UW System officials have said any savings related to proposed autonomy for the System would take time to materialize, leaving the Universities to deal...
The Board of Regents’ March one-day meeting is being webcast live from Madison this week, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today (Thursday, March 5). A link to the webcast is on the UW...