(MADISON, WI) – Today, Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council President Dan Bukiewicz and Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wiker held a press call highlighting the negative impact of Donald Trump’s tax scam. Tomorrow marks the two-year anniversary of the introduction of this legislation that has been a disaster for hard

MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul today, following the posting of a request for an Attorney General (AG) opinion, is notifying the public that the public comment period for the issues raised in the request is open. The AG opinion request can be found here. The public comment period will be

People with inherited diseases of the blood and immune system can now receive treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center through a new, streamlined program that integrates expertise from many medical specialties and related basic science disciplines. Immunologists, transplant specialists, geneticists and hematologists from across NIH are collaborating

MADISON, Wis. — An internal memo from the giant student loan servicing corporation Navient, recently unsealed as part of a lawsuit brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, exposes how company policy pushed repayment options leaving borrowers with more debt. One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Analiese Eicher said the memo

Milwaukee, Wis. – An in-depth investigative study by Better Business Bureau (BBB) finds that business email compromise scams are skyrocketing in frequency and have cost businesses and other organizations more than $3 billion since 2016. Business email compromise fraud is an email phishing scam that typically targets people who pay bills in businesses, government

To reverse the opioid crisis that continues to grip the nation, the National Institutes of Health has awarded $945 million in total fiscal year 2019 funding for grants, contracts and cooperative agreements <https://heal.nih.gov/funding/awarded> across 41 states through the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative or NIH HEAL Initiative <https://heal.nih.gov/>. The

The Janesville Rest Area – rest area 17 – along I-39/90 southbound (eastbound) in Rock County will be closed starting Monday, October 21 until Friday, November 15. Access at the WIS 26 and US 14 interchanges (Exit 171A-B) in Janesville will remain open to area restaurants, gas stations and lodging.

A new study of African Americans with poorly controlled asthma, found differences in patients’ responses to commonly used treatments. Contrary to what researchers had expected, almost half of young children in the study responded differently than older children and adults, and than white children in prior studies. “We shouldn’t assume

(MADISON, Wis.)–Testing at MGE one week after the July transformer fire found total levels of PFAS over 5,604 ppt in shallow groundwater beneath the site.  The groundwater standard recently proposed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services is 20 ppt for just two types of PFAS– PFOA and PFOS. The