MADISON — From the floor of the Kohl Center Sunday, UW–Madison winter graduate Martha Kowalski recounted some of the typical obstacles she and her fellow classmates overcame — caffeine-fueled all-nighters, blue books turned in at the last minute, the trudge up Bascom Hill in a snowstorm. Then she got to the real challenge — a pandemic that threw everything it had at students. “It was tough, but we were stronger than it,” said Kowalski, of suburban Chicago, an economics and Spanish double-major who earned comprehensive honors in both. “Because look at us now — the caps and gowns, the degrees

Milwaukee – Wisconsin Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Alex Lasry, made the following statement today in response to the announcement by Senator Joe Manchin that he will not be supporting the Build Back Better legislation that is currently pending in the US Senate: “This is what happens with a government that’s full of career politicians who have lost sight of the needs of the people they represent. Our citizens need to have faith that their government is working for them. Voters want candidates focused on results, not just more empty rhetoric. Washington DC looks like a real mess to

GREEN BAY, WI – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) today released the following statement after Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he would not support President Biden’s radical Build Back Better bill. “For months, common sense Americans made clear they did not want to create a Civilian Climate Corps bigger than the Marine Corps, double the size of the IRS, and destroy U.S. energy production. Joe Manchin listened, and has now put this crazy bill where it belongs: in a fiery (but mostly peaceful) dumpster. “Democrats who foolishly interpreted a narrow majority in Congress as a mandate for unprecedented progressive change made a huge