The City of Madison has ambitious goals around sustainability, diversity, equity, and supporting local businesses. Today, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway is announcing a new effort to better align City spending with City goals. The City spends around $500,000,000 annually with external vendors on goods and services. The City wants to do business with a more diverse pool of vendors, business owners, local businesses and entrepreneurs, especially those that offer services in the green economy for environmental sustainability. This new citywide public request for information (RFI) will help the City increase its awareness of vendors that help meet these objectives, and expand

MADISON, Wis. — In case you missed it, Governor Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul took action this week to address PFAS contamination in Wisconsin by ensuring accountability and responsibility for polluters and making sure Wisconsinites don’t have to foot the bill to clean up the messes that others have made. Gov. Evers declared 2019 the Year of Clean Drinking Water because he believes every Wisconsinite deserves access to clean, safe water — free of lead, PFAS, and other contaminants that have long been known to harm our kids, families, farmers, communities, and industries across our state. PFAS contamination has affected

[Madison, WI] – Tony Evers is continuing his dishonest campaign that misrepresents his failed record. In a new ad, Tony Evers once again says that he’s working with Republicans – but history proves otherwise. Evers wants voters to believe that he works across the aisle, but he notoriously doesn’t speak to Republican leaders in the Capitol, took credit for their historic tax cut after he tried to raise taxes by $1 billion, and even secretly recorded their conversations. “Tony Evers talks out of both sides of his mouth,” said Republican Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Anna Kelly. “He launched his campaign by running against Republicans’ agenda, but now,

Yesterday, the New Republic reported that Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senator Ron Johnson lied (shocker) in his early claims that “some staff intern” was responsible for delivering a slate of fake electors to his office. In reality that “intern” was actually someone with “extensive background as a Trump White House staffer, opposition researcher, and voter fraud alarmist.” In efforts to distance himself from the fake elector scheme, Johnson has lied and finger-pointed to other offices. But the Senator still has not provided a coherent answer to how his office was in a position to aid a coup by attempting to send a fake slate of

Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater), Co-chairman of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR), released the following statement in response to the decision of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) to in essence ignore the statutorily authorized actions of JCRAR to suspend Emergency Rule 2209 issued by WEC, relating to the correcting of absentee ballot certifications.   JCRAR’s action to suspend Emergency Rule 2209, pursuant to state law [state statute 227.26 (2) (d), Stats.], takes effect immediately and means all provisions of this emergency rule are no longer in effect.  WEC announced today it will continue to tell municipal clerks they

NEW UNDERSTANDING OF SUPERANTIGENS COULD LEAD TO IMPROVED STAPH INFECTION TREATMENTS MADISON — The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has long been known to cause infections in humans, ranging from mild skin infections to pneumonia to more serious infections of the heart. In high-income countries, it’s the leading cause of a sometimes-fatal condition known as infective endocarditis, involving inflammation of the heart’s valves or lining. Now, in a new study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine describe another way the bacterium can cause harm: by undermining the body’s ability to heal from those infections. The findings may point

MADISON – The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) preliminary employment estimates for the month of June 2022. Wisconsin’s unemployment rate remained at 2.9 percent in June. The state added 45,100 total nonfarm jobs and 44,900 private-sector jobs over the year from June 2021 through June 2022. Place of Residence Data: Wisconsin’s labor force participation rate was 66.4 percent in June, 4.2 percentage points higher than the national rate of 62.2 percent in June. Wisconsin’s unemployment rate in June was 2.9 percent, near historic lows. Place of Work Data: Wisconsin total nonfarm jobs increased

Following a recently announced $6 million investment, Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) today announced the launch of the WisCaregiver Careers program expansion, the state’s free certified nurse aide (CNA) workforce development program. Wisconsinites who wish to start or advance a health care career as a CNA in Wisconsin nursing homes are encouraged to register at WisCaregiver.com. More than 240 employers have registered to participate in the program that provides on-the-job training to participants. “Wisconsin’s health care and nursing workforce is an essential part of ensuring the health and wellness of our entire state,” said Gov. Tony Evers.