Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, Law Forward: Warn of eroding campaign finance laws in new op-ed ahead of U.S. Supreme Court arguments today
MADISON, Wis. – In a new op-ed published today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and Law Forward attorneys Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder argue that the U.S. Supreme Court should reject attempts to further erode campaign finance
UW-Stout: Students’ submarine survival game surfaces to victory at M+DEV, the Midwest’s biggest game industry event
Menomonie, Wis. – The creators of a computer game about a doomed submarine had a real-life sinking feeling last May as the date of the Stout Game Expo (SGX) approached. After months of work on the claustrophobic, cooperative game Dread
Sen. Ratcliff: Welcomes approval of historic broadband expansion across Wisconsin
MADISON, WI — Senator Melissa Ratcliff (D-Cottage Grove) applauds the federal approval of our state’s ambitious plan to deploy more than $1 billion in broadband funding — a landmark investment that will connect high-speed internet to more than 175,000 homes
Dohmen Company Foundation: Announces $4M investment in FoodCorps to build and launch two first-of-their-kind school nutrition leadership programs
MILWAUKEE (December 9, 2025) — Dohmen Company Foundation, a private foundation guided by a vision of ‘life without diet-related disease,’ today announced a three-year, $4 million investment in FoodCorps, a national nonprofit advancing child well-being through food in school. The investment
Russ Feingold, Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder: SCOTUS could reshape US campaign rules
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.
Steven Walters: Four-month redistricting fight looms over Wisconsin’s U.S. House districts
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.
Dept. of Natural Resources: Releases its 2024 Water Withdrawal Report
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released its 2024 Report on Water Withdrawals, which gives an overview of the past 10 years of water withdrawals throughout Wisconsin. Since the onset of the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin requires water
Julian Bradley and Mattias Gugel: The payroll tax you don’t see — and the raise you don’t get
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.
Amy Curtis: Tammy Baldwin’s Obamacare subsidy olive branch backfires on her
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.
Richard Moore: Evers, DHS launch war on scientific debate
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.
LaKeshia Myers: Remembering Hydeia Broadbent: A voice that changed the world
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.
Gregg Hoffmann: Globe is warming quicker than projected
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.
Terry Hansen: Denial of Gaza aid is a starvation strategy
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.
Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association: UW Now Live — Predictions for 2026
MADISON, WI (December 9, 2025) — Against the backdrop of a presidential transition and major shift in many federal government policies, along with a new technology revolution gathering steam, it is time to invite some special guests to the program to share what
Sen. Wirch: State Democrats introduce special education promise legislation
Madison, WI – Yesterday, Wisconsin Democratic Legislators circulated their Keep Our Promise on Special Education Reimbursement legislation, which fulfills the state’s promise to our public schools to provide needed funding for special education. Our school’s need for special education instruction