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MADISON — A historic $75 million gift will fuel construction of a much-needed new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. With their lead gift — the largest single gift in college history — brothers and UW–Madison alumni Marvin and
A new UW-Madison study predicts Native American communities will miss out on billions of dollars of economic impact from the clean energy transition if existing disparities persist. Profs. Dominic Parker and Sarah Johnston led a team of researchers in analyzing
WAUWATOSA, WI — On September 11, three Wauwatosa high school students – John Eash-Scott and Lilliana Ruggini (East) and Louis Schauer (West) were named semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit® Scholarship Program. Information about Commended Students will be mailed to schools
Strip away the banter, at which both candidates fought each other to a draw, and Trump emerged victorious from the debate. Trump’s vision of the future, and the allies he has chosen to help realize it, is far more optimistic than Harris’s bleak projection, and her terrifying allies.
There came a point in the debate that Trump went bonkers, and you could almost feel the GOP hopes that remained in the nation seep out and into the night.
Harris did the main thing she needed to do. She came off as presidential. She convinced anyone who had doubts that she could be commander in chief. She passed easily through the narrow window between angry and weak. She did great. And for the last hour of the debate Trump was Trump. He actually wasn’t any worse than he was against Joe Biden but this time the contrast was stark.
Takeaways from the Trump-Harris debate.
His recent speeches have been long and rambling over many disconnected topics. He slurred some words; he was factually way off the mark many times; and he wildly exaggerated scenarios. His incoherence raised the likelihood that he has some level of early dementia.
Polls indicate that other than the former president’s steadfast MAGA base, including evangelicals, so-called traditional Republicans and independents are starting to sour on his behavior.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — As the November election approaches, Jamie Wall has released the first ad in his campaign for the State Senate. “I am excited to talk to folks here in Brown County about who I am and why I
Letting memories lapse with the passage of time allows a return to the false sense of security felt on Sept. 10, 2001. “It can’t happen here” is a sentiment Americans must never accept again.
At UW-Stout, we refer to the polytechnic ABCs: Applied learning and research, Business and industry collaboration, and Career-focused experiences. These are the hallmarks of what we do best and are at the core of our polytechnic university.
Venezuelan gangsters, allowed in by Democrats, sell fentanyl and commit violence here.
Mega-wealthy Republican candidate for US Senate says he rose from nothing.
The Onion is one of a number of publications returning to paper.
Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky questioned the intent of a group seeking records of those who have been judged incompetent, suggesting the Wisconsin Voter Alliance was trying to create fear of “some sort of illegitimacy” with state elections. Meanwhile, Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn during Tuesday’s oral arguments said regardless of the motives of any public records request, he questioned if the records being sought were even subject to the open records law.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet in-person for the September meeting to consider proposed rulemaking documents. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at Food + Farm Exploration Center in the
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HOLLANDALE, WI – Dr Jill Underly, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced this week that she will be a candidate for re-election in the April, 2025 Spring General Election. Underly was elected the State Superintendent in 2021, following service as
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that Wiota Sanitary District #1 is an applicant for funding through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program to improve its public drinking water system. The project includes the construction
MADISON — A historic $75 million gift will fuel construction of a much-needed new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. With their lead gift — the largest single gift in college history — brothers and UW–Madison alumni Marvin and Jeffrey Levy are honoring the memory of their brother, Phil,
A new UW-Madison study predicts Native American communities will miss out on billions of dollars of economic impact from the clean energy transition if existing disparities persist. Profs. Dominic Parker and Sarah Johnston led a team of researchers in analyzing the potential income that renewable energy projects could provide to
WAUWATOSA, WI — On September 11, three Wauwatosa high school students – John Eash-Scott and Lilliana Ruggini (East) and Louis Schauer (West) were named semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit® Scholarship Program. Information about Commended Students will be mailed to schools on Thursday, September 12, 2024. Eash-Scott, Ruggini and Schauer are
Strip away the banter, at which both candidates fought each other to a draw, and Trump emerged victorious from the debate. Trump’s vision of the future, and the allies he has chosen to help realize it, is far more optimistic than Harris’s bleak projection, and her terrifying allies.
There came a point in the debate that Trump went bonkers, and you could almost feel the GOP hopes that remained in the nation seep out and into the night.
Harris did the main thing she needed to do. She came off as presidential. She convinced anyone who had doubts that she could be commander in chief. She passed easily through the narrow window between angry and weak. She did great. And for the last hour of the debate Trump was Trump. He actually wasn’t any worse than he was against Joe Biden but this time the contrast was stark.
Takeaways from the Trump-Harris debate.
His recent speeches have been long and rambling over many disconnected topics. He slurred some words; he was factually way off the mark many times; and he wildly exaggerated scenarios. His incoherence raised the likelihood that he has some level of early dementia.
Polls indicate that other than the former president’s steadfast MAGA base, including evangelicals, so-called traditional Republicans and independents are starting to sour on his behavior.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — As the November election approaches, Jamie Wall has released the first ad in his campaign for the State Senate. “I am excited to talk to folks here in Brown County about who I am and why I am running,” said Wall. “Growing up on the family farm
Letting memories lapse with the passage of time allows a return to the false sense of security felt on Sept. 10, 2001. “It can’t happen here” is a sentiment Americans must never accept again.
At UW-Stout, we refer to the polytechnic ABCs: Applied learning and research, Business and industry collaboration, and Career-focused experiences. These are the hallmarks of what we do best and are at the core of our polytechnic university.
Venezuelan gangsters, allowed in by Democrats, sell fentanyl and commit violence here.
Mega-wealthy Republican candidate for US Senate says he rose from nothing.
The Onion is one of a number of publications returning to paper.
Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky questioned the intent of a group seeking records of those who have been judged incompetent, suggesting the Wisconsin Voter Alliance was trying to create fear of “some sort of illegitimacy” with state elections. Meanwhile, Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn during Tuesday’s oral arguments said regardless of the motives of any public records request, he questioned if the records being sought were even subject to the open records law.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet in-person for the September meeting to consider proposed rulemaking documents. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at Food + Farm Exploration Center in the Ag Grand Hall located at 3400 Innovation Drive in Plover,
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HOLLANDALE, WI – Dr Jill Underly, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced this week that she will be a candidate for re-election in the April, 2025 Spring General Election. Underly was elected the State Superintendent in 2021, following service as a local district superintendent in a small rural community in
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that Wiota Sanitary District #1 is an applicant for funding through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program to improve its public drinking water system. The project includes the construction of well #3 in Wiota Sanitary District #1. Activities related