The board rejects compromise on DEI, engineering building.

Despite surrender by Vos where UW got almost everything it wanted, the UW Regents voted to reject the compromise. What does this tell us about the UW Regents and the leadership of the Universities of Wisconsin?

Jay Rothman is not qualified to run the University of Wisconsin system. If he does not follow through on his threat to resign then he should be removed by the Board of Regents.

Officials from both parties relate personal stories: Sen. Cabral-Guevara, LG Rodriguez, Senate Dem Leader Hesselbein and Rep. Emerson. comment.

It has been forty-two years since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a report on five previously healthy young gay men diagnosed with KS/OI. This was the first recognized sign of what would become known as the AIDS epidemic.

Last week, an Appeals Court unanimously ruled that construction of a luxury golf course that would decimate an environmentally rich area along Lake Michigan and cause great damage to a popular state park cannot proceed.

AI can digest all the writing about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and spit out a legitimate-sounding report. It can’t tell you, though, about a local woman who founded a charity that has distributed more than 625,000 hats and blankets to cancer patients, VA hospitals and neonatal intensive care units.

A plan to build back better.

With reporters and journalists coming under more partisan attacks and a dearth of examples where both parties can find agreement on issues of the day, comes Wisconsin Assembly Bill 551 which protects budding journalists, a measure that has united some disparate voices in the statehouse.

The Board of Regents quashed a compromise on DEI by a 9 to 8 vote–once again jeopardizing construction of a new engineering building and putting on hold pay raises for 35,000 systemwide employees.

Fair maps would spur state legislative action on nonpartisan issues such as Medicaid expansion and more state support for the UW System.