May 3, 2021 - 10:54am
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In March,
The Washington Post reported that University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sought to move a conversation around the COVID-19 pandemic and students returning to campus in the fall to a private portal used by presidents and chancellors of the 14 Big Ten universities. I would be delighted to share information, Blank responded in an email chain begun last August by University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, but perhaps we can do this through the Big 10 portal, which will assure confidentiality?
Blank apologized after the story broke, but did not go so far as to say that she would provide responsive communications through the Big 10 portal to record requesters in the future.
UW-Madison administration, Republican legislators use digital dodges to violate open records law. By David Armiak - May 3rd, 2021 11:29 am //end headline wrapper ?>Files. (Pixabay License).
In March, The Washington Post reported that University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor
Rebecca Blank sought to move a conversation around the COVID-19 pandemic and students returning to campus in the fall to a private portal used by presidents and chancellors of the 14 Big Ten universities.
“I would be delighted to share information,” Blank responded in an email chain begun last August by University of Michigan President
Mark Schlissel, “but perhaps we can do this through the Big 10 portal, which will assure confidentiality?”
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Republican legislators will trash governor’s budget and remove $1.6 billion in federal funding. //end headline wrapper ?>Wisconsin State Capitol. Photo by Mariiana Tzotcheva.
Republican lawmakers plan to remove hundreds of proposals from Gov.
Tony Evers‘ state budget next week, from an expansion of Medicaid to the legalization of marijuana to the partial restoration of public sector union bargaining rights.
The move is the first step and a big one toward rewriting the budget from the ground up, something GOP leaders have been hinting at since the governor introduced his budget in February.
While many of the biggest financial decisions are yet to be resolved, the plan Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee hope to pass Thursday will remove hundreds of Evers priorities from the budget. Many of those items will substantially reduce the amount of money lawmakers have to spend in the budget for the next two years.