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Tony Evers‘ latest capital budget would spend almost $2.4 billion on new building projects around the state, with more than $1 billion of that going toward projects at the University of Wisconsin System.
The capital budget would also fund a new office building in Milwaukee, plan for a new office building in Madison, and build new facilities to treat juvenile offenders once the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison is closed.
“The capital budget is an investment in the up-keep of our infrastructure for longevity and public safety and in the future we want to build for our state,” Evers said in a statement introducing the plan.
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UW-Madison administrators and the universityâs student council are clashing over how to help students struggling because of the pandemic, with the council looking to put more money toward student rent payments using a strategy UW-Madison said is illegal, and the university taking an approach student government calls the bare minimum.
Itâs the latest standoff between the two sides and characteristic of the more combative stance student government has embraced in a school year that has left many students emotionally, financially or mentally exhausted.
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âIf Iâm being honest with you, I didnât think things would be this tense when I started,â said Matthew Mitnick, who was elected chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison last September. âBut weâre not a mouthpiece for the administration. Weâre here to represent students and focus on who is being left out and who doesnât have a seat at the ta