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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 ...

Olivia Herken La Crosse Tribune A group of state and local lawmakers joined Gov. Tony Evers on French Island Wednesday to reintroduce a bill which addresses PFAS contaminations being increasingly found across the state, including most recently on the island. The lawmakers met at the F.J. Robers Library to announce the CLEAR Act, which leaders hope can either supplement the funding for PFAS mitigation in Evers' budget proposal, or act as its own first step solution. On French Island, which shares a border and some of its landmass with the city of La Crosse, including to house its a...

LA CROSSE – Democratic lawmakers are hoping to give communities across Wisconsin a way to fight back against the "forever chemicals" in the water through a new bill aimed at keeping the state's waters clean.  The new legislation, called the CLEAR Act, would include a municipal grant program to help hard-hit communities like French Island, as well as county well-testing programs, funds to collect and dispose of PFAS-containing firefighting foam, money for the testing of public water supplies, standards for the chemicals in the ground, surface and drinking water, and money for communities to...

One of Milwaukee’s biggest and seemingly most impossible-to-solve problems has been its lead pipes. The nearly 175-year-old city has about 75,000 of them under the ground, running directly into homes, schools and businesses, requiring an additional filter for people to consume clean drinking water. It is basic infrastructure, it is in a perpetual state of disrepair, and there has been no end in sight.   Estimates for the cost to replace all of Milwaukee’s lead pipes recently ran as high as $750 million. The city was on a 70-year pace to get that job done, and the pandemic has only s...

Democratic-backed Underly elected Wisconsin schools chief By SCOTT BAUERApril 7, 2021 GMT MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jill Underly rode support from the state teachers’ union and an overwhelming financial advantage, fueled by the Democratic Party, to win election Tuesday as Wisconsin superintendent of schools, defeating Republican-backed Deb Kerr. Underly cruised to a double-digit win, based on unofficial results. Democrats hailed the win as a sign of momentum in the swing state, even though liberal-backed candidates for the state school chief have won by wide margins for decades. Underly, 43, i...