U of WI Big Ten Football: Second Game Canceled As A Result of Positive Cases Among Players

So, once again, it’s seems to have been folly to hold the 2020 Big Ten Football season. Considering professional athletes couldn’t keep themselves safe with millions of their own dollars on the line, why would we expect young student athletes to be more successful? Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst and his…

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Just Days After WI GOP Legislators Say There Is Nothing More We Can Do: COVID-19 Positive Cases and Deaths Set Records Just Flat OFF The Charts.

Apparently Wisconsin Republicans just don’t care if you die: I mean, they’ve sued the governor every chance they’ve had and it hasn’t helped. Wisconsin reports more than 5,200 cases, 64 deaths, shattering previous records in worst day of pandemic yet. Wisconsin reached its most dire point yet Tuesday in the…

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UW slips in national ranking of public universities

This is the end result of Gov. Scott Walker’s vision for Wisconsin, a vision that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to our state’s higher education system. University of Wisconsin’s ranking dipped in a new ranking of national public universities. According to the most recent Buffalo Business…

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UW System: Shut Her Down Redux

Recently I posted a suggestion on how the University of Wisconsin system can make up for the $300 million cuts to their support from the State of Wisconsin as proposed by Governor Scott Walker. With a little bit of snark and a bit of sarcasm I have suggested that the…

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UW Flexible Option and Wisconsin Economic Development Corp!

The University of Wisconsin System is about to roll out its Flexible Option degree program that will allow working adults and other non-traditional college students a chance to earn a college degree online. Although an online program, the fees for the Flexible Option program could still run more than $20,000…

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Mike Ivey: Should UW pick a business leader for chancellor to jump-start job growth?

Because what would possibly go wrong with choosing a business leader to serve as chancellor of UW-Madison? With Wisconsin closing out 2012 as one of the worst states for job creation, critics are once again rapping the UW-Madison for failing to turn its research dollars into new companies that could…

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Walker Proposes Freeze on UW Tuition

According to the Associated Press: Gov. Scott Walker says he’s considering several options to keep tuitions affordable in the University of Wisconsin System. First, no matter what the governor thinks, it costs a serious amount of money to run a world class university. One that he likes to tout for…

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Recall Memo: June 5: Another Walker Budget Deficit Fixed via Cuts to UW System

Not too long ago…at the 8 month or so point in his two year ‘balanced budget’…Governor Walker filled a projected budget deficit of $143 million by making additional cuts to state spending of $123 million dollars. The largest portion of these reductions were taken from the UW system, $46 million…

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Representative Vos Blames UW Cuts on the Poor

Just when you thought Robin Vos couldn’t get any more disgusting, he manages to up his game.  Besides being an unethical slumlord, he’s also never misses an opportunity to blame the poor for the state of the state.  In a discussion of the cuts to the University of Wisconsin system,…

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Biddy and the Regents….

Sing this one to the tune of Benny and the Jets…

I was at a meeting earlier today and someone told me that there was a rumor that the Regents were going to fire Biddy for insubordination. That doesn’t seem to be the case yet as can be seen in this video from Madison.com.

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