Big PFAS news today: EPA designates 'forever chemicals' for enforcement under the Superfund program jsonline.com/story/news/loc… via Journal Sentinel

Remember the Memorial Union pier collapse on Labor Day last year?

The investigation is done. Here's what UW–Madison found:
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Last week, UW system released third party financial assessments for 7 UW schools. While the reports call for sweeping budget cuts by 2028, professors and students say there must be another way…

My latest in the The Daily Cardinal:
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Your reply-all nightmare come true: How one student's question about prom tickets was sent to 18,000 UW-Madison students — and why something similar could still happen again at UW.

From Jasper Bernstein via The Daily Cardinal:
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New:

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to return to Wisconsin next week for her third visit to the battleground state this year with stops in La Crosse.

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New from the Daily Cardinal Arts Desk desk!! Comedian Kathy Griffin to perform in Madison after six-year break (Rebekah Irby via The Daily Cardinal)
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The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty helped Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ office draft a constitutional amendment late last year to limit the governor’s partial veto power, according to records obtained by the Cardinal.

myself for The Daily Cardinal

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UW System financial reports spark concern over public higher ed funding

by Nick Bumgardner for The Daily Cardinal

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Former Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan tells me he WON’T join this race and will instead support Barca.

“I feel very strongly that Peter Barca can do this… We gotta have somebody representing the 1stCD that’s willing to speak out against Donald Trump.”

NEW: When I told Bo Dietl I was a @POLITICO reporter and asked about his work for Mayor Eric Adams' legal defense trust, he told me: “You like to suck dick? Go suck dick somewhere,” then hung up. Two hours later, the trust fired Dietl. w/ Joe Anuta politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

New Marquette Law School Poll survey of Wisconsin registered voters finds Republican Donald Trump supported by 51% and Democrat Joe Biden supported by 49% in a head-to head match. #mulawpoll

Mike Gallagher 'has the flexibility to stay and support the aid package Saturday,' his office tells me.

Gallagher had planned to leave Congress Friday. But votes on foreign aid package are now expected Saturday evening.

Interim UW-La Crosse chancellor recommends Joe Gow be fired from tenured faculty position - via Kelly Meyerhofer jsonline.com/story/news/edu…

Incredibly proud to announce that Gavin Escott (receiving the news via FaceTime while studying abroad in Taiwan) will be The Daily Cardinal’s 2024-25 campus news editor. He has a legacy of empathetic, insightful coverage, and I can’t wait to see how he’ll guide the desk going forward.

An appropriations package passed last month could solve “some of the stickier issues” for a new farm bill, Mark Pocan told the Cardinal.

But eyes are on congressional divides as
farmers wonder if a 2024 update will be in season.

via The Daily Cardinal

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Former Bucks star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar adds to criticism of Hovde's nursing home comments jsonline.com/story/news/pol… via ⁦Hope Karnopp⁩

Wisconsin's elections leader Meagan Wolfe, who has been under fire from Donald Trump and other Republicans, recently won two national awards for her work Wisconsin Elections says

This week she got the National Public Service Award from the American Society for Public Administration