On December 11, 2025, the Institute for Reforming Government held a webinar detailing the results of their report on, “Empty Schools, Empty Wallets: What Happened to $1.49 Billion in ESSER School Aid?”
On October 27, 2025, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Richland Center, WI on Savannah Wren v. Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee, Inc., Case Number 2024AP126. This is a review of a decision by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District I (headquartered in Milwaukee), which reversed a Milwaukee County Circuit Court order, Judge […]
On June 11, 2025, the Assembly Committee on State Affairs held a public hearing on the following: Assembly Bill 286 Relating to: interest earned on coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds Assembly Joint Resolution 8 Relating to: restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that […]
On May 28, 2025, the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development held a public hearing on Senate Bill 280 Relating to: interest earned on coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds.
From tackling drug costs to boosting maternal health outcomes, Gov. Tony Evers is proposing a range of healthcare measures in his latest spending plan. At a Wisconsin Health News Newsmaker Event in Madison on April 8, 2025, Department of Health Services-designee Kirsten Johnson discussed the governor’s budget priorities, outline the impact of potential Medicaid cuts […]
On September 16, 2024, the Volcker Alliance hosted a special briefing featuring Bill Glasgall of the Volcker Alliance, Susan Wachter of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), and a panel of experts to discuss the year ahead for America’s states and municipalities. Fiscal 2025 will be an especially consequential one, with the Federal […]
Gov. Tony Evers tapped Bill Hanna to run the state’s Medicaid program in January 2024. Hanna took the reins during the midst of a massive unwinding of a policy that kept folks on the Medicaid rolls during the pandemic, a process that shrunk program enrollment by hundreds of thousands of people. At a Wisconsin Health […]
On February 26, 2024, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences held a seminar featuring Alfredo Morabia, Editor and Chief of the American Journal of Public Health speaking on “Public Health Lessons of the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
October 30, 2023, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health – Department of Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar featured Dr. Ryan Westergaard speaking about Building the Academic Health Department: A Vision for Research, Teaching and Public Service. Dr. Westergaard is a faculty member of the Division of Infectious Disease within the Department of Medicine. In […]
On September 12, 2023, the Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on the following: Assembly Bill 386: lowering the individual income tax rates in the third bracket and increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction Assembly Joint Resolution 66: Requiring a supermajority in each house of the legislature for passage of tax increase legislation […]
On November 22, 2022, UW Population Health Science hosted a seminar featuring Jason Vargo, Senior Researcher of Community Development at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to share lessons learned during his service as the lead scientist for climate change and health equity at the California Department of Public Health and as the department’s COVID-19 […]