LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Feb. 7 -- The Council of State Governments issued the following news: * * * Capital Closeup: A regionwide review of the requirements for a legislative quorum Sixty-seven members of the 134-seat House present. Sixty-six members not present. That was the head count during the scheduled start of the 2025 legislative session in Minnesota, and this unusual situation brought attention to a common, but often little-noticed, part of state constitutions: the requirement that a ce  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 6 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: * * * Chancellor Mnookin chronicles a "momentous year" for UW-Madison, despite challenges Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin delivers a speech at the UW Board of Regents meeting hosted by UW-Madison at Union South on Feb. 6. During the speech titled "Growing UW-Madison's Future," Mnookin talked about the principle of "planting trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." Photo: Althea Dotzour   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 6 [Category: Sociological] -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news: * * * FFRF Action Fund applauds lackluster attendance at National Prayer Breakfast The FFRF Action Fund is pleased to note the diminished stature of the National Prayer Breakfast today, as key Democratic leaders  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 6 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation posted the following news release: * * * FFRF TV show hones in on Christian nationalism in Trump's first weeks The latest episode of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's television show engages in a razor-sharp focus on the theocratic threats that the Trump administration poses to our constitutional freedoms. The show, with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, does a special report about Christ  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly the NARAL Pro-Choice America) issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2025: * * * Reproductive Freedom for All Endorses Susan Crawford for Wisconsin State Supreme Court Contact: media@reproductivefreedomforall.org Washington, DC -- Today, Reproductive Freedom for All announced its endorsement of Judge Susan Crawford for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Crawford is a dedicated and experienced jurist who has spent her career defend  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 6 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: * * * UW-Madison researchers and Wisconsin farmers work together to produce healthy potato harvests Andy Diercks, a fourth-generation potato farmer from the small village of Coloma in central Wisconsin, is blunt about the difficult realities facing family-owned farms today. "There are days when the choices aren't always good, and you're making the least bad choice," he says. "But we've surviv  more