
A local State Senator is working to block University of Wisconsin system COVID-19 mandates. The move by Steve Nass of Whitewater comes as health officials sound warnings about the rapidly spreading, highly contagious delta variant. Nass says he will be moving to require the university to get approval from the Legislature before enacting any virus-related regulations. The Republican states in a news release, some chancellors in the UW System consider themselves not beholden to the law and moving quickly to take advantage of the Delta-variant hysteria to enact excessive mandates.