Strategists with President Barack Obama's reelection campaign plan to meet with University of Wisconsin students in Madison on Wednesday.

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and Obama's national field director Jeremy Bird were to host the student summit. It is part of Obama's re-election effort to mobilize young people to support him.

College-age voters were a big reason for Obama's victory in 2008. Obama won Wisconsin by 14 points, but since then Republicans have taken control of the Legislature and governor's office from Democrats and also now hold a majority of the state's congressional seats.

Gibbs is a longtime Obama adviser, dating back to his 2004 Senate race. He served as White House press secretary from 2009 until February 2011.

Those who are wrongfully convicted of crimes in Wisconsin could receive greater compensation under a bipartisan bill that was before the Assembly Judiciary and Ethics Committee on Thursday.

Currently, innocent people who are wrongfully convicted can get $5,000 for each year they were imprisoned with an aggregate cap of $25,000.

Attorney Christopher Ochoa testified at the public hearing at the state Capitol on Thursday. He said without that compensation he would have never been able to enroll in law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"That maximum, the $25,000, is just horrible and it needs to be increased to significantly more so (that people who are exonerated) can get a leg up, a push up," Ochoa said.

Ochoa spent 12 years in prison in Texas before DNA evidence found by the Wisconsin Innocence Project exonerated him. He said settlement money offered in Wisconsin is the lowest level in the country.

The city of Madison has only seen about 23 inches of snow this winter.

The clear upside of this below-average snowfall is benefit it provides the Madison Streets Division budget. City officials said they've saved thousands of dollars.

"This has been a really good year for the budget on snow removal," said George Dreckmann, of the Madison Streets Division. "We budget on a calendar-year basis. So, at the end of 2011, we turned back pretty close to $8,000 in snow and ice control money that we did not use."

Dreckmann said the city only had to salt streets about 18 times this year, which is about half the number of times it had to in 2010.

Along with less work, comes less overtime, Dreckmann said, which means the budget for 2012 is on track.

But the department will have to wait until the snowfall in November and December 2012 to see if it will profit again.