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• Cattanach looks to prevent fraud, waste, abuse of stimulus funds
  Dale Cattanach says there’s one easy measure of his team's success in overseeing accountability of the millions in federal stimulus funds starting to flow into the state: avoiding anything like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which saw row upon row of unused FEMA trailers, reports of fraud and o... <more>
  
  
• JFC co-chair Miller downplays major budget changes
  Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget includes “a lot of very serious cuts” to programs that concern legislators. But Sen. Mark Miller, the co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee that heard the complaints, cautions there's not much leeway for those objections. “You’ve got to be realistic. When you don’t have ... <more>
  
  
• Wolter, recovery office watching over $3.5 billion in fed stimulus
  Those running the state's new Office of Recovery and Reinvestment are pledging to watch "every nickel" of the more than $3.5 billion of federal stimulus money set to flow to Wisconsin. But where exactly the money will go at this point is uncertain, says Madison Gas & Electric chief Gary Wolter, wh... <more>
  
  
• Despite troubles, Priebus says national chair Steele delivering on change
  Michael Steele promised wholesale changes at the RNC if elected chair. And RPW Chair Reince Priebus says that’s exactly what Steele is doing now that he’s in office, despite a series of controversies swirling around the new head of the RNC. Priebus, a Kenosha attorney, led Steele’s campaign for ch... <more>
  
  
• Pocan aims to show that Dems in charge, 'get things done'
  Mark Pocan has definitely noticed something different about Dems being in charge of the Assembly for the first time since the 1994 elections. "It's busy. It's definitely busier. My jokes are funnier," the Dem Rep from Madison and co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee cracked in a new interview ... <more>
  
  
• Questions, audience members wanted for March 27 WTP debate
  We the People/Wisconsin is looking for questions and a studio audience for its March 27 live Supreme Court debate. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Jefferson County Judge Randy Koschnick will participate in the hour-... <more>
  
  
• Graber adjusting after return from Czech Republic
  The week before leaving his post as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, Rick Graber sat down with the country’s president at the palace outside of Prague for lunch. Ten days later, he was cleaning his basement in southeastern Wisconsin after being gone for more than two years. Welcome hom... <more>
  
  
• Fitzgerald: National Republicans have hurt the home team
  Assembly Minority Leader Jeff Fitzgerald says state Republicans have been hurt by the actions of national Republicans over the past two cycles. "We kind of lost our way for a while at the national level," Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, told a WisPolitics.com luncheon last week. "That in turn fell on us." ... <more>
  
  
• Evers, Fernandez survive DPI superintendent primary
  DPI Deputy Superintendent Tony Evers and virtual school advocate Rose Fernandez will square off in the April 7 general election for superintendent of Public Instruction. Evers garnered 89,453 votes after initial returns in Tuesday’s election, good for 35 percent of the vote in the low-turnout sprin... <more>
  
  
• Order Now: 2009 WisPolitics.com Almanac
  2009 WisPolitics.com Almanac -- the third edition of a one-of-a-kind guide to Wisconsin government and politics that you'll be able to use throughout the year.This glossy 20-page booklet chronicles the most important political events of the past year, detail election results, provide bios and contac... <more>
  
  
• Ryan: Obama's attempts at bipartisanship missed the mark
  U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan appreciates the overtures President Obama made to House Republicans in the early going as he tried to build support for the stimulus package. But he suggests that bipartisanship might be more difficult going forward given how the debate over the stimulus bill unfolded. "The mis... <more>
  
  
• Abrahamson aggressively parries conservative charges
  Some of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson’s harshest critics charge that judges shouldn’t legislate from the bench. She wholeheartedly agrees. But she also stresses it is the Supreme Court’s role to decide whether a law is constitutional and that she's committed to maintaining the independence of ... <more>
  
  
• Koschnick says Abrahamson an activist, plans 'grassroots' campaign
  Jefferson County Judge Randy Koschnick has a simple message in his campaign against Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson: She’s an activist; he’s a conservative. And he plans to hit that theme over and over in this spring’s race. “She’s clearly usurping the authority of the Legislature,”... <more>
  
  
• Supreme Court, state superintendent debates underway
  Debate season for the spring election kicked off in late January with a Supreme Court debate at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s annual convention in Green Bay. And before the April 7 general election, as many as five more debates could be in store for the high court campaign, with another hand... <more>
  
  
• Doyle warns growing deficit will mean 'time of sacrifice'
  Gov. Jim Doyle warned Wednesday night in his annual State of the State address that Wisconsin’s $5.4 billion budget deficit will grow because of worsening revenue projections, requiring "a time of sacrifice." And while he said this was no time for new programs, he backed a change in the school fun... <more>
  
  
• Budget process ripe for reform, new WPRI prez Lightbourn says
  The state is facing a $5.4 billion deficit for the upcoming two-year budget, and Wisconsin’s economy is in a major slump. No better time than the present to overhaul the state’s budget process, says George Lightbourn, the new president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. “That’s the ti... <more>
  
  
• WisPolitics coverage of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration
  Wisconsin Dems in D.C. celebrated the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president last week, marveling at a gathering that Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines Jr. described as "humanity displayed at the highest level." And in Madison and throughout Wisconsin, in workp... <more>
  
  
• One Wisconsin Now moves from targeting WMC to Taxpayers Alliance, as it pushes progressive budget
  One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross has simple goals: Good paying jobs, a clean environment, adequate resources for schools and health care for everyone. And he isn’t going to let a $5.4 billion shortfall stand in the way. “What has been going on for the last 30 years in terms of publ... <more>
  
  
• A bipartisan start to the Assembly session?
  New Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan says he wants to change business as usual in the Capitol, especially when it comes to working across the aisle. Sheridan, D-Janesville, said this week at a WisPolitics luncheon that he'll reach out to Republicans to find solutions and said no good idea will be tu... <more>
  
  
• DPI field grows to five
  An education professor, the Beloit school superintendent and a virtual schools advocate have jumped into the race for the state’s top education post. And two more candidates -- Todd Alan Price and Lowell Holtz -- found out Friday that they rehabilitated enough signatures to qualify for the ballot,... <more>
  
  

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