WED News Summary: JFC votes to add new prosecutor positions, delays action on UW
TOP STORIES JFC GOP vote to add new prosecutors, but won’t replace expiring federal funds$ARP$ funds that paid for about 29 prosecutor jobs are set to expire in July [Evers budget refunded expiring gigs] … would add 42 prosecutor positions
Dept. of Natural Resources: Northern zone smallmouth bass harvest season opens June 21
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds anglers that the 2025-2026 smallmouth bass fishing season will open in the Northern Bass Management Zone on June 21, 2025, and run through March 1, 2026. While anglers in the southern zone
U.S. Sen. Johnson: Releases budget reconciliation report
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released his report titled, “FY 2025 Budget Reconciliation: Facts, Figures, and Analysis.” The senator contends that neither Congress, the Administration, nor the public at large has fully acknowledged the depth of the fiscal hole we have dug, or
Kaul praises unanimous Supreme Court ruling overturning Legislature’s role in settlements
The court, which has a 4-3 liberal majority, yesterday ruled in favor of Kaul in the lawsuit he filed against the GOP-led Legislature challenging the authority the body gave itself to oversee DOJ settlements under a 2018 lame duck law.
WED AM Update: Assembly, Senate meet today
From WisPolitics … — The Assembly today is set to take up a variety of bills, including a plan to create a new certification for advanced practice registered nurses and a measure aiming to help gig workers. Under AB 257,
State Bar of Wisconsin: Presidents statement on Joint Finance Committee’s Criminal Justice funding
Madison, WI – June 17, 2025 – The State Bar of Wisconsin’s elected leadership, including Ryan M. Billings, President; Dan Gartzke, President-Elect, and Past President Dean R. Dietrich, released the following statement after today’s Joint Committee on Finance votes on
Voces de la Frontera: On the deportation of Yessenia Ruano: Cruelty is the point
(Milwaukee, June 17th, 2025)— Today, despite overwhelming community support and a pending T-Visa application as a survivor of human trafficking, Yessenia Ruano and her twin 10-year-old U.S. citizen daughters were forced to board a plane to El Salvador. This devastating outcome
Sen. Wimberger: Announces 42 new assistant district attorneys, pay increases included in budget
MADISON – Senator Eric Wimberger (R-Oconto) released the following statement after the Joint Committee on Finance, the state’s budget-writing committee, voted to include the efforts he led to secure 42 new statewide assistant district attorneys (ADAs), as well as funding
TUE PM Update: Kaul praises unanimous Supreme Court ruling overturning Legislature’s role in settlements
From WisPolitics … — Attorney General Josh Kaul today hailed the state Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling finding the Legislature can’t oversee civil enforcement actions or cases the state Department of Justice brings at the request of executive branch agencies. The
A Better Wisconsin Together: Wisconsin State Supreme Court issues unanimous rebuke of Republican power grab
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court today unanimously struck down part of a partisan Republican power grab adopted by the state legislature in their unprecedented post-election sore loser session in December 2018. Today’s action by the state high court
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: Judge rules in favor of property owners in Sister Bay renters case
The News: A Door County Judge ruled that Captains Cottage LLC was wrongfully denied their short-term rental license by the Village of Sister Bay. The Judge’s decision establishes our clients’ vested property rights and will serve as an important ruling for many
Dept. of Transportation: Safer Together Open House highlights transportation safety initiatives
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) welcomed transportation partners and the public Tuesday for the second annual Safer Together Open House in Madison. The event, hosted at the Hill Farms State Office Building, showcases the many projects and programs designed
Protect Our Care: NEW: Report and ads slam Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill for threatening hundreds of hospital cuts and closures
Trump and Republicans’ So-Called ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Cause 338 Rural Hospitals to Shut Down, Taking Care From Small Towns and Rural Communities While Cutting Jobs and Hurting Economies Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care released a new report and
Protect Our Care: Senate Finance Republicans unveil bill text, doubling down on devastating health care cuts to fund billionaire tax breaks
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Republicans on the Senate Committee on Finance released the full text of their version of Trump’s tax scam. Senate Republicans have upped the ante and made the largest cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
A Better Wisconsin Together: And Then There Were Two: Second State Senate Republican calls for budget boycott
Former Senate President Joins in Publicly Suggesting no State Budget for Next Two Years MADISON, Wis. — In a social media post yesterday, Republican state Senator and former state Senate President Chris Kapenga expressed both his opposition to a budget plan being crafted