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The Joint Finance Committee today voted along party lines to approve a $2.1 billion GOP package that would reduce income taxes while expanding other breaks for retirement income, married couples and child care.
In this week’s WisPolitics Capitol Chats podcast, Americans for Prosperity State Director Megan Novak says most voters are thinking about inflation on regular goods and services such as groceries and energy heading into the presidential election. She argues the federal
Quotes of the Week Let’s be clear, our maps have been rejected for one reason and one reason alone, they don’t produce the partisan outcomes the experts or many on the Court want. – WILL President and General Counsel Rick
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the redistricting case before the state Supreme Court, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips’ lawsuit to be included on the Dem presidential primary ballot in Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers signing legislation intended to increase dental care access and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their take on where the Supreme Court redistricting process is headed. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, state Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, talks about her campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, and touts her credentials as a state legislator. Shankland is one of three Dems vying for the seat.
Gov. Tony Evers at a WisPolitics luncheon Tuesday said while he supports Iowa-styled redistricting, he has concerns a GOP proposal to implement the practice in Wisconsin wouldn’t guarantee a nonpartisan process.
Quotes of the Week It sure the hell is about “who makes the decisions.” Wisconsinites should have the freedom to make their own decisions about their reproductive healthcare. And Republican legislators should have nothing to do with it. – Gov.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Assembly Republicans passing a bill that would put a 14-week abortion ban before voters, GOP passage of a revised redistricting map, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address, Republicans’ $2.1 billion tax package and this week’s visits from President Biden and Vice President Harris.
On the heels of yet another two-year UW campus cutting back, the Universities of Wisconsin president says “we haven’t given up on those schools.”
The drop was largely driven by two factors: a decrease in the projected growth of tax collections and the deal Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, struck with UW officials to curtail DEI positions that included additional funds for the system. The latter includes $423 million in state money for building projects on the UW campuses, among other things.
In this week’s WisPolitics Capitol Chats WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg talks about the legislative redistricting lawsuit his office is party to. Esenberg also talks about what to watch for in the lawsuit seeking to make Wisconsin’s 1849
Quotes of the Week When we as members allow the abuse of power by leaders of this chamber, we erode the prestige and the honor of the Assembly and we damage the legitimacy of our democratic republic. We step onto
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss proposed maps submitted in the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court, a petition to the court to redraw the state’s congressional districts, the latest action in the Senate and Assembly, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address next Tuesday and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss efforts to keep former President Trump off state primary election ballots, including a lawsuit in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Director General Dennis Yen-Feng Lei of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago discusses U.S.-Taiwan trade relations.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, Marquette University Law School Lubar Center Research Fellow John Johnson gives his first impressions of maps submitted to the Supreme Court for a redistricting lawsuit.
Subscribers: There will be no WisPolitics products Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Thank you for subscribing! Quotes of the Week I am a firm believer that private entities, run by those with expertise in this
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Assembly Republicans’ medical marijuana bill, a new tax cut proposal Senate Republicans are working on, elections bills, the effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the Supreme Court’s legislative redistricting deadline and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, talk about Wisconsin’s Republican false electors and how their acknowledgement that Biden won against Trump in 2020 differs from other states. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted along party lines to approve a $2.1 billion GOP package that would reduce income taxes while expanding other breaks for retirement income, married couples and child care.
In this week’s WisPolitics Capitol Chats podcast, Americans for Prosperity State Director Megan Novak says most voters are thinking about inflation on regular goods and services such as groceries and energy heading into the presidential election. She argues the federal government has got to stop growing the national debt and
Quotes of the Week Let’s be clear, our maps have been rejected for one reason and one reason alone, they don’t produce the partisan outcomes the experts or many on the Court want. – WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg blasting the state Supreme Court-chosen map experts’ decision that
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the redistricting case before the state Supreme Court, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips’ lawsuit to be included on the Dem presidential primary ballot in Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers signing legislation intended to increase dental care access and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their take on where the Supreme Court redistricting process is headed. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, state Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, talks about her campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, and touts her credentials as a state legislator. Shankland is one of three Dems vying for the seat.
Gov. Tony Evers at a WisPolitics luncheon Tuesday said while he supports Iowa-styled redistricting, he has concerns a GOP proposal to implement the practice in Wisconsin wouldn’t guarantee a nonpartisan process.
Quotes of the Week It sure the hell is about “who makes the decisions.” Wisconsinites should have the freedom to make their own decisions about their reproductive healthcare. And Republican legislators should have nothing to do with it. – Gov. Tony Evers responding to Rep. Scott Allen, R-Waukesha, who argued
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Assembly Republicans passing a bill that would put a 14-week abortion ban before voters, GOP passage of a revised redistricting map, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address, Republicans’ $2.1 billion tax package and this week’s visits from President Biden and Vice President Harris.
On the heels of yet another two-year UW campus cutting back, the Universities of Wisconsin president says “we haven’t given up on those schools.”
The drop was largely driven by two factors: a decrease in the projected growth of tax collections and the deal Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, struck with UW officials to curtail DEI positions that included additional funds for the system. The latter includes $423 million in state money for building projects on the UW campuses, among other things.
In this week’s WisPolitics Capitol Chats WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg talks about the legislative redistricting lawsuit his office is party to. Esenberg also talks about what to watch for in the lawsuit seeking to make Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion law unenforceable. A Dane County judge late last year
Quotes of the Week When we as members allow the abuse of power by leaders of this chamber, we erode the prestige and the honor of the Assembly and we damage the legitimacy of our democratic republic. We step onto a slippery slope that leads to even greater abuse of
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss proposed maps submitted in the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court, a petition to the court to redraw the state’s congressional districts, the latest action in the Senate and Assembly, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address next Tuesday and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss efforts to keep former President Trump off state primary election ballots, including a lawsuit in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Director General Dennis Yen-Feng Lei of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago discusses U.S.-Taiwan trade relations.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, Marquette University Law School Lubar Center Research Fellow John Johnson gives his first impressions of maps submitted to the Supreme Court for a redistricting lawsuit.
Subscribers: There will be no WisPolitics products Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Thank you for subscribing! Quotes of the Week I am a firm believer that private entities, run by those with expertise in this area of medicine, are more efficient and more effective than
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Assembly Republicans’ medical marijuana bill, a new tax cut proposal Senate Republicans are working on, elections bills, the effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the Supreme Court’s legislative redistricting deadline and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, talk about Wisconsin’s Republican false electors and how their acknowledgement that Biden won against Trump in 2020 differs from other states. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.